{"id":313089,"date":"2024-06-06T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=313089"},"modified":"2024-06-04T19:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T00:31:18","slug":"man-prison-attempted-murder-pregnant-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/man-prison-attempted-murder-pregnant-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to prison for attempted murder of pregnant woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A South Wales man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend and her preborn child.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Popescu, 29, pled guilty to trying to kill Andreea Pintili on December 5, 2023, by stabbing her outside her home after she dropped her children off at school. Pintili was 37 weeks pregnant at the time. A woman walking her dog nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/aberfan-stabbing-wales-daniel-popescu-b2552401.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scared off<\/a> Popescu before he could mortally wound Pintili, and noted that Pintili was holding her arm over her stomach during the incident to try and protect her baby.<\/p>\n<p>Both she and her child survived the attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His intention that day was to kill me and my unborn child,&#8221; Pintili said in her victim impact statement. She detailed to the court that Popescu had been stalking her since the two had separated around August of last year. Though she received a restraining order against him, he continued to call her and leave threatening messages; he also took a video of her and posted it to TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel lucky to be alive after this harrowing experience. He told me he had a knife and to get into the house. I have no doubt if I went into the house he would have killed me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>At the sentencing, Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke told Popescu that his sentence was necessary to \u201cprotect the public in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Pintili survived the horrific attack, countless women are not so lucky. Research <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34619735\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> in the journal Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/company\/newsroom\/homicide-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-pregnant-women-in-the-us\/#:~:text=Homicide%20is%20a%20leading%20cause%20of%20death%20in%20pregnant%20women%20in%20the%20US,-BMJ&amp;text=Women%20in%20the%20US%20are,experts%20in%20The%20BMJ%20today.\">elsewhere<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/company\/newsroom\/homicide-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-pregnant-women-in-the-us\/#:~:text=Homicide%20is%20a%20leading%20cause%20of%20death%20in%20pregnant%20women%20in%20the%20US,-BMJ&amp;text=Women%20in%20the%20US%20are,experts%20in%20The%20BMJ%20today.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> that a leading cause of death among pregnant women is homicide, which even \u201cexceeded all the leading causes of maternal mortality,\u201d including\u00a0high blood pressure, hemorrhage, and sepsis, which are the three leading obstetric causes of death. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/company\/newsroom\/homicide-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-pregnant-women-in-the-us\/#:~:text=Women%20in%20the%20US%20are,experts%20in%20The%20BMJ%20today.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Most of these homicides<\/a> in the United States are linked to domestic violence situations. Police noted that Pintili&#8217;s courage and the bravery of the nearby dog walker were both instrumental in keeping this incident from being a fatal one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The strength and bravery of the victim in supporting this prosecution has been extraordinary,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/aberfan-stabbing-wales-daniel-popescu-b2552401.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Detective Inspector James Morris of South Wales Police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must also commend the actions of the courageous member of the public for their bravery in running to help the victim after the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/ARQQhk1\"><b><i>The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Wales man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend and her preborn child. Daniel Popescu, 29, pled guilty to trying to kill Andreea Pintili on December 5, 2023, by stabbing her outside her home after she dropped her children off at school. 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