[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-19621675

A woman from North Yorkshire who admitted aborting her own baby in the final phase of her pregnancy has been jailed for eight years.

Sarah Louise Catt, 35, took drugs when 39 weeks pregnant to cause an early delivery, Leeds Crown Court heard.

She claimed the boy was stillborn and that she buried his body, but no evidence of the child was ever found.

Catt made a "deliberate and calculated decision" to end her pregnancy knowing the child could live, a judge said.

Catt had a scan at 30 weeks confirming her pregnancy at a hospital in Leeds, the court heard.

Suspicions were raised when she failed to register the birth weeks later.

She maintained she had a legitimate abortion at a clinic in Manchester, but analysis of her computer revealed she had purchased a drug called Misoprostol which can induce labour.

The court heard Catt's husband was unaware of the pregnancy and was not consulted about her decision to have an abortion.

The defendant had been having an affair with a work colleague for seven years, the judge was told.

In sentencing, the judge told Catt she clearly thought the man with whom she was having an affair was the father and she had shown no remorse.

Cold-hearted bitch .....

[Jake.]

disgusting...

[Kazanne]

Aw,what a cow,wonder what she did with him?how could someone do that?she could have had him adopted into a family who would have loved him.

[Kizzy]

8 years?...not long enough.

[Nedusa]

one of the best arguments for enforced sterilisation I have seen...!!!

[Jake.]

Originally Posted by kazanne

Aw,what a cow,wonder what she did with him?how could someone do that?she could have had him adopted into a family who would have loved him.

My thoughts exactly.

[Vicky.]

What a disgusting bitch.

[Vicky.]

'She maintained she had a legitimate abortion at a clinic in Manchester, but analysis of her computer revealed she had purchased a drug called Misoprostol which can induce labour. '

so the drug didnt actually kill the baby? Just put her in early labour?

The thing is, the huge majority of babies born at 37weeks+ survive without medical intervention, at 39 weeks its nearly certain that the child would be fine, even if born outside a hospital. So now, I think she had the baby, it was healthy, and she killed it. which is even bloody worse :S

[Niamh.]

39 weeks? Why the hell didn't she just have the baby and give him up for adoption? It makes no sense, she went through 39 weeks carrying the child

[Livia]

I'm not going to try to stick up for this woman, because clearly what she did was disgusting and wrong, no decent person could disagree... but she probably didn't think about putting the child up for adoption because she wasn't in her right mind.

[lostalex]

Considering all of the couples desperate to adopt, it really does make me sick. That being said, like Livia said there may be other circumstances, be it familiar, or cultural, or psychological that we don't know about.

In my opinion though, she did kill a baby. The baby was grown/developed enuf to be able to survive without her, so she did kill a baby. It shouldn't be called an abortion. It's not the same as an abortion at all.