Creeps: Part XI
About ten per cent of the world's populations are psychopaths. These people; men, women and children alike are people who have never learned how to have empathy with other human beings. They cannot and do not care about others. They are the school bullies, the highway thugs who tailgate and weave in front of you without signaling; they borrow money from you with no intentions whatever to return the money. They are wife beaters, nagging wives, children who steal from their parent's purses and wallets, they are the men and women who have unprotected sex with their unsuspecting sexual partners when they are suffering from AIDS, they are the fathers who sire children and then abandon them. They are businessmen who cheat others, they are politicians who are corrupt. They are the kind of people your mother warned you about. Fate being what it is; it is impossible for the remaining ninety percent of the rest of the world's population to avoid coming in contact with these undesirables. However, as we grow older and wiser, we learn how to differentiate most of the ten percenters we come in contact with from the rest of us.
Everything that follows in
this series is about the kinds of things psychopaths do to qualify them as being part
of the ten percenters and what it was that they did that was so creepy. This
does not necessarily mean that because they did something creepy once or twice,
that they are necessarily part of the ten percenters. All of us at some time or
another will do something creepy in our lives and not really be psychopaths.
However, this series is presented to you to illustrate just how creepy some
people can be at times.
This particular article is about abortion however it is not
my intention in this article to go into the pros and cons of abortion but
rather, I will tell of you a creep who did abortions. If you are squeamish, I
suggest that you don’t read this article.
Kermit Barron Gosnell (age 72)
was an American medical
doctor who practiced as an abortion provider in Philadelphia
and nearby states between 1972 and 2011and in 2013, he was put on trial for first and third degree murder, illegal prescribing of drugs, conspiracy related to corruption,
and illegal
abortions and related medical malpractice offenses, at his abortion
practice. In 2011, he was reported to be well known in Philadelphia for
providing abortions to poor minority and immigrant women. It was also claimed
that Gosnell charged $1,600–$3,000 for each late-term abortion. In most states
in the US, it is against the law to abort a fetus in the latter months of gestation
unless the late-term abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother.
Gosnell was arrested in January 2011 and charged—along
with other crimes and along with other co-defendant employees, with eight
counts of murder
resulting from gross medical malpractice in treatment of patients at
his clinics. The murder charges related to a patient who died while under his
care and seven newborns said to have been
killed after being born alive
during attempted abortions. He pleaded not guilty.
Admittedly, doctors make mistakes and learn from them.
Let’s face it, we all make mistakes so unless a doctor’s mistake is a direct
result of stupid negligence or recklessness and he makes the same mistake
again, I can readily forgive a doctor for his or her mistake. But this quack
made a great many mistakes and he didn’t learn a thing from his mistakes. Here
is a brief history of acts of misbehaviour filed against him.
1989 and 1993 – Cited by
Pennsylvania Department of Health for having no nurses in the recovery room.
1996 – Censured and fined in
both Pennsylvania and New York states, for employing unlicensed personnel.
Around 1996 – Pediatrician
Dr Schwartz, the former head of
adolescent services at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
and as of 2010, Philadelphia’s health commissioner testified
in the 2010 hearing that around 1996 or 1997 he had hand-delivered a letter of
complaint about Gosnell's practice to the Secretary of Health’s office and
stopped referring patients to the clinic, but received no response.
Around 2000 – Civil lawsuit
filed on behalf of the children of Semika Shaw, who had called the clinic the
day after an abortion to report heavy bleeding, and died 3 days later of a
perforated uterus and a bloodstream infection. The case alleged that Gosnell
had failed to tell her to return to the clinic or seek emergency medical care.
It was settled out of court in 2002 for $900,000.
Around 2001 – Gosnell claimed
to be providing children’s vaccines under a program administered by the Health
Department’s Division of Disease Control, but was repeatedly suspended for
failing to maintain logs and for storing vaccines in unsanitary inappropriate
refrigerators and at improper temperatures.
December 2001 – Ex-employee Marcella
Choung gave what the Grand Jury would later call ‘a detailed written complaint’
to the Pennsylvania Department of State
which she followed up with an interview in March 2002.
Around 2006 – Civil lawsuit filed by
patient but dismissed as out of time. The complaint was that
Gosnell had been unable to complete an abortion but then apparently failed or
refused to call paramedics or other clinical emergency personnel, after she had
needed help. The patient reported, “I really felt like he was going to let me
die.”
In total during the course of
his career, 46 known lawsuits had been filed against Gosnell over some 32
years. Observers claimed that there was a complete failure by Pennsylvania
regulators who had overlooked other repeated concerns brought to their
attention, including lack of trained staff, barbaric conditions, and a high
level of illegal late-term abortions.
His clinic, The
Women’s Medical Society was raided on February 18th 2010 under a
search
warrant by investigators from the FBI and state police. The
raid was the result of a months-long investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration
the Philadelphia Police Department,
and the State's Dangerous
Drug-Offender Unit into suspected illegal drug prescription use
at the practice. The investigation had also revealed the suspicious death of
patient Karnamaya Mongar in 2009, which had in turn brought to light further
information about unsanitary operations, use of untrained staff, and use of
powerful drugs without proper medical supervision and control. Thus, when the
February 2010 raid took place, staff from the Pennsylvania Department of State and Pennsylvania Department of Health also attended, as these issues
were under their jurisdictions.
When the team members entered the clinic, they were
appalled, describing it to the Grand Jury as being filthy, deplorable,
disgusting, very unsanitary, very outdated, horrendous, and by far, the worst
that these experienced investigators had ever encountered. There was blood on
the floor. A stench of urine filled the air. A flea-infested cat was wandering
through the facility, and there were cat feces on the stairs. Semi-conscious
women scheduled for abortions were moaning in the waiting room or the recovery
room, where they sat on dirty recliners covered with blood-stained blankets.
All the women had been sedated by unlicensed staff long before Gosnell arrived at his clinic and
staff members could not accurately state what medications or dosages they had
administered to the waiting patients. Many of the medications in inventory were
past their expiration dates, surgical procedure rooms were filthy and
unsanitary resembling a bad gas station restroom. Instruments were not sterile.
Equipment was rusty and outdated. Oxygen equipment was covered with dust, and
had not been inspected. The same corroded suction tubing used for abortions was
the only tubing available for oral airways if assistance for breathing was
needed.
Fetal remains were haphazardly stored throughout the
clinic in bags, milk jugs, orange juice cartons, and even in cat-food
containers. Gosnell admitted to Detective Wood that at least 10 to 20 percent
of the fetuses were probably older than 24 weeks the legal limit. In some
instances, surgical incisions had been made at the base of the fetal skulls.
The investigators found a row of jars containing just the severed feet of
fetuses. In the basement, they discovered medical waste piled high. The intact
19-week fetus delivered by Mrs. Mongar three months earlier was in a freezer.
In all, the remains of 45 fetuses were recovered in which at least two of them,
and probably three, could have lived after being removed by this quack.
What did this human monster do when he realized that the
fetuses were still alive after they were removed from his patient’s uteruses?
Brace yourself! According to Adrienne
Moton, a former employee who was a school dropout and worked in the monster’s
clinic, he ordered her kill the surviving babies by snipping with scissors,
their spinal cords. She said that she did this with ten babies. She testified
at this monster’s trial that she actually saw him carry away a healthy-looking
baby before he disposed of it. His lawyer argued that no live births took place
at the clinic because Gosnell terminated the pregnancies in utero and
therefore, they were not born. I find that hard to believe because the woman
who snipped the babies spinal cords wouldn’t have done that evil deed while the
babies were still in the women’s uteruses.
Gosnell's license to
practice was finally suspended on February 22nd 2010.
What I find incredible is the fact that up to then, the governing body that
licences doctors didn’t put an end to this monster’s practice permanently long
before that date. That tells you something of the calibre of those doctors
serving with that body of regulators.
What would you do if you were in need of an abortion and
you entered that doctor’s unimaginable house of horrors? You would make a hasty
retreat but alas, the women who came to him were desperate because he was the
only doctor they knew of who would help them abort their late-term babies.
This creep didn’t take the stand in his defence for
obvious reasons. The prosecutor would have rhetorically eviscerated him in front
of the jury. The jury convicted him
however on April 23rd, 2013, the court judge tossed three of eight murder charges which means that he
still faces the death penalty if convicted on the four remaining counts of
first-degree murder involving babies he's accused of killing with scissors
after they were born alive. The judge also upheld murder charges in a patient's
overdose death. Gosnell is charged with third-degree murder in the 2009 death
of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar, a recent refugee to the U.S. who died after an
abortion at hiss Women's Medical Society. Third-degree murder involves malice,
or conscious disregard for her life. That particular crime isn’t a death
penalty crime.
Three of
Doctor Kermit Gosnell's former employees from his West Philadelphia abortion
office could face a potential death penalty sentence just like their employer. City prosecutors alleged that
Lynda Williams, 42, from Wilmington; Steven Massof, 48, from Pittsburgh; and
Adrienne Moton, 33, from Upper Darby assisted Gosnell in seven abortions where
the infants were born live and then killed by the 70-year-old physician.
Pearl
Gosnell, 50, the wife of
Kermit Gosnell pleaded guilty to performing an abortion after 24 weeks,
criminal conspiracy and participating in a corrupt organization according to
the District Attorney’s office. Those are not death penalty crimes
UPDATE: On May 13th, 2013, his jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the death of Bhutanese fugitive who died from his botched abortion, and he was also found guilty of first degree murder with respect to the murder of the newborns by having their spinal cords cut while they were still alive. On the following day, he signed an agreement that by not appealing the verdict or the trial, he would not be sentenced to death but he will be instead sent to prison for the rest of his life. He is currently 72 years of age so if he is healthy, he may live another twenty years but if he does, it will be in protective custody in which he will spend 23 hours each day in his cell. It is a fitting punishment for such an evil man.
UPDATE: May 16th, 2013. Dr. Gosnell was given another life sentence for killing a newborn baby whom he described as big enough and thriving, it could walk to a bus.
UPDATE: On May 30th, 2013, this monster's wife, Pearl Gosnell received a sentence of 7 to 23 months in prison. The judge gave her credit for the 3 months she remained in pre-trial custody. Judge Learner decided not to imprison Adrienne Moton 36, who pleaded guilty of third-degree murder because she had shown remorse for killing at least 10 babies by severing their spinal cords at the base of their necks. She should have gone to prison for life as far as I am concerned.
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