GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—A man accused of ending his girlfriend’s pregnancy by slipping her a drug obtained from Mexico is free on $7,500 bond.
Thirty-one-year-old Jared Merril Ahlstrom of Harriman, Utah, appeared in Mesa County District Court Tuesday where he was advised of a pending felony charge of unlawful termination of a preganancy.
Investigators said the man sent e-mails to his ex-girlfriend admitting that he gave her Misoprostol, an abortion-inducing drug. A number listed for Ahlstrom was disconnected.
Ahlstrom’s ex-girlfriend told investigators that Ahlstrom wanted her to terminate an unplanned preganancy but she wanted to keep the baby. At the time the couple lived in Grand Junction. The woman’s baby boy was delivered stillborn at 16 weeks shortly after the two went hiking in January 2009.
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Information from: The Daily Sentinel,
