{"id":33406,"date":"2015-04-01T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=33406"},"modified":"2015-04-02T00:16:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T04:16:48","slug":"indiana-woman-convicted-of-feticide-first-case-ever-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/indiana-woman-convicted-of-feticide-first-case-ever-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Woman Convicted of ‘Feticide,’ First Case Ever In The U.S. #ICYMI"},"content":{"rendered":"
Indiana– Purvi Patel, 33 was found guilty and sentenced to twenty years in prison\u00a0in\u00a0the killing of a fetus and child neglect.<\/p>\n
This, after delivering a baby she said was stillborn and throwing it in a dumpster. The case is the first time a woman has been convicted of feticide for ending her own pregnancy.<\/p>\n
In July\u00a02013, she showed up at the emergency room of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in the town of\u00a0Mishawaka,\u00a0bleeding heavily. Doctors quickly realized she\u2019d lost a pregnancy, and she confessed that she\u2019d left the fetus in a dumpster. Patel became a criminal suspect and was later interrogated in the hospital after receiving surgery to remove her placenta.<\/p>\n
In addition to the charge of neglect, prosecutors later added a charge of \u201cfeticide\u201d based on text messages found on Patel\u2019s phone showing that she took\u00a0miscarriage-inducing drugs purchased online. Toxicologists could not find any trace of such drugs in her body or that of the fetus, but the evidence was enough to convince a jury that Patel had committed feticide, a charge normally used against those who harm pregnant women, not pregnant women themselves.<\/p>\n
Patel is the first woman convicted of feticide<\/a> in Indiana, and only the\u00a0second to be charged.\u00a0Chinese immigrant\u00a0Bei Bei Shuai<\/a>\u00a0faced feticide charges two years ago in the state, and both cases highlight an emerging\u00a0\u201cgray area\u201d for pregnant women within the US legal system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Indiana– Purvi Patel, 33 was found guilty and sentenced to twenty years in prison\u00a0in\u00a0the killing of a fetus and child neglect. This, after delivering a baby she said was stillborn and throwing it in a dumpster. The case is the first time a woman has been convicted of feticide for ending her own pregnancy. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":33407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n