Baby ripped from murdered mother's womb alive: policeA baby girl ripped from the womb of her murdered mother is alive, and a woman found with the infant has been arrested, US police said Thursday. The miraculous news came a day after police found the mutilated mu·ti·late tr.v. mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing, mu·ti·lates 1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple. 2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. body of a woman in an apartment in Worcester, Massachusetts -- and realized that a fetus fetus, term used to describe the unborn offspring in the uterus of vertebrate animals after the embryonic stage (see embryo). In humans, the fetal stage begins seven to eight weeks after fertilization of the egg, when the embryo assumes the basic shape of the newborn was missing from her womb. "The most important part of this investigation has been accomplished. We do have the girl. Thankfully, she's fine," Sergeant Kerry Hazelhurst, of the Worcester police department, said on local NECN NECN New England Cable News NECN National Emergency Communications Network (FEMA) television. Police said a woman had been arrested in possession of the baby in neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). state, and charged with kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. , although no one has been charged yet in the murder of the mother. "This was a very gruesome homicide, a very unique one, one that I haven't come across in my years here," Hazelhurst said. "There's still a lot of work to be done on this case. We have many more people to interview. We have a lot of following up to do." The horrific crime was discovered when the landlord at the small apartment building in Worcester went to investigate a foul smell on the second floor. "He opened the door and discovered what was found to be a body," a police officer told NECN on Wednesday. The victim was identified as Darlene Haynes, 23, and approximately eight months pregnant. Suspicions emerged about the woman now in police custody, Julie Corey, 35, after she claimed to have given birth. "She contacted her friends Friday and said she'd just had a baby girl late Thursday night or early Friday morning. Then she showed up at her house later on the day on Friday which made many of her acquaintances suspicious," Hazelhurst said. 
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