Woman Admits To Aborting Pregnancy One Week Before Due Date
A 35-year-old woman, Sarah Louise Catt, admitted in a Leeds Crown Court today that she aborted her own pregnancy by taking medication that she had allegedly purchased on the internet. She pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 58 of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, which, if convicted, carries a maximum life imprisonment sentence.
Catt, who has two other children, ages 8 and 10, was 30 weeks pregnant in March 2012 according to an ultrasound scan she received, reports the Daily Mail. According to police, she intentionally ended her pregnancy within a week of her due date.
According to the law in the country, an abortion is legal in the UK during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy so long as certain criteria are met. However, Catt was well past the 24 week month when she aborted her pregnancy.
As reported by The Independent, Chief Inspector Kerrin Smith of the North Yorkshire Police, stated:
“Sarah Catt has today entered a guilty plea to the court. This marks the end of a long police investigation but many questions remain unanswered.”
Smith added:
“Although a guilty plea has been entered today, Sarah Catt has not co-operated with the investigation at any stage and so the question ‘What has happened to the baby which Catt was carrying?’ remains unanswered.
To date no remains of that pregnancy and no child has been traced.”
While investigating the case, North Yorkshire Police gathered evidence that Catt had purchased a medication over the internet that would facilitate the labor and birth of a child. Unfortunately, taking the medication resulted in the abortion of her pregnancy during her third trimester, which, by law, is illegal.
In fact, police believe that Catt aborted her pregnancy within a week of her due date. As reported by the Yorkshire Post, Smith concludes:
“The evidence shows this to have happened in the final phase of pregnancy, the third trimester, ie within the last week of the due date that this baby should have been born.”
Catt and her husband have refused to comment on the case.
Do you think that Catt should be charged for aborting her own pregnancy using a medication that she purchased on the internet?
Tags : abortion, Abortion Laws, Sarah Louise Catt, sarah palin abortion, woman aborts own pregnancy, woman causes own abortion, womanizer track
Posted: July 23, 2012
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Jul 24, 2012
All abortionist women should receive a legal lethal injection. Period.
Jul 24, 2012
They should give life imprisonment to this "woman".
Jul 25, 2012
"While investigating the case, North Yorkshire Police gathered evidence that Catt had purchased a medication over the internet that would facilitate the labor and birth of a child. Unfortunately, taking the medication resulted in the abortion of her pregnancy during her third trimester, which, by law, is illegal."
Doesn't this mean she didn't intend to abort? The lesson the woman learned here is not to buy or trust drugs you can buy over the internet! She could have wanted to have this child more than anything, we don't know.
Jul 25, 2012
I hope we discover why she did it
Jul 25, 2012
Interesting article. I wonder if abortion was her intention.
Jul 27, 2012
She admitted to aborting so yes it was her intention.
Jul 28, 2012
yes she should get life for taking a life stupid bitch doesnt deserve any childrem
Aug 1, 2012
I actualy know the lady in question, I am shocked to hear of this news and feel for her. She is a great mother to her two children. I can only imagine how hard this decision must of been for her to make. She isn't a cruel, heartless lady..And if she does have to got to prison, imagine how her two childrens are going to feel. Its very easy to judge someone until you have lived their life
Aug 1, 2012
Yes what she did was cruel but life in prison. That is crazy. You have people that have killed, raped and tortured and have not been given life in prison. Now if she would have aborted the baby at 24 weeks that would have been ok but at 30 weeks she deserves life in prison. Hmm if I recall a fetus at 24 weeks can still survive outside of the womb.
Aug 5, 2012
Sounds pretty cruel and heartless to me. If she didn't want the baby, why didn't she just give birth, and let someone adopt the baby?
Aug 5, 2012
She did Kill. She killed her unborn baby.
Aug 6, 2012
As I said earlier Glorianna, its very easy to pass judgement on people until you have lived their life. I take it you are a relgious person?
Aug 6, 2012
As I said earlier Glorianna, its very easy to pass judgement on people until you have lived their life. I take it you are a relgious person?
Aug 24, 2012
Oh my goodness. That is quite sad. She could have birthed her baby live and given it up for adoption.
Aug 24, 2012
Thanks for your perspective, Tina. We are often so quick to judge. If only we could walk a mile in another person's shoes, we would have a lot to learn. We don't know why this happened or if she was of a sound mental state. There is always another side to every story, even horrible stories such as this one.
Aug 24, 2012
I will never understand human race anymore. Do we not value the lives of our innocent, beautiful children anymore, who only want to be loved, cuddled, kissed and taken care of? This makes me sick. Not only does it make me sick, it makes me completely angry.
Aug 24, 2012
I will never understand human race anymore. Do we not value the lives of our innocent, beautiful children anymore, who only want to be loved, cuddled, kissed and taken care of? This makes me sick. Not only does it make me sick, it makes me completely angry.
Aug 24, 2012
Lisa:
Many paedophiles were raped when they were children, but that's not a justification for their crimes; that's why we jail them. The same should go for this woman. 10-20 yaears of prison would suffice.
Aug 24, 2012
Tina:
Are you suggesting that if I see my neighbor stabing his wife, I should not do anything, because I haven't lived his life?
Aug 24, 2012
Not with great chance of survival; a large percentage of babies born that premature don't make it. Those that do are often left with varying degrees of disability and health issues. And none make it without a fortune in medical intervention.
Aug 24, 2012
That is pure murder,when that baby was fully developed. I thought that was ileagle. If someone can be arested for Texting & driving & kill someone & there un born child & get two counts of man slaughter because there was a life in her, Then she should get MURDER CHARGES as well….Just Sickning…………
Aug 24, 2012
My god! That's a full on baby! How crap! 30 weeks! Who does that!
Aug 25, 2012
I pray for her and her family, I don't understand it at all! Almost loosing my son at 27 weeks was the worst feeling in the world! I can not imagine what would make a mother do this,I pray she gets the help that she needs! It breaks my heart in to pieces!
Aug 25, 2012
Do not be so stupid!!
Aug 28, 2012
Why's that?
If we would prevent a man to kill his wife, we should prevent a women to kill her own child.
If we failed, the less we can do is to send both of them behind bars.
Sep 17, 2012
Tina. She got 8 years. She admitted that her baby boy was born at home and that she buried him but refuses to say where.
Sep 17, 2012
I have just read the full published details of this case
Sep 17, 2012
after Sarah was sentenced today and feel quite shocked and saddened for her family..Terrible