Sunday, August 25, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Wynantskill man facing child abuse charges- Michael Childs
Wynantskill man facing child abuse charges - troyrecord.com
WYNANTSKILL—A 30-year-old man is facing child abuse charges after staff at a local hospital reported bruises to the body of a 4-year-old boy, according to police.
In custody facing assault and child endangerment charges is Michael Childs, of Main Avenue in Wynantskill.
WYNANTSKILL—A 30-year-old man is facing child abuse charges after staff at a local hospital reported bruises to the body of a 4-year-old boy, according to police.
In custody facing assault and child endangerment charges is Michael Childs, of Main Avenue in Wynantskill.
Michael E. Childs
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Michael J Bester- Sir John A. Macdonald
7th grader saves classmate from bully with knife, is punished for ‘playing hero’
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A thirteen year-old Canadian, Briar MacLean, was reprimanded by school officials for potentially saving the life of one of his fellow classmates. After defending the victim from an armed student, the vice principal chastised MacLean, saying that he should have gotten a teacher involved instead of acting quickly.
MacLean told the National Post that he was in a morning class in his middle school in Calgary when he saw a bully antagonizing another student. “He put him in a headlock, and I saw that,” he said.
The fight escalated when MacLean “heard the flick, and I heard them say there was a knife.”
MacLean instinctively jumped and pushed the bully away from the other student and then continued about his day unfazed. However, later he was called into the office and not allowed to return to classes for the rest of the day.
The vice principal called MacLean’s mother, Leah O’Donnell, saying that her son was involved in an incident where “he decided to ‘play hero’ and jump in.” The vice principal added that the school did not “condone heroics,” and that the proper course of action would have been to get a school administrator to handle it.
O’Donnell said, “I asked: ‘In the time it would have taken him to go get a teacher, could that kid’s throat have been slit?’ She said yes, but that’s beside the point.”
“What are they teaching them?” O’Donnell said. ”That when you go out into the workforce and someone is not being very nice to you, you have to tattle to your boss? You’re not going to get promoted that way.”
O’Donnell expressed dismay at the vice principal’s comments.
“What are we going to do if there are no heroes in the world? There would be no police, no fire, no armed forces. If a guy gets mugged on the street, everyone is going to run away and be scared or cower in the corner. It’s not right,” she said.
The Calgary school board has not commented on the incident except to confirm the bully has been suspended.
MacLean told the National Post that he was in a morning class in his middle school in Calgary when he saw a bully antagonizing another student. “He put him in a headlock, and I saw that,” he said.
The fight escalated when MacLean “heard the flick, and I heard them say there was a knife.”
MacLean instinctively jumped and pushed the bully away from the other student and then continued about his day unfazed. However, later he was called into the office and not allowed to return to classes for the rest of the day.
The vice principal called MacLean’s mother, Leah O’Donnell, saying that her son was involved in an incident where “he decided to ‘play hero’ and jump in.” The vice principal added that the school did not “condone heroics,” and that the proper course of action would have been to get a school administrator to handle it.
O’Donnell said, “I asked: ‘In the time it would have taken him to go get a teacher, could that kid’s throat have been slit?’ She said yes, but that’s beside the point.”
“What are they teaching them?” O’Donnell said. ”That when you go out into the workforce and someone is not being very nice to you, you have to tattle to your boss? You’re not going to get promoted that way.”
O’Donnell expressed dismay at the vice principal’s comments.
“What are we going to do if there are no heroes in the world? There would be no police, no fire, no armed forces. If a guy gets mugged on the street, everyone is going to run away and be scared or cower in the corner. It’s not right,” she said.
The Calgary school board has not commented on the incident except to confirm the bully has been suspended.
Friday, May 10, 2013
MYRTLE BEACH: Aynor police officer fired, arrested after asking woman to lift shirt to dismiss traffic ticket | Crime | MyrtleBeachOnline.com
MYRTLE BEACH: Aynor police officer fired, arrested after asking woman to lift shirt to dismiss traffic ticket | Crime | MyrtleBeachOnline.com
MYRTLE BEACH — A former Aynor police officer was arrested Thursday morning, a day after he was fired when an investigation discovered he asked a woman to lift her shirt in exchange for a traffic ticket being dismissed, according to authorities.
Bradley Rex Jordan, 34, of Aynor was charged Thursday morning with misconduct in office, which is a misdemeanor, and if convicted, he faces up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine, said Thom Berry, a SLED spokesman.
Jordan was booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center at 7:46 a.m. Thursday and released at 10:28 a.m. on $5,000 bail, according to jail records.
According to an arrest warrant, Jordan offered to dismiss a traffic citation if a woman would lift her shirt for him.
Aynor Police Chief David Thompson issued a statement that department officials received a complaint regarding Jordan on May 2 and within an hour afterward he was placed on administrative leave with pay pending an internal investigation.
The next day Thompson contacted SLED officials and turned the investigation over to them.
On Wednesday, Thompson said Jordan was fired from the police department for a departmental policy violation.
“It is the mission of the Aynor Police Department to maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct for police officers,” Thompson said in the statement.
Friday, May 3, 2013
ROBERT BUTLER- Saratoga Springs NY
BREAKING NEWS: Man charged with arson in fatal Schenectady fire - WRGB CBS6 - Top Stories
SUPER SCUMBAG
Updated: Friday, May 3 2013, 09:16 AM EDT SCHENECTADY -- Schenectady Police have made an arrest in the fatal fire that killed three children and their father and severely injured another child. 27-year-old Robert Butler of Saratoga Springs has been charged with felony arson for allegedly setting fire to 438 Hulett Street. According to Schenectady Police, Butler is in police custody and will be arraigned this morning. Butler knew the victims of the fire although police aren't being specific about the relationship at this time.
Read More at: http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/features/top-story/stories/breaking-news-man-charged-arson-fatal-schenectady-fire-8013.shtml?wap=0
SUPER SCUMBAG
Updated: Friday, May 3 2013, 09:16 AM EDT SCHENECTADY -- Schenectady Police have made an arrest in the fatal fire that killed three children and their father and severely injured another child. 27-year-old Robert Butler of Saratoga Springs has been charged with felony arson for allegedly setting fire to 438 Hulett Street. According to Schenectady Police, Butler is in police custody and will be arraigned this morning. Butler knew the victims of the fire although police aren't being specific about the relationship at this time.
Read More at: http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/features/top-story/stories/breaking-news-man-charged-arson-fatal-schenectady-fire-8013.shtml?wap=0
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Averill Park man arrested for sexual abuse of a child - troyrecord.com
Averill Park man arrested for sexual abuse of a child - troyrecord.com
Scumbag Child Molester Edward E. Cretaro,
State Police arrested a 60-year-old Averill Park man for sexually abusing a child for three years beginning when the child was 6 years old.
According to State Police, Edward E. Cretaro, is charged with sexual conduct against a child in the second degree, a D Felony. The abuse allegedly took place in Poestenkill.
Scumbag Child Molester Edward E. Cretaro,
State Police arrested a 60-year-old Averill Park man for sexually abusing a child for three years beginning when the child was 6 years old.
According to State Police, Edward E. Cretaro, is charged with sexual conduct against a child in the second degree, a D Felony. The abuse allegedly took place in Poestenkill.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
DuhProgressive.com - Colorado Lawmaker Now Suggesting Women Eat Chipotle to Prevent Rape
DuhProgressive.com - Colorado Lawmaker Now Suggesting Women Eat Chipotle to Prevent Rape
Colorado State Senator Joe Salazar
has just jumped the rails!
(DENVER) —A Colorado lawmaker who apologized last month for suggesting women should use a whistle instead of a gun to ward off rapists is in hot water again. Democrat state senator Joe Salazar said before the senate Monday he had been wrong for suggesting women’s best defense against rape was to carry a whistle to blow, although he maintained his anti-armed/gun stance, offering even more colorful prevention methods for women.
“I admit, I was wrong about the whistle idea,” said Salazar. “It’s really Chipotle that is the best defense against rape. …You try to rape a woman who’s been eating Chipotle and you’ll be in for one hell of a shock and regret…and mess!”
SOUNDS LIKE FAST JOE MIGHT BE SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE?
Yvonne Davis -Texas Dem introduces Bill to fire Sheriffs
http://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB2167
Texas Rep Yvonne Davis, (D) Dallas, Texas has introduced HB2167 into the Texas Legislature that would remove from office any Sheriff or law enforcement officer who refuses to enforce State or Federal laws, or if they order deputies or officers under their command to refuse to obey federal orders. And it provides for the removal of any elected or appointed law enforcement officer for simply stating or signing any document that states that he/she will not obey federal orders.
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Valley Stream Chiropractor Douglas Dukofsky Charged With Forcibly Touching Patient « CBS New York
Valley Stream Chiropractor Douglas Dukofsky Charged With Forcibly Touching Patient « CBS New York
Dr. Creepy McFeel
Douglas Dukofsky
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Long Island chiropractor is accused of inappropriately using a massaging device on a patient.
On March 23, Douglas Dukofsky was giving a 21-year-old woman a chiropractic exam at Valley Stream Chiropractic Wellness Center.
During the exam, Dukofsky was using a massaging device on the victim’s legs when he proceeded to moved it across her genital area two times, police said.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Washington Free Beacon » Mayors Gone Wild » Print
Washington Free Beacon » Mayors Gone Wild » Print
Gainesville, Fla., Mayor Craig Lowe
Mayors Against Illegal Guns member and Democratic Gainesville, Fla., Mayor Craig Lowe was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and property damage after police found him asleep in his car at the scene of a crash last Thursday.
Gainesville, Fla., Mayor Craig Lowe
Mayors Against Illegal Guns member and Democratic Gainesville, Fla., Mayor Craig Lowe was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and property damage after police found him asleep in his car at the scene of a crash last Thursday.
Former Texas Trooper Indicted in Roadside Cavity Search | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Former Trooper Indicted in Roadside Cavity Search | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
David Farrell , Kelley Helleson, Texas State Police
Maybe you wanna re-think moving to Texas.
David Farrell , Kelley Helleson, Texas State Police
Maybe you wanna re-think moving to Texas.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Jim Carrey - Cold Dead Hand
Jim Carrey - Cold Dead Hand
Screen shot from slow motion video of "Cold Dead Hand" Not sure what that is in the lower left corner, but it looks suspicious.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Ralph Reed Lied or Uninformed
Whether he lied or was uninformed, you just can't go on national television on a show like MEET THE PRESS and say this. Of course David Gregory let him slide out without correcting him on this, nor did anyone else. Fact of the matter is that Adam Lanza's mother DID NOT BUY a rifle AND GIVE IT TO HIM. He stole it, murdered her, then went to CT.
Transcript from Meet The Press
Transcript from Meet The Press
RALPH REED:
"Our organization doesn't work on this issue so I'm speaking only for myself. But I think the devil will be in the details. Look, this bill already exempts family transfers. So Newtown doesn't even get prevented by this. The mother could go out and buy an assault weapon, because Harry Reid has already said that's not going to pass in the Senate, and she can give it to her son. That's what happened in Newtown; it happens under whatever the Senate--"
Girl hit while getting off school bus - Albany
Girl hit while getting off school bus - Albany
Rat Eugene Mobley passes schoolbus with flashing red lights to hit student breaking her leg.
Rat Eugene Mobley passes schoolbus with flashing red lights to hit student breaking her leg.
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Police said a driver ignores a bus's red lights and hit an 11-year-old girl getting off her bus.
Eugene Mobley, 36 of Albany, was driving on the 300 block of Livingston Avenue on Friday when he allegedly ran through the red lights on a stopped school bus.
Police said Mobley hit the girl as she was crossing the street.
The girl was sent to Albany Medical Center with a broken leg.
Mobley was arrested and charged with reckless assault, driving with a suspended license, and was cited for passing a stopped school bus.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Tim Sappington Shoots Horse in Head
Friday, March 22, 2013
Ted Johnson is a Rat Fuck
Ted Johnson calls Vince Wilfork’s wife ugly on the radio, Vince Wilfork responds
Not only is Ted Johnson a rat fuck, he looks like a typical asshole.
You never, ever speak poorly of or disparage another man's wife.
That guideline should really go without saying, but former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson stepped all over it when he recently said on his Houston radio show that current Patriots lineman Vince Wilfork had the ugliest wife in the NFL.
Teen Accused of Murdering Toddler Pleads not Guilty | WKBW News 7: News, Sports, Weather | Buffalo, NY | News
Teen Accused of Murdering Toddler Pleads not Guilty | WKBW News 7: News, Sports, Weather | Buffalo, NY | News
Scumbag RAT Fuck Dylan Schumaker-
March 22, 2013Updated Mar 22, 2013 at 1:25 PM EDT
SPRINGVILLE, NY (WKBW) - 16-year-old Dylan Schumaker of Springville plead not guilty Friday afternoon in Springville Village Court to murder charges. The teen is accused of beating his girlfriend's toddler to death Tuesday night.
Police say Schumaker was babysitting 1-year-old Austin Smith, his 19-year-old girlfriend's child, inside his Cochran Avenue home and struck him with severe force when the toddler started to cry.
"The mother had been kicked out of her former residence probably six weeks, two months ago and was living with the boyfriend's family," said Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard. "The 19-year-old woman and the 16-year-old male were living in the upstairs three-room apartment. The child was crying. But in fact there's no explanation for why anyone would strike a child."
Cairo NY Police Chief Christopher Sprague =Rat
SOUTH CAIRO, N.Y. -- State Police release more details on the arrest of the police chief in the Town of Cairo.
Chief Christopher Sprague, 48, was arrested Thursday for felony charges of first-degree tampering with public records and tampering with physical evidence, as well as fourth-degree tampering with a witness and third-degree falsely reporting an incident, both misdemeanors.
State Police said the charges are a result of Sprague's improper handling of evidence and falsely reporting information to State Police. They said the charges stem from one case, but they are not saying which one since the investigation is ongoing.
Sprague was arraigned and released on his own recognizance.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Sex offender arrested for allegedly stalking teen | KING5.com Seattle
Sex offender arrested for allegedly stalking teen | KING5.com Seattle
SCUMBAG RAT SEX OFFENDER Keith Dewayne Crum
BURIEN, Wash. -- A sex offender was arrested for allegedly stalking a 17-year-old female student near Evergreen Campus.
Keith Dewayne Crum, 39, a level three sex offender, was arrested last week after a high school junior reported three encounters with the man.
The victim told King County Sheriff’s deputies Crum was in a white car on March 5th when he tried to talk to her while she was walking home from school. Then on March 11th the female student was walking near campus, and Crum, in the same vehicle, tried to talk with her twice, asking for her phone number. She ran for help, and told school officials what happened.
"She did the right thing by getting to school right away, telling an adult, calling 911, and being really observant and being able to give a description of the man, the car, and a partial license plate," said Catherine Carbone Rogers, spokesperson for Highline Public Schools.
Sheriffs deputies found Crum in a white four-door Nissan Maxima nearby. He matched the description and was arrested for stalking.
Court records show Crum is a level 3 sex offender, which means he is deemed likely to reoffend.
In 1998, when Crum was 25-years-old he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old female that he knew, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office Offender Watch site. In 2002, when Crum was 29-years-old, he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old female that he was acquainted with, according to court records. In 2005, Crum was released from prison and is now living in the city of Burien at 15500 block of 6th Avenue SW.
He was arrested for stalking. He has been released from jail pending trial.
Bail was set at $25,000, and Crum bonded out over the weekend, according to court documents.
Dem Party official makes students ‘stomp on Jesus’
Dem Party official makes students ‘stomp on Jesus’
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/dem-party-official-makes-students-stomp-on-jesus/#F1i6lEQYAxr5MIRX.99
Deandre Poole-RAT FINK
A Florida college professor causing national outrage for requiring students to write “Jesus” on a piece of paper, then put it on the floor and stomp on it, turns out also to be a top official in the local Democratic Party – the latest in a string of acute leadership embarrassments.
Although one student who refused to participate claims he was punished by being suspended from the class, Florida Atlantic University is defending the controversial assignment.
The dissenting student, Ryan Rotela, told the local CBS TV affiliate WPEC that his instructor, associate professor Deandre Poole, told everyone in the class to write the word “Jesus” on a piece of paper in bold letters, then put it on the floor and stomp on it.
Rotela, a junior from Coral Springs, said some of his classmates complied, but he refused
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/dem-party-official-makes-students-stomp-on-jesus/#F1i6lEQYAxr5MIRX.99
Amy E. Kraus, 41, Saratoga Springs- Animal Abuser
Nothing worse than a rat animal abuser!
Saratoga Springs woman accused of abusing her dogs - saratogian.com
“They were in pretty bad shape,” he said.
Saratoga Springs woman accused of abusing her dogs - saratogian.com
“They were in pretty bad shape,” he said.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — A city woman was accused of abusing her pets after animal control officers, acting on an anonymous tip, found four ill, malnourished dogs at her home on Spa Circle, police say.
Amy E. Kraus, 41, was charged Tuesday with a misdemeanor related to torturing or injuring animals, as well as violations for failing to vaccinate and license the dogs.
Saratoga Springs Police Lt. John Catone said officers found “deplorable living conditions and multiple animals that appeared to be malnourished and in distress.”
Catone said they had open sores and skin disorders.
Amy E. Kraus, 41, was charged Tuesday with a misdemeanor related to torturing or injuring animals, as well as violations for failing to vaccinate and license the dogs.
Saratoga Springs Police Lt. John Catone said officers found “deplorable living conditions and multiple animals that appeared to be malnourished and in distress.”
Catone said they had open sores and skin disorders.
Assemblyman Steve Katz busted for pot possession
No problem with smoking the ganja, but driving 80 mph on the Thruway isn;y very cool! Capitol Confidential » Steve Katz busted for pot possession (updatedX2)
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Kermit Gosnell: 'House of horrors' abortion clinic worker testifies in capital murder trial that she killed at least 10 infants delivered during late-term abortion by snipping their NECKS | Mail Online
Kermit Gosnell: 'House of horrors' abortion clinic worker testifies in capital murder trial that she killed at least 10 infants delivered during late-term abortion by snipping their NECKS | Mail Online
This story is fucking heart wrenching. All involved are rats.
A medical assistant told a jury Tuesday that she snipped the spines of at least 10 babies during unorthodox late-term abortions at a West Philadelphia clinic.
Adrienne Moton's testimony as part of her guilty plea to third-degree murder, came in the capital murder trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the clinic owner, who is on trial in the deaths of a patient and seven babies.
Prosecutors accuse him of killing late-term, viable babies after they were delivered alive, in violation of state abortion laws.
Gosnell's lawyer denies the murder charge and disputes that any babies were born alive. He also challenges the gestational age of the aborted fetuses, calling them inexact estimates.
Moton, the first employee to testify, sobbed as she recalled taking a cell phone photograph of one baby left in her work area. She thought he could have survived, given his size and pinkish color. She had measured him at nearly 30 weeks.
‘The aunt felt it was just best for her [the mother's] future,’ Moton testified.
Gosnell later joked that the baby was so big he could have walked to the bus stop, she said.
Jurors saw Moton's photograph of the baby on a large screen in the courtroom, which took on a bizarre look Tuesday as she testified near a hospital bed with stirrups and other aging obstetric equipment.
Denied the chance to bring jurors to the shuttered inner-city clinic, prosecutors are instead recreating a patient room in court.
Denied the chance to bring jurors to the shuttered inner-city clinic, prosecutors are instead recreating a patient room in court.
Moton, 35, sobbed as she described her work at the clinic. She first met Gosnell through his niece, a school friend of hers, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Because of problems at home, she had moved in with Gosnell and his third wife during high school.
Later, the 35-year-old medical assistant testified that the abortion doctor helped her terminate two of her own pregnancies and she began volunteering at the clinic in January 2005 sterilizing instruments.
Not before long, the woman with no college education or medical training began administering anesthesia under the tutelage of Gosnell, whom she called 'uncle,' and then assist in abortions, including the doctor's method of 'snipping' the spinal cords of fetuses.
‘I learned it from Dr. Gosnell,’ said Moton in response to a question from Assistant District Attorney Edward Cameron. ‘I never asked why.’
‘Can you say how many you did?’ Cameron asked.
‘I could remember a good 10 times that I did it,’ Moton replied.
She earned about $10 an hour, off the books, to administer drugs, perform sonograms, help with abortions and dispose of fetal remains.
Workers got $20 bonuses for second-term abortions on Saturdays, when a half-dozen were sometimes performed.
She once had to kill a baby delivered in a toilet, cutting its neck with scissors, she said. Asked if she knew that was wrong, she said, ‘At first I didn't.’
Abortions are typically performed in utero. In Pennsylvania, abortions cannot legally be performed after the 24th week of pregnancy.
Moton has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, which carries a 20- to 40-year term, as well as conspiracy and other charges.
She has been in prison since early 2011, when Philadelphia prosecutors released the harrowing grand jury report on Gosnell's Women's Medical Center and arrested the doctor, wife Pearl and eight current or former employees. Most of them are expected to testify.
Women and teens came from across the mid-Atlantic, often seeking late-term abortions, Moton said. She recalled one young woman from Puerto Rico who did not speak English and appeared to be 27 weeks pregnant.
Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old refugee who traveled to the clinic from Virginia, died after an overdose of drugs allegedly given to her during a 2009 abortion.
Defense lawyer Jack McMahon told jurors in opening statements Monday that Gosnell, now 72, returned to the impoverished neighborhood after medical school when he could have struck it rich in the suburbs. He called the prosecution of his client, who is black, ‘a lynching.’
But prosecutors believe Gosnell made plenty of money over a 30-year career using cheap, untrained staff, outdated medicines and barbaric techniques to perform abortions on desperate, low-income women.
And they say he made even more on the side running a ‘pill mill,’ where addicts and drug dealers could get prescriptions for potent painkillers. Authorities found $250,000 in cash and a gun at his home when they searched it in 2010.
Kermit Gosnell, who told a judge in 2011 he was too poor to afford proper legal representation, owned as many as 17 properties and earned $1.8million a year, accordingto a grand jury report.
According to the report, the Philadelphia Women’s Medical Society clinic was a 'baby charnel house' crawling with cats and reeking of animal urine and feces.
Furniture and blankets were stained with blood and instruments were not properly sterilized.
Disposable medical supplies were also reused while vital medical equipment such as the defibrillator and EKG machine were 'generally broken'.
Disturbingly, the report alleges that fetal remains were stuffed into: 'cabinets, in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs'.
Tiny baby feet, it is claimed, were discovered in specimen jars, lined up in a macabre collection.
'(He) regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors,' said a report of the grand jury that investigated Gosnell and his clinic for a year.
According to the report the 'real' reason for the Women’s Medical Society: 'was not health; it was profit'.
'Gosnell catered to the women who couldn’t get abortions elsewhere – because they were too pregnant.
'For Dr. Gosnell, they were an opportunity. The bigger the baby, the more he charged.'
Most doctors won’t perform late second-trimester abortions - those in the 20th week of pregnancy, because of the risks involved.
But according to the report, Gosnell specialised in performing abortions well beyond 24 weeks.
Sickening: Another grand jury image showing what police claim are bags of body parts at the Philadelphia practice
'Babies that big are hard to get out. Gosnell’s approach, whenever possible, was to force full labour and delivery of premature infants on ill-informed women.
'The women would check in during the day, make payment, and take labor-inducing drugs.
'The doctor wouldn’t appear until evening, often 8.00, 9.00, or 10.00 pm, and only then deal with any of the women who were ready to deliver. Many of them gave birth before he even got there.'
Aside from hiding their profits in their 12-year-old daughter's closet, Gosnell and his wife are also accused of investing the profits in real estate.
Together, they own as many as 17 properties, according to published reports; prosecutors said they know of at least seven.
That includes at least five in Philadelphia and a house with two decks and a boat dock in Brigantine
The grand jury said while it believes Gosnell killed most of the babies he aborted after 24 weeks, it could not recommend murder charges for all of the cases.'
'In order to constitute murder, the act must involve a baby who was born alive,' the grand jury said in a report of almost 300 pages.
The panel also criticized Pennsylvania state health and medical regulators who said there were numerous opportunities to shut the clinic down over the years but complaints were ignored.
Four other clinic employees are charged with murder for roles prosecutors say they had in the deaths of Mongar or the viable babies. Gosnell's wife was charged with performing illegal abortions and other crimes and is being held on $1million bail.
As well as infanticide, Gosnell is also charged with the 2009 death of 41-year-old refugee Karnamaya Mongar at the clinic.
Unlicensed staff members gave Mongar far too much anesthesia for her 4ft 11in 110lb body, hours before Gosnell arrived for his evening slate of abortions, the grand jury charged.
Defense lawyer William J. Brennan, who represented Gosnell during the investigation, said Gosnell 'feels he has provided a general care medical facility in a fairly impoverished area for four decades.
'That's his belief,' Brennan said, 'and he's entitled to it.'
In one 1999 case, prosecutors said, 20-year-old Marie Smith was sent home after a Gosnell abortion unaware that he had been unable to remove the entire foetus from her uterus. Days later, vomiting and with a swollen abdomen and severe infection, Smith was taken to a hospital, where she was rushed into surgery.
Her mother, Johnnie Mae Smith, said she was shocked at the 'nasty and dirty, filthy' conditions in the clinic. When her daughter fell ill days later, she called Gosnell.
'I said, "What did you do to my daughter? ... My daughter's about to die," Smith said. 'He said, “Take her to the hospital".'
Tina Baldwin, 45, is charged with corruption of minors and helping to run a corrupt enterprise. Eight of her co-workers were charged with Gosnell.
Baldwin's husband, Michael Baldwin, said his wife got the Gosnell clinic job eight years ago after a business school she attended referred her there for an internship. She worked up front, taking cash from patients as they walked in.
Baldwin denied that his wife performed any medical tasks or witnessed anything untoward at Gosnell's clinic.
Besides his abortion practice, authorities said, Gosnell ranked third in the state for the number of prescriptions he wrote for OxyContin, the highly addictive narcotic painkiller.
Authorities allege that he left blank prescriptions for such drugs at his office and allowed staff to make them out to cash-paying patients who streamed in during the day, when he wasn't there.
The doctor: Kermit Gosnell
Charged: Pearl Gosnell
Employee: Elizabeth Hampton
Arrested: Tina Baldwin
Assistant: Lynda Williams
Worker: Adrine Moton
Accomplice: Eileen O'Neil
Mugshot: Sherry West
Held: Maddline Joe
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