Posted on 06/07/2005 5:54:23 PM PDT by walford
LUFKIN - An East Texas man accused of causing his teenage girlfriend to miscarry twins by stepping on her belly was convicted Monday of two counts of capital murder. ADVERTISEMENT
Gerardo Flores, 19, who was prosecuted under the state's new fetal protection law, received an automatic life sentence.
Erica Basoria acknowledged asking Flores to help end her pregnancy, but the 17-year-old can't be prosecuted because of her legal right to abortion.
The defense contended that Basoria punched herself while Flores was stepping on her, making it impossible to tell who killed the twins.
The jury reached a verdict after deliberating four hours. Since prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty in the case, Flores received the automatic life sentence, Assistant District Attorney Art Bauereiss said. The facts were unusual, but the evidence supported a guilty finding, Bauereiss told The Lufkin Daily News.
He said Basoria's family was pleased with the jury's decision, but Basoria, who sobbed as she left the Angelina County Courthouse, had stood by Flores. "It's just tragedy all around," Flores' attorney Ryan Deaton told The Associated Press. "It's a tragedy my client's convicted, I've got nothing good to say about it."
Basoria told authorities that, after about four months of pregnancy, she regretted not getting an abortion and started jogging, skipping prenatal vitamins and hitting her own belly to induce a miscarriage. When her efforts failed, she said she asked her boyfriend to help.
Flores admitted in a taped statement to police that he stepped on Basoria's belly several times the week before she miscarried two boys. He said he punched her during a fight hours before the delivery.
Sounds to me like an open-and-shut case of practicing medicine without a license.
Only to conceive again and hook another sucker!
#5 you are correct, and I have said over and over if we could find a DA who would charge an abortion doctor we would get a cinviction and put a stop to this crap.
She was an accessory to murder!
These two creeps should be stomped to death.
This case really isn't a case about a boy beating up a girl who asked him too in order to induce a miscarriage.
The real reason they threw the boy in jail is for practising medicine without a license. The abortionists don't want competition.
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