Posted on 07/31/2007 4:04:51 AM PDT by monomaniac
Police Arrest Youth Accused of Murdering his Unborn Child
Pushed mother to ground and punched and stomped on her belly killing child in womb
By John Jalsevac
CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A 15-year-old youth accused of attacking his 18-year-old girlfriend with the express purpose of killing her unborn child has been arrested and faces charges of murder, reports The Enquirer.
The attack took place on July 11, when Alfonso Price and a friend accosted Kerria Anderson at a bus stop. The 18-year-old woman, whose baby was reportedly due mid-August, was standing with her 1 ½ year-old daughter at the time. According to reports the pair pulled Anderson behind a nearby building, pushed her to the ground then began to punch and to stomp on her belly.
By the time they were done Anderson was bruised and covered in footprints and her unborn child Precious had a fractured skull and numerous other broken bones. Precious Anderson was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. According to The Enquirer the Anderson family has not been able to have a funeral for the child, who was cremated, due to a lack of money.
Price's accomplice has also been arrested for the crime. Prosecutors have said that they intend to have Price, who has a past record of 10 charges, as well as a record of violence against his girlfriend, tried as an adult.
Precious Anderson would have been Kerria's second child. Kerria's mother, Angela, has said that the family was devastated by the attack and by the loss of the child.
"(Price) stomped my daughter, killed the baby, crushed the skull, fractured jaw, broken bones, and now my daughter is fighting for her life. She's hemorrhaging real bad," said Angela Anderson shortly after the attack took place, according toWLWT.com. "He wanted her to have an abortion and this family don't believe in it."
According to family members Price, who was estranged from his girlfriend at the time, was angry at the thought that another man might end up raising his daughter, and had been pushing Anderson to have an abortion, but she had refused.
"All he had to do was run along and just leave her alone," said Kerria's mother. "But he caught her, and he caught her good and killed the baby."
Unborn children, besides being protected by the state laws of numerous states, are also protected under the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, under which they can be considered a distinct victim of violence in the case of a violent assault against the mother. Individual cases that invoke this Act, however, tend to reveal a rift in the law, where what is considered to be a "fetus" without any human rights at one moment, can the next instant be considered a human being.
As one letter writer to The Enquirer wrote about the case, "This was a horrible crime, and apparently the beating occurred specifically to kill the child."
"Yet Kerria Anderson could have walked to the clinic, had an abortion and everything would have been just fine; the same result would be a dead child. Yet that is somehow a 'right' for Anderson. Does anyone see a problem here?"
Mainstream news reporting on such cases also tends to reveal how tenuous is the sacred secular distinction between "fetus" and "child," with most news sources referring to the "unborn child" where they would typically refer to the inhuman "fetus".
Welfare? The ages of those involved suggest a precursor to the troubles ahead.
Flogging needs a return.
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geez. the birthrate among the young is already out of proportion, it wasn’t like this when i was in high school but even back then if we couldn’t afford or didn’t use birth control there was always the pullout method.
double attempted murder charge would be fitting.
sorry if a mod could pull the previous post,
murder + an attempted murder charge would be fitting here. a woman doesn’t exactly put on a bandaid after an ordeal like that. it’s sick.
They did this in front of the 1 1/2 yr. old child? Horrific and sickening.
So, that unborn child had a right to its own life? What if the mother decided to take it to an abortion clinic? Then it no longer has a right to its own life? This issue needs to be clearly defined in our society.
I’m pretty sure you can’t go to an abortion clinic and abort a child in the mother’s third trimester, but correct me if I’m wrong.
I think it’s legal in several states. The only thing that’s been declared illegal is the Partial Birth method of aborting.
Here is another great example of the down the rabbit hole insanity that abortion “law” is. A few years ago in Chicago, a married manager of a fast food resturant was charged with the murder of his girlfriend and her unborn child. It seems that he knocked her up, and she came to extort him for hush money, part of which was to go for an abortion. He killed her because he didn’t want to pay the dough for it.
While the murder charges for the girlfriend are easy to understand, I was struck as to how there was almost no discussion of the fact that he got charged for achieving precisely the same objective for the child that the “mother” was seeking and that she would have been entirely free of legal consequence for by having the deed performed by a medical hitman.
Aside from the grave moral implications, abortion law is also the greatest insult to logic and linear reasoning that was ever perpetrated by man or Supreme Court justice!!!
Savages. Insanity.
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