Posted on 11/03/2006 6:02:54 AM PST by NYer
HIALEA, November 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Co-owners of a Miami-area abortion facility called Ginecologia may be charged with second-degree murder for killing a baby girl born alive in a recovery room. Co-owners Belkis Gonzalez and Siomara Senises are being investigated after Miami-Dade County police found the badly decomposed body of a baby girl at the facility. A search warrant reported that there was “probable cause” to pursue a second degree murder investigation.
A woman identified by Operation Rescue in their October 23 report as Ms. Betty Rojas informed police that a child had been killed by “a doctor” by drowning after being born alive.
18-year old Sycloria Williams, told police that she had arrived at the facility July 20 for the second half of a late-term abortion. She says she gave birth to a living baby girl while sitting in a recliner in the facility’s recovery room. Ms. Williams told police that she had watched her daughter moving and gasping for air for approximately five minutes.
The warrant says that the staff “began screaming that the baby was alive.” Then, “Ms. Belkis Gonzalez cut the umbilical cord, threw it into a red bag with black printing. Ms. Gonzalez then swept the baby, with her hands, into the same red bag along with the gauze used during the procedure.”
Eight days later, police found the body of the child which Rojas had informed them had been treated with a caustic chemical and left in the heat of the Florida sun to accelerate decomposition in a possible attempt to dispose of the evidence.
Proceedings are awaiting the results of an autopsy that, due to the severe decomposition of the body, might still be inconclusive. Police are interested in evidence that the baby was born alive and that she was possibly over 24 weeks gestation, the legal limit for abortion in Florida.
Since the October 23 report, the Miami New Times published a story revealing the substandard conditions of the for-profit abortion facilities owned or operated by Senises and Gonzalez. Hialeah Police Deputy Chief Mark Overton told the New Times that an unnamed witness confirmed that “the baby was born alive; it was attempting to breathe.”
Overton said, “This isn't about a botched abortion; there never was an abortion, and the mother is not the victim…The victim is the baby, and whether that baby had an hour or eight hours' worth of life, she had a right to that.”
“Palmetto General Hospital is only five minutes away,” he said, indicating that the child’s life could have been saved. “It is our opinion that this is a homicide, an unlawful killing of a human being.”
Overton told the New Times that the baby’s remains had weighed between two and three pounds and measured about 12 inches long. The average gestation of a twelve-inch foetus is between 24 and 25 weeks. The average for a baby weighing two pounds is 27 weeks.
Another of facility owned or operated by Senises and Gonzalez was closed by police in 2004 after the abortion of twins was botched and it was revealed that one doctor hired to do abortions there had no medical license. A third facility is still in operation.
On October 29, Overton told WorldNetDaily that he believes charges of second-degree murder will be filed in the case.
Read Operation Rescue report:
http://www.operationrescue.org/?p=482
Read the police search warrant (Adobe reader required):
http://www.operationrescue.org/pdfs/hialeahsearch.PDF
About time that charges were brought! When groups such as Planned Barrenhood and NARAL teach that the baby is "just a clump of cells" and the Supreme Court allows partial birth abortion, is it any wonder that people have such a disregard for a human life? Why did the mother want to have an abortion, especially a late term abortion? Abortion clinic owners are truly the lowest of the low - bu I also blame the libs who have no concern for the life of a baby.
Only HE can help us now - so many people have turned to evil. What can be worse than killing an innocent baby?
Did you say that the Bishop supports CAsey Jr.???? Casey Jr. will totally sell out right to life - as he promised Chuck Schumer. This dead baby can thank Barbara Boxer, Schumer, Patty Murray, John Kerry and all the pro abort politicos for her murder.
Ah, yes: Barak Obama - the Democratic God that the libs are swooning over. Shame on him! Doesn't he know that abortionists love to kill minority babies?
Well, we can't let that happen!
great, you just made me cry.
It's Satanic, plain and simply. I'm not being flip when I say I believe some of those rabidly defending, promoting and participating in abortion are indeed possessed.
"Mother should be charged too"
I agree. This is no different than drowning children in a bathtub.
Stone, cold barbarians, including the mother.
Prayers sent for this poor child.
Unbelievable. They have murdered so many they have lost all compassion for life
The election is not until next Tuesday. Is that wishful thinking on your part?
Yes, the mother just watched?
This makes me sick...abortionists are going to find themselves in an especially hot part of Hell.
BUMP.
You can bet that this is not an isolated incident.
Filthy inhuman monsters. Words cannot adequately express my unbridled hatred of their wanton disregard for life.
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Abortion, it's just murder.
Just EVIL. There's no other word that comes close to describing this horror.
I wait for the day when those who do this will face a mandatory capital murder charge whether or not the child is born alive.
Abortion at any gestation stage should be a hangin offense and lord willing we'll get back to that.
No wonder the MSM has gone ga-ga over this guy!
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