Officials announced on Tuesday that two persons are facing federal criminal charges for offices of offering offices concerning religious groups that offer abortion alternatives to pregnant people in Florida.
On January 18, a large jury was accused in Tampa with Calip Friston, 27, and Amber Smith Stewart, 23, with a number of conspiracy against rights and two charges that violate the freedom to access the entrances to the clinic.
the The indictment Against the husband was neglected on Tuesday and claimed that they targeted three centers to help pregnancy that offer abortion alternatives that include consulting, pregnancy test, and ultrasound.
On May 28, 2022, it was claimed that the couple and other conspirators whose name did not have traveled to one of the centers run by the Miami diocese in Hollywood, between Fort Lauderdale and Miami, where they sprayed the threat, “If abortions were not safe, then you are Nathar.”
At the time of this alleged attack, the Supreme Court was not yet The rights of abortion transferred worldwideBut a A draft opinion from Judge Samuel Alto has leaked She indicated that they were about to do so.
“We believe that the intention of this sabotage was to intimidate us and intimidate us.” He said At the time of sabotage, adding that the perpetrators were arrested on surveillance footage, then they were shared with the police.
A picture of sabotage also shows the ancient symbol and the words of “Jin’s revenge”, referring to a I created a supportive group of armed abortion After ALito leaks. A Blog This claims that he belongs to the Jin group to avenge the attacks on what they call “fake clinics”, including one in Hollywood.
Two days after the court’s decision was launched in the end Ro against a valley On June 24, it was claimed that the couple was between a group that sprayed another clinic in Winter Haven, east of Tamba. The sabotage included the phrase, “We are everywhere”, “We are coming for you”, and “your time has ended !!”
On July 3, he claimed that they had sabotaged another facility in Hieleah in the Greater Miami area with the same threat they had left at the Hollywood clinic.
“The plot and the goal of conspiracy was to attack the reproductive health services facilities that provide alternatives to abortion by the spray of threats of drawing by force or other scary messages on the property of the establishments, in others to injure employees, threats, threats and intimidation of these facilities in their ability to provide reproductive health services,” the prosecutors in the department wrote.
The Law of Freedom to access the entrances to the clinic, or the Facial Law, is the 1994 law that makes a federal crime threatening or interfering with clinics that provide abortion or other reproductive health services.
Scheme fatherhood He has Be careful of people looking for abortion “Crisis pregnancy centers” such as the target in Florida “appears to be real health centers, but they are run by anti -miscarriage activists and who have a shaded and harmful agenda: your intimidation, or your pressure from abortion, and tell lies about abortion, birth control, and sexual health.”
If convicted, public prosecutors say Freestone and Smith-Stewart can spend up to 12 years in prison and be fined up to $ 350,000.
“I construct our police and justice system seriously these cases of local terrorism against life -leading facilities,” Miami Archbishops Thomas Winsky told Buzzfeed News in a statement. “It should not be tolerated with hate crimes of this type.”
A lawyer’s lawyer has not been included in the federal court records. Smith Stewart did not immediately respond to a request for the commentary to the sender to a number in court records.