Citizens call for elevated charges against abortionist

Belkis Gonzalez

A minister in Pompano Beach, Fla., has scheduled a news conference to call on prosecutors in Miami-Dade County to elevate the charges against Belkis Gonzalez, the owner of the Hialeah abortion business where a child named Shanice died in 2006.

Rev. O'Neal Dozier of the Worldwide Christian Center Church told WND he will ask prosecutor Katherine Rundel to raise the stakes in the prosecution, changing the counts from "tampering with physical evidence" and "failure to hold a medical license" to "murder, which is indeed the proper charge."

Gonzalez is scheduled to go to trial Friday for minor felony counts related to the death of Shanice Osbourne. Dozier's news conference is scheduled tomorrow.

It was in July 2006 when Sycloria Williams went to the abortion clinic, but Shanice was born alive during the procedure, according to witnesses who saw her breathing and moving.

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But clinic owner Gonzalez, because an abortionist was not present, "swept the baby into a biohazard bag and later hid the baby on the roof so the police would not find it," Dozier told WND.

"When Belkis Gonzalez decided not to call 911, when she decided instead not to clamp the cord so Shanice would bleed to death, when she decided to stuff Shanice into a bag so she would suffocate, that was cold-blooded murder and Gonzalez must be held accountable with homicide, not minor, charges," said Dozier.

WND reported earlier when Gonzalez, who already was on probation for an unrelated 2007 conviction for unlicensed practice of health care, was accused of the tampering, a third-degree felony, and unlicensed practice, a second-degree felony.

State regulators previously revoked the license of the doctor, Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique, who was supposed to conduct the abortion. Renelique was cited for medical malpractice and delegating the keeping of medical records to unlicensed workers and family.

Dozier said abortion is a practice of racism that targets blacks and Hispanics.

"And it needs to cease," he told WND. "We're trying to put pressure upon the prosecutor to elevate the charges."

"This needs to be brought to the awareness of people. They have no idea. This particular situation in my view is the same exact situation President Obama, at the time he was a state senator in Illinois, was trying to achieve when he argued to kill a piece of legislation that would give medical assistance to a baby who survives a botched abortion," Dozier told WND.

As WND reported at the time, Gonzalez allegedly responded to the live birth at the abortion clinic by coming into the room, sweeping the baby into the biohazard bag and dropping it in the garbage.

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Authorities later confirmed the baby had been born alive.

Williams told the denominational Florida Catholic newspaper she was "cheated" because she was led to believe the procedure would "terminate" a pregnancy, not kill a baby.

WND also reported recently on a civil lawsuit that accuses abortionists of making the mother watch the death of her newborn daughter.

Williams told the Florida Catholic she's telling her story because people need to know about the events that ultimately made her change her mind about abortion.

"No one should lose their life if you get pregnant," she told the newspaper. "If I got pregnant again I would have the baby."

Williams, who lives in Hollywood, Fla., said anyone with an unplanned pregnancy should make abortion the absolute last option.

"I would tell them not to do it. I'll say whatever to make them have second thoughts so they don't do it," she said. "There is help out there."

In her own case, she is upset that business employees "wouldn't admit to me the whole time something went wrong. I feel like they treated me like nothing, like a nobody."

Williams explained she went to the Miramar Women's Center to sign consent forms and get medication in July 2006 but didn't meet the doctor who was supposed to be in charge of her case. She did meet Renelique two days later, when she got a brief description of the abortion.

"He said that it was a two-day procedure, to take my medicines and come back the next day. He just said it like one, two, three," Williams said.

She said she had questioned him about the abortion "and what they do with the baby."

"They said they freeze the body," she said.

Once the abortion procedure was begun, she got a call from the daughter of clinic owner Gonzalez telling her to go to a different location the next day, and she did. There, the receptionist gave her "two white pills." Williams' lawsuit alleges the drug was Cytotec, to induce labor.

She put on a hospital gown and went to a waiting room.

"Where is the doctor?" she wondered during her three hours of waiting.

Suddenly, she realized the baby was arriving.

"There was just no stopping it," she said.

The baby, Shanice, suddenly was on a chair cushion.

"She wasn't moving much. Twitching, gasping for air. She wasn't crying though, just hissing. Hissing sounds only," Williams told the Florida Catholic.

The fact that the baby was fully formed and alive surprised her.

"I thought it would be a blob thing, but bigger, not a baby," she said. "She looked like a Water Baby. Like those dolls you fill up with water."

The lawsuit explains Gonzalez then cut the cord, scooped the baby into the biohazard bag and tossed it into a trash can.

Tipped off about the situation, police a week later found the baby's body, prompting the events that led to the civil lawsuit and eventually to the charges.

Prosecutors earlier said they could not file homicide counts because of the deteriorated condition of the body, and the trouble they would have linking an individual to the cause of death.