linkWneglia wrote:"If a pregnant woman's boyfriend stomps her in the abdomen and kills her fetus, but she decides not to press charges,
can the DA still accuse him of homocide?"
Scott Peterson is in jail for two counts of murder, one for Lacy Peterson and the other for their unborn child.
According to National Right to Life, Ohio is one of 36 states with laws that recognize the intentional killing of an unborn child as homicide.
Under Ohio law, anyone who intentionally kills an unborn child at any stage of pre-natal development can be charged with aggravated murder,
murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, negligent homicide, aggravated vehicular homicide, and vehicular homicide,
depending on the circumstances. (re: "Cleveland captor could face murder charges for killing unborn babies.." )
Neither does God......O Really wrote:"Sorry that I seem "uninformed" to you, but I don't judge evil just by what the law books say."