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Thursday, February 13, 2014

 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
WMUR TV
Guilty: Julie Corey faces life in prison for murdering her former neighbour
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.
ENTERPRISE NEWS AND PICTURESPregnant mum Darlene Haynes, 23, whose body was found in her apartment in Massachusetts, United States, on Monday, with her baby missing after being cut from her womb.
Killed: Police found Darlene Haynes beaten and strangled to death in her apartment and her belly sliced open
 
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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