Woman ‘faked pregnancy and snatched step-sister’s baby’

An hour after a woman reported her newborn son missing from a home in Wisconsin, police were questioning her step-sister — found with a prosthetic pregnancy belly, baby clothes, and a stroller, but no baby, according to court documents.

It was more than 24 hours after Kayden Powell went missing before authorities discovered the infant, less than a week old, in a plastic storage crate outside an Iowa petrol station, miraculously alive and well despite frigid temperatures.

Kristen Smith of Denver had pretended to be pregnant, went to Wisconsin and stole her step-sister’s baby from his bassinet as his parents slept, court documents say. Then, as police closed in on her, she allegedly abandoned the infant.