County prosecutors ignore murder of unborn baby
King County prosecutors charged Ignacio Aguilar Rosas, a 29-year-old transient from California, with first-degree murder in the sexual assault and strangling of a Bellevue mother of four near Bellevue Community College. On Monday morning, prosecutors allege, Rosas attacked Cassandra Oliphant, 33, while she was on her way to an appointment. Oliphant was in the first trimester of her pregnancy, though prosecutors said they will likely not file any charges against Rosas for the death of the fetus, said Dan Donohoe, prosecutors' spokesman. Generally, an unborn child must be able to survive outside the womb in order for someone to be charged with its death, Donohoe said.
Posted by Editor at May 27, 2005 08:14 AM
