Woman Charged With Murder After Taking Pills to Induce Labour

A woman has been charged with murder in the US after a hospital social worker told officers she took pills  to terminate a pregnancy.

Kenlissia Jones is being held at the Dougherty County jail in Georgia on charges of malice murder and possession of a dangerous drug. She was arrested on Saturday after a county social services employee called police to a hospital, according to police.

A hospital social worker told police Jones, 23, of Albany, said she had taken four pills she purchased over the internet “to induce labour” because she and her boyfriend had broken up.

Police were also told Jones went into labour and delivered the foetus in a car on the way to the hospital. The police report does not say how far along Jones was but WALB-TV reported earlier that authorities said she was about five and a half months pregnant.

Jones’ grandmother, Mary Lee Jones, said she did not know her granddaughter was pregnant, but said she often seemed troubled. “I think now, in the position she’s in, she needs to be evaluated,” Mary Lee Jones said. “She’s just not herself.