** Disturbing Content Warning** 1974, Philadelphia. Winifred Ransom would attack 8 months pregnant Margaret Sweeney with a hatchet in an onslaught that would end with Margaret being shot and having her baby taken from inside her. Winifred would be acquitted on the grounds of insanity for this crime. It was believed that the need to be a mother so incapacitated her that she could not determine right from wrong. Things have changed since then. In more recent times, we have come to learn that it is far from maternal instinct that drives perpetrators of foetal abduction. Rather, it is a bit for attention, value, praise and control. **Also, it is often in an attempt to sure up a shakey romantic relationship. *I will not be covering any of the cases where the newborn doesn’t survive the abduction* Thank you for joining me. References are below: http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2012/04/earliest-known-cesearean-kidnapping.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/02/fetal-abduction-attacks-expectant-mothers

https://apnews.com/68b5279b8b5236e4f0c6f4a7de3047c7

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/beauty/a19928039/octomom-syndrome/

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15003998/ns/health-health_care/t/evil-or-insane-women-who-kill-steal-fetuses/#.Xi__KC8_VvI

https://www.wcpo.com/news/our-community/from-the-vault/from-the-vault-another-fake-pregnancy-shocked-the-tri-state

https://www.thoughtco.com/womb-raiders-cases-of-fetal-abduction-973488

https://vt.co/news/weird/nightmare-phenomenon-fetal-abduction/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/201206/dying-baby

https://medium.com/@delanirbartlette/fetal-abductors-they-would-kill-for-a-baby-523fb89ad35c

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3489505/winifred_ransom_1_daily_courier/

http://fullhousemagazine.co.uk/story_display.php?id=447

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/fetal-abduction-woman-recalls-traumatic-9222959

https://www.thoughtco.com/fetal-abduction-the-carethia-curry-case-973482.

https://www.talkmurderwithme.com/blog/2019/10/4/bobbie-jo-stinnett

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20100616/300617646934127

*******Two key documents:

https://epublications.regis.edu/theses/245/

https://www.academia.edu/23182029/Cesarean_Kidnapping_Maternal_instinct_Malingering_and_Murder