‘Baby photographer laced cupcakes to drug unsuspecting mom in bid to kidnap newborn daughter’

A WOMAN posing as a baby photographer allegedly “drugged” a mom with a laced cupcake in a sick attempt to sedate her and steal her baby.

Juliette Parker, who ran for mayor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and her 16-year-old daughter are accused of posing as newborn photographers who drugged a woman earlier this month — who planned to steal a three-week-old infant to raise as their own.

Ms Parker, from Washington, appeared in court last week after being accused of attempting to kidnap the three-week-old baby.

The 38-year-old, who according to authorities went by several aliases, was released on a $50,000 bond and is expected to be arraigned later today.

It comes after new mom Elysia Miller made contact with Ms Parker on Facebook — who claimed be a baby photographer — to take pictures of her daughter.

But after visiting the home of Ms Miller on three separate occasions to take photos of the newborn, she claims that Ms Parker and her teen daughter tried to drug her with a laced cupcake to try and kidnap her infant.

Last Friday, deputies arrested Ms Parker, who lives south of Tacoma, and her 16-year-old daughter.

The teen was expected to be arraigned at a juvenile detention center on the same charges.

The terrified mother said she now sleeps with a knife under her pillow and told The News Tribune that she hasn’t let her two daughters out of her sight since the incident.

Fighting back the tears, the mother-of-two, said: “I carry a machete, a knife and pepper spray in the house and in my car.

“Just because she is behind bars doesn’t mean that I have peace of mind.”

The court heard that on February 5, Ms Miller called 911 because she was feeling numbness, drowsiness, instability on her feet and was vomiting.

After she was treated at a hospital, she told police she was drugged by a woman who had come to her house posing as a photographer.

Miller urged other parents looking for photographers to have someone with them and to check references, business licenses and reviews.

“Be very careful and trust your instincts,” she affirmed.

Ms Parker was released Sunday afternoon on a $50,000 bond.

New bail of $150,000 was set yesterday after prosecutors described her as a flight risk and she was booked again into jail.

After losing a mayoral election in Colorado Springs last year, Ms Parker moved to Washington.

According to court documents, she connected with mothers through a Facebook group and offered to do free photo shoots of newborns to build her portfolio.

Investigators said “at least a dozen women” have contacted them with stories of interacting with Ms Parker, who also has gone by the names “Juliette Noel” or “Juliette Gaines”.

It is believed that Ms Parker already has two children.

Detectives said they’ve found text messages between Parker and an ex-boyfriend dating back to November, when Parker “talked about how they should get a kid from a homeless person and raise the child together in a nice house,” messages read.

The messages continued to read into how the ex-boyfriend disgustingly joked about kidnapping a baby and Ms Parker said she’d marry him immediately if he could find her a baby girl in the next five weeks.