KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Churchgoers in two communities stunned by the slaying of an expectant mother whose baby was cut from her womb grieved for the young woman Sunday and struggled to understand her grisly death.
The Rev. Harold Hamon said he was probably addressing Christmas cards when his neighbor, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, was strangled and the infant ripped from her womb.
A short time later, a member of his congregation called to say she had heard an ambulance and wondered if anyone near the church was hurt. Hamon said he looked out the window and saw police cars parked in front of Stinnett's house.
"It's almost unbelievable that right under your nose something terrible can be happening," said Hamon, who lives in the tiny town of Skidmore in northwestern Missouri.
Lisa Montgomery, 36, of nearby Melvern, Kan., is accused of killing Stinnett on Thursday, removing the baby from her womb and trying to pass it off as her own to family and friends. The baby, a girl named Victoria Jo, was later recovered unharmed.
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WHAT THE ****??!?!?!?!
what kind of messed up **** is that?! the woman killed her, and cut her open to remove the baby. I can barely type because my brain is trying to comprehend this. It's just so ****ing stupid....why in God's name would you kill a pregnant woman, and take her child for yourself?! why couldn't this woman just have a kid of her own?
I hate this kind of ****.....the woman who did it should be taken out behind the shed and shot. She doesn't deserve to live.