Thursday, June 12, 2025 - A United States Department of Justice employee secretly spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s drink with an abortion drug to induce a miscarriage without her knowledge, according to cops.
Justin Anthony Banta, 38, who works in the IT department of
the DOJ, is charged with capital murd£r in Parker County, Texas, for allegedly
putting “Plan C” abortion drugs in his pregnant girlfriend’s coffee,
the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
The couple found out about the pregnancy in September
2024.
The DOJ employee offered to terminate the pregnancy with
“Plan C” pills he would purchase online, but the girlfriend refused, the
statement said.
Banta’s girlfriend was happily six-weeks pregnant when she
had a sonogram on October 17 that revealed a strong heartbeat and good vital
signs, the Parker County Sheriff’s Office revealed.
Later that same day she met the IT specialist at a coffee
shop and she soon suspected that Banta had spiked her drink with the “Plan C”
abortion-inducing pills without her consent.
The following day the woman went to the emergency room with
extreme bleeding and lost the pregnancy.
Later, she reported the incident to police.
Banta was interviewed by the PSCO and his phone was
collected as evidence — but sheriff’s deputies claim the DOJ IT specialist
performed a remote “reset” on the device preventing them from gathering crucial
evidence, according to the statement.
That alleged IT infraction garnered Banta a separate
tampering with physical evidence charge from the PSCO in addition to the
capital murd£r charge, filed in Tarrant County by the Texas Rangers.
It was not clear what sort of punishment Banta faces on the
capitol murd£r charges, however capital murd£r is the only de@th-penalty
eligible charge in Texas.
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