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‘I know what’s buried in the back yard’: A woman faces a rare charge of self-induced abortion
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — The police brought cadaver dogs to search the small redbrick rancher in this suburban community south of Richmond.
On that March day more than a year ago, they were seeking “any evidence associated with the delivery and death of a newborn child whether alive or deceased,” according to the affidavit for the search warrant.
What they found buried in the back yard — the skeletal remains of a fetus — led to the indictment last month of a 43-year-old woman who lived there. Michelle Frances Roberts is accused of self-aborting in the third trimester of her pregnancy. She was arrested March 29 this year on felony charges of “producing abortion or miscarriage.”