Posted on 10/20/2006 5:48:23 PM PDT by freespirited
Suffolk woman who shot herself to induce abortion has all charges dropped.
Tammy Skinner, the Suffolk woman who admitted to shooting herself in the stomach to kill her unborn child, was back in court today, but not for long.
She walked out a free woman as a judge dismissed the indictment against her.
"I'm just glad it's over so I can move on with my life," Skinner said after the court hearing.
Suffolk Circuit Court Judge Westbrook J. Parker said the laws on the book do not apply to expectant mothers, and made the decision to drop the case.
But he, the prosecutors, and defense attorneys all agree that the facts of the case are disturbing.
But, they could not prosecute Skinner.
According to a report by our partners at the Daily Press, prosecutors wanted to put to the test a 1950 state law that would for the first time hold a mother criminally liable for aborting her child.
They planned to argue that the law states that "any person" who causes an abortion should be considered culpable.
But Judge Parker noted that a 2004 law specifically excludes mothers and refers to "any person ... who kills the fetus of another. ..." Lawmakers enacted the 2004 law because they didn't want to punish a pregnant woman as harshly as someone who aborts someone else's fetus.
A District Court judge has already dismissed the charges in May, citing the same legal language. But determined prosecutors took the case to a grand jury and Skinner was re-indicted in Circuit Court in June.
The 22 year-old Skinner was scheduled to give birth to her third daughter on Feb. 23, the day of the shooting. She called 9-1-1 from a downtown parking lot and told the dispatcher that someone shot her. Police later learned she had shot herself.
She was initially charged with illegally inducing an abortion, filing a false police report and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
What?
"glad it's over so I can move on with my life"
My God. No remorse for the baby.
She could easily have killed herself as well, that bullet nicks a major blood vessel and she bleeds out on the spot.
Nobody thinking straight would do this, not even a very selfish mother who just wanted to get rid of the baby.
Don't blink. This is a rare opportunity to witness the left supporting the 2nd Amendment.
It's good to know this b!tch will be rotting in hell for all eternity.
God rest the soul of this little girl baby. And pray for the other children of this monster.
"I'm just glad it's over so I can move on with my life," Skinner said after the court hearing.
Oh, I forgot - it's all about Me. Forget the fact that all the baby needed to do was take a breath and have the umbilical cord cut. Until that happens she can do anything she wants to that little mass of cells. Oh, what the Democrats and the liberals have wrought. Sickening and pathetic, to say the least.
disgusting situation, given that she was about to deliver it seems she was only hours away from felony murder, but walks.
Are they going to change the "laws on the book" so a murderer like this woman is convicted next time? I doubt it.
But what about the false police report? And the gun charge?
God has a very special place reserved for you, child killer.
There is another way of looking at this. In a way the judge is saying that shooting your unborn child is no different than having an abortion.
IMHO, she should be put in solitary for life.
Enjoy your life! Hope that you make amends with your creator before that life is over, if not you will have eternity to think about your life choices.
To bad the baby didn’t have a choice.
Despicable, the mildest word that comes to mind.
The baby is safe in the arms of Jesus, now I pray for her soul.
The video at the link is fascinating. The woman is totally self-absorbed. Her lawyer is denouncing all the "judgmental" people who try to bring "moral" issues into what is purely a "legal" matter. These people are Democrats in their soul.
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