From: The Herald Sun

SHE’S 18 years old, unemployed and nine months pregnant, so the prospect of free baby clothing may have seemed too good to pass up.


But the expectant mother didn’t pay attention to the uneasy feelings she had about hopping into a car on Monday afternoon with two strangers she had met online — a decision that almost cost her life.

Far from being benefactors, the strangers were plotting to cut the baby boy from his mother’s womb and leave the woman for dead, police believe.

Authorities detailed that account yesterday after charging Lauren Gash and Alisa Betts with felony kidnapping.

Police believe the pair lured the mother into a car, sprayed her with mace and bound her with tape.

Ms Gash and Ms Betts are accused of then driving the victim to a Kansas City motel.

The complaint said Ms Gash sat on the mother’s abdomen and twisted her neck back and forth, “a substantial step toward” trying to “kill or cause serious physical injury”.

The victim was taken to a hospital, where all signs indicated that her baby hadn’t been harmed.

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