A woman charged with killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb was showing the child off to people at a café and to her pastor hours before she was arrested, residents said.

Police today charged a woman accused of strangling an eight-months’-pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb in a macabre attack that shocked America.

US police are hunting the killer of an eight months pregnant woman whose unborn child was cut from her body and abducted.