A Bath pharmacist has been charged with causing his pregnant girlfriend -- a Sayre resident -- to have a miscarriage.
Sayre police on Wednesday charged Orbin Eeli Tercero, 38, with criminal homicide of an unborn child, first-degree murder of an unborn child, aggra vated assault of an unborn child, aggravated assault, hindering apprehension or prosecution, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
Tercero, of Williamson Terrace, was arrested Thursday by state police in Bath as a fugitive from justice.
He was arraigned in Bath Village Court and remanded to Steuben County Jail, pending a hearing on extradition to Pennsylvania.
The charges are based on the following events, according to police:
The victim, a 36-year-old woman from Sayre and a pharmacist at a Wegmans Market, said she had a two-year physical relationship with Tercero, also a Wegmans pharmacist.
Tercero was engaged to another woman at the time.
The victim, whose name is being withheld by this newspaper, told Tercero she was pregnant in mid-January.
Tercero told the woman he could use the drug misoprostol to induce a miscarriage. The victim told Tercero she would get an abortion instead.
The victim, however, made a Feb. 24 appointment for an abortion but changed her mind. She called Tercero to tell him she would keep the baby.
In late February, on the victim's birthday, Tercero visited her at home and used misoprostol he allegedly stole from Wegmans pharmacy to cause the miscarriage.
Without her knowing it, Tercero put one pill in her vagina, one in her juice and one in her water. She was 13 weeks pregnant at the time.
When the victim began to miscarry, she found a partially dissolved misoprostol tablet among the discharge.
Tercero drove the victim to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, where she miscarried.
Jo Natale, director of media relations at Wegmans, said Tercero is a former employee. She would not say when his employment ended.
"He was not assigned to a single store; rather, he floated and worked at all of the stores in our Southern Tier division at one point or another," Natale said.
That division includes Corning, Elmira, Hornell, Ithaca, Johnson City and Geneseo, she said.
Natale would not comment on whether the drug misoprostol requires a prescription. Here is the direct link to this article...http://www.stargazette.com/article/20100402/NEWS01/4020363/Pharmacist-charged-after-he-allegedly-forces-girlfriend-to-miscarry...hmmm gee I wonder if you went to planned parenthood,,uhh think you would be able to do this?? I think so they do it all the time. Hmmm wonder why they dont arrest anyone for what this guy did??