Gosnell

 

Amidst the squalor at Gosnell’s “Second House of Horrors,” authorities find bones

By Dave Andrusko
The story of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, serving three consecutive life sentences at Huntingdon State Correctional Institution, seems as if it will never end. Given how bizarre was the life this convicted murderer lived, and the legacy he left, perhaps it never will.

It didn’t take very long for authorities to figure out yesterday that the bones they discovered on an abandoned property owned by Gosnell were animal, not human. But given the ghoulish manner in which the West Philadelphia abortionist operated, the untold number of aborted babies whose remains were never found, it’s no wonder the first thought was those could be aborted babies.
Authorities were looking for the remains of aborted babies following the raid on Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” abortion clinic in February 2010.
According to NBC 10’s Vince Lattanzio and David Chang,

The Philadelphia Police Crime Scene Unit traveled down the Atlantic City Expressway to search for the remains of unaccounted fetuses.

“We went down there because we thought maybe some of the babies were thrown into the bay,” he said. “There’s a lot of babies that are still unaccounted for that we don’t know where they’re at.”

The team ventured into the bay and pulled up several crab traps owned by Gosnell to see if there were remains inside. However, nothing was found. New Jersey authorities also sent a dive team into the bay before Taggart’s search and were unable to locate any remains.

“I believe they are either buried out there or I don’t know where they are.”

The investigation this week of Gosnell’s “Other House of Horror” was triggered by break ins and squatters at Gosnell’s massive Victorian rowhouse in Mantua, a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia. The city’s Licenses and Inspections department had come to seal it off.

And what they found was consistent with Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society abortion clinic and another property: squalor–“plates of food on the floor, a bedroom so cluttered you couldn’t see the bed, a basement thick with fleas,” according to Lattanzio and Chang. Gosnell hasn’t paid real-estate taxes on his property since 2012 (he is $7,479.42 in arrears).
Lattanzio and Chang conclude their story with a telling observation:

Yesterday, as workers were cleaning up the site, they came across a pile of tiny bones. All work stopped as the Police Department’s Crime Scene Unit and homicide detectives swarmed the scene. Given Gosnell’s history – many aborted, late-term fetuses from his clinic have never been accounted for – police wondered whether the bones were human.

They were quickly determined to be animal remains. A sad and fitting find, given the animal who once called the place home.

Source: NRLC News