A 29-year-old woman from Texas was sentenced to death for killing a pregnant woman in order to steal the fetus from her womb in October 2020, AFP reports, citing Agerpres.

Taylor Parker was sentenced Wednesday in Texas after weeks of trial that began in September, according to released court documents.

For months, she tricked her boyfriend and relatives into believing she was expecting a baby and discussed her fake pregnancy on social media, going so far as to buy a fake silicone belly. In fact, she could not have children because she had a hysterectomy.

He looked for pregnant women in maternity hospitals

On October 9, 2020, Taylor Parker entered the home of Reagan Simmons-Hancock, a 21-year-old woman in the last months of her pregnancy, whom he stabbed more than a hundred times.

After cutting her womb to extract the fetus, he left the house where the victim’s three-year-old daughter was sleeping, into another room.

Taylor Parker was arrested a short time later, about 15 kilometers from the crime scene, driving a car with a newborn baby in her lap. She told the police that she had just given birth. The baby, hospitalized, did not survive.

Taylor Parker was tried in the small town of New Boston, located east of Dallas. During the hearing, the police said that Taylor Parker had started to spot pregnant women in specialty stores or maternity homes in the weeks before the murder.

She made an appointment at some clinics, where, according to the investigator, she was seen, and shortly before committing the crime, she watched many videos of childbirth and cesarean sections.