{"id":32,"date":"2008-12-30T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/man-being-prosecuted-in-nm-under-federal-fetus-law.html"},"modified":"2008-12-30T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T16:01:00","slug":"man-being-prosecuted-in-nm-under-federal-fetus-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/man-being-prosecuted-in-nm-under-federal-fetus-law.html","title":{"rendered":"Man being prosecuted in NM under federal fetus law"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 12\/30\/2008<br \/><br \/>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 Federal prosecutors in New Mexico believe they may be the first to use a 2004 law to charge someone with killing a fetus while causing the death or injury of the mother.<br \/><br \/>Charges against Frederick Beach, accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death, include one under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt said his office&#8217;s research found &#8220;no other case in the country in which that section (of law) has been charged,&#8221; the Albuquerque Journal reported Tuesday.<br \/><br \/>Attorneys for Beach, 37, said they expect to pursue any available legal challenges.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;We may be breaking ground on a new area of law,&#8221; said defense attorney Amy Sirignano. &#8220;We&#8217;re not sure where that will lead us.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Beach pleaded not guilty last week to killing a fetus and to first-degree murder and child abuse charges.<br \/><br \/>He is accused of beating to death Verlinda Kinsel, 29, in September and killing the fetus she had said was his. Authorities say the victim&#8217;s 9-year-old son witnessed the assault.<br \/><br \/>If convicted, Beach faces life in prison.<br \/><br \/>The case is being prosecuted in federal court because Kinsel was killed on the Navajo reservation.<br \/><br \/>The Unborn Victims of Violence Act stemmed from the abduction and murder of a pregnant woman, Laci Peterson, in California in 2003. The law makes it a crime to kill a fetus in utero at any stage of development while committing another federal crime; it does not require the perpetrator to know the woman was pregnant.<br \/><br \/>___<br \/><br \/>Information from: Albuquerque Journal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\">http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com<\/a><br \/><br \/>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 12\/30\/2008ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 Federal prosecutors in New Mexico believe they may be the first to use a 2004 law to charge someone with killing a fetus while causing the death or injury of the mother.Charges against Frederick Beach, accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death, include one under the Unborn Victims of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,157,161,159,162,158,149,160],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-child-abuse","tag-federal-law","tag-federal-prosecutors","tag-fetus-assault-law","tag-fetus-death","tag-fetus-homicide","tag-fetus-rights","tag-unborn-victims-of-violence-act"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}