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LAPORTE, PA, Aug 24 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Rosa Hartford’s 1997 successful appeal of a 1996 conviction was improvidently granted thus reinstating her conviction. In 1996 Hartford was convicted of interfering in the custody of a minor when she drove the 13-year-old pregnant girlfriend of her 19 year old step-son girl to New York for an abortion without telling the girl’s mother. Today the state’s Supreme Court refused Hartford another appeal.

In an effort to protect her stepson, who later pleaded guilty to statutory rape, Hartford drove the girl 60 miles to an out-of -state abortuary where she masqueraded as the girl’s stepmother, signing a medical history form. Hartford received no jail time for her crime.  She was sentenced to a year of probation, a $500 fine and 150 hours of community service.  Her lawyer Marsha Levick said she is considering an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

With files from The Philadelphia Inquirer.