Pleads guilty to attempted procurement of a miscarriage By Dave Andrusko Anna Yocca, the Tennessee woman who used a coat hanger in 2015 to try to self-abort her 24-week-old unborn child, was released Monday after pleading guilty to attempted procurement of a...
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Anna Yocca pleads not guilty to three felony charges in attempted self-induced abortion
By Dave Andrusko Anna Yocca, who used a coathanger in 2015 to try to self-abort her 24-week-old unborn child, plead not guilty Monday to three felony charges: aggravated assault, an attempt to procure a miscarriage and an attempted criminal abortion. The Daily News...
Attempted self-aborter asks that all charges be dropped
By Dave Andrusko Murfreesboro, Tenn -- 32-year-old Anna Yocca appeared in court yesterday where her attorney, Gerald Melton, said all charges should be dropped against the woman who tried to self-abort her 24-week-old unborn baby using a coathanger last September....
Woman who tried to self-abort baby at 24 weeks wants all charges dropped
By Dave Andrusko It was only a matter of time. Once attempted first-degree murder charges against Anna Yocca, who tried to self-abort her 24-week-old unborn baby using a coathanger last September, were reduced to aggravated assault, it was predictable that her lawyers...
Woman who tried to self-abort baby at 24 weeks to face lesser charges
By Dave Andrusko Multiple newspapers are reporting that authorities in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, have decided to drop attempted first-degree murder charges against Anna Yocca, who tried to self-abort her 24-week-old unborn baby using a coathanger last September. Only...
Further reflections on the baby who survived Anna Yocca’s attempted coat-hanger abortion
By Dave Andrusko If you utilize as I do the Google search engine, you’ll see a story or three a day about Anna Yocca, each more sympathetic than the previous one to a woman who is charged with attempted murder after using a coathanger to try to self-abort her...
Tennessee baby survives mother’s failed abortion by coat hanger, woman charged with first-degree attempted murder
By Dave Andrusko 31-year-old Anna Yocca has been charged with first-degree attempted murder for trying to self-abort using a coat-hanger that left her 24-week-old baby grievously injured for life. The baby boy weighed only 1.5 pounds at birth, which took place in...