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Ainaloa Second-Degree Murder, Attempted Murder (2 counts) and Possesssion of a Deadly Weapon        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Ainaloa, Hawaii.        Tyrone Vesperas, a staff sergeant in the Hawaii Army National Guard, owned a military-issued combat knife and, on June 11, 2007, decided to put it to use.        Vesperas and his estranged wife Cheryl-Lyn Saniatan, who was just days away from giving birth, got into an argument. Vesperas took out his combat knife and, deliberately aiming at her abdomen, stabbed Cheryl-Lyn several times. Their 14-year-old son, Tyran Vesperas-Saniatan, 14, stepped in to try to help his mother, but Vesperas stabbed him in the neck and he died.        Cheryl-Lyn's full-term preborn baby also died.        Vesperas was arrested and charged with the second-degree murder of his son, the attempted second-degree murder of his wife, attempted first-degree murder and possession of a deadly weapon.        Hawaii is one of just a handful of states that give absolutely no value whatsoever to even a full-term preborn child, which is given much less value than a pet hamster. Hawaii Representative John Mizuno asked "If we can make it a felony to kill pets, why can't we make it a felony to kill an unborn fetus?"        In 2005, pro-life Hawaii representatives tried to pass a state version of the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, but it failed to move out of committee because of complaints by heartless pro-abortionists. Reference:  Mark Niesse. "Killing Boosts Call for Fetal Slaying Law: Lawmakers Want Homicide Defined." The Star Bulletin [Honolulu, Hawaii], June 19, 2007. Helemano [Oahu] Murder        On August 26, 1999, Staff Sergeant Timothy Ward of Hawaii's 25th Infantry Division stabbed his seven months pregnant wife Bianca fifteen times and crushed her skull after an argument in their home on Helemano Military Reservation. Ward had frequently intimidated, harassed and threatened Bianca, and they were going through a divorce to end their marriage. He had just lost custody of their 18-month-old son Damian, and Ward was afraid that Bianca would flee to her native Germany with him and that he would never see him again. He confessed to the murder.        On January 27, 2000, after hearing four days of testimony, a military jury found Ward guilty of murdering Bianca and he was sentenced to life in a military prison. References:  Ken Sakamoto. "Soldier May Face Court-Martial." Honolulu Star-Bulletin, November 8, 1999; Gregg K. Kakesako. Soldier 'Had Feelings of Hatred' Before Wife's Slaying." Honolulu Star-Bulletin, November 10, 1999; Gregg K. Kakesako. "Schofield Soldier Found Guilty in Pregnant Wife's Murder." Honolulu Star-Bulletin, January 28, 2000. Honolulu Second-Degree Murder (2 counts), Kidnapping, First-Degree Sexual Assault, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Assault (3 incidents), Violation of a Protective Order, and Probation Violation (4 incidents)        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Honolulu, Hawaii.        On November 26, 2005, Sarah Marie Fay was found unconscious on the floor of a Fern Acres subdivision house, with severe head and bodily injuries.        On December 1, 2005, Marwann Timothy Saad Jackson, also known as Judah Jackson, was arraigned in Hilo District Court and was charged with second-degree murder, second-degree murder by omission, kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault, second-degree robbery murder, sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery (for stealing Sarah Marie's car), and violation of a long-term protective order.        Police declared Sarah Marie legally dead, but she was kept alive at the Queen's Medical Center in order to preserve the life of her preborn child. The little boy, Josiah Darcy Fay, was born healthy on December 11, 2005, and Sarah Marie was taken off life support and died.        Stacey Fay, Sarah Marie's sister, said "Actually, what's helping me get through this is that little baby, being able to touch her stomach, and he was just moving around like crazy yesterday when we were talking to him. ... That made it a lot easier to deal with the pain of seeing her — the way she looks."        Stacey said that Sarah Marie had carried on a relationship with Jackson for about a year before he murdered her, and that he was mentally and physically abusive toward her and called her obsessively. She also said that many people tried to reason with Sarah Marie to end the relationship.        Court records showed that Jackson has a long criminal record. Just the year before he murdered Sarah Marie, he was found guilty of seven crimes, including three felonies connected with an incident in which he dragged a police officer 30 feet with his car. He also attacked another man with a coconut, opening a gash in his head. In addition to all of this, he had been charged with eight other crimes.        On February 22, 2006, Hilo Circuit Judge Glenn Hara Jackson sentenced Jackson to five concurrent terms of five years in prison for his previous felonies. References:  Kevin Dayton. "Woman Kept Alive to Save Baby." The Honolulu Advertiser, December 1, 2005; Leila Fujimori and Rod Thompson. "Sarah Fay: She Loved the Big Isle and Hawaiian Spirituality." Hawaii Star Bulletin, December 2, 2005; KHNL Television News 8 [Hawaii]. "Baby Delivered as Mother Dies." December 12, 2005; Kevin Dayton. "3 Felonies Get Puna Man 5 Years." The Honolulu Advertiser, February 23, 2006. Forced Abortion        On December 1, 1999, Ann Hose, a prisoner at the Oahu Community Correctional Center, filed a lawsuit against the state of Hawaii, Oahu Community Correctional Center and several officials of the state Department of Public Safety, over the killing of her unborn baby against her wishes. Hose was two to three months pregnant at the time of her arrest and says she "clearly informed" prison personnel of this fact. She wanted to keep her baby, but she claims that a prison nurse, over her objections, injected Depo-Provera into her abdomen, killing her baby. Hose's lawyer Myles S. Brenier says that prison medical records support Hose's version of the events. Brenier said that his client asked to call her husband before getting the shot but was not allowed to do so. Brenier said she was also told she would be put in solitary lock-down and labeled a "troublemaker" if the intake process, during which she was injected, did not go smoothly. She was not informed that the injection might kill or harm her baby. References:  "Murder of In Utero Baby By US Prison Official?" LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, December 14, 1999; Honolulu Star Bulletin, August 3, 1999; Post-Abortion Review, January-March 2000. To return to the introductory document, click here. To go to the Index for the pro-abortion violence database, click here. This document was updated on December 1, 2007.