Man who forced woman to miscarry by spiking her orange juice with abortion drugs is jailed

A man who made a pregnant woman have a miscarriage by secretly spiking her orange juice with an abortion-inducing drug has been jailed for 12 years.  Stuart Worby, 40, crushed a tablet of mifepristone into the drink of his victim then inserted another abortion drug inside her, after sexually assaulting her while she was blindfolded.  She had a severe physical reaction within a few hours, suffering vomiting, diarrhea, a high temperature and bleeding.  The woman was 15 weeks pregnant when she miscarried.   Worby, of Dereham, Norfolk, at first refused to take her to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, but he later did so and the following day she miscarried her healthy baby.   As she lost her baby, Worby text a friend saying, ‘it’s working’ and, ‘there is lots of blood’. In a victim impact statement read to the court the victim said she felt she had ‘failed to protect my baby’. She said she had ‘gone from fertility clinic to fertility clinic’ and ‘being a mother was a dream to me’.  She added: ‘This pain will never leave me knowing that this baby could have been my only chance to be a mother in this lifetime. I haven’t been able to conceive and have another baby.’ Worby obtained two types of abortion drugs by persuading a friend’s partner to pretend she was pregnant so she could get prescribed them privately, then give them to him.  He crushed a tablet of mifepristone into the drink of his victim – who was around 15 weeks pregnant – without her knowledge in what was described by prosecutors as ‘deliberate, well planned and callous’.  Worby, of Dereham, Norfolk, later inserted a number of tablets of another abortion drug – misoprostol – inside the woman after using deception to engage in sexual activity with her.  Mr Justice Joel Bennathan jailed him for 12 years for administering poison or using an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage, and a concurrent eight years for sexual assault by penetration.  Worby was also ordered to pay 10,000 compensation to his victim.  Portuguese-national Nueza Cepeda, 39, of Dereham, who procured the drugs for him, pleaded guilty to supplying an instrument to procure a miscarriage, and was given a 22 month jail sentence suspended for two years.  The mother-of-three’s partner Wayne Finney, 41, of Swaffham, Norfolk, was found not guilty of intentionally encouraging or assisting others to commit a crime.  The woman who miscarried described her anguish at losing her baby in an emotional victim impact statement, saying she was now unable to have children after being diagnosed with an ovarian deficiency.  She said that her miscarriage had left her suffering ‘grief that will never heal’ knowing that she ‘had failed’ to protect her baby.  The woman said in her statement: ‘I keep thinking what I could have done to protect my baby, but I have the deep pain of knowing that I have failed.  ‘This pain will never leave me, knowing that this baby could have been my only chance of being a mother in this lifetime.  ‘Although I now have a wonderful partner, we have been unable to conceive. I have to face the knowledge that the only baby I could have had was lost.’The post Man who forced woman to miscarry by spiking her orange juice with abortiondrugs isjailed appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.