A woman has reportedly cut her friend's baby from her womb & left her uterus lying on a bathroom floor, having slit the pregnant mother's throat so she could not scream for help.

 

Ashleigh Wade NY Department of Corrections

Ashleigh Wade is said to have first cut the voicebox of Angelikque Sutton, 22, before hauling out her child in a repugnant scene in the Bronx, New York.

She allegedly told police she had "Saved" the infant but denies first-degree murder.

Bronx prosecutor Meredith Holtzman told jurors at the opening of Ms Wade's trial: "After she had rendered Ms Sutton unable to scream, unable to move, the defendant took a kitchen paring knife & sliced Ms Sutton's abdomen open at the bottom half."Once she had cut Ms Sutton's abdomen open, the defendant cut Ms Sutton's uterus entirely out.

She cut the uterus open, took baby Jenasis out, & discarded the uterus on the bathroom floor.

" Something "could have gone horribly & terribly & tragically wrong within Ms Wade's own mind," defence lawyer Amy Attias said, adding her client did not "intentionally" kill Ms Sutton, who was almost 9 months pregnant.

According to ABC7, Ms Wade had claimed she too was pregnant, even convincing her boyfriend.