Valencia Behrens, 34, bled to death after the gruesome attack in Randfontein, near Johannesburg. Neighbour Loretta Cooke has been arrested.

Johannesburg - An unsuspecting Valencia Behrens, 36, visited Loretta Innocentia Cooke at her Toekomsrus, Randfontein, house to receive the gift of a pram for the baby girl she was carrying.

This was after neighbour Valencia Behrens’s baby was cut on the side of the head by the blade used to slice open her mother’s abdomen and womb.

Judge Lucy Mailula said Cook could have adopted a child if she so desired but instead chose to lure a heavily pregnant Valencia Behrens to her house in January 2012 and cut her stomach open to steal ...

Cook allegedly cut baby Hope from her mother’s womb in 2012. The murder of the baby’s mother, Valencia Behrens, has left the family with wounds that they thought would not heal.

Toekomsrus resident and murder accused Loretta Innocentia Cooke has appeared at the Johannesburg High Court for the murder of her friend, Valencia Behrens. Toekomsrus resident and murder accused ...