A man in Janesville, Wisconsin, has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide after shooting and killing his girlfriend when she refused to abort their baby.
23-year-old Logan Barclay shot his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kiersten Hansen after she delivered the news that she would be keeping the baby.
The pair already had an 8-month-old child together, who is in the custody of Barclay’s parents.
Barclay told police he became angry when Hansen said she was pregnant again with his child and would not abort the pregnancy.
Barclay confessed to killing Hansen after lying to law enforcement about the night she went missing.
Barclay initially told police he was walking with Hasen in a local park, and she was talking about the pregnancy.
The medical examiner has yet to determine whether or not she actually was pregnant.
“…No matter how many times I told her to stop, she wouldn’t,” he said.
“And I broke. I snapped.”
“I screamed at her, and took it out and said ‘Stop following me, stop talking about it, please.'”
Police said:
“She decided to keep the baby, which made Logan extremely angry, because he did not want that kind of responsibility.”
Barclay then shot her with a .22-caliber handgun and walked away.
Two women found Hansen’s body.
Barclay was given a $1 million cash bond.
Liveaction noted:
Homicide is known to be a leading cause of death for pregnant women. Women are more likely to be murdered during pregnancy than they are to die from the three leading obstetric causes of death (high blood pressure disorders, hemorrhage, and sepsis).
A large number of these incidents are domestic violence situations.
Recently, there has been an uptick in crimes against pregnant women who are assaulted or killed because they refuse to kill their preborn children.
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