Jul 18, 2008 12:27 am US/Eastern
Police: Woman Allegedly Bought Newborn Baby
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
A local woman is facing criminal charges after police say she lied about giving birth and allegedly bought an infant.
Andrea Curry-Demus, 38, allegedly told police she purchased a newborn baby boy from a woman.
The bizarre story began when paramedics took Demus to West Penn Hospital from a home in Wilkinsburg.
She claimed to have just given birth to the baby. The umbilical cord was still attached. The doctors were suspicious and tests showed she was not the mother.
Police were called and in paperwork officers claimed Demus admitted to them to buying the baby from a woman she only knew as "Tina" for $1,000.
KDKA has learned that Demus made news 18 years ago when she was accused of abducting a baby from Children's Hospital.
That same year, when she was known only as Curry, was also charged with stabbing a woman in an alleged plot to steal a newborn baby from a home in Wilkinsburg.
Demus told police she had a miscarriage in June and didn't want her mother to get upset about it. That's why she started talking to this woman named "Tina" about getting the baby.
Demus claims the woman dropped off the newborn yesterday wrapped in a towel.
The baby remains at West Penn Hospital and is in good shape.
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