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Alleged fetus cutter indicted
A woman accused of cutting a fetus out of another woman after they met during a search for baby clothes on the Internet has been indicted on aggravated murder charges in Hillsboro, Oregon. Korena Roberts, 27, had been facing a lesser murder charge before a grand jury indicted her on Monday on four counts of the more serious charges. Hermann said the aggravated murder charges allege that Roberts attempted to kidnap the baby of 21-year-old Heather Snively and rob her, and tried to conceal the crimes. Snively was eight months pregnant when she was killed.
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Ambulance stopper no ‘ogre’
An Oklahoma state trooper who pulled over an ambulance with a patient inside and then scuffled with a paramedic had every right to make the stop since the vehicle did not have its emergency lights and sirens on, an attorney said on Monday. Gary James, an attorney for trooper Daniel Martin, also said at a news conference that the trooper is not the “ogre” he has been made out to be. Interest in the May 24 incident has soared since authorities released video over the weekend that was taken by the dashboard camera in Martin’s patrol car. The video shows paramedic Maurice White Jr repeatedly telling Martin he has a patient in the back and wants to go to the hospital. James said Martin had a legal right to pull over the ambulance for failing to yield the right of way when the patrol unit tried to pass it moments earlier.
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Moms sue over sex tests
Six New York City mothers are suing the maker of a baby sex test that touted its product as “infallibly accurate,” saying the test results they received were wrong. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the women claim they received incorrect results from the US$275 Baby Gender Mentor test by Acu-Gen Biolab Inc, of Lowell, Massachusetts. Lawyer Barry Gainey said the lawsuit charges the product’s makers and marketers with negligence and fraud, and seeks unspecified damages. The suit says the test maker advertised its product as the “gold standard for prenatal gender detection,” the New York Post reported.
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