ANDREA CURRY-DEMUS: KILLED PREGNANT WOMAN TO STEAL BABY

AP Photo: Andrea Curry-Demus, center, is seen Thursday after being arrested at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette
Wilkinsburg and Allegheny County police officers stand outside the apartment of Andrea Curry-Demus in Wilkinsburg yesterday.

John Heller/Post-GazetteCrime scene investigators wait to remove a body from the apartment last night.

Wilkinsburg woman served jail time for baby theft, stabbing
By Jill King Greenwood

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Andrea Curry-Demus suffered at least three miscarriages and was desperate for a baby.

During the past two decades, she stabbed a woman in a failed attempt to steal her infant and kidnapped a baby girl from a Pittsburgh hospital, court records show. This week she told police she bought a baby boy from a woman she barely knew.

But police Friday recovered the body of a woman, found face down with her hands bound with duct tape, inside the Wilkinsburg apartment where Curry-Demus, 38, lived. The baby, who was unharmed, will be released to the custody of the Allegheny County Department of Children, Youth and Families.

Outside Curry-Demus' third-floor apartment Friday, a foul, pungent odor filled the hallway and flies swarmed behind the screen of an open front window. The odor wafted to the street below.

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A troubled life

The tragedies of Curry-Demus' life are played out in court records that paint the picture of a woman so desperate for a child that she became pregnant for the first time at the age of 12. She miscarried that pregnancy at about four months and sank into a depression.

Eventually Curry-Demus, who has a limited intelligence level, according to court records, graduated from Peabody High School. She took a series of maintenance jobs at fast-food restaurants.

In 1990, at age 21, she miscarried a second time, losing the fetus at 7 months, court records state. She suffered "great physical and emotional trauma" as a result, and within months was under arrest for attacking one mother and kidnapping a second woman's 3-week-old baby.

ANDREA CURRY-DEMUS IS NOT THE BABY'S MOTHER...WHO IS?

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