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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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 Posted - 08/16/2004 : 20:06:40
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Heard this story on NPR on the way home tonight. The web site blurb is:An anti-abortion activist is being sued for pretending to offer abortion services to pregnant women seeking the procedure. The Louisiana man is accused of stalling women who called his listing, under abortion services, until it was too late for them to have an abortion. Apparently, the class-action lawsuit is seeking child support for all the children this guy helped bring into the world through allegedly purposeful inaction.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2004 : 21:54:53 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
Apparently, the class-action lawsuit is seeking child support for all the children this guy helped bring into the world through allegedly purposeful inaction.
I so hope that this guy looses that law-suit. It would serve him well. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2004 : 22:10:49 [Permalink]
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| That is so wrong.... hope he gets his ass sued off. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2004 : 23:37:34 [Permalink]
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Evil appears in many strange guises, does it not?
Is there anything criminal that this grifter can be locked up for -- fraud being fraud, after all?
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2004 : 02:39:41 [Permalink]
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Actually, fraud is against the law. I believe you have to show you were harmed. So a lot of quackery fraud goes on but only extreme rip off cases ever get prosecuted.
It would be interesting for someone to take a chiropractor to court based on fraud. At least in civil court anyway, maybe they could get their money back.
I heard a bit of the NPR program also. I don't think you could fool many people for very long before they went looking for another provider. I wonder what those people thought they were accomplishing? |
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