A woman who took a newborn girl from her sleeping mum's bedside has revealed she did it in order to fake her own pregnancy. The suspect, known as Ms Li, from Guizhou Province in south-western China, claims to have lost her unborn child but continued to pretend she was pregnant She told a court she believed her lover would leave her if he knew she had miscarried.
She then faked her pregnancy and hatched a plan to steal a newborn close to her due date, a court report says. The court found her guilty of kidnapping and handed her a reduced sentence of one year and 10 months, including time served.
It was unclear whether she planned to appeal the verdict. Ms Li was arrested on 10th December last year - 56 hours after she sneaked out of the
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