something that would cause great pain. there was only one thing the medical examiner testified out of this beautiful baby boy you saw you there in the photo and it was the slit to the back of the neck and the testimony was that scissors were put through and perforated through that area to cut the spinal cord and kill the baby. bret: based on the grand jury report not all of the killing was done by gosnell himself. cross testified she witnessed linda williams another unlicensed gosnell assistant murder a baby, baby c who had been breathing and moving for 20 minutes. williams called cross over to take a look at the baby and when ms. cross was asked why do you think ms. williams killed this baby that was alive, that was breathing that was moving for 20 minutes she said i guess because she had seen dr. gosnell do it so many times. bret: some deliveries did not happen on an operating
kid. bret: investigators recovered the remains of 45 fetuses and gosnell admitted to a detective that 10 to 20% were probably older than 24 weeks, the legal cutoff. baby boy b was one of two the prosecution claims were medically confirmed to have been they also found women. dazed women. these women were jam inside a room where they were all there together. some of them were bleeding. and so the department of health they called and told the detectives to call for an ambulance. at the same time they searched gosnell s house and found patient files almost a quarter million dollars in cash and a gun. the state and local authorities that had ignored gosnell s abortion mill for more than a generation now swung into action. february 22, 2010 the board of medicine suspended gosnell s medical license.
not follow up on the complaints her answer was and i quote people die. the department of public health, once again failed the community. failed my cousin. bret: the shaws settled their lawsuit for $900,000. one of at least five gosnell malpractice cases resulting in $1.7 million in payoffs. in 2001, one of gosnell s staffers tried to blow the whistle on him by calling the pennsylvania secretary of state. prosecutor mariana sorenson. she was one of the unlicensed workers who was treated like a doctor. she was put in charge of doing ultrasounds. anesthesiaizeing the patients. she was is nervous she was going to kill a woman and she told them everything they needed to know to shut this man down forever. bret: all that got shut down she said was the investigation. it was closed by the
the chances of bleeding are tremendous. the other complication is the mechanics of removing a fetus at 24 weeks. you run the chance of perforating the uterus. you have issues of inflection. you have to have infection. you have to have the skills. you to have the infrastructure. you have to have the healthcare personnel. for people to be doing this out of a so-called little private office, it is really there is no words to describe the crime. bret: unlike the ala carte pricing for anesthesia in short-term abortions gosnell insistd that late term patients be heavily is a dadeed according to grand jury testimony. he didn t like anybody who was loud because he didn t want to attract the police. he would tell these women to med em up. med-em-up.
the issue of abortion h head on. he told the jury are you are not here to decide whether or not abortion is pretty. it is not pretty. it is bloody. it is real. in a way it was almost like the jack nicholson in a few good men. the prosecution pain stakingly went through its case against gosnell, more than 250 counts one more time. the jury deliberated ten days. monday, may 13. murder in the first-degree baby a, guilty. murder in the fidel, baby c, guilty. murder in the first-degree of baby d, guilty. bret: also found guilty of 2 counts of late term abortions. one count of racketeering and 211 counts of failing to counsel patients a day in advance in accordance with pennsylvania law.