A KILLER has been sentenced to death after she crushed her pregnant friend’s skull and ripped out her unborn baby, killing them both.
Taylor Rene Parker, dubbed the infertile womb raider, stabbed Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock, 21, more than 100 times in New Boston, in northeast Texas, back in 2020.
The 29-year-old also crushed Simmons-Hancock’s skull with a hammer before cutting her baby girl, Braxlynn Sage from her womb with a scalpel while she was still alive.
She then left the mother to die in front of her three-year-old daughter and fled with the baby, who later died.
Parker, already a mom of two, had been faking her own pregnancy in the months leading up to the murder in order to prevent her boyfriend from leaving her, prosecutors said.
The killer, who could not carry her own children after a hysterectomy, posted about her pregnancy repeatedly online and even held a gender reveal party for her nonexisting baby.
She befriended Simmons-Hancock while she was looking for a pregnant victim, the court heard.
Parker prepared for the brutal crime by watching videos on how to deliver babies preterm at 35 weeks, which is how far along Simmons-Hancock was when the attack happened.
On the day of the murder, Parker told her boyfriend she would be induced to deliver the baby.
Parker had stuck the child’s umbilical cord in her pants, reportedly to make it look as if it was her baby.
When asked why, Parker said: “I wasn’t in my right mind. I was freaking out.”
She was convicted of capital murder in September and sentenced to death on Wednesday after the jury deliberated for two hours, as reported by TXK Today.
During the sentencing, Simmons-Hancock’s mother Jessica Brooks called Parker an “evil piece of flesh demon.”
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“My baby was alive still fighting for her babies when you tore her open and ripped her baby from her stomach,” the mother added.
Parker can now appeal her death sentence.
