US woman stabs, aborts her unborn child, to keep boyfriend around, allegedly killing
US woman stabs acquaintance and aborts her unborn child "to keep boyfriend around"
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This week a lady in Texas went on trial for allegedly killing a pregnant friend and removing the fetus to pass it off as her own child. For the assault on Reagan Simmons-Hancock, 21, in New Boston, northeast Texas, in October 2020, Taylor Parker, 29, may be sentenced to death. The infant did not make it. Parker has entered a not-guilty plea to the murder accusation.

According to the prosecution, Parker spent months disguising herself in order to appear pregnant to her lover. She then advertised on social media about her fictitious physical condition while looking for a potential victim.

Parker had a hysterectomy, which prevented her from having children of her own.

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Parker allegedly devised the hoax because she was worried about losing her partner and wanted to fool him into thinking she was expecting his child.

According to the prosecution, on October 9, 2020, Parker visited Simmons-Hancock, a friend of hers who was in the last stages of pregnancy, and stabbed her more than 100 times.

Parker is accused of carving the woman’s foetus out of her before fleeing the scene with the woman’s three-year-old toddler still sound asleep in another room.

Police pulled over Parker when she was still driving shortly after. She claimed to have just had a baby.

The infant died after being taken urgently to a hospital.

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A month or more is anticipated for the trial’s duration.

The court heard on Tuesday that Parker began to scout out pregnant women in maternity wards or baby apparel stores weeks before the homicide, according to KTAL television.

According to the prosecution, she watched movies of people giving birth and having C-sections just before the attack.