Woman ‘showed off’ baby cut from dead mother

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

Lisa M Montgomery, aged 36, was charged last Friday with kidnapping resulting in murder and is expected to appear in federal court today.

Montgomery had suffered a miscarriage earlier this year and may have been trying to replace the baby she had lost, American authorities believe.