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PITTSBURGH — A woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting her infant from the womb is not competent to assist in her defense and believes the victim is still alive and persecuting her, a forensic psychiatrist testified Monday.

Dr. Christine Martone, director of the Allegheny County Behavior Clinic, said suspect Andrea Curry-Demus was slow to respond to questions and appeared to have auditory hallucinations.

"She complains of being persecuted by the victim, whom she still believes to be alive or is risen somehow," Martone said.

County Judge Jeffrey Manning ruled that Curry-Demus be sent to a state mental hospital for 60 days, and asked for updates every 15 days. Curry-Demus had been at the county jail.

Curry-Demus, 40, of Wilkinsburg, is charged with homicide, kidnapping and related offenses in the July death of Kia Johnson, 18, of McKeesport, who authorities said was 36 weeks pregnant. Curry-Demus then tried to pass off Johnson's newborn son as her own, authorities said.

GREENSBURG — Three teenage girls who allegedly sent nude or seminude cell phone pictures of themselves and the three male classmates who received them are charged with child pornography in juvenile court.Police say Greensburg Salem High School officials learned of the photos in November. That's when a student was seen using a cell phone during school hours, which violates school rules.The phone was seized and the photos found on it. When police investigated, other phones with more pictures were seized.

ERIE — A federal judge has set a hearing later this month on whether to move Cyril Wecht's fraud retrial from Pittsburgh to Erie.U.S. District Judge Sean McLaughlin will also hear arguments from Wecht's attorneys to dismiss all charges against Wecht, the 77-year-old Pittsburgh pathologist and former Allegheny County coroner.Federal prosecutors say Wecht used his county staff and resources to benefit his lucrative private practice. Wecht denies that and also opposes the government's motion to have his retrial in Erie because of intense media coverage of the case. Wecht's first trial ended with a hung jury and mistrial in April.

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