Ashleigh Wade, left, is accused of killing her nine-months-pregnant
friend Angelikque Sutton, right, and taking her baby from her womb.
Photo: Facebook (2)
The baby already had piles of neatly stacked,
brightly colored clothes, the tiniest pairs of Mary Janes and a mother
cooing over sonogram pictures.
“My baby angel,” Ashleigh Wade proclaimed on Facebook,
commenting on ultrasound images of a fetus’ face, calling the girl “my
lil dimpled cutie pie.”
But it was all a lie, the sick delusion of a woman who wanted so badly to have a newborn she would kill to get one, police say.
Modal TriggerAn
ultrasound image posted by Angel Praylow of what he thought was his
baby turned out to be a copy of other images available on the Internet, a
search reveals.Photo: Facebook
Wade, 22, faces murder and manslaughter charges after she allegedly stabbed and then brutally butchered a pregnant friend inside her Bronx apartment.
She then ripped the unborn baby from her victim’s body and proclaimed it was hers, according to investigators. Modal TriggerAngel
Praylow apparently had no idea that girlfriend Ashleigh Wade was not
really pregnant, posting pictures of baby clothes and sonograms as part
of preparation for the little one’s arrival.Photo: Facebook
For months, Wade had lied to friends and acquaintances that she was
pregnant. She stuck to her lie even as cops arrived Friday afternoon at
the blood-soaked crime scene.
“It’s my baby!” she insisted, even as the baby’s real mother, Angelikque Sutton lay dying in the nearby bedroom.
Wade and Sutton were childhood friends who had recently reconnected.
Sutton, also 22, was 8¹/₂ months pregnant with her own baby girl, whom
she had already named “Jenasis.” The women lunched at Applebee’s and
shopped for baby stuff together, police sources said.
Everyone in Wade’s life was eagerly awaiting the baby girl she claimed was coming.
“I thought she was pregnant. I didn’t know she wasn’t,” said Wade’s
landlord, Angela Parris, who deals with pregnant women as an OB/GYN
nurse.
“She had me fooled . . . She was heavy so I couldn’t tell.” Modal TriggerReal dad Patrick Bradley posted a photo of his baby girl on Facebook.Photo: Facebook
“She said she was supposed to deliver on Monday, and I texted her and
asked if she had the baby, and she said, ‘No, not yet,’ ” Parris told
The Post.
“Have you ever witnessed a story like this? It’s crazy. Only on LMN,” she said — a reference to the Lifetime Movie Network.
Wade’s boyfriend of six years was ready to be a dad. Angel Praylow
wrote about his “baby girl” on Facebook, posting the 3-D images of the
fetus’ face and answering questions from relatives eager to attend the
baby shower.
Praylow told one family member on Facebook that they thought Nov. 15
was Wade’s due date. But on Facebook that day, he wrote, “She not ready
to come out yet.” Modal TriggerBaby JenasisPhoto: Facebook
“It’s a shocker to him. It’s a shocker to me and my wife,” said Angel’s dad, Steven Praylow.
Wade was in the Praylow home three weeks ago, he said.
“I was telling her I can’t wait ’til November, when the baby’s due. I thought I was going to be a grandfather,” he said.
There were always sonogram pictures — but one posted on Angel
Praylow’s Facebook page in May, and again in July, exactly matches
sonograms available online via Google Images. When her boyfriend posted
the sonogram on his Facebook feed, Wade joked to him: “U stole my
picture.”
Steven Praylow said his son didn’t go to Wade’s doctor’s appointments
because he was always working in the kitchens at New York University.
“That’s how she really got away with it,” Steven Praylow mused.
Praylow, who is not considered a suspect, finally learned the truth
Friday afternoon when Wade called asking him to come to her home
immediately.
The reason? She had done something “very bad,” she told Praylow, according to sources. Modal TriggerWade with her boyfriend, Angel Praylow.Photo: Facebook
The boyfriend raced to Wade’s Monticello Avenue apartment and found a bloodbath inside.
Sutton lay on the bed, barely alive. Her placenta was on the floor.
Praylow took the baby, wrapped her in a jacket, carried her outside and
called 911.
The baby remains in stable condition at Montefiore Hospital, officials said Saturday night.
Wade repeatedly sank a knife into expectant mom Sutton multiple
times, telling police she stabbed Sutton as many times as she could,
sources said.
She blamed the killing on Sutton, claiming the victim lunged first
during an argument. She claimed she cut the wounded woman open to “save”
the baby girl, performing a crude cesarean section and wrenching the
infant out, sources said.
Wade was taken to Jacobi Hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Her family declined comment Saturday.
The mortally wounded woman and her infant were taken to Montefiore Hospital. Doctors there pronounced Sutton dead. Modal TriggerA pregnant woman was stabbed, and her baby ripped from the womb, in this Bronx apartment.Photo: James MesserschmidtModal TriggerEvidence bags from the scene of the slaying are brought to the 47th precinct.Photo: Christopher Sadowski
Sutton’s loved ones reeled at news of her horrifying death. “How can
you be so spiteful, to cut someone’s baby out? That’s sick,” Sutton’s
neighbor, Monica Keller, said. “It’s beyond mentally ill.”
Longtime neighbor James Jarvis wept as he spoke of Sutton’s death.
“Man, just like that, she is gone,” said the retired construction
worker, tears rolling down his cheeks. “I watched her as a kid riding
her bicycle up and down the block. It’s sad to see her pass like that.”
Another family friend said Sutton and her boyfriend, Patrick Bradley, were a good match.
“She was such a sweet girl, really happy. Everybody loved her.
Everybody was excited. It was her first child. She was in love with the
baby’s father,” said the woman, who declined to give her name.
The baby survived, and Bradley posted her picture on Facebook.
The couple had dated for eight years. They met in Zion Hill Episcopal Church, where Sutton’s father is pastor.
Sutton “was a pretty perfect human being. She was always smiling, joking,” said her friend Dominique Wilder.
Wilder was to be godmother to Jenasis.
“I don’t know what the family will do now,” Wilder said. “Nobody’s
OK. Pray for her and her family. An incredible soul was lost.”
Wade, 22, faces murder and manslaughter charges after she allegedly stabbed and then brutally butchered a pregnant friend inside her Bronx apartment.
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