Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data

Mom pleads guilty to abortion after Meta gives DMs to cops

Facebook messages, obtained via valid warrant, help make case against women

Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data

Facebook shared private messages between a teen and her mom with police. Now the mom is pleading guilty to abortion charges.

A woman and her daughter plead guilty to abortion-related charges supported by Meta-provided Facebook chats

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Norfolk, Nebraska, woman pleaded guilty to helping her daughter have a medication abortion last year. The charges came after Facebook, by court order, provided police with evidence that bolstered a Madison County prosecutor’s case against her. Last year, it emerged that the two were charged after police acquired Facebook messages that proved the two had acquired abortion medication intended for first-t…

Mom Jessica Burgess pleads guilty to giving teen daughter abortion...

A Nebraska mother pleaded guilty on Friday to giving her 17-year-old daughter pills for an illegal abortion and helping the teen burn and bury the fetus.

Woman pleads guilty to helping daughter abort pregnancy illegally, burn and bury fetus

A 42-year-old woman pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that she illegally gave her daughter medications to perform an abortion in 2022.

Nebraska mother faces two-year sentence for providing daughter with abortion pills

The prosecution of Jessica Burgess and her daughter demonstrates that the aggressive criminalization of abortion is on the rise one year after of the illegitimate and undemocratic US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.