Posted on 11/03/2006 6:02:54 AM PST by NYer
HIALEA, November 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Co-owners of a Miami-area abortion facility called Ginecologia may be charged with second-degree murder for killing a baby girl born alive in a recovery room. Co-owners Belkis Gonzalez and Siomara Senises are being investigated after Miami-Dade County police found the badly decomposed body of a baby girl at the facility. A search warrant reported that there was “probable cause” to pursue a second degree murder investigation.
A woman identified by Operation Rescue in their October 23 report as Ms. Betty Rojas informed police that a child had been killed by “a doctor” by drowning after being born alive.
18-year old Sycloria Williams, told police that she had arrived at the facility July 20 for the second half of a late-term abortion. She says she gave birth to a living baby girl while sitting in a recliner in the facility’s recovery room. Ms. Williams told police that she had watched her daughter moving and gasping for air for approximately five minutes.
The warrant says that the staff “began screaming that the baby was alive.” Then, “Ms. Belkis Gonzalez cut the umbilical cord, threw it into a red bag with black printing. Ms. Gonzalez then swept the baby, with her hands, into the same red bag along with the gauze used during the procedure.”
Eight days later, police found the body of the child which Rojas had informed them had been treated with a caustic chemical and left in the heat of the Florida sun to accelerate decomposition in a possible attempt to dispose of the evidence.
Proceedings are awaiting the results of an autopsy that, due to the severe decomposition of the body, might still be inconclusive. Police are interested in evidence that the baby was born alive and that she was possibly over 24 weeks gestation, the legal limit for abortion in Florida.
Since the October 23 report, the Miami New Times published a story revealing the substandard conditions of the for-profit abortion facilities owned or operated by Senises and Gonzalez. Hialeah Police Deputy Chief Mark Overton told the New Times that an unnamed witness confirmed that “the baby was born alive; it was attempting to breathe.”
Overton said, “This isn't about a botched abortion; there never was an abortion, and the mother is not the victim…The victim is the baby, and whether that baby had an hour or eight hours' worth of life, she had a right to that.”
“Palmetto General Hospital is only five minutes away,” he said, indicating that the child’s life could have been saved. “It is our opinion that this is a homicide, an unlawful killing of a human being.”
Overton told the New Times that the baby’s remains had weighed between two and three pounds and measured about 12 inches long. The average gestation of a twelve-inch foetus is between 24 and 25 weeks. The average for a baby weighing two pounds is 27 weeks.
Another of facility owned or operated by Senises and Gonzalez was closed by police in 2004 after the abortion of twins was botched and it was revealed that one doctor hired to do abortions there had no medical license. A third facility is still in operation.
On October 29, Overton told WorldNetDaily that he believes charges of second-degree murder will be filed in the case.
Read Operation Rescue report:
http://www.operationrescue.org/?p=482
Read the police search warrant (Adobe reader required):
http://www.operationrescue.org/pdfs/hialeahsearch.PDF
They're not 'clinics'.
Cordially,
And like the good citizens of Germany during the Holocaust, the "unpleasantness" was left to the people in charge. If you don't vote against this outrage (and all the others), you ought to go to hell.
This is simply too terrible to talk about. I hope all involved burn in an especially hot portion of Hell!
Murder investigation is good news.
Looks like it is murder this time because someone told and they got caught.
Go ahead and keep on keep on pinging me. :(
God...that poor little girl.
Thank you. That needs repeating.
I'm curious as to what year of medical school they teach that?
I can not pardon from culpability the mother. Watching her baby breath and struggle for life for five minutes.
Dear Lord, not one single 'panicked' person in that house of horrors is absolved of accessory to murder. NOT ONE.
I'm having an internal conflict with myself regarding who to vote for in the Illinois 13th Congressional race - Judy Biggert (R) or Joseph Shannon (D).
Judy Biggert (R) says she is Pro-Choice but not Pro-Abortion. Biggert is rated 30% by NARAL indicating a Pro-Life voting record.
Joseph Shannon (D) says he opposes abortion but says the issue is out of his hands as a congressman because Roe v. Wade is the law of the land. Shannon has no public record with regard to his stand on abortion.
If I vote for Shannon and this tips the balance of the U.S. House to the Donks haven't I just voted for abortion by voting against it?
"18-year old Sycloria Williams, told police that she had arrived at the facility July 20 for the second half of a late-term abortion."
The second half. The reason the baby was born in the recovery room is because of the "first half" of the procedure.
Is this a different one from earlier in the week?
"Overton said, “This isn't about a botched abortion; there never was an abortion, and the mother is not the victim…"
Late term abortion. No way she's a victim.
I always will be pro-choice. Everyone has the choice to use contraceptives or abstain. But then in these people hedonistic little world they don't think of the consequence of their actions and I'm just having a pipe dream.... sigh....
safe - legal and rare .... hog wash
Between scientology shunning and deploring the mentally ill or handicapped, and the dems holding no value for a baby yet unseen, while the child grows protected cycle in mommy's womb is ya wanna just scream out.."Who are you people? Are you even human?"
How could this woman lift a child trying to breath, just born, cut the cord, and shove the child, the guaze used in birth and the cord INTO a black plastic bag, throw in CAUSTIC CHEMICALS and leave the bag in the hot FLorida sun do excellerate death and decomposition? How could ANYONE who is a human being do this?
I hope this horror of a human being gets a few caustic chemicals thrown her way and gets to experience a few days, immobilized in the hot sun, while lying in a garbage bag.
These are the democrats. The ugly stuff they scoff off as a persons right to choose. Once its shoved into the dumpster, who remembers. Sad for all of us.
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