{"id":210085,"date":"2019-09-06T12:12:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=210085"},"modified":"2019-09-06T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T23:14:56","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-murdering-preborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/man-pleads-guilty-murdering-preborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian man pleads guilty to murdering his preborn baby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Montreal man pleaded guilty<\/a> on Thursday to second-degree murder and aggravated assaulted in the death of his preborn child. Sofiane Ghazi, 39, was originally charged with first-degree murder in the death of the baby, and attempted murder for the attack against his wife.<\/p>\n

Ghazi’s wife, whose name is being protected, was 36 weeks pregnant at the time of the attack. The now-divorced couple had been married for 12 years, however, according to CBC<\/a>, Ghazi is a drug addict who was under a court order forbidding him from using drugs, drinking alcohol, or having contact with his wife or being in their apartment without her consent.<\/p>\n

On July 23, 2017, Ghazi went to the couple’s Montreal-Nord apartment but his wife, believing he was on drugs, asked him to leave. When he refused, she called 911 and Ghazi became angry and left prior to the police arriving at the apartment. Sometime in the early hours of July 24, Ghazi again went to the apartment. He stabbed his wife with a carving fork 19 times in her stomach and left thigh.<\/p>\n

Neighbors testified<\/a> on the first day of the trial that they heard screams coming from the couple’s apartment and heard the wife calling for help. She\u00a0was taken to the hospital where an emergency C-section was performed. The baby was born alive<\/a> with a heartbeat but died shortly after from the wounds sustained in the attack.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Heartbreaking photos: Family mourns mother, 36-week preborn baby killed by drunk driver<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to a report by CTV Montreal<\/a>, Canadian law does not allow preborn children to be “victims” however if the baby were born alive such as this child was, then murder charges are possible.<\/p>\n

The trial had begun on Wednesday but was abruptly ended when defense attorneys asked for a suspension to speak with Ghazi. On Thursday, Ghazi came back to court and pleaded guilty. His former wife was scheduled to testify during the trial, along with police and paramedics as well as crime scene technicians, but she now will instead make a statement during the sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n

At 36 weeks gestation, a preborn child is viable and can survive outside the womb. In Canada, abortion is neither legal nor illegal. It is considered a medical procedure and therefore can be committed at any time for any reason right up until birth. A third-trimester induction abortion is described in the video below by former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino:<\/p>\n

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