MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith authorized criminal charges today against a sixteen-year-old Richmond male accused of terminating (my thoughts: cute, real cute... sounds even more clinical than abortion!) his girlfriend's pregnancy with a souvenir baseball bat.
The charge, Intentional conduct against a pregnant individual resulting in miscarriage or stillbirth, is a felony punishable by up to fifteen years imprisonment.
According to Michigan State Police detectives, the youths (my thoughts: whoa here, this is written in the plural... so SHE must have been in agreement with this "termination"?!?!) intentionally caused the death of the fetus by striking the mother's abdomen with the twenty-two inch bat over the course of two weeks. The parents of the youths were apparently unaware of the pregnancy (my own thoughts: Must not have been a late term abortion) and the decision to abort it.
The actions of the youths first came to light when the female spoke about the series of incidents after the fact at a high school leadership conference in the upper peninsula. The conference's adult facilitator, hearing of the incidents leading to the miscarriage, contacted the State Police.
The report of the county's medical examiner indicates that the fetus was premature and not viable at the time of the miscarriage. The report lists the cause of death as blunt impact of the maternal abdomen.
Prosecutor Smith is relying on law created by the Michigan Legislature in 1999. According to that law, only the person making the intentional conduct against the pregnant individual is criminally liable. The pregnant individual herself, however complicit in the termination, is not.
The male, because of his age and lack of prior contacts with the criminal justice system, will be adjudicated in the juvenile court. If convicted, he would be subject to the jurisdiction of that court until he is twenty-one years old.
The mother, also sixteen years old, will not be charged with a crime.
Prosecutor Smith said the defendant must plead guilty as charged or face trial.
"This crime is shocking and reprehensible," he said. "I will not entertain any plea bargaining on it."
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So, if she was in agreement (I'm assuming from the plural "youths") with this method of mur... I mean abortion, than what legal leg does the court have to stand on? If she would have gone to an abortion clinic, the court would not be charging her at all.... and the parents may have never found out?!
But since they decided to try the DIY version, then the court, rather then calling it abortion, is calling it murder! Hey, where are the women libbers! It was HER body wasn't it?! she can do with it what she wants... isn't that her RIGHT?!?!!?
Oh well, the prosecuting team is calling this abortion what all abortions really are.... MURDER. No ifs, and, or buts... MURDER.
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Good grief that is just awful! We had a local gal who gave birth in a bathroom stall at work, then suffocated the baby with toilet paper and threw her in the trash - awful story.
It is murder and they should all be tried for first degree murder. I amazed the prosecution got it right. [:-]
Good grief that is just awful! We had a local gal who gave birth in a bathroom stall at work, then suffocated the baby with toilet paper and threw her in the trash - awful story.
It is murder and they should all be tried for first degree murder. I amazed the prosecution got it right. [:-]
I completely agree.
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Absolute insanity, what in the world were they thinking? They should be charging them both, if the girl thought mom and dad were going to be upset because she got pregnant, what do they think of there daughter the murderer now?
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Call me naive ,
but if you allow someone to smack you in the belly with a bat with the intent of terminating an unwanted pregnancy are you not equally culpable ? Why are no charges being filed against the female ? Total bullsh1T !
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Call me naive ,
but if you allow someone to smack you in the belly with a bat with the intent of terminating an unwanted pregnancy are you not equally culpable ? Why are no charges being filed against the female ? Total bullsh1T
the very reason I feel they should both be charged, I would almost bet money that there will be a change in the law to prevent some one like her from walking next time.
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So, if she was in agreement (I'm assuming from the plural "youths") with this method of mur... I mean abortion, than what legal leg does the court have to stand on? If she would have gone to an abortion clinic, the court would not be charging her at all.... and the parents may have never found out?!
But since they decided to try the DIY version, then the court, rather then calling it abortion, is calling it murder! Hey, where are the women libbers! It was HER body wasn't it?! she can do with it what she wants... isn't that her RIGHT?!?!!?
Oh well, the prosecuting team is calling this abortion what all abortions really are.... MURDER. No ifs, and, or buts... MURDER.
Ironic isn't it?
Let the doc kill your kid, and it's legal. Let your boyfriend kill it, it's not. Hmmm... Kind of like deciding that Kovorkian was actually committing murder? Pathetic all the way around. [:'(]
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why is it that people who do things always talk about it later...they'd have gotten away with it if she hadn't opened her mouth! idiots.
i think they should have gone to a licensed provider if abortion was the route they chose...that's what they're there for. it would have been safer tha way.
Murder on the cheap
