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Kentucky Man Charged Under Unborn Victims Law After Beating Pregnant Wife
LifeNews.com ^ | November 24, 2004 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 11/25/2004 8:05:49 PM PST by cpforlife.org

Louisville, KY (LifeNews.com) -- A Kentucky man is being charged under a new law after beating his pregnant wife so severely that her unborn child died as a result.

Eric Adam Trask was arrested Tuesday in the assault of his wife Samantha E. Trask and the death of her 5 month-old unborn baby. He was also charged with violating a protective order prohibiting him from having contact with her.

The Unborn Victims of Violence Act protects pregnant women and allows prosecutors to charge criminals who kill or injure an unborn child in an attack on a pregnant woman with two crimes instead of just one.

Officer Dwight Mitchell, a Louisville Metro Police spokesman told the Louisville Courier Journal newspaper that this is the first time an area resident has been charged under the new law.

Rep. Bob Damron, a Nicholasville Democrat, confirmed that he believes this is the first person to be subjected to the new provision statewide.

A representative of the state's pro-life organization said he was happy the law is on the books to give Samantha Trask additional justice and fully prosecute her husband's crime.

"While the law cannot bring back her child, it serves an affirmation of her child's human dignity and a deterrent for crimes against unborn children and pregnant women," Kentucky Right to Life assistant director Michael Janocik said.

According to the Courier Journal, Mrs. Trask contacted police yesterday indicated she had been beaten and said he was hit six or seven times in the head and stomach by her husband.

She was taken to University Hospital where an ultrasound performed by doctors confirmed that her baby had died.

The couple married in July, separated in August and had filed for divorce.

"As we gather with our families over Thanksgiving weekend, we hope all Kentuckians will keep the Trask family in their prayers," Janocik added.

The state legislature passed the unborn victims law and Governor Ernie Fletcher signed the law on January 30, 2004.

Related web sites:
Kentucky Right to Life - http://www.krla.org


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KEYWORDS: abortion; connerslaw; prolife; unbornvictims
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Why is it called "choice" and "legal" when a mother hires a professional serial killer to dismember her unborn baby; but "murder" and "criminal" if someone else were to kill that same unborn child as the mother is on her way in to the abortion mill?

1 posted on 11/25/2004 8:05:50 PM PST by cpforlife.org
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To: MHGinTN; Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; ...
Pro-Life PING

Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

2 posted on 11/25/2004 8:06:34 PM PST by cpforlife.org (The Missing Key of The Pro-Life Movement is at www.CpForLife.org)
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To: cpforlife.org

I hope he gets life. I hope the "professionals" get the same.


3 posted on 11/25/2004 8:08:57 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (Stop Hillary - PEGGY NOONAN '08)
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To: cpforlife.org
God forgive me, but I would take literally a perverse pleasure from beating this turd to death.

But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Mark 10:14

4 posted on 11/25/2004 8:14:44 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: cpforlife.org

Yep,it's a puzzlement!

If the mother wants the baby dead it's okay but if the mother doesn't want the baby dead it's murder.

Imagine trying to explain this to someone using simple logic----it can't be done.


5 posted on 11/25/2004 8:16:08 PM PST by Mears
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To: clee1

I understand your feelings on the matter.

How's little clee?


6 posted on 11/25/2004 8:16:50 PM PST by Lexinom (Please say a prayer for Josiah - a 12-year-old boy with brain cancer)
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Remember folks... Kerry voted AGAINST this bill...


7 posted on 11/25/2004 8:17:17 PM PST by oolatec
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To: Mears

There is a simple explanation for the schizophrenic state of current law ... the fools sitting the subpreme court aren't capable of understanding basic science, science that proves the aliveness of the individual humans the court has protect the serial killings of ...


8 posted on 11/25/2004 8:20:32 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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Why is it called "choice" and "legal" when a mother hires a professional serial killer to dismember her unborn baby; but "murder" and "criminal" if someone else were to kill that same unborn child as the mother is on her way in to the abortion mill?

It's called hypocrisy.

You don't need to be a lawyer for common sense to tell you that murder is murder. But, our High Court has seen fit to classify the murder of an unborn child according to the mother's whim not according to the Constitution.

There's nothing constitutional about abortion, but there's something very unconstitutional about our activist judiciary.

9 posted on 11/25/2004 8:22:21 PM PST by Noachian (A Democrat, by definition, is a Socialist.)
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To: Mears

BTW, if asked, I would bet fools like O'Connor, Stevens, etc. would say that the unborn child is 'part of the mother' .. which foolishness is clearly debunked by science. Believing the unborn are part of the mother is the only way a fool sitiing on a judicial bench can reconcile serial killing of alive unboirn children as a 'privacy' issue.


10 posted on 11/25/2004 8:23:00 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN

BTW, excersising one's second ammendment rights trumps a restraining order every time.


11 posted on 11/25/2004 8:25:28 PM PST by umgud (Donate monthly, don't be a Freeploader)
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To: Lexinom

Great! She seems happy and cheerful, and has started to eat like a horse.

She had a little trouble the first day; she was not taking up enough oxygen, so the doctor had her in a low volume O2 tent on and off. She also seemed to have a slight infection, so antibiotics were also given.

Today, she is doing fine and the nurses say that they expect she will be released to come home in the morning.

Mrs clee1 is home now with the Grandparents while I'm at work. They are going up to the Hospital (10 mins away) every 3 hours to feed/play with her.

Thank you for asking!


12 posted on 11/25/2004 8:25:38 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: cpforlife.org

There was also an EPO on the jerk. This tragic incident needs to serve as a reminder that EPO's do not protect you.


13 posted on 11/25/2004 8:26:53 PM PST by SLB ("We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us." C. S. Lewis)
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To: umgud

I'm afraid I'm too tired to comprehend your obliquity.


14 posted on 11/25/2004 8:28:27 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: oolatec

Thank you oolatec for reminding us. What a shame! That poor baby! I can't even imagine the hurt the mother is going through.


15 posted on 11/25/2004 8:50:56 PM PST by Lady In Blue ( President 'SEABISCUIT' AKA George W Bush)
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To: MHGinTN

This poor girl should have depended on a handgun instead of a restraining order.


16 posted on 11/25/2004 8:54:42 PM PST by umgud (Donate monthly, don't be a Freeploader)
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To: umgud

12 gage Shotgun w/ #2 & #4 pellets


17 posted on 11/25/2004 8:59:33 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Mears

"Imagine trying to explain this to someone using simple logic----it can't be done."

You are correct, it cannot be done.



18 posted on 11/25/2004 10:38:27 PM PST by jocon307 (Jihad is world wide. Jihad is serious business. We ignore global jihad at our peril.)
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To: cpforlife.org

Very sad story.

I am thankful that the law was signed in time so this murderer can be charged in this precious babies death.


19 posted on 11/26/2004 12:12:16 AM PST by jan in Colorado
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To: cpforlife.org

THank you for psoting that beautiful picture. I used to have a poster of it on my kid's wall.

THANK YOU JESUS the tide is turning from the death culture.


20 posted on 11/26/2004 4:09:59 AM PST by Conservatrix ("He's a barf." --- Sophia T., Age 4, on John Sawed-Off Baldrick "I have a cunning plan" Kerry)
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