Posted on 11/18/2004 12:38:17 PM PST by wmichgrad
Update to Teens Allegedly Attempt To Abort Fetus With Bat; Parents Accused Of Burying Remains
The Macomb County Medical Examiner completed an autopsy Wednesday on a fetus that was found buried in the back yard of a home near Richmond.
Michigan State Police exhumed the remains from behind a home on Armada Ridge Road in Armada Township on Monday. After an investigation, police determined that prior to a miscarriage, the 16-year-old mother of the unborn child -- with the help of the 16-year-old father -- may have attempted to abort the fetus.
"Without getting graphic, it involved a baseball bat," said Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith.
Smith said the male youth -- with the consent of the mother -- hit the pregnant teen in the abdomen with a decorative-type wooden baseball bat every other day for three weeks.
Dr. Daniel Spitz, chief medical examiner for Macomb County, told Local 4 that the cause of death was premature delivery with secondary trauma to the teen's abdomen.
The autopsy also revealed that the teen was six months pregnant at the time of the miscarriage, and not four months pregnant as she told investigators, Local 4 reported.
Spitz said he plans to report to the prosecutor's office that the unborn child was nonviable at the time of the miscarriage, the station reported. According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, a nonviable fetus is not capable of surviving outside the mother's womb without artificial support.
Local 4 learned that based on that ruling, it is not likely that the mother will face charges.
"If it's a nonviable fetus, then we're talking about the destruction of an embryo and … in that case you can't charge the woman with it," said Smith.
The 16-year-old boy may also avoid charges because his actions appear to have been consensual, the station reported.
Prosecutors continue to investigate the possibility of mishandling charges against a mother of one of the teens, who said she buried the remains on advice from a local hospital.
The parents of the teens apparently did not know of the pregnancy until the miscarriage occurred, police said.
>Makes no sense in the context of the sentence (mother - teen)
I makes sense, it's just worded somewhat poorly. There are three sets of parents here... the teens, the teen-females parents, and the teen-males parents.
The teen-male had the permission of the teen-female to wollop her with a bat. He did no have his moms, or her moms, permission to do so. And it woudln't matter anyway... while teen-female can give legal permission to teen-male to beat the crap out of her, teen-females-mom cannot give that permission, anymore than I can give permission to let someone beat the crap out of *you*.
All in all, though, this is pretty messed up. Straight to Springer with these nuts....
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If a 6 month old baby isn't viable, then I guess my niece is an illusion.
How absolutely sick.
It may sound cruel or un-Christian of me, but in about 10 years when this young woman WANTS to have a baby, I devoutly hope she's unable to conceive. She does not deserve to be a mother.
The culture of death perpetrated by the leftists that rejoice in the killing of human beings on the way IN [beginning of life] and on the way OUT [the old and sick], all the while calling for MERCY when it comes to SERIAL KILLERS, is beyond my ability to comprehend!!
There you go. Teen's taking Ludicris's rap literally. Isn't he the one who rapped about "hittin the b---" when she says she "wants to keep it"?
This is horrible. Parent's wake up!
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OMG ..
"A win-win for the mom and dad, no?"
Apparently. Since they both consented to killing the baby, no crime was committed. /sarc
Gosh, they could have murdered the baby legally if they'd only been thinking.
Now let me see if I get this straight. Prosecutor says it was an "embryo," which obviously at 6 months is wrong. Yet everyone is calling this 16-year old murderess a MOTHER!!!! Well, I have to ask--a mother of what? The only thing that a woman can be mother to is her offspring--children, if you will. Humans, babies, alive things. You can't be a mother to a mass of tissue. I hope that "mother" will be forever tortured after seeing her "matter of conception" after the murder, I mean miscarriage.
Somewhat poorly? Man, I think I found out who is teaching in journalism schools.
If the teens are parents, they are guilty of murder. The whole abortion argument is a farce on its face if abortionists can call these teenagers parents. I am surprised that even a journalism major can't see that.
You're added.
"If it's a nonviable fetus, then we're talking about the destruction of an embryo and … in that case you can't charge the woman with it," said Smith.
Technically, it is an embryo until the sixth or eighth week and then it turns into a fetus.
I just read my lovely, compassionate wife this story, and I agree with what she said: These two should be put to sleep.
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