Kennewick Woman Arrested For Violently Stealing Baby

We're having kind of a difficult time even finding words for this one—maybe because our sister is also very pregnant and we've been awaiting news for weeks now of the baby's safe arrival. But, according to KOMO News: "A pregnant woman [in Kennewick] was stabbed multiple times in the chest and her nearly full-term baby was cut from her womb. A second woman has been arrested. The baby has been hospitalized in critical condition." The woman's 23-year-old attacker bound her hands and feet with yarn.

The whole story is just a disturbing, scary, mind-blowing mess. But, what we're caught up on is that the alleged attacker, Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong, was trying to pass the baby off as her own. There's also this part: "Family members said Synhavong worked with senior citizens and had met and befriended Gomez [the victim] through her work."

We seriously hope that Synhavong, who eventually confessed, is provided with an extremely thorough mental health overhaul. We worry for the senior citizens she was working with, for her family, and especially the family of Gomez.

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