Posted on 06/17/2024 9:57:44 PM PDT by Morgana
Three Florida residents pleaded guilty on Friday to charges connected to attacks on pregnancy resource centers, including in Winter Park, between May and July 2022.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Caleb Freestone, Amber Smith-Stewart and Annarella Rivera chose to target pro-life reproductive health facilities that provided patients with resources and counseling on abortion alternatives.
Authorities said the defendants vandalized the buildings with threatening messages.
Freestone, Smith-Stewart and Rivera pleaded guilty to conspiring to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate employees of the targeted pregnancy resource centers.
By pleading guilty, the defendants admitted to participating in attacks during nighttime hours, while wearing masks and dark clothing to hide their identities. The suspects then spray-painted the facilities with threatening messages like, "If abortions aren’t safe than neither [sic] are you," "YOUR TIME IS UP!!," "WE’RE COMING FOR U" and "We are everywhere."
"These defendants vandalized pregnancy resource centers with threatening messages meant to terrify the employees of those centers," Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said. "Violence and threats have no place in the national discourse about reproductive rights. The Justice Department is committed to holding accountable those who seek to interfere with access to reproductive health services in our country, without regard to the point of view of the defendants or their victims."
The DOJ announced an indictment against River and Gabriella Oropesa back in March, for engaging in a conspiracy to prevent employees of reproductive health services facilities from providing those services. The two suspects joined Freestone and Smith-Stewart, who were charged in January, as co-conspirators.
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They’ll all get suspended sentences and the DOJ will go along with it.
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Any community service? Say about 1000 hours done at a crisis pregnancy center?
What is the additional crime Letitia james tacked on to the praying grandmas’ charges? Conspiracy to violate human rights, or something like that?
I wonder if the DOJ is tacking that onto these charges as well.
I hope so.
That, and a decade each behind bars.
I say let the punishment fit the crime. They vandalized the place now let them go work there under community service and get an understanding of what it’s all about. While they are at it they may paint the walls they vandalized.
Well said.
I’m just happy that we finally found a wife for Laz
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Hope he’s forever happy with they/them
🤣😝
“They/them non binary” In the terms of us grown-ups “clueless”
YIKES! Yes I click on that link that is Laz’s type of woman
I mean, look at her qualifications
and the nose ring....
RUN LAZ! RUN!!
I can’t believe they/them attacked a crisis pregnancy center seeing that they/them looks like they/them is expecting.
Better yet, make the work next to an abortionist doing the evil deed.
lol.
I don’t think I’d wish that on my worst enemy, much less Laz
They will get a PARADE!!
They are, by their own public admission, antifa. The DA needs to go up the food chain or the pregnancy center needs a massive civil suit against named individuals who are members of antifa.
EC
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