Horrific.
And tragically not the first crime of its type.
There are a number of them here.
I wish this awful type of murder could be studied further.
There must be some psychiatric phenomenon at play here to suggest to certain women that this brutal assault is the answer to whatever is happening in their life.
We have a name for the dx of mothers who inflict harm on their children in order to gain attention for their plight - Munchausens by proxy.
What in the world do these folks who kill mothers-to-be expect to gain from such a cruel violent act in taking a child. after murdering the poor defenseless mother? I know there is no rational answer. I am just so sad that this has happened as often as it has.