A Bronx woman who stabbed her “childhood
friend” repeatedly before cutting the pregnant woman’s baby from her
womb told police she acted in self-defense, the NY Daily News reports. The woman, 22-year-old Ashleigh Wade, is currently being held in the psychiatric ward facing murder charges.
But friends and family of victim Angelikque Sutton are
left to grapple with the 22-year-old’s death and questions about why
her friend would attack her so violently. The women attended elementary
school together and had recently rekindled their relationship.
According to the Daily News,
Wade, who told estranged family she had a baby that died in 2014
shortly after being born, also said she was expecting a baby girl soon
(her landlord told police she had no doubt in her mind the woman had
been pregnant at some point).
After her arrest, police said there was no
proof she was actually pregnant. But that didn’t stop Wade, who police
described as baby-obsessed, from carrying out the elaborate lie.
