(Scary) Unborn Baby Snatched From Womb

AuroEdge · Post by **AuroEdge** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:39 pm

(AP) Police said Tuesday they have arrested a woman in the abduction of an unborn baby who was cut from its mother's womb while she was unconscious.

Sol Angela Cartagena said she was with her 2-year-old daughter when she had a drink at a hospital cafeteria in Girardot, southwest of Bogota, and suddenly felt lightheaded.

"When I woke up I was in the countryside with my 2-year-old daughter beside me," the woman told RCN TV, adding that someone had performed a Caesarean section on her and taken her baby.

Carlos Cespedes, a gynecologist, confirmed that someone had removed Cartagena's baby. Apparently Cartagena had been drugged, causing her to black out before the operation. It was unclear where it was performed, but authorities said Cartagena was lucky to be alive.

"This is the strangest thing I've seen in my professional career, and I believe this patient had all the luck in the world in not dying before getting to the hospital," he said.

Police officer Gustavo Silva said the woman who allegedly stole the baby was found due to tips and that prosecutors are now handling the case. People who had seen the unidentified woman with a baby wrapped in a sheet called authorities because they knew she had not been pregnant and they did not know where the baby had come from.

The baby was dehydrated but otherwise reported in good condition.

No other details on the case were available.

Colombia has the world's highest kidnapping rate, with more than 3,000 abductions a year, but authorities said they knew of no other case here where an unborn child was abducted.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/ ... 7473.shtml
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I guess the guerillas are running out of slave workers...

DaMadFiddler · Post by **DaMadFiddler** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:20 am

What the...

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:48 am

Wow. That is just insane. Kidnapping from the womb.

OneThirty8 · Post by **OneThirty8** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:31 am

That's just...

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:37 pm

what the hell...

MrSiggler · Post by **MrSiggler** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:55 pm

Takes a lot these days to actually shock a fella.... but ...

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:14 pm

/me whisltes the X-files tune

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:31 pm

So it's OK to kill an unborn baby but not to kidnap one?

Meh - sorry, but the irony really annoys me. Carry on.

OneThirty8 · Post by **OneThirty8** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:40 pm

impetus wrote:So it's OK to kill an unborn baby but not to kidnap one?

Come again? I don't see how one thing has to do with the other here.

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:12 pm

lopsided societal values is all

arrowhead · Post by **arrowhead** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:16 pm

OneThirty8 wrote:
impetus wrote:So it's OK to kill an unborn baby but not to kidnap one?
Come again? I don't see how one thing has to do with the other here.

You dont have to, pro life people are brainwashed.

BTW if the baby can live independant of its mother it should not be aborted. Until that point the fetus is a parasite living on the host. So there, smoke that.

Orange_Ribbon · Post by **Orange_Ribbon** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:17 pm

fetus is a parasite living

I am pro choice, but I think you need your head examined for that one.

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:24 pm

sorry - just wanted to slip that point in, not change the topic

OneThirty8 · Post by **OneThirty8** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:22 pm

Orange_Ribbon wrote:
fetus is a parasite living
I am pro choice, but I think you need your head examined for that one.

As I understand it, technically it is a parasite. Most normal people just don't think of it like that, because in a few short months it will most likely be an adorable infant, except when it's screaming at two in the morning. Then it's your husband/boyfriend/wife/girlfriend's turn to feed/change his or her son/daughter.

That's not really the issue in this case. The baby was obviously able to survive outside of the womb, since it was only a little dehydrated but otherwise OK when found. I think it's a bit worse than a kidnapping, though. All things considered, whoever did it still put both the mother and child at great risk.

arrowhead · Post by **arrowhead** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:31 pm

Orange_Ribbon wrote:
fetus is a parasite living
I am pro choice, but I think you need your head examined for that one.

Not really. Maybe if you take some human developement, child psychology, or biology of human sexuality classes in college you will know and understand that it is mostly a parasitic relationship. Bottom Line.

Post by **|darc|** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:43 pm

Orange_Ribbon wrote:
fetus is a parasite living
I am pro choice, but I think you need your head examined for that one.

par?a?site
n.
1. Biology. An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.

MystiK · Post by **MystiK** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:57 pm

LOL
things are really bad in columbia. do they steal pets too? lol

arrowhead · Post by **arrowhead** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:23 am

|darc| wrote:
Orange_Ribbon wrote:
fetus is a parasite living
I am pro choice, but I think you need your head examined for that one.

par?a?site
n.
1. Biology. An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.

Umm....BUNG

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:37 am

impetus wrote:So it's OK to kill an unborn baby but not to kidnap one?

Meh - sorry, but the irony really annoys me. Carry on.

What irony, no one here is saying, "Oh, they should've whacked the kid." What everyone said here is "Damn, that is seriously fucked up." Do you know why? Because abortions happen with some regularity in this country, so it's no shock when a fetus is aborted. (Whether it is sad, a crime, etc. I'm not commenting on, I'm just saying it happens.) However, and I want to make this point clear to you:
PEOPLE DO NOT NORMALLY KIDNAP CHILDREN FROM SOMEONE ELSE'S WOMB. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE HERE, THIS CRAZY BITCH RIPPED A NEARLY DEVELOPED CHILD OUT OF SOMEONE'S STOMACHE.

Stop trying to hijack threads with your conservative agenda please. We want to discuss the crazy bitch here, not abortion issues.

Ex-Cyber · Post by **Ex-Cyber** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:41 am

Hear hear.