Posted on 06/27/2014 10:41:50 AM PDT by wagglebee
PHILADELPHIA, PA – On Thursday, the Kermit Gosnell legal saga finally came to an end as the last two employees of his “house of horrors” abortion facility faced justice.
Former Gosnell associates Lynda Williams and Tina Baldwin became the final defendants to be sentenced in the most publicized abortion case in decades.
Common Pleas Court Judge Benjamin Lerner sentenced Williams, 45, to serve five to 10 years in prison for two counts of third-degree murder. Baldwin, 48, received 30 months of probation after pleading guilty to sustaining a corrupt organization, conspiracy, and corrupting a minor.
Williams entered a guilty plea in November 2011, admitting that she murdered a newborn and administered the overdose of Demerol that killed Karnamaya Mongar in 2009.
“I only do what I’m told to do,” Williams, who only has a ninth grade education, told the court. “What I was told to do was snip their neck.”
During the procedure that Gosnell taught her to perform, she testified that the baby's arm “jumped.”
Although Williams' testimony proved pivotal in convicting Gosnell of three counts of murder, Assistant District Attorney Edward Cameron asked Lerner to sentence her to 10 to 20 years in prison – a significant break from the 200 years she could have received for pleading guilty to the murder charges and counts of conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to participate in a corrupt organization, and illegally administering drugs to women undergoing late-term abortions.
"She is an adult, she is a mother herself," Cameron said, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. "This was a living human being in front of her, a living human being who was crying." Prosecutors waived a mandatory life sentence as part of her plea bargain.
Williams' attorney, Stephen Patrizio, said Kermit Gosnell was “the devil” and held his often psychologically vulnerable employees under his tight mental control.
At the sentencing, Williams told Judge Lerner that she "felt manipulated, used, and lied to by Dr. Gosnell."
Baldwin also expressed remorse, telling the judge, "I wish I never got involved” with Gosnell's practice. “I'm sorry for the things I did."
Her plea to corruption of a minor revolves around allowing her daughter, Ashley, to begin working at Gosnell's office when she was only 15.
The teen, who would work at the facility as much as 50 hours a week, took a picture of one of Gosnell's victims because she was stunned by the baby's size and development. She told the court that she heard a baby “screeching” in pain and that, after cutting the child's neck, Gosnell threw newborn Baby E into the trash.
Tina Baldwin begins serving 18 months in prison on July 7 on charges that she helped Gosnell operate the Women's Medical Society, located at 3801 Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia, as a “pill mill.” Prosecutors say, in addition to infanticide, Gosnell made at least $200,000 from writing as many as 2,300 illicit prescriptions a month between June 2008 and February 2010.
It was drug charges that brought police to Gosnell's facility in February 2010, where they uncovered a filthy facility with flea-ridden cats urinating in the waiting room, unsterilized instruments that transmitted STDs between patients, and the feet of Gosnell’s newborn victims. Prosecutors suggested he may have kept the feet as some form of trophy.
Last May, Gosnell was sentenced to three life sentences for the murder/infanticide of three newborns, as well as violating a host of state abortion laws, which Pennsylvania had not enforced since the inauguration of pro-abortion Republican Gov. Tom Ridge.
In December, Gosnell was sentenced to an additional 30 years for his illegal drug activities.
The convicted serial murderer has shown no remorse, viewing himself as a soldier in the war on poverty. His actions “probably lowered the crime rate,” he said.
From his prison cell, he has expressed interest in working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or former President Bill Clinton's charitable efforts.
In other words, she used exactly the same defense as the Nazis at Nuremberg.
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I hope people realize this probably is very common
I don know nuttin about birthin babies!
Lord, have mercy ping.
Heartbreakingly horrible. I’ll keep my cursing to myself.
She MIGHT have had a chance if she said ITS neck ....
Yep. Sad proof that potential Auschwitz guards exist in every nation.
All those who support the killing of the most innocent must be really, really proud of themselves, NOW.
One day there will be NO lawyers, protest mobs, lies, excuses, delays, or arguments.
Blame-shifting plain and simple.
She could have said no and walked out.
Integrity is not dependent on educational level.
Good thing it wasn’t a protected species like a five legged lizard - she would have gotten a more severe sentence!
Her plea to corruption of a minor revolves around allowing her daughter, Ashley, to begin working at Gosnell’s office when she was only 15.
When did infantcide become a family activity?
She MIGHT have had a chance if she said ITS neck ....
She might have a shred of humanity left. Pray for her repentence and redemption.
I wonder if that filthy Maoist twerp,whoever he/she/it was has ever asked an abortionist or an abortion "nurse" the same question.
I think we can all take a guess on *that* question.
I would never even be able to imagine the amount of satanic evil that somebody must have to accomplish what she and this gosnell creature did.
It doesn’t get any more innocent than an unborn child. I can rest that God Almighty will repay for He says He will—and that those babies are now in His Beloved Arms!
....”I hope people realize this probably is very common”....
Every ‘abortion’ is a brutal murder of a child. It doesn’t matter how clinical the environment is, the child dies a horrible death at the hands of the very people who are called to protect life.
There is pay back, as time passes, for these atrocities....often in unexpected ways. I’ve heard many stories of the after affect and happenings from these murders. If the news would report these as much as they give voice to abortion clinics many would never even consider an abortion.
When people ‘come to’ after this atrocious period in our history, abortion will be viewed in its proper perspective
Any abortion is murder and by one’s mother, most times by both parents
There’s a reason we can see any disgusting act known to man on the Internet but abortion is never viewed or quickly shut down
But it will not be a secret forever.
How did this guy get into medical school?
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