“Greedy Abortionist Slices and Dices Young Woman’s Organs”
How many of you heard about a New York City abortionist who is going to prison for killing a woman with an abortion?
Almost none of you. Admit it.
In fact, there was only one writer covering the case when it started.
Her name? Lauren Handy.
She was a volunteer for Operation Rescue, a pro-life outfit whose people specialize in getting abortion providers’ licenses revoked because they are bad doctors who not only kill the unborn, but all too often hurt or kill women and girls in the process.
Here is one such story stemming from her coverage.
“The criminal manslaughter case goes to the jury today after often emotional and sometimes shocking closing arguments were presented by the prosecution and the defense against abortionist Robert Rho, who is accused of causing the death of Jaime Lee Morales, 30 during a fatally botched in the 26th week of her pregnancy.
If convicted of Second Degree Manslaughter, Rho could face up to 15 years in prison.
Closing arguments began late-morning when Rho’s nervous and visibly sweating Lichtman rose to address the jury.
Lichtman’s spoke for over an hour. His presentation was extemporaneous and racially manipulative. He asked the jury to view the evidence with an open eye and an open heart.
“America is a great country and everyone deserves a fair trial,” he said. “History has shown there have been ties of unfairness, like slavery.”
The jury was comprised of four women and eleven men. Out of those 15 jurors, four were white and the rest were people of color. It was obvious that Lichtman was making an emotional appeal to the non-white jurors for sympathy for Rho, who is of Asian descent.
Lichtman described how most of the prosecution’s witnesses had lied or purposely left out key facts. He attacked the honesty of a Queens homicide detective and implied that the damaging testimony from Morales’ sister earlier in the trial could not be trusted.
He warned the jury that the prosecutor would present to them sensational facts about how they found a fetus in a garbage bag “to sway your emotion.”
“It’s a modern-day lynching!” Lichtman cried, appealing once again to the jurors of color.
Lichtman’s primary argument seemed to be that Morales had failed to give her full medical history at the time of her abortion, including the fact she suffered from lupus, an autoimmune disease that could result in bruising and excess bleeding. He opined that the blood found pooled in her skull and the bruises found on her legs was evidence she was having a lupus episode at the time of her fatal abortion.
However, earlier testimony indicated that Morales had passed out in the bathroom – most likely from blood loss – and bumped her head as she fell. Bruising to her legs occurred when Rho’s female staff struggled to lift Morales, who was unconscious, into a wheelchair.
Lichtman attempted to persuade the jury that there was some sort of conspiracy of lies to hide the facts about the lupus, and that the family was just trying to make money through a civil lawsuit against Rho.
“Don’t let these lies be buried forever,” Lichtman begged the jury in conclusion of his closing arguments.
Next, prosecutor Brad Leventhal addressed the jury for the final time.
“Jaime Morales isn’t dead because she had lupus,” he began. “She’s dead because the defendant ripped a 7 ½ – inch hole the size of a fist in her uterus.”
Leventhal then replayed the security video from inside Rho’s abortion facility on the day of Morales’ abortion. It showed her limp head falling back as she sat unconscious in a wheelchair just prior to being discharged.
He told the jury, “This case is simple. It’s about greed, arrogance, and desperation.”
Leventhal went on to explain how Morales had felt desperate, and that Rho had preyed on that desperation. He explained how she was having problems with the baby’s father – the first time the term “baby” was used in the trial.
Leventhal reminded the jury that even the medical examiner had explained that lupus had no role in her death and urged them to remember the facts and not allow Lichtman’s baseless arguments muddle the situation.
“The defense said don’t let these lies be buried forever, but in all respect, the only thing that’s going to be buried forever is Jaime Morales,” Leventhal said.
Morales had died because Rho had lacerated her uterus, reached into her abdominal cavity and sliced her uterine artery, lacerated her cervix, and cut deep into the wall of her vagina. Leventhal then reminded the jury how Rho had masked her internal bleeding by stitching her cervix shut.
The prosecutor brought up the testimony of one of Rho’s former employees Kelly Sue. She said Rho left his abortion facility just five minutes after discharging Morales. “He just wanted her gone,” Leventhal said.
At this point, Judge Lasak stopped Leventhal in mid-sentence and called for a recess. After the jury was removed from the room, Lasak rebuked Rho for attempting to influence the jury by making faces during the prosecution’s closing argument. Rho had also gestured toward the jury and shook his head at various prosecution statements. Lasak warned Rho to stop this behavior and threatened to remove him from the court if he did not.
In another odd turn of events, Rho’s father would burst out laughing at inappropriate times throughout the arguments and was threatened with removal as well.
Once Judge Lasak had regained control of the courtroom, the jury was brought in and Leventhal was allowed to finish is closing argument.
He noted that it was greed and arrogance that killed Jaime Morales.
“He gambled with a life and she lost,” said Leventhal. “He chose his pocketbook over his patient’s safety.”
Leventhal explained that two of Rho’s staff, Kelly Sue and Grace, had no medical training. They had each applied for jobs as receptionists but were soon working in the procedure room assisting with surgeries. Kelly would do ultrasounds and remove “specimens” while Grace took vitals, which she really did not know how to do. Rho told her to just put numbers down.
But perhaps the most disturbing facts of the trial that were recounted by Leventhal regarded how Jaime was treated during her second procedure – treatment that was tantamount to torture.
After Morales continued to hemorrhage after the first abortion procedure, she was taken back to the procedure room for a second procedure. By this time, her sedation had worn off.
Rho instructed Kelly to strap the victim’s legs in the stirrups and hold her down.
He then told Morales, “Bear the pain. I can’t give you any more anesthesia.”
This caused the family to openly weep in court.
Leventhal reminds the jurors it was greed and arrogance that led to Morales’ death. Rho had become reckless from cutting corners in order to achieve the most money from every abortion.
With closing arguments completed, court was dismissed for the day.”
Per an Operation Rescue press release, Rho’s trial ended as follows:
“ In a move that shocked the court, Robert Rho accepted a previously offered plea bargain and admitted his guilt to Felony Negligent Homicide immediately after the judge announced that the jury had reached a verdict in this three-week trial.
Rho will be sentenced and will surrender into custody on July 26, 2018, after which he will serve between 16 months and four years in prison for killing Jaime Lee Morales during a horrifically botched second trimester abortion.
Rho was on trial for Second Degree Manslaughter, a Class C Felony that carried a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.
The plea agreement required Rho to admit his crime in court, which he was reticent to do. At first, he simply stated that he had lacerated the victim’s cervix, repaired in twice, then sent her home where she died unexpectedly.
That statement was insufficient to meet the terms of a confession.
Finally, under questioning from his defense attorney Jeff Lichtman, Rho admitted through clenched teeth that he killed Morales.
Earlier, on this third day of jury deliberations, the jury had told Judge Gregory Lasak that they could not reach an agreement on a verdict. Judge Lasak instructed them to go back and continue deliberations to see if they could finally come to an agreement.
Hours later, a verdict was indeed reached, but Rho’s acceptance of the plea bargain agreement meant that the verdict would never be known.”
Lauren Handy, who was present for almost all of the multiweek trial, noted no paid media outlets had a presence in court several days ago.
Lauren’s presence, and Operation Rescue’s daily updates on abortionist Rho’s manslaughter trial shamed some alleged professional journalists to pay it some attention.
The presence of a competent and alert observer is crucial to truth getting to the public. Fortunately Lauren had the right as an American to attend the trial and take notes. This is something we at How to be Your Own Detective advocate.
Troy Newman, the leader of Operation Rescue, noted the media routinely ignores abortionist caused deaths and serious but less-than-lethal malpractice, so is partially to blame when young women are not aware of abortion’s risks.
Paramedics rescue yet another victim from a Planned Parenthood abortion mill.
Photo courtesy of Operation Rescue.
In the abortion controversy, citizen researchers, not the kept-whore media people, are responsible for almost all the factual reporting on the malpractice, substandard medicine, sexual offenses, money fraud, abetting of sexual abusers, and other crimes abortion providers commit.
Even the New York doctor license website that noted Rho surrendered his doctor license hemmed and hawed about what he did. It was like reading a warning tag on a mattress. The state pukes did not say Rho botched an abortion horribly, ripping holes in a woman’s organs in the process, and released her from his facility to die.
There are many of you out there who are retired or are able to take in trials during the day or government body meetings during the day or evening. Since most of you are retired, my wife “99″ suggests you call yourselves “Silver Sleuths” or some other cool name of your choosing and use your rights to attend trials and public meetings, and report the goings-on to our website or to websites of local or regional or national watchdogs who could give your work some exposure.
99 at the Ready. Pretty (and) Lethal.
Sunlight is an excellent disinfectant.
Our salute goes out to citizen court watcher Lauren Handy and the good people of Operation Rescue for putting the sunlight to the young woman’s horrible death and the evil doctor who killed her by deliberately denying her proper care.
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