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Because all of these
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families recently had children in their homes,
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we believe our unsub is motivated by maternal desire.
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Maternal desire is the profound emotional need to mother a baby.
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This stems from either the tragic loss of her own child
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or the inability to have one at all.
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This unsub may also fantasize
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that someone else's baby belongs to her,
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and this emotion feels beyond her control.
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A woman who miscarries
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sometimes projects onto someone else's baby
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and then sets out to take that child.