Man Accused of Giving Ex-Girlfriend Abortion Capsules Disguised As Nutritional vitamins, Triggering Miscarriage

In keeping with the Watertown Police Division, on Tuesday, Robert Kawada, 43, was charged with poisoning, assault and battery with a harmful weapon on a pregnant particular person and assault and battery on a family or member of the family after he allegedly gave his ex-girlfriend abortion tablets to finish her being pregnant.

“The preliminary investigation means that Kawada and the sufferer have been in a courting relationship and that the sufferer turned pregnant,” authorities mentioned within the press launch. “Kawada is alleged to have secretly given the sufferer remedy below the guise that he was giving her iron tablets and nutritional vitamins. That remedy was really meant to finish the being pregnant. After the sufferer had been given the tablets, one in every of which is believed to be Misoprostol, the sufferer suffered a miscarriage.”

Misoprostol and mifepristone are the 2 medicines used to explain the abortion capsule, also referred to as a medicine abortion, in response to Deliberate Parenthood. The prescriptions are often taken collectively, nonetheless, misoprostol can be utilized alone.

In a possible trigger assertion from the Watertown Division, obtained by native Boston NBC affiliate WBTS, the girl instructed authorities that she met Kawada on a courting app, earlier than they went on a number of dates, and had consensual unprotected intercourse.

Per the doc, Kawada ended his relationship with the girl — whose id has not been disclosed — in March, earlier than she later discovered she was pregnant along with his youngster. After the girl revealed the information to Kawada, they met a number of occasions over the following six weeks.

In keeping with the possible trigger assertion, the girl mentioned that in her conferences with Kawada, he supplied her with tablets he claimed have been iron dietary supplements or nutritional vitamins, which investigators later found have been misoprostol. Per police, Kawada additionally gave the girl selfmade raspberry leaf cookies.

Raspberry leaf tea has been thought to induce and shorten labor. Nonetheless, as authorities defined within the doc, it’s “thought of doubtlessly harmful within the first trimester because it may trigger a miscarriage.”

Kawada additionally allegedly assured the girl by sharing that his father was an OB-GYN and he had expertise by way of his ex-wife’s being pregnant.

In keeping with the doc, at one of many closing conferences, Kawada accused the girl of mendacity about taking the iron tablets, and claimed she set him up with the being pregnant. Police mentioned that in the course of the pair’s final assembly, Kawada instructed the girl the being pregnant resulted in his mom’s current loss of life as she had needed them to get an abortion. Investigators wrote that Kawada additionally needed to terminate the being pregnant, whereas the girl needed to maintain the infant and indicated she would increase it on her personal.

The day of her miscarriage, the girl allegedly acquired a telephone name from an individual claiming to be a nurse, recommending that she take iron tablets. Police wrote within the doc that Kawada instructed the girl he had the medication she wanted, earlier than the faux nurse referred to as again once more and instructed the girl to take two extra of the tablets.

Per the possible trigger assertion, that night, the girl began experiencing extreme signs of cramping and bloody discharge, and referred to as the obvious nurse who had spoken to her earlier that day, earlier than she discovered the particular person was not an actual nurse, as they’d claimed.

In keeping with authorities, the girl then reached out to her household, who referred to as police the following day on Might 2. She allegedly gave authorities one of many tablets she had saved, and gave them Kawada’s data.

As reported by WBTS, the doc mentioned that docs on the hospital instructed the girl she had suffered a miscarriage. In keeping with authorities, Kawada instructed police that he gave his girlfriend “vitamin C and iron tablets that I ordered off Amazon.”

Nonetheless, investigators mentioned Kawada’s telephone revealed he had beforehand referred to as a pharmacy that sells misoprostol following the primary ultrasound appointment. Per the doc, Kawada’s telephone information additionally confirmed he had spoken to the faux nurse, and he had searched phrases together with, “misoprostol dissolved,” “9 week aborted fetus pics” and “no response to misoprostol.”

Kawada was arrested final Friday, earlier than being charged whereas showing in Watertown District Courtroom on Tuesday. He pleaded not responsible. Kawada’s bail was set at $100,000.

Kawada’s lawyer, Dmitry Lev, instructed WBTS, “We sit up for a full and full investigation and a good trial in entrance of our jury.”