Posted on 11/18/2004 12:38:17 PM PST by wmichgrad
Update to Teens Allegedly Attempt To Abort Fetus With Bat; Parents Accused Of Burying Remains
The Macomb County Medical Examiner completed an autopsy Wednesday on a fetus that was found buried in the back yard of a home near Richmond.
Michigan State Police exhumed the remains from behind a home on Armada Ridge Road in Armada Township on Monday. After an investigation, police determined that prior to a miscarriage, the 16-year-old mother of the unborn child -- with the help of the 16-year-old father -- may have attempted to abort the fetus.
"Without getting graphic, it involved a baseball bat," said Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith.
Smith said the male youth -- with the consent of the mother -- hit the pregnant teen in the abdomen with a decorative-type wooden baseball bat every other day for three weeks.
Dr. Daniel Spitz, chief medical examiner for Macomb County, told Local 4 that the cause of death was premature delivery with secondary trauma to the teen's abdomen.
The autopsy also revealed that the teen was six months pregnant at the time of the miscarriage, and not four months pregnant as she told investigators, Local 4 reported.
Spitz said he plans to report to the prosecutor's office that the unborn child was nonviable at the time of the miscarriage, the station reported. According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, a nonviable fetus is not capable of surviving outside the mother's womb without artificial support.
Local 4 learned that based on that ruling, it is not likely that the mother will face charges.
"If it's a nonviable fetus, then we're talking about the destruction of an embryo and … in that case you can't charge the woman with it," said Smith.
The 16-year-old boy may also avoid charges because his actions appear to have been consensual, the station reported.
Prosecutors continue to investigate the possibility of mishandling charges against a mother of one of the teens, who said she buried the remains on advice from a local hospital.
The parents of the teens apparently did not know of the pregnancy until the miscarriage occurred, police said.
Sickening...
"The parents of the teens apparently did not know of the pregnancy until the miscarriage occurred, police said."
Way to keep track of your 16-year-old.
Laci and Connor's Law...
...time to hold murderers accountable.
Pro-life ping!
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The 16-year-old boy may also avoid charges because his actions appear to have been consensual, the station reported.
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The parents of the teens apparently did not know of the pregnancy until the miscarriage occurred, police said.
Who is dumber, the cops or the reporter?
The parents should have been Darwin Prize winners. And they didn't even consider giving the baby up for adoption, although the unsuspecting adoptive parents would have been given the baby of two absolute idiots.
Sounds like these two should get an award from their local NARAL chapter. Perhaps they could arrange a high-school assembly to present it.
This is EVIL.....
> Who is dumber, the cops or the reporter?
Huh? The teen almost-parents agreed to the unusual abortion method. The teen-almost-mom's parents were, somehow, unaware of her pregnancy. As far as I know, it's legal to pound on someone, so long as they agree with it... otherwise every boxign match would end with a raid.
Right on...
All perfectly legal. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Besides, most fetuses that have been beaten with a baseball bat are nonviable. A win-win for the mom and dad, no?
Dominus nos benedicat.
In a cosmos in which sexual freedom replaces self-restraint....
IOW, not the teenager's mother, but the pregnant teenager herself...
Murder, fry 'em up.
Actually the prosecutor, because he said
"If it's a nonviable fetus, then we're talking about the destruction of an embryo and … in that case you can't charge the woman with it," said Smith.
Uh dude, it stopped being an embryo a long time ago.
Unless of course the reporter misquoted him, in which case that makes the reporter the dumbest, hands down.
Might want to check into reading glasses, mkay?
> Smith said the male youth --
with the consent of the mother
"Mother" being the teen getting whacked in the belly, yes?
Makes no sense in the context of the sentence (mother - teen) or the story (mother-child mass of tissue). If that is the reporter's meaning, he is the idiot.
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