A Brazilian woman has been convicted of a horrendous crime that has put her in prison for 57 years.
Rozalba Maria Grime, 27, was found guilty of beating her pregnant friend to death with a brick and then stealing her unborn child from her womb, the New York Post reported.
Authorities say in August of 2020, she lured her friend Flavia Godinho Mafra, a 24-year-old teacher, to an old pottery site in the town of Canelinha. While there, she fatally struck her several times on the head with a brick.
She then used a utility knife to cut open the victim’s stomach and pull out the baby. She then hid her friend in a kiln when she died of a hemorrhage.
Mafra was 36 weeks pregnant.
Grime and her partner, who had told her partner she was pregnant, went to the hospital. She told the staff she had just given birth, but they were skeptical and called the police.
Her partner, who at one point authorities thought was involved, was acquitted of any involvement on July 27.
During the 15-hour trial, Grime admitted to the court how she had planned out the heinous crime and that she had researched how to remove the unborn child from the woman’s womb – as well as how to simulate the symptoms of pregnancy and childbirth.
She was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted murder of a baby, concealment of a corpse, obstruction of justice, abduction of a minor, and denying the rights of a newborn.
