Overview
- Teka Adams said Veronica Deramous lured her from a Washington homeless shelter to a home where Deramous tried to take her unborn child with a box cutter.
- Adams escaped severely injured, and doctors performed an emergency C-section on December 6, 2009; she later named the baby Miracle.
- Deramous was arrested the same day and initially charged with attempted murder.
- In 2010, Judge C. Philip Nichols Jr. accepted a guilty plea to first-degree assault and a false-imprisonment plea under the Alford doctrine, imposing 25 years plus a life term with all but 15 years suspended.
- Prosecutor Scott Carrington said Deramous was dishonest as she claimed a prior agreement to buy the baby, and the new articles present the case as a retrospective with no fresh legal developments.