Criminal Charges Filed in Born-Alive Baby Case
On March 3 criminal charges were filed against Belkis Gonzalez, co-owner of a Florida clinic where a teenager sought an abortion, but instead gave birth to a baby girl on July 20, 2006. Gonzalez, 43 years old, has been charged with a second-degree felony count of unlicensed practice of a health care profession resulting in serious bodily injury and a third-degree felony count of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. Prosecutors allege that Gonzalez threw the baby in the trash and hid her body from police. onzalez is one of many defendants in a wrongful death civil suit brought last month by the Chicago-based Thomas More Society together with Miami lawyer Tom Pennekamp on behalf of Sycloria Williams, the teen who gave birth to the baby. "While we most certainly welcome the bringing of criminal charges against Ms. Gonzalez, whose abortion business represents nothing less than a serious public health hazard, we must express our grave disappointment, indeed our outrage, tha...