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Bogota:
A 19-year-old pregnant
Colombian woman's unborn child was stolen after she was drugged
and cut open, authorities in the northern province of Magdalena
said.
The case occurred near Santa Marta, the provincial capital, police
Col. Cesar Granados told reporters.
Andrea Carolina Pallares Cabrera, seven months pregnant, was in
Santa Marta doing some personal errands when she was approached by
an unknown woman who offered to help her enroll her baby in a
public health programme.
Granados said that Pallares was taken to a wooded area outside
Santa Marta, but doesn't yet remember how they got to the place.
There they used some instrument to cut her open, removed the baby
from her womb and left her stranded.
The young woman managed to reach a highway where she was picked up
by a local and taken to a hospital.
Due to the seriousness of her condition, she was moved to a
better-equipped clinic in Santa Marta, where she is in intensive
care.
According to a medical report, the woman was admitted with a
transverse incision in the abdomen and the uterus open, with blood
and sand in the abdominal cavity. She was operated to remove the
risk of infection.
Police said that a woman has been arrested in the case, who had
been found with a premature baby and who said she had given birth
with the aid of a midwife.
A medical exam showed that the woman in custody had not given
birth recently, after which the woman admitted that several months
ago she had been pregnant, but lost the baby because of the
abusive treatment inflicted by her man, who promised to bring her
a substitute baby.
The woman lives near where Pallares was attacked, according to
Granados.
"Everything indicates that the baby was stolen from the mother's
womb. A DNA test is pending to fully establish the relationship,"
the colonel said.
The newborn remains in intensive care at a clinic in Santa Marta.
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