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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 07:13 PM Jan 2014

Man Gets Nearly 14 Years in Abortion Pill Case

Source: Associated Press

Man Gets Nearly 14 Years in Abortion Pill Case
TAMPA, Fla. January 28, 2014 (AP)

A Tampa man has been sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison for tricking his pregnant ex-girlfriend into taking a pill he believed would cause her to have a miscarriage.

A federal judge sentenced John Andrew Welden on Monday. The man pleaded guilty in September to tampering with a consumer product and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. He had faced a possible life sentence if convicted of his original charge, killing an unborn child.

Prosecutors say Welden forged a signature last year on a prescription for a pill used to induce labor. He relabeled a pill bottle as an antibiotic and told his then-girlfriend to take the pills. She was six or seven weeks pregnant when she miscarried.

Welden admitted in a plea agreement that he forged the signature of his father, who is a Tampa-area obstetrician.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-14-years-abortion-pill-case-22257240



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Man Gets Nearly 14 Years in Abortion Pill Case (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2014 OP
I would think there would be assault charges as well Scootaloo Jan 2014 #1
Should have made it 18 years rocktivity Jan 2014 #2
 

Scootaloo

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1. I would think there would be assault charges as well
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 07:31 PM
Jan 2014

I mean he tricked the woman into taking a medicine that she neither wanted nor was prescribed to her - that's pretty much poisoning.

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