Posted on 07/28/2007 7:25:44 AM PDT by wagglebee
Cincinnati, OH (LifeNews.com) -- An Ohio teenager and his friend who are accused of attacking his pregnant girlfriend and killing her unborn child have been apprehended by police. Alfonso Price, a 15 year-old, allegedly attacked Kerria Anderson, 18, because she refused to have an abortion of her baby who Price fathered.
Price reportedly kicked Anderson, who was eight months pregnant, in the stomach and hit her causing her to miscarry the eight-month old unborn child.
Police caught up with Price Friday morning and he was taken into custody and charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault.
Later, Price's supposed accomplice, 17 year-old Jebrell Wright, was arrested and charged with the same crimes.
Anderson's mother, Angela Anderson, told the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper that the teens stomped on her daughter and that shoe marks were left on her clothes and body after the attack.
Angela described her daughter as frazzled by the incident and said she didn't think Price was a violent person despite several arrests for minor crimes. Kerria Anderson had previously filed a police report for abuse but didn't follow through on it to press charges.
Anderson was standing at a bus stop on July 11 when the attack happened and Price and his friend were said to have dragged her to a building in a nearby neighborhood where he attacked her and left her.
Anderson was eventually able to contact authorities from an adjacent store but her baby, whom she planned to name Precious, wasn't able to be saved. Her skull had been fractured in the attack.
"She was just all broken up," Angela Anderson said of the baby, who also had numerous broken bones resulting from the attack.
Kerria Anderson also has a 1 year-old daughter and was slated to deliver the unborn child in late August.
Anderson's grandmother, Betty Payne, told AP that Price was the father of the baby.
"He wanted her to get an abortion because they were not together," Payne said. "He didn't want his baby raised by another man."
The case brings more attention to violence against pregnant women, especially those whose refusals to have abortions spark violent rage in their partners.
Ohio is one of 35 states that have a law protecting pregnant women and their unborn children and providing them with justice when they are injured or killed in an attack.
Some 25 of the states, including Ohio, allow prosecutors to bring forth two charges at any time during the pregnancy for death or injury to both mother and child and another 10 states only protect women and children in the latter stages of pregnancy.
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Uh...what?
The only difference between what these murderers did and what’s done in abortion clinics 4000 times every day is a license to “practice medicine”.
How can anybody with a brain stem connected to his spine miss this?
The only difference between what these murderers did and what’s done in abortion clinics 4000 times every day is a license to “practice medicine”.
How can anybody with a brain stem connected to his spine miss this?
No, of course not.
Kerria Anderson had previously filed a police report for abuse but didn't follow through on it to press charges.
If she had, her baby might still be alive.
Kerria Anderson also has a 1 year-old daughter
So obviously she knows what causes pregnancy ...
"He wanted her to get an abortion because they were not together," Payne said.
Then how'd she get pregnant?
"He didn't want his baby raised by another man."
Right. He wanted her dead.
Ohio is one of 35 states that have a law protecting pregnant women and their unborn children and providing them with justice when they are injured or killed in an attack.
As long as the mother can have the baby killed by an abortionist at any time, for any reason, there is no justice ... and these teenage thugs know it.
I predict there will a lot less outrage over this than Michael Vick’s dog fighting.
Coming soon to neighborhood near you. Thanks to Section 8 housing...
I agree they should be terminated.
I also think Kerria has some responsibility for creating the scene in the first place. At 18 unwed with a one year old in tow, she had no business getting knocked up again. She should be concentrating on raising her existing child. I am not saying she belongs in jail, but she has to get her act together.
Just doing the medical procedures other Americans won't do.
I agree, but she did not deserve this.
Yep, least of all the baby.
Very few people deserve the bad things that happen to them. Not so few help those bad things happen to themselves. That doesn't mean they deserve it but they did facilitate it. The old "Lie down with dogs" adage. Like the old Indian said "Natural Born Killers":
Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood. She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, "Why have you done this to me?" And the snake answered, "Look, b***h, you knew I was a snake."
I agree. Right here on FR at that!
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Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood. She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, “Why have you done this to me?” And the snake answered, “Look, b***h, you knew I was a snake.”
Reminds me of a story.....
A scorpion comes to a frog and asks him, “Dear frog, can you please ford me over yonder river? I must reach the other side.” The frog was shocked, “What? As soon as I reach the middle of the river you would sting me and I would die!” The scorpion scoffed and answered, “My dear frog, how foolish can you be? If I sting you we both die.” So the frog agreed, he swam, but when he reached the middle of the river the scorpion stung him, with his last breath the frog said, “What have you done? We shall both die.” The scorpion answered, “My dear frog, you forget.....this is the middle east....”
Everytime I hear of a case like this it reminds me of how dangerous the effects of liberalism are because it sets the stage for the kind of thinking that produces this kind of thing. A culture that does not revere the life of the unborn and hold up the honor of taking responsibility for ones children is one that produces events like these. It tears my heart out to think of what amoral monsters could do such a thing.
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