Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Kermit Gosnell: Baby Murder Charges

by NowPublic Staff | January 19, 2011 at 04:20 pm

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Philadelphia Abortion Doctor, Kermit Gosnell - Charged With Killing Patient And 7 Babies At Women's Medical Society Clinic

Kermit, Barron Gosnell, an abortion doctor who performed abortions at the Women's Medical Society clinic in West Philadelphia has been charged with multiple counts of murder. The dead include a patient, and 7 live infants whose spinal cords were cut with scissors.

The infants were born during the 6th, 7th, and 8th month of pregnancy of patients who went to the Women's Medical Society clinic for late term abortions. The Philadelphia District Attorney in charge of the case is Seth Williams.

Williams' statement provided a grisly scenario of the shuttered abortion clinic: A search of the office last year by authorities found bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses scattered throughout the building. Jars containing the severed feet of babies lined a shelf. Furniture and equipment was blood-stained, dusty and broken.

The district attorney says untrained staff routinely performed abortions inlcuding Gosnell's wife, Pearl, 49, who is charged with providing an abortion at 24 or more weeks, conspiracy and other related charges. The sister-in-law of Gosnell, Elizabeth Hampton, 51, faces charges of perjury and hindering the prosecution.

Dr Kermit Gosnell, 69, is charged with killing Gosnell 41 year old Karnamaya Mongaris - a third degree murder charge. Dr. Gosnell strongly denies the charges and says he is innocent according to his lawyer William J. Brennan.

I hope there is no rush to judgment in this case," Brennan continued. "Dr. Gosnell should enjoy the same presumption of innocence anyone in this country, you or me, should get if we were charged with a crime.

Apparently, Dr. Kermit Gosnell was not a certified obstetrician or gynecologist, but an doctor operating an abortion clinic. The Grand Jury that recommended the murder charges also heard testimony that there were numerous complaints about the Women's Medical Society clinic dating back over 20 years and the state licensing agencies did nothing

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The doctor himself was seldom present and in his absence, untrained, unsupervised workers, including a teenage girl, routinely injected dangerous sedatives into women undergoing illegal late-term abortions, Williams said.

Law enforcement officers discovered the abuses while investigating tips that the doctor had been illegally selling thousands of prescriptions for OxyContin and other narcotics.

"I am aware that abortion is a hot-button topic," Williams said. "But as district attorney, my job is to carry out the law. A doctor who knowingly and systematically mistreats female patients, to the point that one of them dies in his so-called care, commits murder under the law."