A Philadelphia jury has found Dr. Kermit Gosnell guilty on three counts of first-degree murder, for providing abortions on babies born during the sixth, seventh and eighth months of pregnancy terms, reported CNN Monday.
Gosnell, 72, has been accused of first-degree murder, killing the infants by cutting their spinal cords using scissors. Some were even born alive.
He was additionally accused of involuntary manslaughter, killing Karnamaya Mongar, 41, who passed away from an overdose of anesthetic while Gosnell performed a second-trimester abortion on her.
Further charges include abortion at 24 or more weeks- illegal in Pennsylvania- theft, solicitation, and other offenses.
He now is up against 19 charges, along with 263 counts of abortion-law violations.
Gosnell, who practices out of his West Philadelphia clinic, is not a board-certified obstetrician or gynecologist. His office went years without a state inspection, said USA Today.
Prosecutors described his clinic as, "a house of horrors"; a dirty, dingy spot that served primarily low-income women and teens.
After being deadlocked in deliberation over two of the counts for almost seven weeks, the judge instructed the jury to make a decision.
They have now found Gosnell guilty on three counts of first-degree murder.
Gosnell did not speak in court on his own behalf.
A clinic worker named Ashley Baldwin who took the stand Monday said that she saw live fetuses moving, breathing, and, "screeching."
Sherry West, another employee at the clinic, said she witnessed a 2-foot-long fetus that had not yet developed eyes or a mouth, "but it was like...making this noise...it sounded like a little alien."
Yet another ex-clinic worker said that she was told to use surgical scissors to cut an aborted fetus' spine. She had found the baby in a toilet still alive. Its arm was still moving.
Workers testified that Gosnell had them give standardized doses of painkillers, but told them to administer inappropriately high doses of labor-inducing drugs.
The defense maintained that there were no live babies were born at the clinic, and that Mongar's death happened because of unexpected difficulties.
