Wausau police have arrested a 33-year-old man, accusing him of trying to use a prescription drug to kill his unborn child. Jeffery Smith was arrested last week after a brief investigation.
Officers say a pregnant woman told them she thought the father of her child, Smith, had put something in her water bottle while he was visiting her at her home. She said he had tried to convince her to have an abortion and had previously sent texts saying aborting the baby would be easy and she just had to take a pill. The women found residue in the bottom of the bottle before drinking it and then called police, they sent it to the State Crime Lab for testing and it was found to have a drug present which is used to terminate pregnancies. The mother and baby were unharmed.
Smith is in the Marathon County Jail. He is facing charges of attempted first-degree homicide of an unborn baby and delivery of a prescription drug. If Convicted he faces a maximum of 66 years in prison.
