But in the affidavit, Basoria said she intentionally stopped taking the prescribed vitamins and began jogging, even though she knew it might harm the babies.
... "He's out having fun with his friends. He's a senior," Deaton said. "She's getting bigger and bigger and fatter and fatter and she's very jealous."
... The doctor determined the babies were fine and didn't note any bruising on Basoria's abdomen or elsewhere, Bauereiss said. There was a notation on the medical record, however, that Basoria had asked about an abortion and was told she was too far along.
... Deaton acknowledges Flores and Basoria argued in the hours before she miscarried about him arriving home late, and Flores hit her. But, he points to Basoria's affidavit in which she says Flores had not physically abused her, and the autopsy's conclusion that the fetuses were dead a day earlier.
Her own affidavits and the doctor's testimony say that he's innocent.
Innocent? Hardly. From the article:
Deaton [Flores' attorney Ryan Deaton], however, said Basoria decided when she was four months pregnant that she wanted an abortion. When she couldn't get one, Flores hesitantly agreed to press his 175-pound frame on her belly.
"He's out having fun with his friends. He's a senior," Deaton said. "She's getting bigger and bigger and fatter and fatter and she's very jealous."
Deaton acknowledges Flores and Basoria argued in the hours before she miscarried about him arriving home late, and Flores hit her.
"The reason I didn't want the baby's cause of my school," Flores wrote. "But what now!! I am not in school! I am in jail!!!"
I cannot think of likely circumstances under which it would be permissible to strike a pregnant woman. Can you?