Woman 'killed mother and full-term foetus', US court told

A woman who faked a pregnancy and panicked as her supposed due date grew near attacked a pregnant mother with a baseball bat and cut her full-term foetus from her womb, killing the mother and baby, court documents said.

Annette Morales-Rodriguez, 33, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide while armed and first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child while armed, following the death of Maritza Ramirez-Cruz and the boy she was set to deliver next week.