As a pregnant Rebecca Park sat on the ground of a Michigan nature trail suffering from stab wounds to her back, her mother told her to lie back.

"Your baby is gonna die," 40-year-old Cortney Bartholomew told her 22-year-old daughter, according to a probable cause arrest affidavit provided to Traverse City-based NBC affiliate WPBN and Cheboygan-based ABC affiliate WTOM.

With Bartholomew's husband holding a knife to Park's throat, she cut her daughter's stomach and removed the baby boy who was not breathing. The suspect's husband, 47-year-old Bradly Bartholomew, then allegedly slit Park's throat. In total, she was stabbed more than a dozen times, the affidavit stated.

Cortney and Bradly Bartholomew took the baby to their truck and tied Park to the back of the vehicle, cops wrote. They the

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