Kermit Barron Gosnell born February 9, is an American serial killer and former abortion doctor. He provided illegal late-term abortions at his clinic in West Philadelphia. Gosnell was convicted of the murders of three infants who were born alive after using drugs to induce labor, the manslaughter of one woman during an abortion procedure, and of several other abortion- and drug-related crimes.
Gosnell, based in the Mantua neighborhood of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , owned and operated the Women's Medical Society Clinic, a non-compliant abortion clinic that was dubbed a "house of horrors" during his criminal trial. Gosnell was also a prolific prescriber of numerous controlled substances, including OxyContin.
In May , Gosnell was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of three of the infants and involuntary manslaughter in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, an adult patient at the clinic who died following an abortion procedure.
Gosnell was also convicted of 21 felony counts of illegal late-term abortion and counts of violating Pennsylvania's hour informed consent law. After the conviction, Gosnell waived his right to appeal in exchange for an agreement by prosecutors not to seek the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Gosnell was born on February 9, , in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , as the only child of a gas station operator and a government clerk.
It has been reported that Gosnell spent four decades practicing medicine among the poor, including a teen-aid program and opening the Mantua Halfway House, a rehab clinic for drug addicts in the impoverished Mantua neighborhood of West Philadelphia.
