CADILLAC, MI - A Wexford County woman accused of helping her husband cut an unborn baby out of her own daughter’s womb pleaded to be released from jail pending a trial.

Cortney Bartholomew, 40, of Boon Township, and her public defender, Robert Haertel, appeared during a hearing in Wexford County Wednesday, Dec. 3, and asked 84th District Judge Corey J. Wiggins to issue a bond.

Wiggins on Tuesday, Dec. 2, ordered Cortney Bartholomew and her codefendant, husband Bradly Alan Bartholomew, 47, be jailed without the possibility of bond.

Cortney Bartholomew and her attorney cited the woman’s unidentified medical ailments and her need to care for her 14-year-old son as reasons she should be offered bond or released pending resolution of the case.

“I just need to be able to take care of him,” s

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