KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in Kennewick in the aggravated murder trial of a woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb.
If the 25-year-old Lao immigrant, Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong (PEE’-en-chay SIS’-oo-vahn SIN’-ha-vahng), is convicted she would be sentenced to life in prison.
She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2008 stabbing of Camacho Gomez in a Kennewick park.
The baby boy survived and is living with his father.
The trial in Benton County Superior Court is expected to take three weeks.
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Information from: KNDU-TV, KVEW-TV, KEPR-TV, Tri-City Herald
