A New York woman copped a plea deal Wednesday for trying to induce an abortion by poisoning her husband’s pregnant mistress in late 2009.
Kisha Jones pleaded guilty to second degree assault. She will be sentenced Feb. 10 to four years in prison. But she could be out in less than two years with credit for time served awaiting trial and good behavior.
The 40-year-old Brooklyn mother, Kisha Jones, was about two months away from giving birth herself when she pulled a ruse with a forged prescription that convinced Monique Hunter, 26, to take a medication that induces abortions. Jones’ husband Anthony Jones had apparently gotten both women pregnant at about the same time.
Jones had also been accused of attempted murder in relation to an attempt to kill Hunter’s prematurely born baby and on a second occasion impersonating a hospital administrator to get the child taken off a ventilator. Those charges were dropped.
“My client was in the last trimester of her pregnancy and was acting irrationally,” defense attorney Barry Turner said, outside court. “I guess her hormones were out of whack.”
Hunter was accused by Turner of taunting Jones with details of the dalliance in telephone messages left before the attack. Jones had no criminal history and a record of helped disabled kids, Turner said.
“She acted in a manner that wasn’t consistent with her personality,” Turner said.
