Overview
- The women met at a Washington homeless shelter before Veronica Deramous lured Teka Adams to her home.
- Deramous attacked Adams with a box cutter in an apparent attempt to take the unborn child.
- Adams escaped and underwent an emergency C-section on December 6, 2009, and the infant survived and was later named Miracle.
- Deramous was arrested the same day, then pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and entered an Alford plea to false imprisonment in 2010.
- Judge C. Philip Nichols Jr. imposed 25 years for assault and a life term with all but 15 years suspended for false imprisonment, as prosecutors rejected Deramous’s claims of a $5,000 baby deal and alcohol-blurred memory.