Bridgeport
First-Degree Sexual Assault, Second-Degree Sexual Assault, Fourth-Degree Sexual Assault and Risk of Injury to a Minor
42-year-old pro-abortionist Michael Britt had a great thing going. He liked his girls young (the younger the better), and he ran a modeling agency called Model World Enterprises that was ideally located — on the floor above an abortion mill. He told girls that, if they wanted to be models, they would have to have sexual intercourse with him. He told one young girl "This is what it takes to be a model. If you want to be a model this is what you are going to have to do."
When one 14-year-old girl got pregnant, Britt took her to the Summit Women's Center abortion mill, located one floor below his modeling agency, and had sexual intercourse with her under the guise of giving her an abortion, saying that he was applying "a special abortion cream." This was done after the usual killing hours of the abortuary.
On July 14, 2005, police charged Britt with first-degree sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault, fourth-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor.
References: Daniel Tepfer. "Rape Alleged by Teen Models." The Connecticut Post, July 15, 2005.
Failure to Report Suspected Child Abuse or Neglect (4 counts)
This pitiful case shows one again what an excellent cover abortion is for child sexual abuse.
A ten-year-old girl, whose name is being withheld by the press and police because of her age, met 75-year-old Jimmie Kave through an "Adopt-a-Godfather" program at Harborview Towers on East Washington Avenue, Bridgeport Housing Authority complex for senior citizens.
Kave began having intercourse with the girl, who eventually became pregnant and gave birth to a child. DNA tests showed that Kave was the father of the child.
Kave was arrested on March 22, 2002, when the girl's mother complained to police that Kave had impregnated her daughter. She said her daughter would visit Kave at his apartment, and they played games and went places together. Kave was charged with six counts of first-degree sexual assault, eight counts of risk of injury to a minor and two counts of fourth-degree sexual assault.
Kave went to police headquarters on April 9, 2002, and gave a statement. He said he never forced the girl to have sex with him. Instead, he said he bought her clothes and gifts, and she repaid him with sex. Last Christmas Eve, Kave told police, they returned to his apartment after buying about $100 worth of clothing for the girl. He said once they got home the girl approached him and began touching him in a sexual manner. This led to intercourse, according to his statement.
The girl gave birth in May 2002, and both she and her child are in the custody of the state Department of Children and Families.
On October 8, 2002, Kave pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. State's Attorney Jonathan Benedict recommended that Kave serve a 15-year prison term.
Police said Kave has an extensive prior criminal record, including a 1984 conviction for sexual assault in New Haven.
This tragedy was compounded by the fact that two city doctors, Mukeshkumar Shah and Ann Lule, examined the girl and determined she was pregnant, and then recommended that she have an abortion at the Summit Women's Medical Center abortion mill.
Shah and Lule are believed to be the first physicians charged with violating the state's 37-year-old mandatory reporting law for child abuse. They were arrested at their Main Street office on April 25, 2002, and were each charged with two counts of failing to report suspected child abuse or neglect. The charge against the doctors is a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine or up to a year in jail.
Doctors, nurses, teachers and priests are among the professionals required by state law to report any suspicions of child abuse within 24 hours. Failure to do so can result in a fine of up to $500.
The clear-cut details of the 11-year-old Bridgeport girl's case made the arrests of Shah and Lule an easy decision. Dr. Robert M. Reese, Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University, remarked "An 11-year-old who is pregnant? That has to be reported. ... This is not a subtle case."
The doctors' arrest comes just two weeks after Chief State's Attorney John M. Bailey and Department of Children and Families Commissioner Kristine D. Ragaglia sent letters to hundreds of doctors and nurses reminding them of their legal obligations to immediately report all suspicions of child abuse. Similar letters were sent to area churches, synagogues and religious organizations.
Bailey said the law in such instances is clear. "Our feeling is they have to report cases like this, it's mandatory," Bailey said Friday.
References: Colin Poitras. "Failure To Report Pregnancy Brings Charges." The Hartford Courant, April 27, 2002; John Christoffersen, Associated Press. "Medical Society Urges Dismissal of Charges Against Bridgeport Doctor." Boston Globe, August 21, 2002; Christa Lee Rock. "Doctors Want Case Dropped." New Haven Register, August 23, 2002; Colin Poitras. "Charges Against Doctors Let Stand In Child's Case." The Hartford Courant, September 24, 2002; "Doctors to Stand Trial for not Reporting Abuse, Referring for Abortion." Associated Press; September 26, 2002; Steve Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org, September 27, 2002; Daniel Tepfer. "15 Year Sentence Wanted for Child Predator: Man, 75, Admits He Fathered Girl's Baby." Connecticut Post, October 9, 2002.
Assault (2 incidents), Theft, and Disturbing the Peace
On December 17, 2002, a male abortion client was arrested outside the Summit Women's Center abortion mill in Bridgeport for spraying a liquid at one of the Rosary-praying women who was trying to talk to him and his daughter as they entered the abortuary. The young woman was visibly upset as she buried her head with tears rolling down her face. In response to a call to the police, an ambulance and at least five police care arrived at the scene. The man was arrested and charged with assault.
Just six days later, on December 23, 2002, police arrested the abortion mill's parking lot attendant/guard for disturbing the peace.
He had been complaining about pro-lifers holding signs near his precious abortuary, yelling at them not to touch the fence, and that they were preventing the abortion mill from doing its business. He then began arguing with a police officer and tried repeatedly to provoke pro-lifers. At one point he taunted the policeman, saying he should "go to church with the pro-lifers."
Eventually, the police officer, after repeatedly warning the guard, got fed up and arrested him. This was the same man who had spit in a pro-lifer's face in the past, and who had stolen pro-life signs from picketers.
References: "Male Client Arrested for Assaulting Rosary Woman" and "Clinic Guard Arrested and One Baby is Saved." Operation Save America. BPT Reports for October-December, 2002.
Assault (2 incidents)
On January 25, 1994, a clinic patient at a local abortion mill maced pro-lifers Carmen Vazquez and Stanley Scott without any kind of provocation. The head escort at the clinic encourages patients to carry mace.
Reference: Operation Rescue National, Violence and Disruption Report, December 1, 1994.
Harassment (9 incidents)
Dennis Green is the Director of a Virginia-based pro-life group, Life and Liberty Ministries. He often drives his "Truth Truck," which is festooned with photographs of aborted babies, so that people can see the truth about prenatal child lynching.
In early August 2004, Dennis was driving his truck on Interstate 95 near Bridgeport, Connecticut, when state trooper David Febbraio pulled him over and told him that he could not continue driving until he removed the signs from his vehicle. Green refused, standing on his First Amendment freedom of speech rights.
Green said Febbraio then "began to fish for any reason to charge" him. A second state trooper began to "verbally attack" him for displaying the images of abortion on his truck. Febbraio reportedly told Green that "People should have the freedom not to look at this." When one of Green's companions, 24-year-old Michael Marcavage of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, tried to videotape the harassment, the troopers arrested him and charged him with a felony. The troopers claimed that they ordered Marcavage back to the truck "for his own safety," and arrested him when he refused to do so.
When Marcavage was in police custody, they ridiculed him for his religious faith. Febbraio called him a "Jesus Freak," "wing nut," "brain-washed," and a "scam artist," among other things. Marcavage spent four hours in jail and was eventually released on $1,000 bail.
Police told Green to get back into his truck and get out of the state. Police followed him and told him that he was not to stop or exit the highway.
According to the Associated Press, police said the truck was a safety concern because it was moving too slowly and was drawing a great deal of attention. Marcavage denies that the truck was moving slowly.
According to the American Family Association Center for Law and Policy, Febbraio was arrested and charged with eight counts of harassment of a disabled state police dispatcher in 2003. Febbraio allegedly referred to the dispatcher as "Gimpy" and used the dispatcher's home address to subscribe to Playboy, CosmoGirl and other magazines. Febbraio described the incident as a "practical joke."
Brian Fahling, Senior Trial Attorney for the Center, said "This is a picture-perfect example of how to mishandle First Amendment issues." Michael J. DePrimo, Senior Litigation Counsel for the Center, added, "When a trooper behaves in such a rude, reckless and lawless manner, he opens the door for a federal lawsuit. That is exactly what Febbraio has done in this case."
References: CT State Police Arrest One Christian for Video Taping Harassment and Make Two Others Leave the State." Life and Liberty Ministries Update, July 31, 2004; Maria Gallagher. "Pro-Life Advocates Accuse Connecticut Police of Harassment, Illegal Arrest." LifeNews.com, August 5, 2004; Trooper Kicks Pro-Lifer Out of State." WorldNetDaily, August 5, 2004.
Indecent Exposure
On October 18, 2003, pro-abortionist Vincent Brazeau saw pro-lifers picketing outside the Women's Health Care abortion mill in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He dropped his trousers and mooned them, and was arrested and charged.
Brazeau, who was walking into the clinic, told investigators that he disliked how the protesters were talking to him and wanted to vent his frustration, police said.
The victims had asked Brazeau if they could pray for him, and he exposed his buttocks soon afterwards, police said.
Reference: "Man Charged With Mooning Anti-Abortion Protesters." WNBC Television [New York City Metropolitan Area], October 20, 2003. Downloaded from http://www.wnbc.com/news/2565581/detail.html.
Hartford
First-Degree Sexual Assault (4 counts) and Attempted Illegal Abortion (3 counts)
Pro-abortionist Edwin Sandoval, 35, was found guilty of seven felony charges, including first-degree sexual assault, on January 12, 2001, after trying to forcibly abort his girlfriend several times.
During his trial, his girlfriend said that Sandoval was very angry the day she told him of her pregnancy, and he pressured her to have an abortion.
She testified that he tried to induce an abortion with his fingers, and that she told him to stop. The next day, they had sex again, and again he tried to induce an abortion this way. She testified that "I said no, but he didn't stop this time. It really hurt. I pushed him away, and told him to get out of my house."
On another occasion, on August 10, 1998, he forced two capsules of the abortifacient misoprostol into her vagina.
She consulted a doctor a few hours after this last incident, after noticing vaginal bleeding. The doctor found the misoprostol, removed them and urged her to call police.
Her healthy baby was born in March 1999.
In March 2003, Sandoval was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and the Connecticut Supreme Court unanimously upheld his conviction in May 2003.
Now if he had been a licensed abortionist, and if his girlfriend had chosen to have an abortion, he would be several hundred dollars richer instead of sitting in prison.
References: Associated Press, January 11, 2001; "Connecticut Man Convicted in Forced Abortion Case." Hartford Courant, January 11, 2001; "Connecticut Man Convicted in Forced Abortion Case." Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org/infonet.html, January 14, 2001; "Abortion Attempt Conviction Upheld." WTNH-TV News (Hartford, Connecticut), May 8, 2003; "Connecticut Supreme Court: Fetus Is Body Part." Guardian Unlimited, May 8, 2003; "Court Rules Unborn Child is a "Body Part"." Steve Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet, May 9, 2003.
Assault, Malpractice and Medical Misconduct (13 incidents)
Abortionist Stephen I. Weber had his medical license revoked in New York for medical misconduct involving 13 patients. His medical license was suspended in Connecticut on charges that he performed an abortion on Mary Miller without her knowledge or permission. His application to practice medicine in Florida was rejected.
The abortionist was disciplined in 1990 for failure to perform a needed C-section, causing the infant to die. Weber reportedly "allowed Patient L's marital status to influence his medical judgment." Additional obstetric allegations of failure to detect gestational diabetes resulting in fetal death, misadministration of Pitocin resulting in torn cervix, resulting in the near death of a patient, were also filed against him.
He slapped the face of another patient in labor in October 1986, telling her "I want you to push with no noise." During a November 1986 delivery, he pulled so hard with forceps his "face and arms were tense and the bed shook." The forceps collapsed, and Weber fell on the patient. The infant was born with a blood cyst on his scalp, and a cut over his right eye, and the woman suffered tissue tears.
Reference: Hartford Courant, May 24, 1992.
Plainfield
Murder, Abduction, Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW, 2 incidents), Assault (3 incidents), Criminal Possession of a Firearm by a Felon, Escape, Breach of Peace (2 incidents) and Death Threats (2 incidents)
Michael Letour's live-in girlfriend, Jenny McMechan, was 36 weeks pregnant with his preborn child. She was just two weeks away from delivering a healthy baby boy.
Letour had been abusing Jenny for a long time. On May 28, 2001, he threatened to murder her and tried to strangle her in a parking lot. A few weeks earlier he had punched her in the face. On November 17, 2001 Latour tried to strangle her with a belt, lifting her off the ground and slashing her stomach three times with scissors. Two days later, Latour smashed her windshield and took her against her will to a football game in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
On New Year's Eve of 2001, Latour brutally shot her in the head and neck as she stood outside a friend's home in Plainfield. Latour then confessed to two of his brothers that he had killed Jenny.
Although McMechen's preborn son, Nathan, died as well, Latour was only charged with one count of murder and criminal possession of a firearm.
He could not be charged with a double homicide because Connecticut's criminal statues did not recognize an unborn child as a person, despite the fact that Nathan received a separate autopsy and the issuance of a separate death certificate with his name on it.
A jury convicted Latour of first-degree murder on January 15, 2004. He never spoke a word in his own defense. His conviction was upheld by the Connecticut Supreme Court in December 2005.
Like many other pro-abortionists, Latour has a criminal record dating back to when he was a teen-ager. In August 1993, he bit, beat and stabbed his girlfriend with a kitchen knife during an argument. In November 1994, at age 17, he fled from police custody during his arrest for breach of peace and threatening. He was caught the next day. In December 2001, state police charged him with breach of peace.
Debbie Florence, Jenny's mother, said that she was devastated by the fact that her murdered daughter counted as a person, but her preborn grandchild was treated as a non-person. She said "It was a burden in my heart. I had to do something to protect future generations." She was relentlessly reviled and attacked by pro-abortionists during her 22-month quest for justice, but she refused to be intimidated by their hate.
In the end, Mrs. Florence was successful. On October 1, 2003, Senate Bill 355, more commonly called "Jenny's Law," took effect in the State of Connecticut. The new legislation provides for criminal charges when a person assaulting a pregnant woman causes the death of the unborn child. The new crime, a Class A felony, carries a sentence of 10 to 25 years, a fine of up to $20,000, or both. Mrs. Florence said "I did all of this in the name of love, not politics. It's a big victory. There's a law out there to protect women. It's an awesome legacy for my daughter."
Tell that to the pro-abortionists.
Reference: "Slaying Suspect Arrested." American-Republican, January 3, 2002; Gail Ellen Daly. "After 22 Months, 'Jenny's Law' Becomes a Reality." The Chronicle [Willimantec, Connecticut], October 11, 2003; State Representative T.R. Rowe [Republican-123rd District], Trumbull, Connecticut. "There's More Than One Way to Fight Domestic Violence." Downloaded from the Web site of the Connecticut State Republicans at http://www.housegop.state.ct.us/pressrel/Rowe/2002/press123.htm on October 27, 2003; Greg Smith. "Jury Selection Begins in Controversial Murder Trial." Norwich Bulletin, December 1, 2003; Izaskun E. Larraneta. "Final Chapter: Jenny McMechan Murder Trial Begins." The Day, January 4, 2004; Greg Smith. "Accused Killer Goes on Trial." Norwich Bulletin, January 5, 2004; "Testimony Says Suspect Confessed to Killing." WTNH Television 8 News [Connecticut], January 9, 2004; "State, Defense Rest in Trial of Man Charged with Killing Pregnant Girlfriend." Boston Globe, January 13, 2004; Greg Smith. "Convicted Murderer Could Face 70 Years." Norwich Bulletin, March 11, 2004; Lynne Tuohy. "Top Court Denies Murderer's Appeal: Conviction Of Plainfield Man Who Killed Pregnant Girlfriend Affirmed." The Hartford Courant, December 6, 2005.
Stamford
Fatal Botched Abortion and Negligence
Abortionist Hanan Rotem, a member of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), fatally botched an April 29, 1986 second-trimester abortion on 20-year-old Gloria Aponte, who bled to death a few hours later. The Connecticut Medical Board disciplined Rotem for failing to perform an essential blood test and allowing a receptionist with no medical training to assist in abortions.
In another botched abortion, a jury found that the abortionist failed to arrange appropriate follow-up, the patient was not advised of the risks prior to the surgery, and that a reasonable person would not have consented to the surgery if informed of the risks.
Rotem was also fined and reprimanded by the Connecticut Medical Board in 1989 for substandard care, incompetence, or negligence. He was reprimanded by the New Jersey Medical Board in 1992 for failure to order or perform appropriate blood tests prior to abortion and employing inadequately trained personnel.
References: Associated Press, November 22, 1989 and New York County Supreme Court Index #27563/82.
Assault [Greenwich]
On July 22, 1990, abortionist Stephen Kaali, the owner of the New York's Women's Medical Pavilion abortuary, arrived at his home to find a pro-life picket in progress. Kaali pulled up alongside picketer Carol Centonze in a pickup truck and dumped a bucket of urine and feces on her head, saying "This is all for you, honey." He was arrested for "breach of peace."
Reference: "An Abortionist Shows His True Colors." ALL News, September 11, 1990, page 6.
Waterbury
Botched Late-Term Abortion
Abortionist Jamil Karsh, in a botched late-term abortion attempt, cut off parts of both of a preborn baby's hands. The baby was soon delivered alive, and the mother sued him. He settled out of court for $350,000.
Reference: State Report. "Girl Survives Butchery." ALL About Issues, August 1983, page 33.
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