Friday, August 23, 2002
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Friday, August 23, 2002 |
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Boyfriend charged with killing unborn babies By JOHN
MUNFORD
A Fayette man who beat his four-months-pregnant girlfriend over two months ago at Marnelle Mobile Home Park now faces charges that the beating caused the deaths of the two unborn babies she was carrying. Michael Antonio Glass, 35, was charged Wednesday with two felony counts of feticide by Fayette County sheriff's detectives. According to warrants filed for his arrest, when he struck her in the abdomen, it caused a laceration to the liver of one of the fetuses, which subsequently caused its death. That created a chain reaction that eventually led to the death of the second fetus also, authorities allege in the warrants. Previously, Glass was charged with aggravated assault and three counts of cruelty to children in the second degree in the case since the assault took place in front of the couple's three children, according to authorities. Glass has been held at the Fayette County Jail without bond since his arrest. At the time of his arrest, he had possession of a stolen weapon at a Marshall's department store in Atlanta where he was a manager, authorities said. Prior to the assault, Glass had been angry at the girlfriend because he rebuffed her wishes to get an abortion. He has a prior history of assaulting women and was on probation for an assault in Clayton County when the incident occurred, according to Maj. Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department. The babies were delivered stillborn at Southern Regional Medical Center July 20. After the original charges were filed, authorities indicated the feticide charges could be filed if autopsies of the fetuses showed they died from injuries received during the assault.
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