Jury selection in trial over baby cut from womb

A WOMAN accused of strangling a pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb watched in court yesterday as attorneys began selecting a jury for her trial.

Prosecutors say the suspect, Lisa Montgomery, was nine months into a faked pregnancy and so desperate for a baby that she planned the December 2004 killing of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett who was eight months pregnant.

Montgomery is charged with kidnapping resulting in death. Prosecutors allege that Montgomery, 39, strangled Stinnett and then used a kitchen knife to cut her baby from her womb.