ORLANDO — Remee Jo Fleed is suing a Tampa-area pharmacy, after she claims her antibiotics were switched with abortion pills by her ex boyfriend, who obtained the drug, prescription bottle and fake label from the pharmacy.
Days before taking the pills, her ex boyfriend’s father, an obstetrician, had confirmed her pregnancy. Several days after obtaining the prescription, she went to the hospital with severe pain and bleeding, suffering a miscarriage.
The boyfriend, John Andrew Welden, 28, admitted in a signed plea agreement last month in Tampa federal court, that he forged his father’s signature on a prescription and conspired with an as-yet unnamed employee of Sun Lake Pharmacy to order Cytotec, which can induce abortions.
Under a plea bargain, Welden pleaded guilty to charges of tampering with a consumer product, resulting in bodily injury and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Under terms of the plea deal, Welden faces a little over 13 years in prison when he is sentenced in December.
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