Baby cut from womb, police say

KENNEWICK – Kennewick police report that a pregnant woman was fatally stabbed 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 in critical condition.

Court documents say 27-year-old Araceli Camacho Gomez, of Pasco, 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.