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Man Charged With Murder for Slipping Abortion Drug to Girlfriend to Cause
Miscarriages
Thursday, November 29, 2007
APPLETON, Wis. - A married man has been charged with murder for slipping
his girlfriend a drug that authorities say caused her to miscarry twice.
Manishkumar M. Patel, 34, of Appleton, was charged Thursday afternoon with
first-degree murder of an unborn child, second-degree recklessly endangering
safety, placing foreign objects in edibles, possession with intent to
deliver prescriptions, stalking, burglary, possession of burglary tools, and
two counts of violating a restraining order.
The woman already had a 3-year-old child with Patel, who was married to
someone else, Outagamie County sheriff's Capt. Michael Jobe said at a news
conference. She became pregnant two more times, but miscarried in December
and September, he said.
Apparently suspecting she had been slipped mifespristone, the abortion pill
also known as RU-486, the woman had a blood sample sent to a California lab
for analysis, Jobe said. When it tested positive for the drug, she
approached the sheriff's department Nov. 1. Patel was arrested Wednesday.
He had been living in a house owned by the woman, Jobe said. It wasn't clear
where his wife was.
Sheriff's investigators said Patel admitted putting the drug in something
the woman consumed without her knowledge. Jobe didn't say how she ingested
the drug.
Wisconsin is one of 36 states with a "fetal homicide" law, according to the
National Conference of State Legislatures.
Under the 1998 law, anyone who attacks a pregnant woman and injures or kills
her fetus could face life in prison.
The law was passed after Tracy Scheide of Milwaukee accused her husband,
Glenndale Black, of beating her in 1992 when she was nine months pregnant.
Her baby was stillborn.
A jury convicted Black of reckless injury and false imprisonment but
acquitted him of violating an old anti-abortion law against causing the
death of a fetus.
Black was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Scheide divorced him and lobbied
to get the bill passed.
Man Charged With Murder for Slipping Abortion Drug to Girlfriend to Cause
Miscarriages
Thursday, November 29, 2007
APPLETON, Wis. - A married man has been charged with murder for slipping
his girlfriend a drug that authorities say caused her to miscarry twice.
Manishkumar M. Patel, 34, of Appleton, was charged Thursday afternoon with
first-degree murder of an unborn child, second-degree recklessly endangering
safety, placing foreign objects in edibles, possession with intent to
deliver prescriptions, stalking, burglary, possession of burglary tools, and
two counts of violating a restraining order.
The woman already had a 3-year-old child with Patel, who was married to
someone else, Outagamie County sheriff's Capt. Michael Jobe said at a news
conference. She became pregnant two more times, but miscarried in December
and September, he said.
Apparently suspecting she had been slipped mifespristone, the abortion pill
also known as RU-486, the woman had a blood sample sent to a California lab
for analysis, Jobe said. When it tested positive for the drug, she
approached the sheriff's department Nov. 1. Patel was arrested Wednesday.
He had been living in a house owned by the woman, Jobe said. It wasn't clear
where his wife was.
Sheriff's investigators said Patel admitted putting the drug in something
the woman consumed without her knowledge. Jobe didn't say how she ingested
the drug.
Wisconsin is one of 36 states with a "fetal homicide" law, according to the
National Conference of State Legislatures.
Under the 1998 law, anyone who attacks a pregnant woman and injures or kills
her fetus could face life in prison.
The law was passed after Tracy Scheide of Milwaukee accused her husband,
Glenndale Black, of beating her in 1992 when she was nine months pregnant.
Her baby was stillborn.
A jury convicted Black of reckless injury and false imprisonment but
acquitted him of violating an old anti-abortion law against causing the
death of a fetus.
Black was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Scheide divorced him and lobbied
to get the bill passed.
