A Brooklyn man slipped abortion pills to his pregnant girlfriend as they had sex in a Crown Heights apartment, causing the stillborn birth of her 3-month-old fetus, prosecutors charge.
Shervaughn Remy, 34, who was arrested on Valentine’s Day 2013, turned down an offer Monday to plead guilty to felony abortion.
After sex, the pregnant woman felt such intense pain in her abdomen that she went to a local hospital, where a doctor removed two pills from inside her and identified them as the abortion drug Cytotec, according to a criminal complaint.
Several hours after seeing the doctor, she gave birth to the 14-week-old stillborn fetus, the complaint says.
“My client maintains his innocence,” defense attorney David Zelman said in Brooklyn Supreme Court, adding that the alleged victim told him she doesn’t want an order of protection or to press charges.
Remy was charged last year with abortion, a felony punishable by up to four years behind bars.