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Kathy Coy is accused of killing a pregnant woman she befriended and taking her baby.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- A Kentucky woman on Friday pleaded guilty but mentally ill to killing an expectant mother and taking her baby.
Kathy Coy of Morgantown cried as she entered the plea in Warren Circuit Court. Family and friends of the victim, 21-year-old Jamie Stice, looked on, all wearing pink ribbons.
Coy pleaded guilty to three counts — murder, capital kidnapping and kidnapping. The plea deal calls for her to receive life in prison without parole when she's sentenced March 1.
Stice's body found off a dirt road in Warren County near Bowling Green on April 14, a day after she was seen leaving her house with Coy. Authorities say Coy had befriended Slice and told her she would take her shopping. Instead, authorities say, she drove Stice to a wooded area, subdued her with a stun gun, slit Stice's wrists and throat and carved out her fetus.
Investigators said Coy showed up at a local hospital with the infant but showed no signs of having given birth.
According to court records, Coy first insisted that she had given birth to the baby, then claimed that she had bought the child. Police searched her home and found links to two pregnant women on Coy's Facebook page, one of whom was Stice. After further questioning, Coy led police to Stice's body.
The boy survived the attack and Stice's mother, Jeannie Stice, told The Associated Press on Friday he is healthy and thriving. The child lives with his father, she said, but Stice's family takes him every other weekend. In a recent photography, the chubby, smiling child was seen riding on his father's shoulders.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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What a sick woman.
Glad the child is in a loving environment, may is mother rest in peace.
Mentally ill, yes. But sane enough to hide what she did, lie to the hospital staff and execute the removal of the baby from the mothers womb successfully.
None of that precludes a mental illness. If anything such cold precision and calculation points to a seriously deranged state of mind that requires institutionalization.
With few mental institutions left- did anyone see this coming and have no way to stop her? Or is this just another example of how the violently mentally ill have the right to roam the earth to keep us all politically correct?
Who cares if she is mentally ill? She deserves nothing less than life in prison for what she did, and really deserves a whole lot worse.
Here's hoping she gets shanked in prison.
Well, hopefully someone in prison will carve out this c**ts womb, too.
Another tale from the trailer park. My condolences...
it's time to ZAP or INJECT her.
Oh my god! How sick what some have come to.
9 deleted, gender extrapolation about how all women are crazy by mtr89123-2020.
Stop doing this. You're suspended for a week for violating #5 of the Code of Honor.
Now THAT is contraception!
Mentally ill? Couldnt have a baby, wanted a baby, friended a woman on facebook, made plans to kill her and take baby, offered to take woman shopping, took woman to secluded woods, cut woman's throat and wrists, cut baby from womb, took baby to hospital, lied to staff..
Premeditation? Yes we would have to think someone is seriously mentally ill to do such a thing but I don't buy it.. My cousin cant have babies and isnt interested in snatching a baby from a womb.. She does child care for single moms to help alleviate stress of parenting alone and working full time.. She gets her baby time and gets to give them back to moms.. When I have the urge to have a baby i go stand in a store and listen to them scream and poof there goes the urges..
And yet another reason to not swallow the "but I didn't know what I was doing" insanity plea. Pure bullsh.t!
I believe that the plea for mental illness requires that the accused was not capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong. If that is the case, then why did she go to such great lengths to cover up what she had done? Once again, trying to be compassionate as a society we are going to feed, cloth, house and provide medical care to someone who is incapable of compassion.
Very disturbing.
Women ALWAYS have an excuse when caught red-handed.
They'll dress her up like a librarian; she'll hold her eyes real wide-open, in an attempt to look doe-eyed and innocent; she'll cry at will; etc.
She'll claim that she was abuse by some man, her dad, a husband, ex-boyfriend, etc.... none of which can be proven etc.
All she needs is one half-as-crazy woman on the jury, and she'll get a slap on the wrist, if not acquitted.
It worked for Casey Anthony and a million other women-murderers that are currently walking free after killing their husbands for the money.
You don't like us very much do you? Did your wife take everything in the divorce? Despite what you might think there are far more male killers then female. I'm sorry this happened, honestly it's horrific, and she should fry. But that doesn't mean she'll make doe eyes and get off. Nor does it mean that every women does it.
This is HORRIBLE!!!!!!
That right there is the face of evil.
This is an unspeakable crime. I live in bowling green ky and the article above does not come close to really happen that day. If anyone wants to read further details, there is an article in our local paper today. you can go to bgdailynews.com and read it for yourself. Prayers for the Stice family. Peace out
Chris, after you were suspended by Sally the moderator for making comments regarding women and their horses; I found it ironic that her profile page caption is that she is the "crazy dog lady"! Her words - NOT MINE!!
You must have really touched a nerve there!!
Another one...? Last time I heard of a woman carving out a fetus from another was YEARS ago, (maybe not that long, but most of you should get the point).
The level of depravity and maliciousness in this shouldn't even warrant consideration of a plea deal. This woman killed another for a child like an animal, she deserves nothing less than to be put down like one, but maybe if what she did haunts her every night in her sleep, she'll beg for an end to the nightmares.
Most unfortunate typo of the day award.