Posted on 10/29/2006 1:14:37 PM PST by Kaslin
Deputy police chief confirms decision should be announced in weeks
A lead investigator into reports that a baby was born alive at a Hialeah, Fla., abortion business, then killed, has told WND he believes charges will be filed in the case, and that announcement could come as early as a mid-November.
"My goal is to see that charges are filed," said Hialeah Deputy Chief Mark Overton yesterday. "The evidence reflects that this was a homicide. We're moving forward with that mindset. I believe our evidence has indicated (and) I think we have probable cause to bring charges."
The investigation was launched in July after investigators, on a tip, went to the "A Gynecologists Diagnostic Center" abortion business and discovered the remains of a baby in a red biohazard bag.
A search warrant issued in support of that case noted that the tipster provided the name of the little girl's mother, who had intended to have an abortion, and police officers met with her.
"The complainant advised on Thursday, 20 July 2006, at approximately 9:30 a.m. she arrived at the clinic for a pre-scheduled abortion. At approximately 2:30 p.m. the Complainant gave birth in the recovery room of the clinic. The complainant observed the baby moving and gasping for air for approximately five (5) minutes.
"The staff began screaming that the baby was alive; at which time. Ms. Belkis Gonzales cut the umbilical cord, threw it into a red bag with black printing. Ms. Gonzales then swept the baby, with her hands, into the same red bag along with the gauze used during the procedure," the search warrant said.
Overton told WND that the police department is awaiting confirmation of its plans from the local state's attorney's office.
"They're waiting for all the medical examiner's reports officially to be typed, and also an opinion from a neonatal specialist," he said. "We'll be getting together and meeting. I hope that we'll be filing some type of charges, unlawful killing charges."
He said the state of Florida has a law defining a live birth, and he's already contacted the local federal prosecutor about potential federal charges under the Born Alive Infants Protection Act of 2000 should the state not follow through.
"We've already put things in motion," he told WND. He said he expects the next step to be taken by authorities by mid-November.
Authorities earlier had confirmed to WND that the baby was born alive, but part of the investigation focused on whether the infant was at 22, 23 or 24 weeks, which involves the girl's viability, or ability to live outside the womb.
At the time the body was found, a lawyer for the owner of the abortion business partly owned by Gonzalez issued a statement that no crime was committed, and an 18-year-old had had an abortion without complications.
"My clients run an abortion clinic. It's a legal business," Regina DeMoraes-Millan told television station WFOR-TV in Miami-Fort Lauderdale at the time. "Right now police are just investigating a 9-1-1 call."
A spokeswoman for Operation Rescue, a pro-life activist organization, said the charges apparently could be second-degree murder. Abortion business co-owners Gonzalez and Siomara Senises both were working in the clinic when the 18-year-old arrived for the abortion, according to spokeswoman Cheryl Sullenger.
Affidavits used to obtain the search warrant reported that an anonymous caller on July 22 reported the baby's live birth, and death. However, a search of the clinic that day revealed nothing.
The documents indicate another witness told police that a "doctor" had drowned the baby before disposing of the body.
Then on July 28, another anonymous call came in, with the informant telling police the baby's body had been in the red plastic biohazard bag – along with the caustic chemical chloride – on the roof of the clinic "for the expressed purpose of causing the accelerated decomposition of the body in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence."
That anonymous call also told police the body had been retrieved and was then inside the clinic. Officers who arrived with a search warrant found the remains.
Sullenger said the medical reports in the case will be key, since in Florida it is illegal to do abortions in clinics after 24 weeks.
Assistant State Attorney Kathleen Hoague has told reporters that she also is focusing on medical reports, because at 22 weeks, "you're talking about a fetus that could be aborted legally."
But Operation Rescue chief Troy Newman noted that in the end, the baby's age doesn't matter.
"If she was born alive, as the mother and the police informant say she was, then that baby deserved every protection under the law that any other person has, regardless of her age," he said.
Newman was getting impatient. "I don't understand why there would be any equivocation in this case. If a litter of puppies had been tossed in a bag and thrown up on a roof to die, no one would rest until the perpetrators were brought to justice," he said.
The clinic is question remains closed, however many of the same principals are operating another abortion business several miles away, officials said.
At the time the body was found, a spokeswoman for Florida Right to Life told WND that babies' bodies in an abortion clinic are just "business as usual" for the industry.
Spokeswoman Linda Bell said there are very few protections for the mother, and essentially none for the unborn children, as a "result of legalized abortion in our nation."
Hialeah investigator Det. Tony Rodriquez expressed immediate concern about the situation, too.
"In 24 years in law enforcement, I have never seen a case like this," he had told reporters.
Sounds like a death penalty case.
Sounds like murder and conspiracy charges.
It'll be worth at least 10 to 15 in state prison.
It should definitely be a death penalty case
It should be, at the least
Under the abortion statute, it probably will be.
Sounds like murder for hire and that should make it a special circumstances case.
Newman was getting impatient. "I don't understand why there would be any equivocation in this case. If a litter of puppies had been tossed in a bag and thrown up on a roof to die, no one would rest until the perpetrators were brought to justice," he said.
More needs not to be said
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Oncology Nursing Society
C147 Miami-Dade
Mrs Belkis B. Gonzalez, RN OCN®
Miami, FL
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I couldn't read all the way through it...my heart is broken!!
For this, and more a VOTE YES on 6 in South Dakota!! No more killing of innocent babies!!
I'll have to say this is highly hypocritical of the prosecutor, after all, this is just business as usual right? They kill babies there every day, why should the fact that this one just happened to take a couple of breaths make a difference?
Honestly, I feel it would be best if this case received A LOT of publicity, and have it thrown out of court, because they were just performing a legal service. Business as usual you know.
This might force the people to face the cold horror of the mass murder taking place around the corner.
How sad. I thought late term abortions were illegal. In Tennessee u have to have an abortion in the first trimester.
in mourning.
In a report by Carrie Gordon Earll, the senior policy analyst for bioethics at Focus on the Family, Ruddock had confirmed that many of the late-term abortions he performed were on unborn children and mothers who were healthy. A business in Hialeah, Fla., where an investigation continues into allegations a baby was born alive, then killed and placed on the roof of the building to avoid detection by police, was shut down. Family Planning Center in Daytona Beach, FL, will no longer provide abortions because abortionist Randall Whitney said he didn't want to meet the required rules. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Whitney describes himself as a "modified Christian" who isn't concerned over the up to 1,500 abortions he performs annually.
"I sleep well," Whitney told the newspaper. "I have no concerns about what might have been if a fetus lived." Whitney also works part-time for abortionist James Pendergraft, whose medical license was suspended last month because of allegations he performed illegal late-term abortions and was prescribing medication without the proper Drug Enforcement Administration certification. "Whitney's arrogant attitude about complying with regulations is increasingly typical in the abortion industry," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "This story reaffirms that our country faces a crisis of abortion clinics that operate as if they are above the law at the cost of innocent lives."
[5Sept06, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?; 12Sept06, WorldNetDaily.com, http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51925; N Valko RN]
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A Gyn Diagnostic Center
3671 W 16th Ave
Hialeah FL 33012-4619
Heading Match: Birth Control & Family Planning Ctrs.
According to reports, an 18-year old woman reported to A Gynecologists Diagnostic Center on July 19, 2006, began a second-trimester abortion. The woman was sent home, but returned to the clinic the next day to finish the abortion but complained that she did not feel well. She was placed in a recovery room to await the doctor, who never arrived. The woman apparently delivered a live baby girl, who gasped for air for five minutes while clinic workers shrieked.
Clinic owner Belkis Gonzalez was said to have cut the baby’s umbilical cord and placed the baby and placenta into a red biohazard bag, then threw her onto the roof of the clinic where she stayed for eight days. Gonzalez was allegedly assisted by clinic administrator Siomara Senises. The abortionist who was to be on call that day was Pierre Renelique, who did not respond to pages for assistance.
An anonymous call made from a pay phone near the clinic tipped off the police to the incident. The clinic surrendered its license after the city closed it pending further investigation, but Gonzalez, Senises, and Renelique continue to operate at another Gonzalez-owned clinic just 3 miles away, posing what Operation Rescue says is a grave danger to the public.
Operation Rescue is calling for the arrest and prosecution of Gonzalez, Senises, and Renelique for the murder of the unnamed baby girl and for prosecution of Renelique for patient abandonment.
Operation Rescue is also seeking prosecution for the three under the Federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
The public is urged to call or write Assistant State Attorney Kathleen Hoague and ask for the arrest and prosecution of Belkis Gonzalez, Siomara Senises, and Pierre Renelique for their part in the murder of this innocent little girl in Hialeah, FL.
Assistant State Attorney Kathleen Hoague
Voice: 305-547-0100
FAX: 305-547-0733
Email: KathleenHoague@MiamiSAO.com
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"The staff began screaming that the baby was alive"
And they weren't screaming for help to save her; they were screaming because she wasn't dead. There was at least one person with a shred of conscience left in that room, though, or we would never have known.
The story breaking out of Hialeah, Florida, is further testament to myth of the so-called “safe, legal” abortion. Appalling conditions and shocking treatment at our nation’s abortion mills are epidemic, and have created a health crisis in our country that is mostly ignored, sometimes covered up, and rarely confronted.
It is our prayer that the Hialeah investigation will permanently close “A Gynecologists Diagnostic Center” and that those actions will inspire other states to take similar actions.
It is long past time for Americans to come out of denial about abortion and face the true state of crisis that exists at the nation’s abortion mills. The public must come to understand that shoddy conditions and shoddier abortionists are the rule and not the exception. The only way to stop the human misery inflicted on society by abortion and its aftermath is to stop it now. We at Operation Rescue are working hard to make sure that day soon becomes a reality.
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