Man who caused pregnant girlfriend's miscarriage by slipping her abortion pill says he was helping 'make the decision for her': Police

An Illinois antheral is accused of slipping abortion medication to his woman without her consent and causing her to person a miscarriage successful her apartment.

Emerson Evans, 31, was taken to the McLean County Detention Facility to await a proceeding connected Monday, according to a connection from constabulary successful Bloomington, a metropolis successful cardinal Illinois, astir 140 miles southwest of Chicago.

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Evans, according to the statement, "administered termination inducing drugs to the unfortunate without her cognition oregon consent." Police learned of the alleged dosing connected Friday, erstwhile officers were sent to a location successful Bloomington for "a large idiosyncratic having a aesculapian emergency."

The aesculapian exigency was a miscarriage, constabulary said.

Local NBC and ABC affiliate WEEK, citing tribunal documents, reported that erstwhile constabulary were called to the woman's flat astir 5 p.m. connected Friday, they arrived to find her crying successful the bathroom, arsenic good arsenic a important magnitude of blood.

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The pistillate reportedly told constabulary that she was astir 7 weeks large — and that Evans had told her helium wanted to terminate the pregnancy.

Evans told constabulary that helium was helping "make the determination for her," WEEK reported, and that helium believed she knew helium was giving her the abortion-inducing pills. He besides reportedly told investigators that helium bought mifepristone from a "girl connected campus" for astir $50, though which "campus" was not instantly clear.

Evans has been charged with 2 counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child, according to police. Under Illinois law, the transgression carries the aforesaid imaginable punishment arsenic a condemnation for first-degree execution — 20 to 60 years successful prison, WEEK reported.