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"Mom taken for abortion at gunpoint"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this remarkable local article that reads like an evil criminal law (or constitutional law?) professor's exam hypo.  Here are the details: A Near East Side man pointed a gun at a pregnant woman and forced her to go to a clinic yesterday morning after she refused to go through with a scheduled abortion there, Columbus police say. Dominic L. Holt-Reid, 27, of 579 Kelton Ave., was arrested and charged with kidnapping and carrying a concealed weapon. Police found him about 9:45 a.m. in a parking lot behind Founder's Women's Health Center, 1243 E. Broad St., said Sgt. Rich Weiner, a Columbus police spokesman. Holt-Reid and Yolanda M. Burgess, the woman he forced to the clinic, have a child together, Weiner said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).