A Bowling Green man has been indicted on a charge of first-degree attempted fetal homicide after allegedly replacing his pregnant girlfriend’s medication with an abortion pill in an attempt to kill her unborn child without her consent.
Abdullah Mohmand, 27, was indicted by a Barren County grand jury on the Class B felony, which carries a potential penalty of 10 to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Court documents state the grand jury found that Mohmand “intentionally engaged in conduct which would constitute the crime” of fetal homicide when he exchanged his girlfriend’s “prescription medication with Misoprostol, with the intent to cause the death of her unborn child.”
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The woman, who was pregnant by Mohmand, told police she went to his Bowling Green apartment on May 22 and spent the weekend there. On May 25 she checked into T.J. Samson Community Hospital in Glasgow and reported that her prescribed progesterone had been switched with Misoprostol without her knowledge. Progesterone is a hormone used to treat menstrual problems.
There is no indication if she took the abortion pills and, if so, if the baby survived, though it appears the abortion pills were not ingested and the baby was not killed in an abortion.
Misoprostol is the abortion pill that starves an unborn baby to death, followed by a second pill, misoprostol, that is used to expel the body of the dead baby.
Kentucky State Police Detective Aaron Hampton testified at a preliminary hearing that “Mohmand was not on board with the pregnancy.” Court records indicate Mohmand had demanded she get an abortion and related to her that his family in Afghanistan would kill him if she were to have the baby.
Police obtained a search warrant for Mohmand’s apartment and found an empty bottle of Misoprostol along with an instruction sheet in a yellow notebook for the use of the medicine as an abortion agent. They also seized an empty FedEx envelope sent to the apartment with the girlfriend listed as the addressee.
Mohmand’s attorney, Johnny Bell, argued that the progesterone gelcaps were different enough in appearance from the black, round, marked Misoprostol pills for a user to notice, and that it seemed unlikely a person attempting to induce an abortion in his unwitting partner would leave detailed instructions for police to find.
Mohmand has also been charged with violating a protective order and ordered to have no contact with the woman. He is scheduled to be arraigned September 28 in Barren Circuit Court.
The woman reported she had concerns for the safety of her unborn child. The charge treats that child as the victim of an attempted homicide.
