Friday September 10, 2010
Prison for Man Who Attempted Murder/Abortion on Pregnant Girlfriend
By Peter J. Smith
Edited 9.11.10
BLACKPOOL, UK, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK judge has sentenced a man to a year in prison for attempting to smother his girlfriend and abort their unborn child by shoving pills down her throat, reports the local Blackpool Gazette.
Proceedings in the Lancaster Crown Court show that Craig Connell attacked and tried to smother his live-in girlfriend Kirsty Rawlinson with a pillow after an argument in May. Two days later, Connell repeated the attack, this time forcing tablets into her mouth in what the judge surmised was “a futile attempt to create an abortion.”
The judge said that Rawlinson must have been “horrified” and “ thought she was going to die.”
Violence against women carrying unborn children unwanted by boyfriends, spouses, partners, etc. was one of the leading factors behind the United States federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act in 2003, which classifies the unborn child as a separate victim when crimes are committed against the mother.
See related coverage by LifeSiteNews.com:
13-Year-Old Self-Aborts Baby: 30-Year-Old Boyfriend Buries Body
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10060812.html
New York Cops Nab Pharmacist Charged With Murdering His Unborn Child
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10040816.html
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story erroneously indicated that the incident took place in the US state of Pennsylvania.