{"id":1825390,"date":"2023-01-26T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825390"},"modified":"2023-01-26T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:09:45","slug":"alleged-vandals-indicted-over-attacking-pregnancy-centers-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-vandals-indicted-over-attacking-pregnancy-centers-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Vandals Indicted Over Attacking Pregnancy Centers In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falleged-vandals-indicted-over-attacking-pregnancy-centers-in-florida%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"p1\">The Department of Justice will be open Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/two-defendants-indicted-civil-rights-conspiracy-and-face-act-offenses-targeting-pregnancy-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> Two people are charged for vandalizing a building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pro-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pregnancy centers<\/a> Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Two Floridians were indicted by a federal grand jury for spray-painting threats on resource centers that help women and men who are facing unplanned pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Caleb Freestone, Amber Smith-Stewart and the other defendants are charged with conspiring to prevent pregnancy center workers offering assistance to women and men at the centers. The Department of Justice released a statement on Tuesday. The conspiracy included the following: the indictment said that the two defendants went after pregnant centers and vandalized the buildings with spray paint threatening messages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Together with others, the defendants allegedly spray-painted offensive statements such as \u201cIf abortions aren\u2019t safe than niether [sic] are you,\u201d \u201cWE\u2019RE COMING for U,\u201d \u201cYOUR TIME IS UP!!\u201d  \u201cWe are everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The messages were left at a Winter Haven center and allegedly they went after other pregnancy centres in Hollywood, Florida and Hialeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Smith-Stewart and Freestone are accused of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FACE<\/a> Act) for two reasons \u2014 why they went after the workers and why they caused harm to the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The law doesn&#8217;t allow anyone to keep someone from \u201cobtaining or providing\u00a0reproductive health services\u201d You should not pursue someone simply because they are doing it. They can&#8217;t \u201cintentionally [damage] or [destroy] the property of a\u00a0facility \u2026\u00a0because such\u00a0facility\u00a0provides\u00a0reproductive health services\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">They could each spend up to 12 consecutive years in jail. There could be three years of supervised freedom and penalties as high as $350,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The Archdiocese of Miami operates one of the slain pregnancy centers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cI applaud our police and justice system for taking very seriously these instances of domestic terrorism against pro-life facilities. Hate crimes of this sort should not be tolerated,\u201d Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/news\/2-suspects-indicted-in-2022-attacks-on-florida-pro-life-pregnancy-centers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> The National Catholic Register via a spokesperson on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Smith-Stewart&#8217;s Facebook page reportedly revealed that Smith-Stewart is connected with Antifa. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/two-florida-residents-indicted-on-federal-charges-in-connection-with-pregnancy-resource-center-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Review<\/a>. The cover photo for the account is Antifa\u2019s flag and the profile picture included an Antifa sticker with the phrase, \u201cFight all governments there\u2019s no authority but yourself,\u201d Additional sticker to say, \u201cmake racists afraid again.\u201d\u00a0Smith-Stewart posted a Facebook photo of someone else. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0qMc4Ucf7Aeo7ho5gWm6Y1MT4YPVB1yFdvHmkdeTDTEopeqBvUE43RxzMc1expuVyl&#038;id=100068594037275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burning<\/a> An American flag in August 2021<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Nearly 60 people have died since May 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/10300712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacks<\/a> According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/253464\/two-florida-residents-indicted-for-vandalizing-pro-life-pregnancy-centers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic News Agency<\/a>\u2018s data. Fox News as of October last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/100-pro-life-orgs-churches-attacked-dobbs-leak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> More than 100 pro-life organizations, centers for pregnancy, and churches have survived attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced charges for two people over the vandalization of pregnancy centers in Florida. A federal grand jury indicted the two residents of Florida for the act of spray-painting threatening phrases on the resource centers that assist men and women who may be facing unplanned pregnancies. The charge alleges that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1825393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4038,7280,10411,5113,4032,14341,6774],"class_list":["post-1825390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-alleged","tag-attacking","tag-centers","tag-florida","tag-indicted","tag-pregnancy","tag-vandals"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}