Be very careful who you meet on Facebook!
Unfortunately, it can cost you your life when commuinicating with strangers who want to do harm like this poor young woman from Kentucky, Jamie Stice.
Daily Mail reports that a woman accused of cutting a foetus out of a pregnant friend's womb and pretending the baby was hers, allegedly contacted the victim three weeks ago with the Facebook message: 'I hear you're going to be a mum.'
The barbaric murder was uncovered after Kathy Michelle Coy, 33, turned up at a Kentucky hospital with a newborn boy.
Nursing staff immediately became suspicious and alerted the police.
The next day, investigators discovered the mutilated body of eight-month-pregnant Jamie Stice, 21, in woodland in Oakland, Kentucky.
The victim's mother, Jeannie Stice, said Coy allegedly began chatting online with the family about three weeks ago.
Jeannie Stice told Deborah Highland of the Bowling Green Daily News: 'She popped in on Jamie’s [Facebook] page and said, "How are you? I hear you are going to be a mum".'
She added that Coy told Jamie and herself that she worked for a company that could help them obtain baby clothes and other financial assistance.
'We were being evicted... and she gained our trust. She was trying to get us help and into another place.'
But Mrs Stice now believes that the whole story was a bid to get closer to her pregnant sister.
‘I just want people to know that Jamie was a very bright, optimistic young lady. She had a bright future ahead of her. She was robbed of her motherhood,’ the victim’s cousin, Carolyn Miracle told CNN.
Coy could now face the death penalty. She is being held without bond on charges of kidnapping and murder.
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I’m not a Faebookhead. But, I think this social networking thing is getting out of hand. People are so eaily apt to speak to strangers on FaceBook that they’d would do in-person. FaceBook gives people a false sense of security.
I just don’t get the idea of putting your life on the ‘net for any crazy to see. Seeing a person’s name on a computer screen is not knowing them.