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90-Year Sentence for Attempted Killing of Unborn Child

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Walter Yannis [OP]

2005-03-11 08:50 | User Profile

[URL=http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?art_id=27746&vm_id=26]90-Year Sentence for Attempted Killing of Unborn Child [/URL]

3/11/05

CHICAGO — On Tuesday, February 22nd, Cook County Judge Dennis Dernbach sentenced convicted hit man Jimmy Spencer to 90 years in prison for attempting to kill Adriel McKinney, now two years old. Adriel’s mother, Angelique, was 7 1/2 months pregnant on May 14, 2002, when a masked gunman shot her five times. Spencer testified that the shooting was paid for by Adriel’s father.

“It's the worst I have seen since I've been here,” Dernbach said before sheriff's deputies led hit man Jimmy Spencer away.

After the shooting, Adriel was removed from her mother’s body and put into intensive care. She was 3-pounds, 14-ounces when she was born and had no pulse, a bullet hole in one arm and a deep graze wound in her abdomen. She was a strong baby, however, and nine days after the shooting she was breathing without a respirator.

In a taped statement, Spencer, a drug-addicted youth, said that the father offered him several thousand dollars to kill the fetus, because, the father allegedly said, “I don't want that baby.” Adriel's father, who is not named, had asked McKinney to get an abortion, but she refused.

Prosecutors said no charges are being brought against the father. “We have insufficient evidence to charge anyone else at this time, but the case remains open,” said Marcy Jensen, a spokesman with the Cook County state's attorney's office.

See also [URL=http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-hit27.html]Chicago Tribune[/URL]

Stanley

2005-03-11 15:53 | User Profile

Now why on Earth didn't they show us a picture of this adorable little child. Would it reinforce certain ethnic stereotypes?

Bardamu

2005-03-11 15:54 | User Profile

After the shooting, Adriel was removed from her mother’s body and put into intensive care. She was 3-pounds, 14-ounces when she was born and had no pulse, a bullet hole in one arm and a deep graze wound in her abdomen.

Welcome to earth.