Pro-Choice Violence and Illegal Activities in Maryland

Baltimore Bowie Crofton Galena Oxon Hill Baltimore, Maryland

First-Degree Murder (2 counts), Attempted Murder, First-Degree Assault, and Use of a Handgun During the Commission of a Felony (2 counts) According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Baltimore, Maryland. David Miller was married, but that didn't stop him from having a girlfriend on the side. Elizabeth Walters was seven months pregnant by Miller. She had already named her preborn baby girl and was looking forward to her baby shower just the next week. Miller had repeatedly tried to pressure her to have an abortion, but she had refused every time. Elizabeth was sitting in a parked Stratus at a Parkville shopping center with her friend Heather Joy Lowe on June 11, 2007. Miller pulled up next to their car in his wife's black Cadillac, then got out and into the Stratus. He then shot both women, killing Elizabeth and wounding Heather. He then fled the scene, but Heather identified him as the gunman. Miller became the first person charged under Maryland's new fetal homicide law, and he was arraigned on charges of two counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder, first-degree assault, and two counts of the use of a handgun in the commission of a felony. Maryland law allows a person to be charged with fetal murder if the state medical examiner rules that the preborn child was "viable." Chief Medical Examiner David Fowler said his office generally determines viability based on whether the preborn child is at least 28 weeks old and weighs at least 500 grams. On September 8, 2008, Baltimore County Circuit Judge Dana Levitz sentenced Miller to two terms of life in prison, the first time prosecutors won a conviction under Marylands fetal homicide law. Prosecutor Allan Webster said during the closing arguments that That baby has hair. That baby has 10 fingers and 10 toes. That picture will tell you that baby was viable.

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Elizabeths father Don said that Theres no place in our society for a guy to commit an act as cowardly as this guy did. References: Mike Schuh. "Married Man Wanted for Killing Pregnant Girlfriend." WJZ Television 13 [Baltimore, Maryland], June 12, 2007; Adam May. "Accused Murderer of Pregnant Woman Faces 2 Charges." WJZ Television 13 [Baltimore, Maryland], July 3, 2007; Luke Broadwater. "Shellenberger Will Lead Fetal Homicide Case." The Baltimore Examiner, July 31, 2007; Luke Broadwater. Fetal Homicide Law Results in Man's Sentencing for Two Deaths. The Washington Examiner, September 8, 2008. First-Degree Murder, Second-Degree Murder, First-Degree Assault and Use of a Handgun in the Commission of a Crime [Columbia] Tjane Charmeise Marshall's live-in girlfriend, Shameka Fludd, was already the mother of two children, and was four to five months pregnant with his child. According to court documents, Marshall did not want his baby. He said that the unborn child would "ruin his life" and that "he was going to do something about it." He certainly followed up on his threat. On May 3, 2003, Marshall borrowed a rental car from a friend and attended a party, where he flirted with another woman. Early in the morning of May 4, he left the party and drove to Fludd's apartment, where he shot her in the head, killing her instantly. Fludd's grandmother Louella Stokes could not contact her that night and called police, who discovered the body. Neither of Fludd's other children was at home at the time of the killing. Fludd taught at Easton Express Day Care in Laurel for nearly five years and had hoped to save enough money to attend college, her relatives said. She had recently moved into the three-bedroom apartment because she wanted her two children, a 7-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, to each have a room. Marshall was arrested on July 17, 2003, and was charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, first-degree assault and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime. A jury convicted him of first-degree murder and use of a handgun, and he was sentenced to life in prison plus twenty years. References: "Suspect Arrested and Charged in Murder of Pregnant Woman." WJZ Television Channel 13 News [Baltimore, Maryland], July 18, 2003; Jason Song. "Suitland Man, 27, Charged in Killing of Columbia Woman: Mother of 2 Was Pregnant When She Was Shot May 4." The Baltimore Sun, July 19, 2003; Lisa Goldberg. "Man Indicted in Internet Sex Sting Case: Unrelated Abuse, Murder Suspects Also Face Charges." The Baltimore Sun, August 14, 2003; Donna St. George. "Violence Intersects Lives of Promise: Relatives and Friends Evoke the Women and Their Paths Toward Death." Washington Post, December 20, 2004, page A01; "Transcript No Basis to Void Murder Conviction." The Daily Record [Baltimore, Maryland], May 21, 2007. Rape (10 incidents) and Child Sexual Abuse (3 incidents) The parents of three teenaged girls pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to three counts of first-degree rape and child sexual abuse in repeated rapes of the three girls by the father over a period of at least nine years. The rapes were covered up by at least ten abortions. In March 1990, the rapes came to light when the youngest of the daughters wrote on the bottom of one of her high school history tests

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that she hated her life and wanted to die. The father was arrested two days later and confessed. Abortionist Julio C. Novoa committed at least five of the abortions at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Reference: "Family Horror Comes to Light in Story of Girls Raped by Father." November 4, 1990. Forced Abortion and Assault On November 8, 2000, New York Mets reliever Armando Benitez slammed a door against his fiance Stacey O'Neill during an argument over something that spilled on his shirt at their residence near Baltimore's Inner Harbor. O'Neill stated their relationship worsened when she became pregnant this year and Benitez "forced her to have an abortion," a police report said. Benitez was not charged, police spokesman Martin Bartness said. The police report indicated that O'Neill intended to obtain a restraining order and pursue charges against the 6-foot-4, 229-pound pitcher. A charge, if filed, would be misdemeanor common assault, Bartness said. Physical evidence of an assault has not been found, Bartness said. In the report, O'Neill said she sustained injuries to her hip when she was struck with a doorknob. An investigation revealed the couple has a history of "undocumented violence since the spring of 1999," the report said. References: "Baseball Star Allegedly Abuses Fiance; After "Forced" Abortion." Associated Press, December 17, 2000; Pro-Life Infonet, December 18, 2000; "New York Mets Pitcher Armando Benitez in Domestic Violence Complaint." National Post [Canada], December 20, 2000. Negligence (9 incidents) The medical profession considers abortionists to be untouchables, like the dalits in India shunned by all, but protected because, like the dalits, they perform what is considered to be a necessary, if repugnant, service. Dozens of alcoholic, money-mad, drug-addicted, sex fanatic abortionists have gotten off scot-free for decades, simply because nobody else wants to do the disgusting and repulsive job of eliminating children whose only crime is that they are not wanted. There is also the matter of cowardice; nobody wants to take disciplinary action against an abortionist because they do not want to face the inevitable firestorm of criticism and sniveling from feminists and the pro-abortion press. Abortionist Ghevont W. Wartanian is a prime example of this principle. For decades, he botched surgical procedures and attracted lawsuits like a pile of ripe garbage attracts flies, but got off without so much as a slap on the wrist. Wartanian was sued eighteen times for negligence and malpractice over a long career of performing thousands of abortions and other surgical procedures. He never faced even the hint of disciplinary action from the Maryland Board of Physician Quality Assurance, despite nine of these suits leading to settlements of more than $2 million. In its desire to protect abortionist Wartanian, the Board has refused to follow a state law requiring that physicians who have three or more malpractice claims filed against them within a five-year period be reported to the regulatory board. In Maryland, Wartanian is near the top of more than 10,000 doctors in terms of frequency of being sued. Dr. Willette L. LeHew, Chairman of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Professional Liability Committee, said that "I don't believe I've ever Baltimore Sun,

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seen anything close to this. This is an extremely unusual number of cases for one physician to have." ACOG estimates that the average ob-gyn is sued 2.5 times during his or her career, but Wartanian is anything but average; he has been sued more than twenty times. These suits include the following incidents;

On July 16, 1988, Smith and Curt Taylor saw Wartanian a day before delivering their son Zachary. Wartanian twice performed a test to check for signs of distress in the unborn baby. He told the Taylors that the results were normal, but the next day doctors had to perform an emergency Cesarian section. Smith said Curt Taylor said that "As soon as the chief resident on duty hooked her up to a monitor, everyone started panicking." Zachary died an hour after the delivery. Showing the cavalier attitude towards life that is typical of abortionists, Wartanian said the worst possible thing to the grieving couple You're going to be OK. You're young. You'll have more children.' Curt said "He pretty much said it's not that big of a deal. He was kind of shrugging it off as an act of God." The subsequent malpractice suit accused Wartanian of failing to do his job properly, ultimately leading to Zachary's death. The abortionists insurer paid a $150,000 settlement in this case. 18-year-old Kristie Thornton gave birth in 1992, and Wartanian had been her ob-gyn, but he had failed to take into account her herpes infection, which should have resulted in a Cesarian section rather than a standard vaginal delivery to avoid infecting the infant. Wartanian dismissed these concerns and decided to deliver the baby vaginally. The baby died 18 days later. Hayes says that she still misses her baby; "When you carry something living inside you for nine months, it's a part of you." This case was settled for $200,000 in 1994. Patricia L. Davis almost died after what is widely considered a routine surgical procedure, a simple laparoscopy. Wartanian pierced her bowel and sent her home, then ignored her frantic telephone calls over the next few days complaining of terrible abdominal pain. The ruptured bowel was pumping fecal matter into her abdominal cavity, causing a massive series of infections. Davis had to undergo major bowel surgery to correct the infections and the damage. A jury awarded her and her husband $1.5 million, the largest judgment so far against the abortionist. She said that "I still get emotional over this, just the thought of everything I went through. My life has been ruined because of him, and he's still living his life as though he's never done anything wrong." Several other Baltimore-area women Shannon Anderson, Jennifer Brest Spencer and Dorothy Lawson Garner accused Wartanian of making medical errors that left their babies with severe brain damage. The Spencers received $600,000 for the care of their son, and the other two were settled for undisclosed amounts.

Wartanian, like all abortionists, showed no remorse for his mistakes, saying that "I'm proud of my practice, and my patients are my best judges, not the lawyers. I can give you hundreds of names of [satisfied] patients. ... I know I've given my best to my patients. Ninety-nine percent of my patients are happy with me." He also said that his large number of malpractice lawsuits is attributable to "moneyhungry" patients. He also said that "There is one reason money," and that Maybe I have been too loose, accepting all of them coming in and asking me for help when they are in trouble. When they don't have a perfect outcome, they come after you. I have done mistakes, and I tell my patients about it and they don't sue me. The people who sue me ... are looking for somebody to blame.

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He did not explain why other physicians are not sued anywhere near as often as he is, or why so many of the malpractice suits filed against him were successful. In 1994, Baltimore attorney Daniel M. Clements wrote that "Never before in my career have I been moved to file a complaint with the Board about a physician's care. However, never before have I been confronted with a physician whose history and actions so unequivocally call for a review." He later said that "It's not uncommon to find a doctor who has been sued two or three times, but this guy wasn't close. People make mistakes, but at some point the sheer volume of cases has to be evidence of incompetence." Wartanian, of course, said that Clements was out to get him. That, he said ominously, "will come back to haunt" him. References: Greg Garland. Physician Draws 18 Lawsuits, But No State Action . The Baltimore Sun, August 2, 2001 [13-page expos of Wartanian]; Greg Garland. "Doctor Won't Face Action." The Baltimore Sun, March 6, 2002. Vandalism and Destruction of Property [Chesapeake] During the night of October 20, 2000, pro-abortionists vandalized 73 crosses planted by Father Thomas Flowers of St. Rose of Lima Church and a local Knights of Columbus council in memory of aborted preborn babies. The crosses, erected at a prominent roadside spot, were all destroyed. Reference: This incident is described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 2000 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site at http://www.catholicleague.org/.

Bowie, Maryland
Vandalism The Bowie Crofton Pregnancy Center helps women with counseling, abstinence education and sonograms, as well with material needs. But it is against abortion, so cowardly, skulking pro-abortionists decided to vandalize it on the eve of Roe v. Wade in 2005. They smashed more than half its windows and garishly displayed their ignorance by spraypainting misspelled slogans on its walls, including "womyn haters" and "choice." References: "P.G. Clinic That Counsels Against Abortion Vandalized." The Baltimore Sun, January 25, 2005; Steven Ertelt. "Pregnancy Center in Maryland Offering Abortion Alternatives Vandalized." LifeNews, January 25, 2005. Hate Crimes (2 incidents) and Vandalism (3 incidents) On May 24, 2004, pro-abortionists broke into the offices of the Gabriel Project in Bowie, Maryland, and destroyed the interior. They smashed windows, destroyed computers, dumped food items from the refrigerator on carpets and smeared them on the wall, and sprayed a dry-chemical fire extinguisher throughout the building. The pro-aborts also stole approximately $500 from the office's petty cash box. The total damage was about $10,000 to $20,000. The Gabriel Project offers housing to homeless pregnant mothers. That pro-abortionists would

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destroy its offices is evidence that they love abortion so much that they will attempt to wipe out any other choice. On the same weekend, pro-aborts also vandalized Pregnancy Center West, in Cantonsville, Maryland. They were unable to break into the building, so they damaged an air conditioning unit and flooded two offices with garden hoses inserted into windows. State police classified both crimes as issue-motivated hate crimes. At about the same time, another pro-life center in Bowie, the Bowie-Crofton Pregnancy Center and Medical Clinic, received a suspicious call from a man who wanted to "vandalize Gabriel Project signs." On May 21, pro-abortionists had destroyed a Gabriel Project sign outside the Mary Our Queen Catholic Cathedral in Baltimore. The sign had displayed the message "Pregnant? Need Help?" and had advertised the 800 number for the Gabriel Project. References: Paul Nowak. "Maryland Pregnancy Centers Vandalized, Police Begin Investigations." LifeNews, June 4, 2004; Steven Ertelt. "Pregnancy Center in Maryland Offering Abortion Alternatives Vandalized." LifeNews, January 25, 2005.

Crofton, Maryland
Attempted First-Degree Murder, Conspiracy to Commit First-Degree Murder, Using a Handgun in the Commission of a Violent Crime, Witness Intimidation and Illegal Drug Selling Charles Brandon Martins girlfriend Jodi Torok was pregnant, and he did not like the situation at all. When she had told him she was pregnant, he told her to get an abortion, because he was married and did not want his wife to find out about his adultery, but she refused. So he decided to solve his problem the way so many other pro-choice men have done he decided to kill Jodi, or rather, he decided to make someone else do his dirty work for him. Martin was a drug pusher. One of his addicts was Jerold Raymond Burks, who owed him $400. In October 2008, Burks shot Jodi in the head to work off his drug debt, by using a pistol with a silencer fashioned from a Gatorade bottle. Jodi nearly died, and she lost her baby. She wrote that she feared that "someone will come after me to finish what was done." She must use a wheelchair now, and must undergo extensive physical and occupational therapy. She said that "My main focus right now is on getting up and walking, whether it be with a walker or with canes." In May 2010, a jury found Martin guilty of attempted murder. But Martin was not yet finished with his machinations. He wrote a letter from jail in an attempt to pin the attempted murder on another of his many girlfriends. His plot also called for Burks to be murdered. The girlfriend in this case was probably Margaret McFadden, whom Martin had been accused of trying to intimidate while he was awaiting trial. Like many pro-choice men, women were just outlets for Martins sex drive. He had four children with his wife, two outside his marriage, and at least three other girlfriends. Jodi had no idea that Martin was married, of course. On December 21, 2010, Anne Arundel County Judge Pamela L. North sentenced Martin to life in prison. Jodi said I got my early Christmas present. Judge North said to Martin "I believe you were willing to snuff both of them out because they were an inconvenience to you." Reference: Andrea F. Siegel. Waldorf Man Gets Life Term in Shooting of Pregnant Girlfriend: Prosecutors Said She had Refused His Demand to Have an Abortion. The Baltimore Sun, December 21,

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2010.

Galena, Maryland
Reckless Endangerment, Assault and Contaminating a Drink for Human Consumption This database documents a number of cases where cowardly pro-choice men have demanded that their girlfriends get abortions. When the women refuse, the men slip easily-available abortifacient drugs into their drinks or food. Sometimes the men grind up the RU-486 abortion pill and slip it into a drink; other times they use drugs intended to make cattle miscarry. This sneaky attack is typical of the selfish and cowardly pro-choice mentality, and is significant because no national pro-choice group has ever condemned them.

William Stanley Sutton IIIs girlfriend Lauren Ashley Tucker was about four months pregnant with his baby, and he wanted her to get an abortion. She refused, so Sutton decided to sneak an abortifacient into her drink. He did not even bother to get an abortion pill for a human being he used ProstaMate, a hormone used to induce abortions in cattle. On August 9, 2007, Lauren complained of an upset stomach, so Sutton seized his chance. He put the ProstaMate into a soft drink and told her to drink it, saying that it would settle her stomach. The drink tasted foul and burned her throat, so she went to a hospital for treatment. Lauren told police that Sutton had wanted her to have an abortion. Police arrested him and charged him with reckless endangerment, assault and contaminating a drink for human consumption. Fortunately, the preborn child survived. References: Steven Ertelt. Maryland Man Tries to Cause Girlfriend's Abortion by Spiking Her Drink. LifeNews.com, August 16, 2007; Steven Ertelt. Pennsylvania Teen Girl Has Drink Spiked With Drug to Cause Abortion. LifeNews.com, April 13, 2008.

Oxon Hill, Maryland

First-Degree Murder On May 9, 2009, Bernard Bellamy, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, had a girlfriend, Valacia Andrea Demery, who was four months pregnant with his child, and he was not happy about the situation at all. So he ran over her with his car and left her suffering for several hours on the track behind Forestville Military Academy. Early the next day, a runner on the track discovered Valacia's body. On May 11, 2009, police charged Bellamy with first-degree murder, based primarily on evidence collected from video security cameras at the military academy. He was not charged for killing his own preborn child because Maryland's Unborn Victims of Violence Act only applies to viable preborn children. Investigators and family members believed that Bellamy killed Valacia because she was pregnant with his child. Her father, Garrett Demery, said that "He did not want her to have the baby at all." He said that the pregnancy put Bellamy and Valacia "under a lot of stress. ... I feel betrayed, because I

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thought that he was not that kind of person." On October 15, 2010, Bellamy pleaded guilty to murder in Prince George's County Circuit Court and was sentenced that same day to 30 years in prison. References: Matt Zapotosky. "Boyfriend Charged in Killing Of District Heights Woman." Washington Post, May 12, 2009; Steven Ertelt. "Maryland Man Kills Pregnant Girlfriend, Likely No Charge for Killing Unborn Baby." LifeNews, May 14, 2009; 30 Years for Killing Pregnant Girlfriend." The Washington Post, October 25, 2010.

End of Maryland Listing

(updated May 26, 2011)

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