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
There has to be a special place in hell for these people. Just the most vile and evil thing I've ever read.
What occurred here is the 'natural' end result of her sick 'legal' reasoning.
So I say - indict the 'witch'. If it wasn't for her, late term abortions, especially in the 3rd trimester, would NOT be legal. She is complicit in this murder, period.
We are horrified at this senseless murder of one child and somehow have become numb to the fact that since R v. W "we" (the Nation) have witnessed the murder of over 47,000,000 powerless people.
That is the really scary fact.
Very, very sad. This is one of, if not the, issue that determines how I vote. I will never vote for a Democrat. All the talk about how the Democrats have "found religion", is just garbage, as long as they continue to support abortion.
I'm with you on this. Sick world.....when will they understand the value of human life? This is a very important foundation.
This baby is in the loving hands of Jesus. There is a special spot in helling waiting for the murderers.
This baby is in the loving hands of Jesus. There is a special spot in helling waiting for the murderers.
I think as a nation we've gone beyond help. All that's left is judgement.
It doesn't matter how many seats they take in regards to this issue. Pro-abort political support will evaporate like steam in the next 4 years. We're going to see a miracle conversion of consciences on this across the board, including Dems. Nothing is impossible for God.
It sounds like everyone of those who worked there were complacent in this, unless the other witness is an employee who turned them in. The evil of killing the unborn grew in them and now they can kill the live baby.
Jigsaw in the Saw movies is a rank amateur.
i am sure its not the first time, but i have a hard time focusing on the kind of people that could do this, they are every bit as bad as the average murderer
Live Birth Abortions are done very regularly all around the country.
I understand. During that time I really prayed that her family could take care of her. But look who won and this poor woman was starved to death. Truth is, I can never forget how these people lusted for the death of this woman and told theiselves it was the best thing.
He probably thinks it is the party of Jesus because it always wants "show mercy" by taking my money at the point of a gun and giving it to someone else.
Note to Harold: I think Jesus was speaking of you giving away your money, not mine. I surmise you already do this, but pleae do not distort Christianity for political purposes. Thank you.
Everybody go hug your kids right now!!!
Not to make this a Terri thread, but she is the ultimate example of both the direct and indirect culture of death. There were those who believed she was useless to society, a "drain" on resources and needed to be put to death because her husband said so. Then there were those who took a less honest route in calling for her death. They always called for her to be "sent home" and "let go". They claimed to be tired of hearing the story and wished her death so that they wouldn't hear about it any more. I don't know which is worse, being honest in one's calls for death of another, or those who cloak it under the guise of caring. I think the latter, as many invoked God while calling for her starvation.
I overlooked abortion when I was younger because I felt it didn't involve me. I couldn't have been more wrong. We all take our sides in the struggle between good and evil.
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