A pregnant mum has been found mutilated with her stomach sliced open following a suspected ritualistic killing, police say. Ohana Karolin, 24, was found dead by authorities in the Mogi Guacu area of Brazilian state Sao Paulo on September 21.
Municipal civil guards were called to the site by passers-by where they discovered the mum-of-three, who was seven months pregnant, wearing only a T-shirt and a pair of flip-flops. According to local media, her stomach had been cut open and her womb ripped out, with a number of coins left next to her butchered body.
It is not yet known how the young baby was affected. Officers suspect the young woman was attacked in some sort of barbaric ritual, but say they are continuing to investigate all areas of enquiry, the Mirror reports.
They contacted her ex-husband immediately to locate the body after her corpse was identified. Meanwhile, one of her friends claimed she saw Ohana inside a black car around midnight on the day of the crime.
Other witnesses confirmed seeing what appeared to be the same vehicle near the crime scene at around 3am the same day. The police initiated an investigation concerning the incident and are waiting for a follow-up analysis from the Legal Medical Institute and the Institute of Criminalistics.
The crime was registered as a homicide at the Mogi Guacu General Investigations Police Station. Additionally, on Friday night, a heavily pregnant woman was killed in a drive-by shooting just one day before her baby shower.
Jennifer Hernandez, 20, who was eight months pregnant, was found dead in the car in North Harris County, Texas. The car she was in was sprayed with bullets in a suspected road-rage shooting, tragically killing both mother and unborn child.
According to local media, Jennifer was expecting a baby boy - and the Harris County Sheriff's Office said Hernandez was found in the passenger seat of the vehicle, reportedly a blue Nissan Sentra. Her 17-year-old boyfriend was shot twice, but survived.
"We are absolutely devastated by Jennifer’s passing," a GoFundMe page for Hernandez states. "Nana was a wonderful daughter, a wonderful sister, and would have been a wonderful mother."
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