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Pregnant woman charged with shooting herself
SUFFOLK, Va. Police say a Suffolk woman who told police she had been shot has been arrested and charged with illegally inducing an abortion by shooting herself.
The resulting shot to the abdomen killed her full-term baby girl.
Tammy Skinner, who's 22, was also charged with using a firearm to commit a felony. She also faces charges of filing a false police report. Bond has been set at 15-thousand dollars.
Skinner called police on a cell phone early Thursday and said she had been shot. Emergency personnel found her at a Suffolk car dealership and took her to the hospital.
A charge of inducing an abortion is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a 100-thousand dollar fine.
Skinner's father, Larry, told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper of Norfolk for a story published today that he has believed for some time that his daughter was depressed.
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Wow!
Luckily, because it was an immaculate conception, the dead baby's Father was not available for comment as he apparently does not exist.
1st-March-2006
