Life For Cutting Baby Out.
PITTSBURGH - A WOMAN who lured a pregnant teen to her apartment, drugged her, cut the child from the womb to try to pass it off as her own and killed the teen was sentenced on Monday to life in prison plus 20 years. The penalty for Andrea Curry-Demus, 40, was largely determined in March when Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning found her guilty but mentally ill of second-degree murder.
That carries the mandatory life sentence imposed formally on Monday, and Judge Manning tacked on 20 years for kidnapping, saying, 'It would be a huge injustice if you were ever released into society.' At her sentencing, Curry-Demus briefly turned around and faced the family of her victim, Kia Johnson, 18. 'I want to apologize to the family,' Curry-Demus said, before facing the judge and saying, 'I'm sorry.' Johnson's mother, Darlene Lee, said she was satisfied with the life sentence. 'I don't want her to have the death penalty. I want her to suffer, I really do,' Ms Lee said. 'I want her to suffer and think about what she did to my daughter and see my daughter's face every day that she wakes up.
' Curry-Demus met Johnson at the Allegheny County Jail in July 2008 while both were visiting inmates, prosecutors said. Curry-Demus had been telling her family she was pregnant, even putting her name on another woman's ultrasound that she showed people and decorating a nursery.
Curry-Demus eventually befriended Johnson by offering her clothes for her unborn son and a ride home from the jail on July 15, 2008. But Curry-Demus got Johnson to her own Wilkinsburg apartment, drugged her, bound her with duct tape and cut the baby from her. Curry-Demus wrapped Johnson's body in more tape, plastic wrap and bags and a comforter before stuffing it in a space behind the bed. Johnson died of a combination of blood loss and suffocation, prosecutors said. -- AP
PITTSBURGH - A WOMAN who lured a pregnant teen to her apartment, drugged her, cut the child from the womb to try to pass it off as her own and killed the teen was sentenced on Monday to life in prison plus 20 years. The penalty for Andrea Curry-Demus, 40, was largely determined in March when Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning found her guilty but mentally ill of second-degree murder.
That carries the mandatory life sentence imposed formally on Monday, and Judge Manning tacked on 20 years for kidnapping, saying, 'It would be a huge injustice if you were ever released into society.' At her sentencing, Curry-Demus briefly turned around and faced the family of her victim, Kia Johnson, 18. 'I want to apologize to the family,' Curry-Demus said, before facing the judge and saying, 'I'm sorry.' Johnson's mother, Darlene Lee, said she was satisfied with the life sentence. 'I don't want her to have the death penalty. I want her to suffer, I really do,' Ms Lee said. 'I want her to suffer and think about what she did to my daughter and see my daughter's face every day that she wakes up.
' Curry-Demus met Johnson at the Allegheny County Jail in July 2008 while both were visiting inmates, prosecutors said. Curry-Demus had been telling her family she was pregnant, even putting her name on another woman's ultrasound that she showed people and decorating a nursery.
Curry-Demus eventually befriended Johnson by offering her clothes for her unborn son and a ride home from the jail on July 15, 2008. But Curry-Demus got Johnson to her own Wilkinsburg apartment, drugged her, bound her with duct tape and cut the baby from her. Curry-Demus wrapped Johnson's body in more tape, plastic wrap and bags and a comforter before stuffing it in a space behind the bed. Johnson died of a combination of blood loss and suffocation, prosecutors said. -- AP
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