KENNEWICK, Washington (AP) -- Kennewick, Washington, police report that a pregnant woman was fatally stabbed multiple times in the chest and her nearly full-term baby was cut from her womb. Police have arrested a 23-year-old woman.

The baby boy has been hospitalized at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, in critical condition.

Court documents say 27-year-old Araceli Camacho Gomez, of Pasco, Washington, had her hands and feet bound with yarn and suffered "massive trauma to her stomach area" late Friday night. An autopsy showed she died of the chest wounds, but had other wounds "consistent with the cutting of the body to remove an unborn child."

Her body was found early Saturday in Kennewick's Columbia Park.

A 23-year-old Kennewick woman, Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong, has been arrested for investigation of first-degree murder and is accused of trying to pass the infant boy off as her own in calls made late Friday night to emergency dispatchers. She was being held without bail Monday, with another court appearance scheduled Wednesday.

Court documents say blue mechanic's gloves soaked in blood, a box cutter, bloody paper towels, yarn, a mucus bulb, baby bottle and baby socks were among some of the items found in Sisouvanh Synhavong's purse.

They didn't say whether the boxcutter was used to cut or stab Gomez and police refused to discuss details Monday.

Court documents allege that Sisouvanh Synhavong called 911 at 11:04 p.m. Friday saying she was by JCPenney, had just given birth and that she thought the baby had died.

The call ended, but the woman called again a few minutes later. Dispatchers were able to trace the calls, and she was found in a parking lot with the baby, holding what appeared to be an umbilical cord. A "significant amount of blood and pieces of human tissue" were found in the back seat, documents said.

The site was a mile or two from the spot where Gomez's body was later found, but it wasn't immediately clear whether Gomez was killed at the site where her body was found, or was killed elsewhere and the body dumped there.

Sisouvanh Synhavong and the baby were taken to Kennewick General Hospital, where medical tests showed she had not recently given birth

That is just completely sick!! What is happening to people now a days?

this is so sad....I remember this happening a few years back to a woman in Kansas (I think). She ran an ad in a paper trying to sell something. A woman responded and then later killed the woman and took the unborn baby. What are these woman thinking????

prayers are needed for the child

This is a shame,This is the world we want to bring more children into.Please God protect all of the children.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
How tragic!!!!!....


i can't even imagine the horror and pain
and suffering the Mother went through

& the terror and pain of the baby ..

that is so sick & twisted
& absolutely heartless and so demented & demonic

this is just so sad, what in the world are people thinking, my prayers go out to the baby and its family.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh God...

please save us from the evil

that runs rampant on this planet

Please come quickly Lord,

and protect Your precious innocent ones

from these vicious predators"