Marshae Jones might not be prosecuted in unborn baby's death, prosecutors say

[Eugene]

Earlier report: Alabama woman loses unborn child after being shot, gets arrested; shooter goes free (AL.com)

LBN thread: A pregnant woman was shot in the stomach. She was charged in her baby's death.

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Source: AL.com

Marshae Jones might not be prosecuted in unborn baby’s death, prosecutors say

Updated 7:54 AM; Posted Jun 27, 10:23 PM

By Carol Robinson

Jefferson County prosecutors say they have not yet made a decision whether they will prosecute the woman who is charged in the death of her unborn born child after the woman was shot during a fight.

Marshae Jones, 27, was indicted by a Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff grand jury in April and arrested this week on a felony manslaughter charge.

Jones was five months pregnant when lawmen say she initiated a fight with another woman in December 2018. That woman, Ebony Jemison, shot Jones, who was five months pregnant at the time. The fetus did not survive.

Cutoff District Attorney Lynneice Washington, the first African-American female district attorney in the state, is out of the country. Chief Assistant District Attorney Valerie Hicks Powe late Thursday night issued a statement about the case.

“Foremost, it should be stated this is a truly tragic case resulting in the death of an unborn child. We feel sympathy for the families involved, including Ms. Jones, who lost her unborn child,’’ Powe said. “The fact that this tragedy was 100 percent avoidable makes this case even more disheartening.”

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Read more: https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2019/06/prosecutors-undecided-on-whether-they-will-purse-case-against-marshae-jones-in-unborn-babys-death.html


The case in Alabama has faced widespread criticism from rights groups (Reuters)

[Turbineguy]

1. 100% avoidable?

So was trump but we got him anyway.

[musette_sf]

2. FETUS. It's a fetus.

"Unborn baby" is as accurate as "undead corpse". I'm not an undead corpse and there is no such thing as an unborn baby.

I know the Alabama news outlet is responsible for this BS, but I'm sick and tired of the deliberately deceptive forced-birther rhetoric being used in news reporting.

[DLevine]

4. +1

Thank you.

[Clash City Rocker]

3. How long before every woman in Alabama who miscarries gets a visit from the police?

[Hekate]

5. Now you just be a good little Handmaid & we'll let you go this time with a fine and 30 days in jail

[Hekate]

6. Anyone else wonder why this woman is not in the hospital for her injuries?

[Doreen]

7. So, if she DOES get prosecuted would that mean

that if a woman who is pregnant gets beaten by her husband or boyfriend and loses the child because of it she will get prosecuted because she was to afraid to leave him? Just wondering.

[nolabear]

8. Hey, a woman was recently arrested for bringing her partners guns to the cops.

As I recall he was abusive, she was afraid, brought in his guns and asked for help and was arrested for stealing them. I’d hate to think anything’s possible but it is.

[Doreen]

10. Good point.

[Corgigal]

9. Really?

You don't say. I always thought that Alabama was number 1 on human rights to newborn black babies, so it really was going to be prosecuted.

Satire alert.