Philly House of Horrors Workers Plead Guilty to Third-Degree Murder

The story earlier this year chilled to the bone. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist, was finally exposed as a person who killed babies very late term in pregnancy and endangered the lives and health of women. He is accused of delivering live, viable babies in the third trimester and murdering the newborns by severing their spinal cords. Operating in a filthy clinic, Gosnell is accused of overdosing women with dangerous drugs, infecting them with unclean instruments, and on at least two occasions, causing the death of women. For too many years, health department officials looked the other way. Finally, Gosnell has been shut down and charged with eight counts of murder to which he has plead not guilty.

Gosnell didn’t act alone. Two workers have now plead guilty to third-degree murder in two deaths. Andrea Moton was an abortion assistant with no formal medical training who now admits her involvement in severing the spinal cords of babies aborted alive. Sherry West plead guilty in the death of a Bhutanese immigrant who died after receiving an overdose of anesthesia. West, who also had no formal medical training, performed ultrasound exams, administered anesthesia, and monitored patients in the recovery room, according to prosecutors.

You can read more about this sordid tale, if your stomach can handle it, here.

Barbara Lyons