Emotional Day for Woman Whose Unborn Baby Was Almost Cut Out

Nbcwashington · Nov 06, 2010 · 260 words · By Derrick Ward

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A woman whose unborn child was almost cut from her stomach faced her attacker in court Friday.

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What happened

A woman whose unborn child was almost cut from her stomach faced her attacker in court Friday.

Why it matters

After 40-year-old Veronica Deramous entered her plea of guilty to first-degree assault and took an Alford plea to false imprisonment, an emotional Teka Adams told how she could no longer trust anyone after Deramous, a woman she said befriended her with an…

Common ground

Deramous tried to cut Adams's unborn child out of her womb with a box cutter.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “40-year-old Veronica Deramous entered her plea of guilty to first-degree assault”

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Multiple independent sources (CBS News, WJLA, and another news report) confirm that 40-year-old Veronica Deramous pleaded guilty to first-degree assault.

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web search NEUTRAL — Teka Adams brought her 10-month-old child Miracle to court to watch Veronica Deramous plead guilty to first-degree assault and enter an Alford plea to false imprisonment for the December 2009 incident…
https://wjla.com/news/crime/teka-adams-charges-attacker-vero…

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web search NEUTRAL — Forty-year-old Veronica Deramous pleaded guilty to first-degree assault Friday, and entered a separate plea in which she acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to also convict her for false…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/veronica-deramous-gets-25-years…

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web search NEUTRAL — There was a dramatic courtroom exchange between victim Teka Adams and Veronica Deramous, who pleaded guilty to trying to cut Adams’ unborn baby from her womb. A woman whose unborn child was almost cut…
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/emotional-day-for-w…

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Claim 2: “Deramous tried to cut Adams's unborn child out of her womb with a box cutter”

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Multiple independent sources confirm Deramous used a box cutter in an attempt to extract the unborn child from Adams's womb.

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web search NEUTRAL — Fetal abduction refers to the rare crime of child abduction by kidnapping of an at term pregnant woman and extraction of her fetus through a crude cesarean section. Dr. Michael H. Stone and Dr. Gary B…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_abduction

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web search NEUTRAL — Deramous tried to cut Adams's unborn child out of her womb with a box cutter.Deramous continued, saying she only bound Adams hands to keep Adams from taking her money. Deramous said the deal to buy th…
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/emotional-day-for-w…

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web search NEUTRAL — Veronica Deramous had encountered Teka Adams at a homeless shelter in Washington and enticed her to return to her residence.Upon Teka's arrival at the home, Deramous initiated a brutal assault, attemp…
https://www.the-express.com/news/weird-news/194289/pregnant-…

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Claim 3: “life with all but 15 years suspended for false imprisonment, plus five years supervised parole”

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Multiple sources confirm the sentence for false imprisonment was life with all but 15 years suspended, plus five years of supervised parole.

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web search NEUTRAL — Deramous enlisted the help of her seventeen-year-old son to tie up Adams and hold her captive for four days. During those four days, Deramous unsuccessfully attempted to extract the fetus. Adams was a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_abduction

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web search NEUTRAL — Deramous was sentenced to 25 years for first-degree assault and life with all but 15 years suspended for false imprisonment, plus five years supervised parole. With time served, she could be paroled i…
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/emotional-day-for-w…

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web search NEUTRAL — Deramous was apprehended later that same day and charged with attempted murder. During the 2010 court proceedings, Teka testified that both she and her child would have perished had she remained in De…
https://www.the-express.com/news/weird-news/194289/pregnant-…

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Claim 4: “Veronica Deramous... took an Alford plea to false imprisonment”

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Multiple sources confirm she entered an Alford plea to false imprisonment; CBS News describes it as a plea acknowledging prosecutors had enough evidence to convict.

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web search NEUTRAL — to permit the defendants to enter Alford pleas, be re-sentenced to "time served," and obtain immediate release from prison.[36][37][38] As part of the plea deal, the men agreed not to sue the state se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alford_plea

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Claim 5: “Deramous was sentenced to 25 years for first-degree assault”

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Multiple independent news sources confirm the sentence of 25 years for the first-degree assault charge.

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web search NEUTRAL — Forty-year-old Veronica Deramous pleaded guilty to first-degree assault Friday, and entered a separate plea in which she acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to also convict her for ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/veronica-deramous-gets-25-years…

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web search NEUTRAL — The judge sentenced Deramous to 25 years in prison for the assault charge and life in prison with all but 15 years suspended for the false imprisonment charge.
https://wjla.com/news/crime/teka-adams-charges-attacker-vero…

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web search NEUTRAL — Deramous was sentenced to 25 years for first-degree assault and life with all but 15 years suspended for false imprisonment, plus five years supervised parole.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/emotional-day-for-w…

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Claim 6: “Deramous... tied her up and held her captive over the course of three days in December”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that Deramous held Teka Adams captive in December 2009. Other news sources corroborate she held her for 'days'.

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web search NEUTRAL — In Washington, DC in December 2009, Teka Adams, 29 years old, homeless and nine months pregnant, was abducted by acquaintance Veronica Deramous, aged 40. Deramous enlisted the help of her seventeen-ye…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_abduction

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web search NEUTRAL — In December, Deramous allegedly lured 29-year-old Teka Adams, who was in her third term, from a Washington homeless shelter to her apartment with a promise of baby clothes and other items for the unbo…
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/suspect-in-pregnant…

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web search NEUTRAL — Authorities have said that Deramous lured Teka Adams from a Wash., D.C. homeless shelter in December 2009 with the promise of baby clothes, then held her captive for days and used box cutters to cut i…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/veronica-deramous-gets-25-years…

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Claim 7: “Deramous read from a written statement, saying she met Adams in a bar, befriended her and agreed to buy the unborn baby for $5,000”

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Multiple sources report that Deramous stated in court she agreed to buy the baby for $5,000.

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web search NEUTRAL — Deramous insisted she informed Teka of her longing for a child, leading to an agreement where Deramous would buy the baby from Teka for £5000, with contact details exchanged.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/pregnant-wo…

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web search NEUTRAL — In court, Adams told her attacker she hopes she rots in jail. Deramous read from a written statement, saying she met Adams in a bar, befriended her and agreed to buy the unborn baby for $5,000.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/emotional-day-for-w…

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web search NEUTRAL — When Deramous told the Prince George's County judge Friday that Adams had agreed to sell her the baby for $5,000, Adams lunged at Deramous and was then escorted from the courtroom.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/veronica-deramous-gets-25-years…

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