November 27, 2004

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  Kidnappers steal baby from mother's womb

  
  

  November 24, 2004 - 9:39AM

  
  

  A woman who was eight months pregnant had the baby snatched from her womb after kidnappers drugged her and performed a rudimentary caesarean section.

  
  

  Sol Angela Cartagena told RCN television she was drugged at a hospital in Girardot in Cundinamarca province and carried by a woman to a remote place on a hillside where the caesarean was performed and her infant abducted.

  
  

  Cartagena said she arrived at the hospital with her two-year-old daughter for a pregnancy checkup and drank a glass of water she had left unattended for a few minutes. Immediately after drinking the water, she began to feel ill, she said. 'I felt I was falling asleep, and when I woke up, I was on the hill with my two-year-old daughter by my side,' she said. 'I felt as if they had thrown hot water on me, and then I saw a stream of boiling blood,'

  
  

  Cartagena said. 'My little girl began to scream and call me. Then she told me the woman had wrapped the baby in a sheet and had left quite calmly.'

  
  

  Physicians at the hospital confirmed Cartagena's story.

  
  

   

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