‘The guilt of a baby in the bin was eating us up’

A WOMAN who reported her housemate to police in the North for buying drugs online to abort an unborn child has defended the move.

‘The guilt of a baby in the bin was eating us up’

The woman who aborted her child was prosecuted under the region’s strict abortion laws and was handed a three-month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months.

The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claimed she was unable to raise enough money to travel to England to access a lawful termination.

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