and it's scum like this thing that makes it just that much harder for people with real pain to get a prescription...
Posted on 12/16/2013 6:33:12 PM PST by Morgana
PHILADELPHIA, December 16, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kermit Gosnell has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for illegally dispensing prescription drugs, bringing an end to the most-watched legal saga related to an abortionist.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe imposed the sentence in addition to the three consecutive life sentences Gosnell is already serving for murdering at least three newborns at his “house of horrors” abortion facility.
Reporter Sean G. O'Sullivan, who attended today's sentencing for The News Journal in Delaware, tweeted the sentence late this afternoon.
In July, Gosnell entered a guilty plea to running a prescription drug operation. Patients at his daytime “pain management center” paid him $20 for each prescription of highly addictive substances such as OxyContin, Percocet or Xanax. They tipped his employees an extra $10 or $20 for the prescriptions.
Gosnell admitted writing as many as 2,300 prescriptions a month – once writing 200 in one single night. According to prosecutors, the abortionist made at least $200,000 peddling prescriptions between June 2008 and February 2010.
He defended his actions on the grounds that selling illegal drugs helped lift his inner city clientele out of poverty.
“These are hard economic times,” he told Philadelphia Magazine writer Steve Volk. “These people need these pills.”
“He believes he was a soldier at war with poverty,” Volk wrote.
Between abortion and his side prescription pill income, Gosnell earned an estimated $1.8 million a year.
It was allegations that the now 72-year-old abortionist ran a “pill mill” that brought federal agents to Gosnell's Women's Medical Society in February 2010.
Law enforcement agents who raided his office found the aborted remains of 47 children packed away in boxes, jugs, and even a lime-ade container. Prosecutors said Gosnell kept the feet of babies as a kind of trophy.
Police also found cat urine and the blood of his patients – and victims – staining operating tables and recliners in the “recovery room,” where unsterilized equipment spread STDs between his patients.
His workers testified that Gosnell routinely allowed babies to be born alive and then “aborted” by a process he called “snipping” – using scissors to sever the spinal columns of babies through the backs of their necks.
A mostly “pro-choice” jury convicted Gosnell of murder and infanticide in May. Gosnell maintains he is in jail due to Catholic pro-life bias.
Gosnell ping.
He will be on the Democratic ticket in 2020...
Obama will pardon him.
He ahould be put to death.
he will never escape hell
He still has a chance to repent. I do hope for his sake he does.
What about premeditated murder?
and it's scum like this thing that makes it just that much harder for people with real pain to get a prescription...
May he swim continously in a toilet, trying to get out, until the Lord puts him out of his misery.
This was not just murder; it was PREMEDITATED murder—for PROFIT.
Agreed. I have friends that have to live with pain because their doctors are so cautious about giving them the pain medicine they really need.
this is where I have a problem.
a simple “sorry” and all this is washed away?
I fully expect to hear that in the next year or so that several members of the N.O.W. have offered him marriage proposals.
Just because he’s a drug pushing murdering sadist doesn’t mean he’s not still an adorable cutie-pie and liberal freedom fighter in the eyes of certain liberals.
drug charges?
about infanticide and being dangerously insane
drug charges?
about infanticide and being dangerously insane
Yep, In God’s eyes.
But not down here on Earth (you still serve your term, with all associated consequences).
The “sorry” is not quite a simple word out of your mouth, however... It is a merciful God responding to a truly sorry soul.
Good.
100%, chronic pain is the most vicious since even severe acute pain for a short while can sometimes be toughed out, but chronic pain cannot...
He should be charged with genocide.
I don’t think the authorities will wait until he’s skeletonized to remove his body. :)
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