Patel sentenced to prison in forced-abortion case
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APPLETON (WLUK) -- A man who was on the run for a decade has been sentenced for spiking his girlfriend's drink to try to cause a miscarriage of the couple's child.
Manishkumar Patel, 45, was sentenced in Outagamie County court Tuesday to 22 years in prison followed by 4 years extended supervision.
Patel was charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child in the 2007 incident. The woman did not ingest the drink, but later miscarried, authorities say.
Outagamie County Court district attorney, Melinda Tempelis said the victim did not ingest the drink but instead sent it to a lab for testing in California. Tempelis said the victim has a miscarriage a week before getting the results.
"They have discovered swabs of RU486 from the smoothie that she had sent to them. RU486 is an abortion drug, it is not the morning after pill, it cannot be dispensed by general doctors or prescribed or available through pharmacy," Tempelis explained.
Tempelis said during a search warrant at Patel's home, the Outagamie County Sherriffs Department found an envelope containing the pills.
"The defendant indicated that he had it sent to him from a friend in India when he didn't want to have anymore children," Tempelis said.
In court, Patel claimed he didn't want another child because he was afraid the child would suffer the same medical problems as his son, who is also the victim's son.
"I took a life of an unborn child, I realized that even if the child had some sort of medical problems, he would still have had a life,' said Patel.
As part of a plea deal, bail jumping charges were dismissed, but the judge was able to consider them at sentencing.
Patel skipped town after the charges were filed in 2007, forfeiting a $750,000 cash bond. He said he skipped town to go to India.
"I felt this was what I had to do to see my father one last time, my father is still alive but had medical issues," Patel said.
He was arrested in 2017 in New York and was returned to Outagamie County, where a total bond of $50 million cash was set.
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So this guy got 22 YEARS in prison for spiking his girlfriend's drink, in an ATTEMPT to induce an abortion. She did not drink it, but miscarried anyways. My question is this: how much time does God deserve for ACTUAL murder of the child?
Prove God did something and you might have a valid question.
I'm told God has a plan for all of us. Apparently his plan for that baby was to be dead on arrival.
Perhaps.
Prove it.
I believe that traditionally the existence of evil is tied into the necessity of free will.
The truth is that we don't understand "God's" purposes , so we guess or stab at it.
Not being able to know God's purposes doesnt prove there is no God, it proves that , if there is a God, we don't understand it like we think we do.
In the 80's, I think it was , the consciousness researcher John Lilly wrote a book, which I think was titled "God" . In the book Lilly speculates about various attributes that "God" could have. God could manifest through power, through war, through force, through surrender, etc.
The most likely explanation for "evil" in my opinion, is that we don't understand it the same way "God" does. Maybe if there were no evil or sorrow existence would come to a standstill, literally. The nature of this existence is that for every up there is a down. That is what this creation or existence entails. Without sadness no one would know what happiness was. That is a fact. If someone forced you to eat chocolate ice cream for every meal it wouldn't be long before it was no longer a treat.
Your cheekiness is noted. Obviously I don't believe in God, so your request is idiotic. With this article I'm just pointing out the blatant nonsense that is inherent to religions, such as all Judeo-Christian religions and forms of Islam, when they make the claim that God has a plan for us all. The high rate of natural miscarriage among humans presents an obvious challenge to that notion. A fetus does not know anything of free will when it is rejected.
Good news everyone. God has been captured, and will serve eternity in prison for all the murders he is responsible for. Just look at him - no remorse whatsoever.