SUMMARY: Sandra Milton, age 28, bled to death in front of her three children on April 27, 1990 after an abortion performed by Carl Armstrong at Toledo Medical Services in Toledo, OH.
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| Sandra Milton |
On April 27, 1990, 28-year-old divorcee Sandra "Sandy" Earle Milton underwent an abortion, performed by Dr. Carl Armstrong at Toledo Medical Services in Ohio. (Armstrong is John Roe 67 in Lime 5.) Neither her ex husband nor her parents had known that she was pregnant.
Who Was Sandy Milton?
Sandy, who came to the US from England with her family when she was a toddler, had attended Fremont Ross High School and the Vanguard Vocational Center.
A high school friend, John McKeever, reported that Sandy would return home at her 10 pm curfew then sneak out her bedroom window and stay out most of the night. "We used to have a helluva lot of fun. We didn't really do a whole lot. Sometimes we'd just go downtown and watch the traffic go by."
One day John introduced Sandy to his girlfriend, who had an older brother named Tom Milton. The two couples went on a double date and the romance started. Sandy was only 15 years old.
Tom Milton admits that Sandy's parents never approved of him, and that this likely made him even more attractive to the rebellious teen.
Their first child, a son, was born in October of 1979, and the couple married in June of 1980, when Sandy graduated from high school. She was 18 and Tom was 20. They had two more children together.
Friends described Sandy as "always happy, always bubbly. She always had places to go and things to do. They were ordinary activities but Sandy enjoyed them: card games, ceramics classes, pizza, and movies.
But Sandy was not happy about her life . She divorced her husband in February of 1987, alleging abuse over the seven years of their marriage. She moved from Fremont to the village of Green Springs, where she took at job on the assembly line of the Whirlpool appliance factory in Clyde. She and Tom had little contact after that -- just enough to arrange for Tom to pick the children up for visitation.
Sandy's Life Comes to an End
The weekend before April 27, 1990, the slender Sandy told her mother that she was going to lose 20 pounds. Sandy's mother didn't make a connection between this comment and a pregnancy that her daughter was planning to abort.
Sandy went to Toledo Medical Services on the morning of April 27. The abortion was performed by Carl Armstrong at 10 a.m., and Sandy was discharged shortly thereafter for the 90-minute drive home.
The babysitter stayed with Sandy and her three children, ages 10, 7, and 5, for three hours as the young mother slipped in and out of consciousness and suffered pain and abdominal swelling. Twice the alarmed babysitter called the clinic, but was told that the symptoms were normal. The third time the babysitter called the clinic, she got no response at all, and summoned an ambulance. Sandy was pronounced dead on arrival at Fremont Memorial Hospital at 6:01 p.m..
Tom had come to the house to pick up the children on that afternoon, but nobody was home so he went fishing. His brother tracked him down to tell him that Sandy was dead.
The Findings
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| Dr. Carl Armstrong |
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Sources:
- Ohio death certificate Registrar’s No. 158;
- Fremont News-Messenger 4/29/90;
- Columbia Dispatch 5/23/90
- "14 members of anti-abortion group arrested," Bucyrus (OH) Telegraph-Forum, May 23, 1990
- "Abortion risks often in dispute," (Bowling Green, OH) Sentinel-Tribune, June 26, 1990
- Ohio Post-Mortem Examination Autopsy No. OA-90-8
- “Abortion debate shifting,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sept. 9, 1990
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