Man Secretly Put Abortion Pills Inside His Girlfriend’s Body and Killed Her Unborn Baby
Another case in which a man allegedly slipped abortion pills to a woman causing her to miscarry.
David Benjamin Coots, a Washington state nurse practitioner, “is accused of secretly administering abortion pills to his mistress during sex leading to assault and rape charges,” Lesley Cosme Torres reporting for People Magazine.
Yet even with a string of serious charges– second-degree assault, third-degree rape, tampering with a witness and five counts of violating a court order–Judge Stanley Rumbaugh will allow Coots to remove an electronic home-monitoring device on May 14th so he can start a business.
Coots was a nurse practitioner at MultiCare Gig Harbor Medical Park until his license was suspended in April 2024 by the state Board of Nursing.
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Background
“The alleged victim was a patient of Coots’, a married father of five who is accused of persistently pursuing a romantic relationship before beginning an affair with her last year, according to the charging documents,” Cosme Torres reported.
In January, when the woman learned she was pregnant, she said Coots was “overly supportive” when she told him, per the charging documents. But on at least two occasions, the woman believes that Coots tried to induce an abortion.
Coots allegedly prescribed misoprostol pills to himself and slipped four of them into the woman’s body during sex, according to the court documents.
Cosme Torres continued
On Feb. 5, David was allegedly “relentlessly” messaging the woman until approximately one minute before officers served him with a protection order, authorities said, per the charging documents. He also allegedly contacted the woman and left gifts and flowers outside her home; he was arrested for allegedly violating his protection order. [A restraining order against Coots was served in February 2024.
Coots recently obtained an esthetician license by the Department of Licensing on April 11, the outlet reported, citing court documents. Coots’ new business would help people with “cystic acne, alopecia, rosacea and hyperpigmentation,” The News Tribune reported.
The New Tribune’s Puneet Bsanti contacted the Department of Licensing. DOL spokesperson Christine Anthony told Bsanti
“State law doesn’t require a criminal background check for cosmetology licenses, but the application asks a person to attest or self-report if they have been convicted of a crime and he checked no. Now that we know the serious nature of the charges against him, his esthetician license is under review.”
“The alleged victim told Rumbaugh the ankle monitor has given her peace of mind as the case also has affected her 9-year-old daughter,” according to Bsanti.
The woman said she would like Coots to stay on the ankle monitor until a decision has been made during trial.
“I don’t know how to explain how terrifying it is,” she said. The woman also said if Coots is taken off the ankle monitor, she and her daughter would leave the state.
“That’s how afraid I am of him coming to my house,” she said.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.