Written by Dave Bohon
Friday, 28 October 2011 14:32
The guilty pleas leave seven additional individuals to be tried in a case that has stunned even abortion supporters because of the evidence of the murders of both live-born babies and adults at Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society. “Gosnell, 70, could face the death penalty if convicted,” reported the Boston Herald. “He is accused of cutting the spinal cords of seven babies born alive at his clinic.” He also faces a third-degree murder charge in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, the immigrant woman who died as a result of the drugs he directed West to administer.
According to the Inquirer, a 260-page grand jury report into the goings-on at the clinic — which was closed down nearly a year before the January 2011 arrests of Gosnell, his wife, and eight employees — “said that Moton and West, like the rest of Gosnell’s medical staff, were not formally trained or licensed for their jobs. Moton, who knew Gosnell through his niece, assisted with abortions and followed Gosnell’s practice of using scissors to cut the spinal cords of late-term fetuses, the report said.”
The report described the plight of one victim, a newborn identified as “Baby D,” whose mother spent several hours in labor before delivering the infant into a clinic toilet, testified Kareema Cross, a clinic employee who has not been charged. “The baby was moving and looked like it was swimming,” Cross told the grand jury. “Moton reached into the toilet, got the baby out, and cut its neck.”
The report noted that West, a long-time patient of Gosnell, was hired by the abortionist in 2008 “after being diagnosed with hepatitis C” — for which she had been terminated from her job at Philadelphia’s VA Medical Center. West allegedly performed ultrasound examinations, administered anesthesia, and attended to women in the recovery room — all without providing ample protection for the women against exposure to hepatitis C.
The Inquirer reported that the woman who died at the clinic “had come to the United States from a refugee camp in Nepal only four months earlier. After she was overdosed with sedatives and lost consciousness, she spent more than three hours in the recovery room before an ambulance was called, the grand jury concluded.”
It took paramedics an additional 20 minutes to maneuver a stretcher with the woman’s body through the narrow, cluttered hallways of the clinic and out an emergency exit they found padlocked.
Defense attorney Michael Wallace said that West was “very sorry about the death of that young lady. She got caught up in a series of things that probably she did not realize the significance of.” West, who is reportedly prepared to testify against Gosnell, faces up to 140 years in prison, but will likely receive a far less severe sentence for her cooperation. Meanwhile, Moton faces up to 120 years.
As reported by The New American in January, shortly after the arrests in the case, over his 30 years in the business Gosnell made millions of dollars performing illegal late-term abortions while state regulators ignored complaints against him and had not inspected his clinic in over 15 years.
According to Seth Williams, district attorney at the time of the arrests, Gosnell “induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, [and] eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord.”
Reported The New American: “Most of the patients were unaware that their babies were born alive and then murdered. Many of the women were told that they were 24 weeks pregnant, even when they were further along.”... Finish reading article at The NewAmerican
