Tag: attempted murder

Man spikes pregnant girlfriend’s water with bleach, but mother and child okay

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, ABC 13 is reporting. Authorities say he has been charged with attempted murder. “Washington, …

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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 24-week-old unborn baby. We reported on …

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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 hospital, was in critical condition on a ventilator and fighting for …

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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 McKee was charged with one count of attempted murder Tuesday, according to the Bloomington …

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