A Wisonsin man who was charged with intentional homicide of an unborn child after drugging his girlfriend’s drink with an abortion pill has been sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Manishkumar Patel, 45, was convicted in August and sentenced Tuesday, according to Fox 11.
In 2007, Patel mixed RU-486, an abortion drug, into his girlfriend’s smoothie, according to prosecutors and a California lab. She did not drink the smoothie, but miscarried weeks later.
Shortly after charges were filed, Patel skipped town and disappeared until he was arrested a decade later in Malone, New York and transported back to Outagamie County, where he was held on a $50 million cash bond.
He testified that he went home to India to see his father “one last time.”
Patel also said he didn’t want another child because he was afraid of any possible medical issues, like his other son.
“I took a life of an unborn child,” he said, in court, according to Fox 11. “I realized that even if the child had some sort of medical problems, he would still have had a life.”
