TEKA Adams thought she finally had her life on track after spending years on the streets, but the biggest shock was still to come.
When she accepted the offer of some free essentials from a stranger, little did she know she would be left fighting for her and her baby’s life.
Teka, 29, was staying in a homeless shelter in Maryland, USA, in December 2009 when the attack happened.
“I was living a very rough life, I was very rebellious, I didn’t want to abide by anybody’s rules,” she says.
But after meeting her partner, getting pregnant and marrying him, she was determined to make something of her life.
Teka was around seven months pregnant when she started receiving calls from an unknown number.
The woman on the other end went by Stephanie, and Teka said she sounded ‘really nice.’
“She told me that she worked for a programme that helped out pregnant women in need,” she explained to I Survived.
Stephanie told Teka they had piles of baby clothes, car seats and other items that she could stop by and pick out what she needed.
While Teka was thrilled by the opportunity, her husband, PJ, had his doubts.
But it was too good an opportunity to miss out on, so Teka arranged to meet Stephanie outside the shelter.
They ended up driving over to Stephanie’s, where Teka sat on the couch while the women talked.
All of a sudden, Stephanie threw a weighted blanket over Teka and began beating her on the head.
“After she hit me about ten times, I jumped up and I threw my hands up and all I could see was blood.
“The only thing that runs through your mind is ‘I’ve got to go.'”
So Teka did just that and made a beeline for the front door to get away.
Little did she know that Stephanie had three locks on the door, and all of them were shut.
She quickly caught up with Teka, jumped on her back and the pair wrestled as Stephanie tried to choke her.
Next, she pulled out a metal fire poker and began to beat Teka with it, leaving her unable to move and passed out.
When she awoke, she was being dragged by her ankles to the kitchen.
“All of a sudden, she knelt to the side of me, and I felt this sharp pain go up my side,” Teka recalls.
CUT OPEN
Looking over, Teka saw Stephanie was using a box cutter to slice her stomach open.
The room was soon covered in blood, which Stephanie cleared up with towels, before moving Teka to the bedroom, where she placed her on a mattress on the floor, turning her mobile off so she couldn’t call for help.
Teka reminded Stephanie that people would be looking for her, namely her husband, but she couldn’t be stopped.
Instead she got a metal bowl from the kitchen and filled it with ice and a rag, before duct-taping Teka’s face and wrists.
I’ve already cut the water sack, so now all I’ve got to do is reach in and get the baby out.
StephanieWith towels, two box cutters, scissors and a knife as her tools, she continued to cut open Teka’s stomach.
“She started at the bottom, right above my pelvis,” she said.
“I could feel every single bit of that.”
Teka was already weak from the beating and now was losing so much blood that she couldn’t move or fight back.
Instead she watched in horror as Stephanie began nipping at her skin, prying it open.
“I’ve already cut the water sack, so now all I’ve got to do is reach in and get the baby out,” she told Teka, helpless on the floor.
“Do you want me to do that right now? Or do you want to go to sleep?” she chillingly asked Teka who responded saying she just wanted a break.
Teka eventually passed out, and when she woke up she noticed Stephanie was asleep on the floor.
GettyTeka feeds Miracle after moving out of the homeless shelter into her own apartment[/caption] GettyThe scares from her attack will be with her for life[/caption]QUICK ESCAPE
She saw it as her chance to break free and rolled off the mattress onto her hands and knees, before slowly crawling past Stephanie to the bedroom door.
As she got to her feet, her entire stomach fell out of her body.
“Now I’m holding my stomach like it’s a football, and I’m trying not to breathe heavy because every step is pain,” she adds.
But determined to survive, Teka managed to get to the front door and unlock it.
Now standing in an apartment block, she began screaming for help and banging on doors, but nobody came to her rescue.
Hearing the commotion, Stephanie emerged and tried to pull her back into her flat, covering her mouth as she did so.
I lifted up the shirt and when he saw what was under there, that I couldn’t see, he was like ‘Oh, I’m calling the cops.’
Teka AdamsBut finally a neighbour came out, and as Stephanie tried to tell him nothing was wrong, Teka pulled up her shirt to reveal the truth.
Still remembers he instantly said “oh I’m calling the cops.”
While Stephanie fled, the emergency services were soon on the scene.
They were stunned to see Teka was not just alive, but still able to speak after looking at her injuries.
She was rushed for emergency surgery and the first thing she asked was what happened to her child.
Thankfully, the baby was alive and unharmed, and Teka decided to call her Miracle.
Teka’s attacker, whose real name was Veronica Deramous, handed herself into police later that day and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
“I survived because I was coming to a point in my life where I started to love myself, respect myself and cherish life,” Teka said.
Teka went on to find her own apartment after having Miracle, and told her story to I Survive earlier this summer.
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