Monday, May 8, 2006

Abortion charge dismissed against pregnant woman who shot herself

Tammy Skinner By LINDA MCNATT, The Virginian-Pilot c. May 8, 2006
SUFFOLK - - Charges of inducing an abortion were dismissed today against a 22-year-old woman who, in February, shot herself in the stomach on the morning her infant was to have been born.

Tammy Skinner told police about 4 a.m. on the morning of Feb. 23 that a man had picked her up, shot her in the stomach and pushed her out of the car. Then, she told investigators that the child's father did it.

Finally, the mother of two other children - - both girls, as was the infant who died -- admitted that the wound was self-inflicted.

Skinner was also charged with using a firearm in the commission of a felony, but that charge was not prosecuted because it did not apply to the class-four felony of producing an abortion or miscarriage.

Skinner was found guilty of filing a false police report. For that, in the preliminary hearing, General District Judge James A. Moore Jr. found the woman guilty and suspended a 30-day jail sentence.

Background: Woman charged with shooting self to cause abortion

[Virginia's Fetal Homicide Law: Effective July 1, 2004, Code of Virginia Section 18.2-32.2 provides: "Any person who unlawfully, willfully, deliberately, maliciously and with premeditation kills the fetus of another" may be imprisoned from 20 years to life; and any person who does so without premeditation may be imprisoned for not less than five nor more than 40 years.]



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