Woman Has Premature Birth During Hanging

It sounds like a news bulletin written in flashy letters on the cover of the National Enquirer or Star magazine, but Nolan Yekum and her husband Paul lived through this awful story. Locals from the tiny jungle village of Kilip, New Guinea, where the Yekum’s call home, came to the puzzling conclusion that the couple had employed sorcery to murder one of their neighbors.

Even after the two professed their innocence, the remaining superstitious neighbors rose to the occasion, stringing the frightened couple over a tree with ropes and leaving them to die. Yekum and her husband struggled to free themselves from the hanging and in the stress of the moment, the seven-month pregnant woman actually gave birth.

Shortly thereafter, the new parents managed to liberate themselves from their serious predicament.

“We managed to loosen the noose to get our feet on the ground … we were able to free ourselves,” Paul reported from his hospital bed.

“My wife, who was about seven months pregnant, delivered the baby while struggling to free herself. It was a painful experience for me and her.”

Scared and exhausted, Paul & Nolan retreated to various friend’s abodes in nearby villages, terrified that the murderous crew would seek them out and finish the job.

After fourteen long days, they finally searched out a hospital and admitted themselves for their collective injuries.

Both Nolan and the newest Yekum are recovering well, despite the odds, but the events leading up to the birth have left the new family puzzled and upset.

The Yekum’s still don’t know where the idea of their supposed crime came from, and it is still not known where they will go once they leave the hospital. Superstition and the belief in sorcery is still found in many of the isolated portions of the country, and it is reported that their have been some cases of women thought to be witches being hanged or burned at the stake.

It is quite clear that home is not where the heart is in the case of Nolan, Paul, and new baby Yekum.