Posted on 05/09/2013 6:21:57 PM PDT by Morgana
As more details emerge from the case of the Cleveland kidnapper who apprehended three teenage girls and forced them to live as sex slaves for a decade in his home, a leading pro-life attorney hopes more charges will be made.
Samuel Casey, the general counsel for the Law of Life Project has been closely following the case and he tells LifeNews it appears from reports of the crimes that the first young woman kidnapped by Ariel Castro, Michelle Knight, was raped, impregnated and forcibly aborted by Castro (right) at least five times during her more than ten year captivity.
The grand jury is now meeting to determine the facts of the case and appropriate charges and he believes Castro should be held accountable for the deaths of the babies in the abortions.
“If as reported Ariel Castro starved and then kicked a pregnant Michelle Knight resulting in her miscarrying five children Castro should be charged with aggravated and felonious assault against Knight and aggravated murder of her children. I trust the grand jury will be investigating all such possible charges,” he said.
Casey says Ohio adopted a state law in 2002 that includes unborn children under murder, manslaughter, and assault statutes in non-abortion cases where they are killed, such as in this case.
Casey also thinks the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which recognizes the “child in utero” as a legal victim if he or she is injured or killed during the commission of any of 68 existing federal crimes of violence, could also come into play.
“These crimes include some acts that are federal crimes no matter where they occur (e.g., certain acts of terrorism), crimes in federal jurisdictions, crimes within the military system, crimes involving certain federal officials, and other special cases,” he tells LifeNews. “The law defines “child in utero” as “a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.” Though the majority of kidnapping crimes are prosecuted as state offenses, the federal government can also prosecute someone for kidnapping if the kidnapping crosses state lines.”
Casey continued, “Federal prosecutors can file kidnapping charges independent of state charges, meaning you can be charged with both federal and state crimes. It does not appear that the perpetrator in this case, Ariel Castro, crossed state lines with any of his victims. We should be vigilant to investigate whether Castro ever took Jocelyn across state lines.”
“As the grand jury meets to determine all of the facts, let us be vigilant to assure that the perpetrator(s) of any force abortion(s) in this case is/are charged and convicted of such crimes,” Casey said.
He said holding Castro accountable for killing those babies would provide extra justice for the three kidnapped women, Amanda Berry, 27, Michele Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, 23, as well as Jocelyn, Amanda Berry’s 6-year old daughter.
What I don’t understand is how he got to be a school bus driver when he had domestic violence charges against him by his now-deceased ex-wife. Didn’t the school district bother to look up his records?
It is an impossibility that the nature of the unborn child and its fate are merely subjective.
For the State of Ohio to convict Castro of murder in these cases, a court will have to find that the children killed had the right not to be killed. But if that right is merely contingent on the frame of mind of the mother, it is no right at all.
Roger Taney thought he was performing a great public service by finally cutting through all the pretense, all the euphemisms, all the bullshit and stating, clearly, once and for all the basis of American slavery - that no negro had, or could have, any rights that a white man was bound to respect.
Taney seriously believed that he was defusing the powder keg that slavery had become - that once the matter was clear, in law, that peace would follow.
Abortion now is in the same place. It is a peculiar institution - in order to accomodate it, on the margins, every other law, custom, and tradition must get out of the way.
Look at the cover of People Magazine this week - "Kate's Baby Bump". Why is it a "baby" bump, when People Magazine campaigns so energetically for the "lump of tissue" theory?
The abortion peculiar institution has become completely incoherent. Common sense and elementary justice says Castro should hang for killing these babies - but Ohio can't allow that to happen (and if they do, the USSC will overrule them) - because to establish in law that these innocent little lumps of tissue are what they appear to be - will cause a war, just as surely as Roger Taney's famous decision did.
They were not babies in law, and the USSC will not allow any law to stand that makes them into babies.
It is impossible, as things now stand, to write a fetal murder law that would be constitutional.
Do the words”Affirmative Action Hiree” ring a bell?
Please tell me this guy is up for the death penalty.
There are already laws in some states that prosecute based on the death of an unborn child due to criminal activity.
But those laws are obviously unconstitutional, in that they treat defendants differently based on subjective criteria, denying them equal protection of the laws.
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