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Jul 18, 2008 10:57 pm US/Eastern
2 Families Await ID Of Woman Found In Apartment
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Neighbors are in disbelief after a woman's body was found in the apartment of a woman who claimed she was pregnant.
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Two families are anxiously awaiting to learn the identity of a woman who was found dead inside an apartment in Wilkinsburg that belonged to a woman who police say lied about giving birth.
Detectives discovered the body Friday in the bedroom of the third-floor apartment on Ella Street.
Police arrested Andrea Curry-Demus, 38, after she brought a newborn to the emergency room at West Penn Hospital and said she was his mother.
Doctors determined she was not the birth mother. Curry-Demus told police she bought the baby from a woman she called "Tina" for $1,000.
As news spread about the case, two families who have not been in contact with their loved ones are worried.
"I'm her son's grandmother - biological grandmother and I've been raising him since he was two years old and it's just hard," Lavenia Catunis said. "Her name is Tina Carter."
Catunis says she's praying. Her relative has 14 children and was pregnant with her 15th child.
"It's very hard because I have no idea if it's her yet. I have a grandson that I have to go home and tell this to," Catunis said. "I don't know what happened, I don't know anything. I'm just really - just want it over."
Lekieshia Banks hopes her cousin is safe.
"I just hope it ain't her," she said. "I just got to pray that it's not her. I mean I'm sorry for the family that it is but my cousin's name is Kia Johnson."
Banks says her cousin, who was nine months pregnant, has been missing since Tuesday and has not contacted anyone.
The woman's identity has not been released.
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