By Dave Andrusko
If you to go strictly on news accounts, you would falsely conclude that men tricking the women into taking abortion pills is a rarity. Not so.
The latest example comes from PEOPLE magazine. Christine Pelisek writes
Robert Kawada, 43, is facing charges of poisoning, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a pregnant person and assault and battery on a household or family member in connection with the alleged activity.
Authorities claim Kawada, who was arrested last week, gave the woman medication he pretended were iron pills and vitamins. Authorities believe that at least one of the pills was the abortion drug Misoprostol.
Tragically, after taking Misoprostol, the woman suffered a miscarriage in May.
The couple dated for several months and after breaking up the woman discovered she was pregnant. Jamy Pombo Sesselman picks up the story from there:
According to the police report, Kawada provided the victim on one occasion with homemade raspberry leaf cookies, believed to be dangerous to women in early pregnancy, and then began providing the woman with pills he claimed were vitamins and iron.
The victim said she received a phone call from a person pretending to be a nurse who said her bloodwork showed she needed more iron.
When the woman tried calling the “nurse” back for help, she discovered it was an internet-based phone number, which caused her to believe that it was a fake number, officials said.
Detectives found the pills the woman was given to be consistent with Misoprostol, a medication used to terminate pregnancies.
Prosecutors say searches for the effects of Misoprostol on pregnancies were found on Kawada’s cell phone.
They met several times and he allegedly gave her pills he claimed were iron or vitamins, authorities say.
At one point, the woman alleged she got a call from a purported nurse from her health care provider who told her she needed to take more iron.
Kawada, she alleged, arrived after the call.
“The victim explained the call with the ‘nurse’ to Kawada, and Kawada informed her to take iron pills which he happened to have on him,” the statement alleged, per WCVB.
Kawada, who plead not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday, is being held in jail on $100,000 bail.