The case of the Cleveland man who kidnapped three girls could become a capital murder case if the prosecution decides to charge him with the murder of up to five unborn infants whose miscarriage he forced by starving and beating the young mother.
Fox News is reporting that more details are emerging about the horrors suffered by Amanda Berry, Gina de Jesus and Michelle Knight, the three girls who were held hostage and sexually abused by Ariel Castro, 52, for 10 years inside his Cleveland home.
In addition to being bound, confined, beaten and sexually assaulted during those 10 years, the first woman kidnapped, Michelle Knight, said she became pregnant five times during her captivity but miscarried after Castro starved her for two weeks and then beat her until she lost the babies.
Ohio law calls for the death penalty for the "most depraved criminals who commit aggravated murder during the course of a kidnapping," said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty during a press conference.
"I will seek charges for each and every act of sexual violence, rape, every day of kidnapping ... and each act of aggravated murder he committed by terminating pregnancies ... during this decade-long ordeal," he said.
He also said that he is investigating the possibility of seeking the death penalty in this case.
A grand jury has been convened to determine the facts of the case and appropriate charges.
“If as reported Ariel Castro starved and then kicked a pregnant Michelle Knight resulting in her miscarrying five children Castro should be charged with aggravated and felonious assault against Knight and aggravated murder of her children. I trust the grand jury will be investigating all such possible charges,” said Samuel Casey, general counsel for the Law of Life Project to LifeNews.
In addition to Ohio law, Casey believes the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which recognizes the "child in utero" as a legal victim if he or she is injured or killed during the commission of any number of federal crimes of violence, may also apply in this case.
Indicting Castro with capital murder in the death of Knight's infants will surely make abortion ideologues even more nervous than they already are after the Kermit Gosnell "House of Horrors" case. This case pulled aside the rhetorical curtain of "choice" and "access" and allowed the public to see what is being done to babies in America's abortion clinics. Their spines are being snipped, their brains sucked out, their limbs torn asunder, etc. As one pundit said on Fox News, "this isn't abortion . . . this is homicide."
And it's the last thing the abortion lobby wants the public to see. They want us to forget about the human life that ends during an abortion and keep our focus on the mother's "reproductive rights" instead.
But, like the Gosnell case, the Castro case will only expose more of the contradictions between what the abortion lobby wants us to believe and the cold hard facts of abortion. Just as the Gosnell case made Americans wonder why it's considered murder to kill a baby seconds after it's born but not seconds before, they're also smart enough to wonder why it's a capital offense to force a woman to have a miscarriage by beating her but not by forcing her to submit to the surgeon's knife in an abortion.
Yes, the abortion industry is very nervous indeed that people may begin to realize that there really isn't a fine line separating these scenarios - it's more like an imaginary one.
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