US Army captain jailed for intentionally killing unborn baby

A US Army captain has been sentenced to twelve years in prison for spiking his girlfriend’s drink with an abortion drug that killed her unborn baby.

Capt. Brandon Jones-Adams began a relationship with a junior officer, and in May 2025, she became pregnant with his child. But at his home three months later, she noticed a residue in a drink that he had given her. After suffering severe cramps, she rushed to the hospital where her 13-week old child died.

An examination of his phone revealed that he had tried to source the abortion pill mifepristone multiple times. Using a false name, he managed to buy the pills online.

‘Killed a child’

Army investigator Special Agent in Charge Michele Starostka stated: “What Mr. Jones-Adams did was a disgusting act that killed an unborn child and violated the victim’s trust”.

“When someone crosses that line, we will throw every resource we have into the investigation and make sure they face full accountability.”

Among other offences, Jones-Adams pleaded guilty to intentionally killing an unborn child and was given the maximum sentence of twelve years in prison and dismissed from the Army.

Coercion

In March, former Olympic swimming silver medallist Sharron Davies explained why she backs the reintroduction of in-person consultations for abortions in Great Britain.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Baroness Davies of Devonport branded the pills-by-post scheme as an example of “powerful drugs being too casually dispensed to women by the state in the name of ideology, from which tragic consequences have already unfolded”.

She emphasised that “being pro-choice does not excuse jeopardising safety or allowing a ‘Wild West’ of abortion pills, where pills can too easily fall into the hands of abusers coercing abortions, traffickers covering up abuse or women whose pregnancies are approaching full term”.

Such ‘pills-by-post’ schemes, which removed in-person consultations for women to receive abortion pills, were introduced across Great Britain during the Covid pandemic.