Imprisoned abortion doc ordered to pay $4 million
PHILADELPHIA — An abortion provider convicted of killing babies born alive has been ordered to pay nearly $4 million to the daughter of a Virginia woman who was given a lethal dose of Demerol while under his care.
Lawyers say it is unlikely 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar’s daughter will ever see any of the judgment awarded this week. They say former doctor Kermit Gosnell is cash-strapped and his shuttered clinic don’t have insurance.
The 74-year-old Gosnell is serving a life sentence after his 2013 conviction for killing three babies born alive and Mongar’s overdose death. Investigators described his clinic as a chaotic “house of horrors,” replete with fetal remains in the staff refrigerator, specimen jars of severed feet in his office and dirty medical instruments in the surgery rooms.
