Alleged Vandals Indicted Over Attacking Pregnancy Centers In Florida

The Department of Justice will be open Tuesday announced Two people are charged for vandalizing a building pregnancy centers Florida

Two Floridians were indicted by a federal grand jury for spray-painting threats on resource centers that help women and men who are facing unplanned pregnancies.

Caleb Freestone, Amber Smith-Stewart and the other defendants are charged with conspiring to prevent pregnancy center workers offering assistance to women and men at the centers. The Department of Justice released a statement on Tuesday. The conspiracy included the following: the indictment said that the two defendants went after pregnant centers and vandalized the buildings with spray paint threatening messages.

Together with others, the defendants allegedly spray-painted offensive statements such as “If abortions aren’t safe than niether [sic] are you,” “WE’RE COMING for U,” “YOUR TIME IS UP!!” “We are everywhere.”

The messages were left at a Winter Haven center and allegedly they went after other pregnancy centres in Hollywood, Florida and Hialeah.

Smith-Stewart and Freestone are accused of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.FACE Act) for two reasons — why they went after the workers and why they caused harm to the site.

The law doesn’t allow anyone to keep someone from “obtaining or providing reproductive health services” You should not pursue someone simply because they are doing it. They can’t “intentionally [damage] or [destroy] the property of a facility … because such facility provides reproductive health services…”

They could each spend up to 12 consecutive years in jail. There could be three years of supervised freedom and penalties as high as $350,000.

The Archdiocese of Miami operates one of the slain pregnancy centers.

“I applaud our police and justice system for taking very seriously these instances of domestic terrorism against pro-life facilities. Hate crimes of this sort should not be tolerated,” Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski told The National Catholic Register via a spokesperson on Wednesday

Smith-Stewart’s Facebook page reportedly revealed that Smith-Stewart is connected with Antifa. National Review. The cover photo for the account is Antifa’s flag and the profile picture included an Antifa sticker with the phrase, “Fight all governments there’s no authority but yourself,” Additional sticker to say, “make racists afraid again.” Smith-Stewart posted a Facebook photo of someone else. burning An American flag in August 2021

Nearly 60 people have died since May 2022. attacks According to Catholic News Agency‘s data. Fox News as of October last year reported More than 100 pro-life organizations, centers for pregnancy, and churches have survived attacks.

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