Woman cuts baby from womb

A WOMAN who faked her own pregnancy has pleaded guilty to cutting open the belly of a pregnant woman and trying to remove her baby, it has been reported.

Leung Sin-ting, 27, pleaded guilty in Hong Kong to charges of manslaughter and inflicting grievous bodily harm on the expectant mother, the South China Morning Post reported.

Prosecutors said Leung invited the woman, who was eight months pregnant, to her apartment last September after the two met on a childcare web site. It was there that Leung strangled the woman with a cord until she passed out and then slashed a four inch wound in her abdomen, it said.