Texas: Woman stabs pregnant woman to extract her baby; he is sentenced to death

A 29-year-old Texas woman was sentenced to death for killing a pregnant acquaintance in October 2020 to steal the fetus she was carrying.

Taylor Parker’s sentence was handed down Wednesday in Texas after several weeks of a trial that began in September, according to court documents.

For months, Parker she made her boyfriend and family members believe she was pregnant. She posted it on social media and bought a fake silicone belly. It was all a lie. The truth was that she had had a hysterectomy and could not have children.

On October 9, 2020, Parker went to the home of Reagan Simmons-Hancock, a 21-year-old acquaintance who was in the final months of pregnancy, and he stabbed her more than 100 times.

After opening its stomach to take the fetus, he walked off, leaving the victim’s three-year-old daughter asleep in another room.

Parker was arrested shortly after driving her vehicle approximately 15 kilometers to the murder. The newborn was on her lap. She told authorities she had just given birth. The child was hospitalized but did not survive.

Parker was tried in the small town of New Boston, east of Dallas.

A few weeks before the murder, Parker had begun searching stores and maternity hospitals for pregnant women, according to police testimony at trial. Shortly before the events, he had watched numerous videos of deliveries and caesarean sections.

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