Teen Gets Life Sentence For Helping Girlfriend End Pregnancy
 

Teen Gets Life Sentence For Helping Girlfriend End Pregnancy
19-Year-Old Stepped On Stomach While Girl Punched Self

POSTED: 6:44 am CDT June 7, 2005

LUFKIN, Texas -- A 19-year-old East Texas man faces a life prison sentence for causing his teenage girlfriend to miscarry twins, even though she wanted to end the pregnancy.

Gerardo Flores was accused of causing the miscarriage by stepping on his girlfriend's stomach. He was prosecuted under the state's new fetal protection law.

Erica Basoria acknowledged asking Flores to help end her pregnancy. But the 17-year-old can't be prosecuted because of her legal right to abortion.

The defense contended that Basoria punched herself while Flores was stepping on her, making it impossible to tell who killed the twins.

The jury reached a verdict after deliberating four hours. Because prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty in the case, Flores received the automatic life sentence.

oooo that is a tough case, terrible, but a life sentence, hrmm im not sure about that. :Oh crap

holy shit :uhoh

stepped on her stomach to do it?? Ugh... I could never do that.

i was sure to read the word 'Texas' before clicking

Chick asks you to kick her in the stomach and you get life while she sits back having got your kids out of her guts sipping sweet freedom?
He should have kicked harder.

that sounds gruesome

aww...damn teenage...:(

dumb people...

that's fucked... I guess that's what happens when health care doesn't cover abortions.

Worst he should have got was performing a medical procedure without a license.

although he was a "sole practitioner".

badoom tish.

dude should be shot

why should he be shot, i know its obviously gruesome but then if they go and get an abortion he should be shot? please explain.

What a shame...

he's a kid...they were both scared

wtf

What the fuck for? This is a procedure performed legally a thousand times a day... so he helped out with a boot instead of a fucking pussy vacuum cleaner? big deal.. what happened to her body her rights? She wanted it done she asked him.. she fucking helped. Now the poor bastard is hung out to dry.. I'm not saying he's not fucking stupid.. but she's free and clear because for her it's her right to abortion - but for him it's double murder? PUH -LEASE

fucking oath... what the fuck do you know at 19.. especially when your woman is pussywhipping you into helping give her an abortion? You know she would have piled all kinds of shit on him if she was asking for it..

This is what happens when they try to outlaw legal abortions..

American Government is just going waaaaay too far with all this bullshit, he should get some time in prison to learn for his MISTAKE he doesn't deserve to have his entire life taken from him, but then again, I'm not at all surprised by this.......

well is a hard case indeed, what he did deserves some serious punishing, tho I doubt he will serve jail for life...

Both of them should be in jail.

The murder of two innocent babies brings this defense from the father:

"The defense contended that Basoria punched herself while Flores was stepping on her, making it impossible to tell who killed the twins."


Leave it to the party of the defensless to find themselves on the wrong side again.

Dude steps on his kids and kills them with his boots. You want him walking around free????

On the bright side, be glad these 2 geniuses are not adding to the gene pool...

he should get a little time, but to say he should be in jail for like is fucking stupid.

i mean he is only 19 and they were both probably scared as fuck, so if they walk to the abortion clinic and get it done there is a "difference".

i know its gruesome but to take a kids life away just because they couldnt afford an abortion is ABSURD.

If she consented and even punched her own stomach as well trying to cause a miscarriage, why isn't she bearing any of the penalty?
WG

Same as with euthanasia.. just cos someone is asking you to help them die, doesn't mean that you have ANY right to do so in the eyes of the law.

People get scared, they find themselves in a corner and so they do what they think is best to get themselves out. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it's a tragedy like this where some poor teen gets the rest of his life screwed cos he got his girlfriend pregnant and then tried to help her get rid of the 'problem' (albeit in a strange manner.. standing on her stomach while she hit it was definitely not the smartest way to go about it).

Sometimes life just isn't fair.

that's fucking terrible

man, that's fucking dark

Damn, thats real shady.

I dont know how I feel about that. Life penalty is harsh...but so is what he did. Wow.

I think you are right , and the lack of public education on the subject probably didnt help matters :2 cents:

Sad story for sure :(

at 19, if he doesn't know any better than this, he is not going to start making good decisions in the future.

As far as the abortion clinic, I dont think thats right either. My mind really got made up recently on the abortion issue when I could talk to my wifes stomach and feel my son responding to my voice.

People will argue and the supreme court has trouble deciding the issue, but for me, I'm pretty much decided that once that baby starts growing, the mom, (and the dad for this case) lose the reproductive decision making "rights".


Two things mentioned on gfy today. One dude got caught molesting a four month old, the old got caught murdering a younger baby.

Fucked up beyond all recognition.

i am 100% pro choice, how on earth can you not belive in abortion? i commend you for going through with having a child but some people just are not ready to have kids, mistakes DO happen.

now i am not taking any sevarity away from this case it is indeed terrible.

but for a life sentence realise what that means it means LIFE! as in LIFE! this kid is 19 and could have just walked to an abortion clinic and gotten off, he should know better, but remember this is LIFE in prison imagine being in jail for life because of a mistake you made when you were 19.

These type of " crimes " will be on the rise after the bunch of laws on abortion, including the one where the doctor MUST advise the parents of the girl ...
On the other hand, preaching abstinence instead of use of condoms is definitively going to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies .... :winkwink:

I got one for you based on that new law, your in the mall your running late lost in your own thoughts. In your rush you bang into a pregnant lady on the way out, she falls to ground has a miscarriage. According to this law you are on trial for manslaughter.

I got this from channel3000.com they have poll about it ,this is how the people voted:


Do you think this 19-year-old's punishment is fair?
Choice Votes Percentage of 60258 Votes
Yes, it's fair. 19714 33%
No, it's too harsh. 35908 60%
No, it's not harsh enough. 4636 8%

some people are fucking stupid.

This verdict will teach him a lesson :winkwink:

When abortion was illegal, this kind of thing happened all the time.

I guess we'll see more of it soon.

a lifetime one (tho like I said I belive he will eventualy be released)..

fucking stupid teenager's and fucking stupid law

People before Roe vs Wade done worse

Coat Hangers
Eating certain poison

and so much more

Yup we are definitly going backwards

wow what a disturbing story

imagine how many more of these happen everyday

:smokin

fuckin rednecks

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"19-Year-Old Stepped On Stomach While Girl Punched Self"

It obviously was planned by both of them, although it's horrible to think about, they did it stupidly, and likely didn't want anyone to know she was pregnant so they did an abortion themselves ... with a stupid way mind you, but it was free, and no one would know.

They called it an abortion, she wanted it; OH - It's in Texas....

They need a better lawyer.. hope they can appeal. Stupidest thing is she didn't get anything.

Matt

Yeah, pretty fucked up........... :Oh crap

Do you expect anything different from Texas? Fucking low IQ moron hick punks controlled by fucking low IQ moron hicks.