Two people faced a violation of religious groups’ offices, offices that offer an alternative to abortion for pregnant women in Florida, officials announced Tuesday.
Caleb Freestone, 27, and Amber Smith-Stewart, 23, charged each of the conspiracy against rights and two counts of violating the freedom of the clinic entrance.
this indictment Faced with the couple, unsealed Tuesday and alleged they targeted three so-called pregnancy help centers that offer abortion alternatives, including counseling, pregnancy tests and ultrasound.
On May 28, 2022, the two and other unnamed accomplices allegedly headed to one of a centers operating between Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale and Miami, where they sprayed the threat, “If abortion is not safe, it is your safety.”
At the time of the alleged attack, the Supreme Court has not yet Overturning the right to abortion nationwide,but Judge Samuel Alito’s draft opinion leaked This shows that they are ready to do so.
“We believe the purpose of this vandalism is to scare and intimidate us,” Rebecca Brady, Archbishop Director of Reverence Life Group explain In destroying the dance, he added that the culprit was captured on surveillance videos and later shared the culprit with police.
A vandalized photo also shows the anarchist symbol and the term “Jane’s revenge” referring to Radical pro-abortion group formed After Alito’s opinion leaked. one blog Allegedly belonging to Jane’s Revenge group, celebrating attacks on what they call “fake clinics,” including one in Hollywood.
Two days after the court ruling finally overturns Roe v Wade The couple allegedly sprayed a group of people at another clinic in Winter Haven, eastern Tampa on June 24. Vandalism includes “We’re everywhere,” “We’re here for you,” and “You’re time!”
On July 3, they allegedly destroyed another plant in Hialeah, Greater Miami, with the same threat as Hollywood clinics.
“The conspiracy’s plan and purpose is to attack reproductive health service facilities, by spraying paintings on the property of the facilities to provide abortion alternatives, otherwise being harmed, oppressed, threatened and intimidated employees of these facilities to provide reproductive health services.”
The Clinical Entrance Act or the Face Act is a 1994 law that makes threats or intervenes in clinics that provide abortion or other reproductive health services a federal crime.
plan Parenting have Warning people seeking abortion Like the crisis-targeted pregnancy centers in Florida “looks like real health centers, but they are run by anti-abortion activists with dark, harmful agendas: frighten, shame or pressure to keep you from having an abortion and tell lies that involve lies, involve abortion, birth control, and sexual health.”
Prosecutors say Freestone and Smith-Stewart could be sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $350,000 if convicted.
“I commend our police and judicial system for taking these cases of family terrorism against biological facilities very seriously,” Miami’s Archbishop Thomas Wenski told Buzzfeed News in a statement. “This hate crime should not be tolerated.”
In federal court records, no attorney information is listed. Smith-Stewart did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent to the numbers listed in the court records.
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