Defendant Slashed Victim’s Throat; Tried to Pass Infant As Her Own
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx woman has been
found guilty of Murder and Kidnapping for killing a pregnant woman and stealing the infant she
removed from the victim’s mutilated body.
District Attorney Clark said, “The facts of this case are unfathomable: a child was
yanked from the womb moments after her mother was murdered on her wedding day. Two
years later, that child is a vibrant little girl, a testament to survival and hope. We are glad we
have brought justice to her and her mother’s family.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Ashleigh Wade, 24, of 4450 Monticello
Avenue in Wakefield, was convicted today by a jury of second-degree Murder and second degree
Kidnapping after a nearly two-week trial before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Margaret
Clancy. Wade faces a maximum of 50 years to life in prison when she is sentenced on October
20, 2017.
According to trial testimony, Wade, who was pretending to be pregnant, reconnected
with a childhood friend, Angelikque Sutton, 22, over social media. On November 20, 2015,
Sutton--who was eight-months pregnant--stopped by the defendant’s apartment to pick up
some baby items before heading to her civil wedding ceremony. The defendant slashed
Sutton’s throat and proceeded to remove the victim’s uterus and cut out the infant. Wade
claimed she had given birth to the baby when police later arrived.
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