Facebook helps cops prosecute 17-year-old for abortion

Facebook helps cops prosecute 17-year-old for abortion

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https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/09/facebook-helps-cops-prosecute-17-year-old-for-abortion/

Meta provided user information to police in Nebraska that led directly to the prosecution of a 17-year-old girl for alleged crimes relating to an abortion, court documents show. The company could have challenged the legal order, but instead provided the teenager’s direct messages to cops, who are now charging the girl with three felonies for using a mail-order abortion pill and burying the miscarried fetus.

According to court documents first published by Motherboard (the case itself was first reported by the Lincoln Journal-Star), a Nebraska detective was investigating “concerns that a juvenile female… had given birth prematurely supposedly to a stillborn child.”