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Jul 18, 2008 4:50 pm US/Eastern

Neighbors Stunned By Allegations In Baby Case

Reporting
John Shumway
WILKINSBURG (KDKA) ― On the front porch of Andrea Curry-Demus's mother's home just a short distance from her own, baby shower decorations remain today heralding the expectation of a baby boy to come.

One stunned neighbor says, "Everybody in her community came to her baby shower, with gifts and stuff, we really thought she was pregnant, she was even showing., her stomach was big I thought she was really having a baby."

That was about a month ago, around the same time Curry-Demus told police last night after her arrest that she had a miscarriage which she knew would be devastating to her mother. "She didn't want to tell her initially," says Detective Rich Grande of the Wilkinsburg Police. "That could be a motive behind this whole thing."

Curry-Demus told police last night she sought out another pregnant woman and made a $1,000-deal to buy the baby when it was born. Detective Grande says the money was paid in advance. When the baby was born on Wednesday, Curry-Demus told police the birth mother delivered the boy to her apartment on Ella Street with its umbilical chord still attached.

Concerned about the child, Curry-Demus called paramedics who took her and the little boy to West Penn Hospital. Det. Grande says, "The hospital was able to determine that she could not have just given birth and was obviously not the biological mother."

When she was confronted police say Curry-Demus spelled out the baby buying scheme but could not identify the birth mother beyond the name "Tina."

It was only then police learned that in 1990 when she was still Andrea Curry she pleaded guilty to stabbing a woman in a failed attempt to seal her infant. The next day she was accused of abducting a new born from Childrens Hospital. She was sentenced to 10 years probation on the assault charge.

"After coming to our attention of who this person was and that fact that she does have history of doing this sort of thing before," says Wilkinsburgh Police Chief Ophelia Coleman. "We are concerned about the parent, about the mother."

Anyone with information about the birth mother is asked to call the Wilkinsburg Police at 412-244-2913.

Andrea Curry-Demus is in the Allegheny County Jail being held on $10,000 cash bond and awaiting a mental health evaluation.

The baby boy is in good condition at West Penn Hospital.

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