Jury Reflects Interesting Thoughts

 

The Gosnell Jury Reflects back on the proceedings

By Dave Andrusko
Kermit Gosnell has begun serving his three consecutive life prison terms plus 2-1/2 to 5 years in jail. Attention will shift elsewhere both because the sentence represents a kind of “closure” (to borrow an awful cliché) to the larger public and because, unfortunately, the trail of atrocities personified by Gosnell is not limited to one clinic in West Philadelphia.
Mensah M. Dean wrote a column that appeared Saturday in the Philadelphia Daily News that is worth reading.

Sarah Glinski, a juror in the Dr. Kermit Gosnell abortion murder trial, is at the microphone talking with the press after Gosnell was sentenced May 15, 2013. (CLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer)

Very briefly two points. First, how/why/what motivated Gosnell to perform these ghastly abortions which were not only unbelievably violent but well after the legal limit in Pennsylvania–and, in the process, often evading the state’s informed consent requirement? According to the jury, greed.
“Most of us felt that the doctor, he probably started out good helping the community,” Joseph Carroll said in a news conference after Gosnell cut a deal. “But eventually, most of us thought it came down to a greed factor. The services were just like a machine.” As NRL News has reported, when he was arrested police found nearly $250,000 stashed in his West Philadelphia home. Gosnell owned multiple properties at the time of his 2011 arrest, which didn’t prevent him from initially asking for a public defender before hiring a very high-priced attorney.

Second, the jury, according to Carroll, only envisioned a prison sentence for the 72-year-old Gosnell.
Dean’s story ends with a quote from the jury foreman, David Misko.
“I served with 11 very intelligent people. I’m very proud of the people that I worked with and I’m very proud of the decisions that we made as a group. I don’t feel regret whatsoever.”

Source: NRLC News