GALENA, Md. – William Stanley Sutton III, 25, added ProstaMate to a drink he then gave to Lauren Ashley Tucker, 21. Lauren is pregnant with Stanley’s child. ProstaMate just happens to be a hormone given to cows in the breeding process to bring all cows in heat at the same time. It can also be used to stimulate an early term abortion in a heifer that gets pregnant too young or a cow that mates with an undesired bull.

After drinking the beverage, Lauren’s throat burned and she felt ill so she went to the hospital. The staff there notified police of a possible poisoning. Lauren was treated and released and the baby was unharmed.

His goal was not to hurt Lauren, he said, but rather to make her suffer a miscarriage. But even though William was being considerate, he has been charged with reckless endangerment, assault and contaminating Tucker’s drink. A judge released him on $50,000 bond and ordered him not to have contact with Tucker.

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