The daughter of the woman who died at the hands of House-of-Horrors abortionist Kermit Gosnell said the doctor showed no sympathy after her mother’s death, saying only that he did nothing wrong.
According to The Daily Mail, Karnamaya Mongar, 41, the woman who died in Gosnell’s clinic in West Philadelphia from an overdose of anesthesia, wanted to start a new life in America after spending 20 years in a refugee camp in war-torn Bhutan. She had only been in the US for four months when she discovered that she was 16 months pregnant, and decided a fourth child would be too much to handle. However, she was unable to secure an abortion in her new home state of Virginia, which is why she made the fateful journey to Gosnell’s clinic where both the life of her unborn baby – and her own – would end.
Mongar’s heartbreaking story was told in a Philadelphia courtroom on Tuesday when her 24 year-old daughter, Yashoda Gurung, gave an often-emotional two hour testimony about what happened after she arrived at Gosnell’s clinic with her mother on November 19, 2009.
Speaking through a translator, Gurung said they waited for hours for the doctor to arrive at the clinic to perform the procedure. In the meantime, untrained assistants gave her mother labor inducing drugs and painkillers. When she was finally moved into the procedure room, Gurung said she tried to wish her mother well but was stopped by an assistant.
“My mom was sleeping,” Gurung told jurors. “That’s what I thought. I tried to wake her up and the lady said, ‘Leave her alone.’”
As it turned out, Gosnell’s unlicensed staff administered a fatal combination of oral and intravenous drugs, then failed to monitor Mongar’s vital signs. When she eventually stopped breathing, Gosnell was called in but allegedly couldn’t restart her heart because the clinic’s defibrillator was broken. Meanwhile, Mongar went into cardiac arrest and then slipped into a coma.
Mongar’s brother, Damber Ghalley, who drove Mongar and Gurung to the clinic that day, later testified to the chaotic scene when paramedics arrived to transport his sister to a hospital emergency room. Apparently, firefighters had to use bolt cutters to open the emergency exit of the clinic to get Mongar out of the building.
Gosnell was standing in the open door of the clinic during this time and Ghalley asked what happened.
“He said, ‘The procedure was done but your sister’s heart stopped’,” Ghalley was told.
Mongar was transported to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and died the following day.
When Ghalley later saw Gosnell in the hospital parking lot, he again demanded answers.
“I didn’t do anything wrong,” Gosnell insisted. “I’ll be able to answer any question anywhere.”
In addition to the criminal charges he’s facing, Mongar’s family has also filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Gosnell, who apparently made millions off of his seedy practice.
At this point, the woman’s family says they want only one thing – justice.
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