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Showing Original Post only (View all)Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion [View all]
Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An AbortionForbes
A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant. Seventeen-year-old Celeste Burgess, who is being tried as an adult along with her mother Jessica Burgess, is awaiting trial in Madison County District Court on charges that they broke a Nebraska law banning abortions after 20 weeks.
This marks one of the first instances of a persons Facebook activity being used to incriminate her in a state where abortion access is restricted a scenario that has remained largely hypothetical in the weeks following the US Supreme Courts decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Nebraska currently outlaws abortions beyond 20 weeks. On Monday, Republican lawmakers in the state failed to secure enough votes to decrease that window to 12 weeks.
Celeste and her mother were charged in July with allegedly removing, concealing or abandoning a dead human body and concealing the death of another person after the Norfolk Police Department received a tip claiming Celeste had miscarried in April at 23 weeks of pregnancy and secretly buried the fetus with her mother's help. The case was first reported by the Lincoln Journal Star.
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Much worse than anything pre-1973. Also, Facebook strikes again.
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Pete Ross Junior
Aug 2022
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K&R, just saw Abortion is a top five issue for Latino's in different markets & religious affiliation
uponit7771
Aug 2022
#1
75% no matter what market or religion want to keep it safe and say it should NOT be banned. Dems ...
uponit7771
Aug 2022
#5
yep, I was blown away ... this is an issue dems need to use to crush MAGA and get that infestation
uponit7771
Aug 2022
#11
Really looking forward to what increased cop funding will do in light of Dobbs.
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2022
#3
While not impossible at 23 weeks, miscarriages typically happen at a much earlier stage.
Lonestarblue
Aug 2022
#23
So Facebook is willing to assist in ruining the life of a 17-year-old and her mother because
halfulglas
Aug 2022
#7
I suppose the FB position is always to cooperate with law enforcement. Not good. n/t
Pete Ross Junior
Aug 2022
#12
This is beyond horrible, but who TF would post something like that on FB in the first place?
OMGWTF
Aug 2022
#18