The son of a fertility doctor had admitted killing his unborn baby by tricking his girlfriend into taking an abortion pill.
John Andrew Welden gave girlfriend Remee Jo Lee a drug known to cause miscarriages when she was suffering from an infection while seven weeks pregnant.
The 28-year-old, from Florida, pleaded guilty to reduced charges of tampering with a consumer product resulting in bodily injury and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
The plea agreement did not require proof that the prescription drug Cytotec actually caused Miss Lee to miscarry, but Welden admitted he tricked her into taking it because he hoped it would end the pregnancy.
Cytotec, known generically as misoprostol, is prescribed to prevent stomach ulcers and carries a warning that it should not be used during pregnancy because it can cause abortion, birth defects and premature birth.
Welden admitted that he forged his father’s signature on a prescription used to obtain Cytotec from a mail-order pharmacy.
Ordeal: Remee Jo Lee speaks outside court
 
He said he switched the label to make it appear the medication was an antibiotic, and told Miss Lee that his father had prescribed it for her to treat an infection.
She miscarried a couple of days later.
Miss Lee told CNN on Tuesday that she was elated to discover she was pregnant and that Welden had tried to persuade her to have an abortion.
"It’s just been the most devastating loss," she told CNN.
"The horror I go through every day, there’s no escaping it, no turning it off."
Under terms of a plea deal, Welden faces up to 13 years and eight months in prison when he is sentenced on December 5, according to Tampa federal court documents.
The agreement spared him from a potential sentence of life in prison on the original charge of murder under the Protection of Unborn Children Act. Welden was indicted in May and remains under house arrest.
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