Frankfort -- Assault        Pro-abortionist Robert Hollis chased his screaming wife into a barn, shoved his hand into her uterus, and tore her 7-month preborn baby from the wall of her uterus. The 2-pound baby was delivered dead later in the day. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sided with Hollis and wrote a friend of the court brief on his behalf, saying that all charges regarding the death of the baby should be dropped.        Frontline Update. "American Civil Liberties Union Sides With Man Who Abused Wife and Killed Unborn Baby." National Right to Life News, April 14, 1983, page 4. back to top Lexington Area [Georgetown] -- First-Degree Murder and Evidence Tampering        Roger Lee McBeath was charged with killing his former girlfriend, Ashley Lyons, who was 5-1/2 months pregnant with a preborn baby boy she had already named Landon. Police say he shot her in the head three times with a handgun to make absolutely sure she was dead.        Ashley kept a journal for her little boy. On October 31, 2003, she wrote "Your father wanted me to have an abortion. Your father told me he was going to commit suicide, that you would ruin his life."        McBeath was charged with first-degree murder and evidence tampering, the latter charge for disposing of the handgun police say he used to murder Ashley.        Ashley's parents, Buford and Carol, subsequently lobbied the state legislature to pass a law making it a crime to harm a preborn baby while committing a crime. They also pushed for a federal fetal-homicide law. With other parents, they lobbied members of Congress, which passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act signed by President George Bush in March 2004. Buford and Carol attended the signing ceremony.        "Slain Ky. Teen's Ex-Boyfriend Arrested: Young Woman Was Five Months Pregnant." WLKY Television 32 [Louisville, Kentucky], March 30, 2004; Steve Lannen. "Lyons Killing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty: Former Boyfriend Charged with Teen's Murder." Lexington Herald-Leader, March 31, 2004. back to top Louisville -- First-Degree Rape (2 incidents), Kidnapping (2 incidents), Impersonating a Public Servant (2 counts), Forced Sodomy and Death Threats (5 incidents)        Anthony Harvell, chief of security for the EMW Womens Services abortion mill, impersonated a police officer and used threats of deadly force with his gun in order to lure women into the abortion mill when it was closed.        Barbara Stinson said that he raped her and, after she filed charges, several different women called her and threatened her life. Stinson holds the abortion clinic responsible for the rapes. She said "he controlled the premises, he unlocked fences, he unlocked the back door. He knew he could take me there. And when the case first started, I had harassing phone calls coming from the abortion clinic calling me a liar, calling me a whore. I had a lot of harassment from the abortion clinic." Police traced these calls back to the abortion mill.        This is entirely typical of pro-abortionists, who all place the `right' to abortion above women's rights. Whenever there is a conflict between the rights of a woman who has been raped or sexually assaulted by an abortion mill worker and the assailant, they always back the assailant. Abortionist Brian Finkel, who was accused of molesting more than one hundred women, was also supported by the National Organization for Women (NOW) against his many victims.        After DNA testing tied him to both assaults, Harvell pled guilty to two counts of rape and was sentenced to ten years in prison.        The local media, ever eager to protect the abortion industry, never mentioned that Harvell was a security guard for an abortion mill.        Shannon Tangonan. "Police Say Security Guard Raped 2 After Impersonating Police Officer." The Courier-Journal [Louisville, Kentucky], January 6, 2001; LifeTalk (Life Dynamics, Inc.), April 2002; "Woman Raped at Abortion Clinic." CCNWashDC, April 26, 2002; "Woman Raped at Abortion Clinic to Sue." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, May 1, 2002. Louisville -- Sexual Abuse (20 incidents)        In the 1960s, a man who said that he was Father James Aloysius Brown sexually abused a teenaged girl repeatedly, beginning when she was about 13 years old. The abuse occurred in motels, in cars and even in the children's home where the girl stayed and where Brown was assigned, according to a lawsuit filed in April 2003 against the Diocese of Covington in Boone County Circuit Court. The suit claims that 21 priests in the diocese abused dozens of children.        Brown sexually abused the girl in a motel at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, in cars "while parked or while driving" near the airport and while travelling to restaurants in Boone County, the suit said. The woman was a resident of the Diocesan Children's Home in Fort Mitchell from 1963 to 1966, when Brown was assigned to counsel children there, the suit said. Brown gave her alcohol and had sex with her in the boy's infirmary at the children's home, it said. The girl became pregnant, and "Father Brown arranged for an abortion to be performed outside the United States," the suit said.        However, the Diocese of Covington said Brown cannot be found in any of its records. Tim Fitzgerald, a diocese spokesman, said that "We can find no records or reference to Father James Aloysius Brown in diocesan records. If there were a Father Brown who did work at the orphanage as a counsellor in the early `60s, then it sounds like he came from another diocese where he was ordained or from another religious order." Fitzgerald said he could provide no other information on Brown.        Stan Chesley, the Cincinnati lawyer who filed the suit, said "Hard to believe they have no records on Father Brown, in view of the lengthy period of time that he worked with the diocese and counselled children. I think this is the kind of person that they need to know the most about."        If Brown had ever been a priest, he is not one now. He is married and living in Canada.        Dylan T. Lovan. "Priest Accused of Arranging Teenage Abortion is Living in Canada, Says Lawyer." Canadian Press, April 23, 2003. Louisville -- Vandalism (8 incidents)        During the period January 22 to February 1, 2001, pro-abortionists vandalized the Right to Life office in Louisville, Kentucky three times. The damage was the usual unimaginative pro-abortion nonsense -- obscenities spraypainted on the building.        Louisville police are looking into the incidents and are patrolling the area more frequently, said Maj. Mike Dossett, commander of the First District.        The vulgarity discovered yesterday was spray-painted in green across the front of the brick building and was directed at "God and his slaves," John Graham, administrative assistant for Kentucky Right to Life said.        On February 1, employees at a business across the street alerted the Right to Life office that a similar message, this time aimed at "the right," had been painted on a side window. Because it was not severe, it was not reported to police, Graham said. Both times the messages included the usual pro-abortion profanities.        On January 22 workers arrived to find pink paint splattered on the office's front windows. Graham said it looked as if paint balls had been shot at the glass. It caused $300 damage.        Graham, who has worked at the office for seven years, said vandals have targeted the office before. The front windows have been shot out five times over the years, leading the pro-life organization to install shatterproof glass, he said.        For more information, contact: Kentucky Right to Life Association, 134 Breckinridge Lane, Louisville, KY 40207, telephone: (502) 895-5959.        "Right to Life Office in Kentucky Vandalized Three Times." Louisville Courier Journal, February 2, 2001; Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org/infonet.html, February 4, 2001; "News Notes: Call the Hate Crime Squads." The Wanderer, February 15, 2001, page 3. back to top Paintsville -- Gross Negligence and Illegal Drug Prescriptions (20 incidents)        Abortionist Frederick Cohn turned a former Paintsville, Kentucky supermarket into an abortion mill in 2000. Cohn said in a 2001 interview that he and an associate signed up more than 9,000 patients in less than a year.        Overall, authorities said, the pair collected nearly $1 million and prescribed more than 5 million doses of controlled substances before being arrested.        Their files showed "no evidence of even a basic attempt to practice medicine," the medical board said in the order suspending Cohn's license.        Cohn had a long career in New Mexico before that state's medical board found him "grossly negligent" while doing an abortion. He was put on probation. Three years later, he quit medicine to sell real estate. He won his medical license back in 1992. Kentucky accepted him in 1993, imposing a shorter probation.        Cohn declined comment, but in a 2001 interview, he said he was tricked by some patients. "I'm a very believing kind of guy," he said.        Charles B. Camp And Lee Mueller. "Questionable Practices: Prospect of Docs Dealing Drugs Pressures Medical-Licensing Board." Lexington Herald-Leader, January 31, 2003. back to top Return To State By State Documentation © 2003 Abortion Violence