By Peter J. Smith
LAUREL, Mississippi, January 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nearly 10 years after a 1998 mistrial, a jury has finally found abortionist Malachy DeHenre guilty in the 1997 slaying of his wife.
Dr. Malachy DeHenre was charged with killing his wife, Dr. Myasha DeHenre, with a single pistol shot to the head in their home. The Jones County Circuit Court jury, composed of six men and six women, deliberated 45 minutes before finding him guilty of manslaughter.
10 years ago DeHenre almost escaped conviction for the charge, when the jury in his 1998 trial voted 11-1 for acquittal, resulting in a mistrial. Had it not been for the one juror convinced of the abortionist’s guilt, DeHenre would have escaped trial again under the aegis of double jeopardy.
Nationally known forensics pathologist Dr. Michael Baden was called in by the prosecution to testify that Myasha DeHenre’s death was no accident, but a homicide. He said the evidence told him that DeHenre fired the pistol from more than 24 inches away from the head of his wife, whom he said must have been lying down on the loveseat, ruling out the possibility that the shot was self-inflicted.
According to Dora Morgan, a dispatcher with the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, who took the 911 calls from the DeHenre home, said she heard Dr. Malachy DeHenre laughing uncontrollably in the background as she spoke with his daughter, Myasha – named after her mother – who said that her father had “gone mad” and shot her mother.
Dr. Myasha DeHenre died at a Hattiesburg hospital several days after her shooting.
Abortionist Malachy DeHenre had his license to practice medicine in Mississippi, Alabama, and New York suspended after being convicted of “gross malpractice” and “repeated malpractice” on abortion patients beginning in 2003. Three women on whom he performed abortions required complete hysterectomies to control severe hemorrhaging, and another woman Leigh Ann Stephens Alford, died as a result of a perforated uterus after an abortion he committed on her.
DeHenre also faced charges earlier this year of raping a then-21 year old patient in March 1992, however a Jones County jury acquitted him in October.
DeHenre’s sentencing in the killing of his wife is scheduled for March 13.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage on Malachy DeHenre:
Mississippi Abortionist says He won’t Commit Abortions Again
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/dec/04122003.html
Mississippi Abortionist’s Medical License Suspended for Malpractice
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/aug/04082004.html
Alabama Abortion Clinic Surrenders License After Woman Delivers Dead Full-Term Baby
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/06061504.html