man faces life behind
bars after being found
guilty of killing neighbour
and cutting baby from
her womb
Julie Carey beat Darlene Haynes to death and then stole her unborn child so she could continue to collect state welfare, a court heard
A woman has been found guilty of beating her former neighbour to death and then cutting her eight-month-old baby from her womb.
The body of 23-year-old Darlene Haynes was found in her apartment in 2009.
She had been beaten and strangled with an electric cord and her belly had been sliced upon to remove her eight-month-old child.
A few days later Julie Carey, 39, and her boyfriend turned up at a homeless shelter with a child she clamied was her own, the Worcester Telegram reports.
But DNA tests later showed the baby girl belonged to Darlene and her former boyfriend Roberto Rodriguez.
Carey had denied the killing and tried to convince a jury that Rodriguez had murdered Darlene before turning the baby over to her.
But she was found guilty of first-degree murder and now faces life imprisonment.
Mr ROdriguez has never been charged with any offence and now has custody of the child.
The court heard that Carey had been pregnant but had a stillbirth weeks before the killing.
Assistant District Attorney Daniel Bennett argued that she believed she needed to have a baby to stop her boyfriend leaving and to be eligible for state welfare.
District Attorney Joseph Early described the murder as "probably the most horrific case we've seen" after the verdict.
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