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After Abortionist Flees the Country Clinic Owners Arrested

Abortion Clinic Owners Arrested

A Miami clinic lost its license and its owners were arrested in the second case involving the same unlicensed doctor allegedly performing abortions.

TALLAHASSEE -- Police have arrested the owners of a Miami abortion clinic on charges of allowing an unlicensed doctor and unlicensed nurse to perform abortions.

Jose Rodriguez, 52, and Magaly Gil, 56, both of Miami, were arrested and released on $5,000 bond after detectives concluded that they knew Kieron Nisbet was not licensed to practice medicine in Florida. Nisbet is alleged to have performed abortions in November at their clinic, Best Care Women's Center, 8380 SW Eighth St.

Police said they believe Nisbet also illegally performed abortions at a Hialeah clinic, A Women's Care II, during the same time and has fled to Trinidad to escape an arrest warrant they obtained for him in April.

State officials are trying to revoke the license of A Women's Care II, but the clinic is fighting the charges before an administrative judge.

Rodriguez and Gil voluntarily relinquished the abortion clinic license on Monday, state officials said, after the joint investigation between the Miami-Dade Police Department and the Florida Department of Health.

A former employee of Best Care Women's Center told police in a sworn statement that Rodriguez and Gil ordered her to deny Nisbet's involvement in the clinic if questioned by police, the police report said.

The pair went so far as to bring the employee to a Hialeah clinic ''for the purpose of showing her a licensed doctor by the name of David Brown,'' and she was instructed to say Brown performed the abortions at their clinic, police said.

In March, a Best Care employee was arrested and charged with allowing the unlicensed practice of nursing, after investigators identified two patients who were administered sonograms, received medicine and were sedated by Nisbet and an unlicensed nurse.

The Agency for Health Care Administration, which regulates abortion clinics, also lists Gil as the administrator for another clinic, the Millennium Women Center in Miami.

Reached at the Millennium clinic, Gil would not confirm the arrest but she said that the Best Care clinic closed two months ago.

Gil also said that she no longer has a business relationship with Rodriguez.


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Posted by Editor at July 20, 2005 07:03 AM