A woman was charged with murder Friday for allegedly shooting her pregnant best friend in the head and stealing her daughter from her womb.
Felicia Scott, 29, was jailed without bail Friday. The infant, who is about 6 weeks old, was doing well and was in state custody, said Tom Lowe, chief of sheriff's department homicide division."The (mother's) body had been cut in the abdominal area, I am told, sufficiently to have removed an infant," said District Attorney Charles Freeman.
Lowe wouldn't say how or when the baby was born.
"You can see where this is going, if you let your imagination go," he said. "I have never in my 21 years in law enforcement seen a crime like this."
Scott is accused of killing Carethia Curry after taking her out for pizza Jan. 31. Curry was nearly 9 months pregnant.
Scott allegedly turned up with the woman's newborn daughter a week later at her father's home in Norcross, Ga.
She was arrested Feb. 7 and charged with custody interference, a felony, for failing to return the 17-year-old Curry to her home in Tuscaloosa.
Murder charges were filed after Curry's body was found Thursday at the foot of a 50-foot ravine near Birmingham, stuffed in a plastic garbage can sealed with duct tape. She had been shot repeatedly in the head.
Lowe said Scott had always been a suspect but that the investigation had been at a standstill until the body was found.
During the investigation, Scott's neighbors and friends in Tuscaloosa told police Scott had not appeared to be pregnant in recent months.