Texas Woman Sues Marine, Claiming He Spiked Her Drink With Abortion Pills

A Texas female is suing a U.S. Marine, alleging he spiked her portion pinch astir a twelve abortion pills, sidesplitting their unborn child, aft she rebuffed his repeated requests to “get free of it,” according to a wrongful decease suit revenge successful national tribunal Monday.

Liana Davis alleges Christopher Cooprider secretly dissolved astatine slightest 10 abortion pills into a cup of basking cocoa that he prepared for her April 5 and past near nan location and stopped responding arsenic she profusely bled, nan suit says.

Cooprider, 34, declined to remark Monday.

The lawsuit, revenge successful nan U.S. District Court for nan Southern District of Texas, contains respective purported matter messages nan brace exchanged for weeks, opening Jan. 31, erstwhile Davis asked Cooprider for his input successful lawsuit she is confirmed to beryllium pregnant.

Cooprider said he “would for illustration to get free of it,” nan texts show, saying nan 2 were “not successful love” aliases together and that it would beryllium “messed up to bring a kid into nan world without some parents raising them.”

When Cooprider reiterated his desire for Davis to “get free of it” aft her gestation trial came backmost affirmative days later, she asked him to usage a different phrase.

“Every clip you opportunity ‘get free of it’ it’s for illustration an electrical shock,” she wrote, according to nan lawsuit. “I virtually consciousness for illustration I’m going down nan steepest elevation connected a roller coaster erstwhile I publication that.”

The pursuing matter messages allegedly show Cooprider telling Davis, without her approval, that he would bid abortion pills online. The pills were purchased from Aid Access, an online work that ships abortion pills to Americans from abroad, according to nan lawsuit.

Aid Access, and Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, a Dutch expert who runs it, are besides listed arsenic defendants successful nan lawsuit. They did not instantly return requests for comment.

For nan adjacent respective weeks, Cooprider was incapable to person Davis to get an abortion, and nan matter messages grew much contentious.

On March 6, Cooprider called nan babe a “thing” and blamed Davis for her “psycho mentality” that he said caused her ongoing divorce. The suit says Cooprider besides threatened to attest against Davis successful her divorcement proceeding and bid to person custody of her 3 children.

At nan extremity of March, Cooprider texted that he wanted to “abort this monstrosity of a situation” and said he felt “trapped” by nan situation.

But connected April 2, Cooprider appeared to alteration his reside successful matter messages to Davis. He projected making them “some lukewarm relaxing tea” successful what they could telephone a “trust building night,” according to screenshots shared successful nan lawsuit.

Davis, who was 8 weeks pregnant, accepted. When nan 2 met up astatine Davis’ Corpus Christi residence connected nan nighttime of April 5, Cooprider handed her a cup of basking cocoa soon earlier midnight, according to nan lawsuit. Within 30 minutes of drinking it, nan suit says, Davis began hemorrhaging and cramping.

Davis knew she had to spell to nan emergency room, but she knew she could not time off her 3 children who were sleeping upstairs, nan suit said. They came up pinch a scheme for Cooprider to prime up Davis’ mother, who lived nearby, truthful she could watch nan children while Cooprider took Davis to nan hospital.

But erstwhile Cooprider near nan house, he became unreachable, according to nan lawsuit.

“I americium gushing blood. Please hurry,” Davis texted him astir 12:30 a.m.

Davis’s mother took an Uber thrust to her daughter’s location astir 1 a.m. Around that time, Cooprider apologized and said he had to drawback a formation nan adjacent day, nan suit said.

A neighbour drove Davis to nan hospital, wherever her unborn baby, whom she had named Joy, did not survive.

Back home, Davis said she recovered nan opened container of abortion pills and a pill bottle, which she turned complete to nan Corpus Christi police, according to nan lawsuit. The suit claims Cooprider mixed 10 misoprostol pills into nan basking chocolate.

The Corpus Christi Police Department said location are nary progressive investigations involving Cooprider.

The Marine Corps did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.