Charged with attempted murder By Dave Andrusko Theophilous Washington, 20, of Washington, D.C., a junior at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, has confessed to police that he put bleach in his pregnant girlfriend’s water in an attempt to kill their unborn baby,...
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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...
Mother dumps day-old baby in trash can, hopes baby would die and “solve her problems”
By Dave Andrusko On Tuesday police arrested Alicia Marie Englert on suspicion of attempted murder , after she reportedly dumped her one-day-old baby in a neighbor’s trash in Kearns, Utah. Authorities said the baby girl, who was airlifted to a Salt Lake City...
Woman Charged With Attempted Murder after Baby Found in Toilet
By Dave Andrusko The headline is enough to almost make you physically ill: “Baby found in Bloomington [Illinois] shelter's toilet; mom charged with attempted murder.” The consolation is that the newborn baby has miraculously survived the actions of her mother. Tonya...