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Cpl Laurean: Killed Maria Lauterbach AND her unborn Baby

Death or Injury causing death to a Fetus is still Murder

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State Legislator

    In sight of the unfortunate event that happened to Maria Lauterbach and her unborn baby Gabriel I believe we as a community realize we do not have a law in place that needs to be. We all know that that baby could have survived without the mother and if a "fetus" can live without being in moms womb and is killed as a result of a killing or injury to the mother then murder charges should be put in place. 

    Cpl Laurean pictured is only being charged with first degree murder for the killing of Maria not Gabriel. He should also be charged in the death of this innocent child who was about to start its life and never got the chance. 

    This man and others like him get off with one murder and should be slammed with both. This young woman was eight and a half months along when the murder took place. 

      Cpl Laurean fled approx 4 hours before his wife produced a letter evidence to the police. I also believe she should be questioned as to why it took 4 hours to turn it in. And she should be questioned and held for knowing that Maria and Gabriel were dead at last one day prior to turning this letter over to officials.

       Maria allegedly was raped by Laurean in April, 2007 and was issued and MPO (military protective order) equivalent to a restraining order resulting to him to be no less than 1000 feet from her at all times. When issued this they were working together in the same GCAC office. She had been moved to another another building across base. However that did not stop someone from keying her car and a male punching her in the face. She could not identify the male however she said it was not this monster.
 
       She then moved off base into town with friends. This did not stop this awful crime from taking place and all involved in her and Gabriels death or knowing of it before officials were told should be sentenced to the max for anything to do with this crime.  

        The bottom line is we need justice for Baby Gabriel and Maria. Please if you agree sign this and God Bless.

    In sight of the unfortunate event that happened to Maria Lauterbach and her unborn baby Gabriel I believe we as a community realize we do not have a law in place that needs to be. We all know that that baby could have survived without the mother and if a "fetus" can live without being in moms womb and is killed as a result of a killing or injury to the mother then murder charges should be put in place. 

    Cpl Laurean pictured is only being charged with first degree murder for the killing of Maria not Gabriel. He should also be charged in the death of this innocent child who was about to start its life and never got the chance. 

    This man and others like him get off with one murder and should be slammed with both. This young woman was eight and a half months along when the murder took place. 

      Cpl Laurean fled approx 4 hours before his wife produced a letter evidence to the police. I also believe she should be questioned as to why it took 4 hours to turn it in. And she should be questioned and held for knowing that Maria and Gabriel were dead at last one day prior to turning this letter over to officials.

       Maria allegedly was raped by Laurean in April, 2007 and was issued and MPO (military protective order) equivalent to a restraining order resulting to him to be no less than 1000 feet from her at all times. When issued this they were working together in the same GCAC office. She had been moved to another another building across base. However that did not stop someone from keying her car and a male punching her in the face. She could not identify the male however she said it was not this monster.
 
       She then moved off base into town with friends. This did not stop this awful crime from taking place and all involved in her and Gabriels death or knowing of it before officials were told should be sentenced to the max for anything to do with this crime.  

        The bottom line is we need justice for Baby Gabriel and Maria. Please if you agree sign this and God Bless.

   We the undersigned would like to take the time to let you know bout our petition. We believe that if a woman is at the term of pregnancy where a baby can survive without being in the womb and the mother is injured or killed resulting in the death of the fetus there should be a murder penelty for that Baby. We would also like to take the time to than you for reading this. Please help us get this law overturned.

Thank You and God Bless!
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# 2,821:
2:00 pm PDT, Aug 9, Greta Malkotzoglou, Greece
# 2,820:
6:18 am PDT, Jul 19, Name not displayed, Indiana
# 2,819:
7:50 pm PDT, Jul 4, Anita Coker, South Carolina
I think that our judicial system need's to see this innocent babies'as what they are human being's.Any man who kill's a woman who is pregnant and that child die's,I think it should automatically be a first degree murder charge.
# 2,818:
8:18 pm PDT, Jun 2, Jennifer Eazor, California
# 2,817:
10:22 am PDT, Jun 2, Waleska CAVERO, North Carolina
why if there's a law that it does not permit a woman to have an abortion after certain weeks .... this guy is not being charge for killing a baby that only had a few weeks more inside his mommy womb to born.... I personally believe he was not a fetus anymore he was a lil human being already!!! but he did not gave him the opportunity to survive outside the womb.... thats why i believe this monster should be facing the death penalty or life without parole for 2 counts of murder not one.... also his wife should be facing some penalty too cause she knew about this ... how can she sleep knowing that she formed part of this awful crime????

because I am a woman and I just had my lil baby and I know her family must be devastated loosing not one but two loved ones at once.

# 2,816:
10:11 am PDT, Jun 2, Jacquelynn Rivera, Washington
# 2,815:
2:17 am PDT, Jun 2, Jessica Stagg, Ohio
Whether the baby was inside her, or born, it's still a human being! He should be charged with the murder of both of them, not just Maria. The baby had a heart beat, so therefore it should count as murder!
# 2,814:
1:28 am PDT, Jun 2, Meagan Herrington, California
# 2,813:
7:51 am PDT, May 12, Amanda Rush, Oklahoma
a baby is a gift from GOD no one has the right to take that gift back!!
# 2,812:
5:43 am PDT, May 12, Toni Hilz, Texas
# 2,811:
11:18 pm PDT, May 10, Lisa Harrington, Alabama
he should be out i jail for life and let them inmtes get ahold of him and show how she and that baby felt

because it is wrong. my friends baby died, and the mother killed him by dropping him.

# 2,810:
9:49 pm PDT, May 10, Kerry Shaw, North Carolina
I believe regardless of a Marine or whatever his career of choice is, this should be a punishment for anyone... I don't know how anyone could do this to a child. Karma will be back for this man and his awful actions...
# 2,809:
9:11 pm PDT, May 10, Elaine Hilz, Oklahoma
For some one to do this in the first place was horrible, and to kill a child that didn't stand a chance, He should be handled by the Marine Corps, let him have a little taste of feeling helpless is all about!
# 2,808:
7:47 am PDT, May 10, Melissa Williams, North Carolina
I can not belive a Marine would do this to someone in his family!.. he is a disgrace to the marine corps and to this counrty!.. He needs to pay for his action!.. and i thinkt they should turn him over to the marine corps and put his butt in the brig, and let his fellow marines have a piece of him!.. He makes me sick!. and hope he gets whats coming to him!!!

My husband is a Marine, we are stationed at cherry point nc(45 mins from where this happined), I just gave birth to my daughter in nov, While my husband was in Iraq taking care of this country for someone to do this to one of HIS own!!.. this poor baby had no chance!.. he couldnt just let them be!.. He took two lifes not just one!!!!!

# 2,807:
11:55 am PDT, Apr 27, Kimberly Clifton, Missouri
# 2,806:
11:19 am PDT, Apr 25, Terrianne Gaines, Tennessee
A Fetus is a baby, complete. Punishment should, if anything, be greater for the taking of this wee one's life!!

God knew this baby before it was even formed, back at the beginning of time.

# 2,805:
4:31 pm PDT, Apr 14, Name not displayed, Connecticut
# 2,804:
7:21 pm PDT, Apr 13, Stephanie Huffman, North Carolina
# 2,803:
6:49 pm PDT, Apr 13, Brian Humphrey, North Carolina
this law needs to be passed too many lives are being lost because nc laws are basically letting the killers get away with a senseless murder i did not know maria personally but i am saddened by her loss and the way it happened to her more could have been done but it wasn't and now she is gone her family is in my thoughts and prayers

this is important to me because things like this aren't suppose to happen the laws are suppose to protect the innocent but it doesn't even try until its too late

# 2,802:
4:40 am PDT, Apr 11, Christopher Humphrey, North Carolina
# 2,801:
10:02 am PDT, Apr 9, LORETTA GRIMES, Louisiana
I PRAY THAT GABRIELS LAW IS PASSED. PEOPLE WHO HURT CHILDREN SHOULD BE PUNISHED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.

SOMEONE I KNEW WAS MURDERED. SHE WAS 6 MOS PREGNANT. UNFORTUNATELY HER MURDERER WAS NEVER COUGHT. WHAT A TRAGEDY THAT THIS INNOCENT LITTLE BABY HHAD TO DIE, AS WELL AS THE MOM.

# 2,800:
4:55 am PDT, Apr 7, MaChelle Byrne, Louisiana
My heart goes out to the family of this mother and unborn child that neither will have a chance at life. He needs to be charged with double murder. He took not just one life but two.

I am a mother of 5 and a grandmother of 3 and I can't even think about someone hurting one of them.

# 2,799:
5:02 pm PDT, Apr 5, Valliere Webb, Louisiana
I am a Mother and this tears my heart out. The unborn child was still a living being. He should be charged with double murder, not just the murder of the mother, but also that of the child.
# 2,798:
3:00 pm PDT, Mar 31, Christine Seifert, Michigan
he should be charged with the banys murder since the mother wanted to keep the baby. it is awful that he hasnt been charged yet
# 2,797:
3:59 pm PDT, Mar 27, Kimberly Koski, Illinois
I am going to school for Early Childhood Education so I love children and what he did was not only murder but it was a double murder.
# 2,796:
4:17 pm PDT, Mar 25, Ines Seidel, Germany
# 2,795:
6:48 pm PDT, Mar 24, Name not displayed, North Carolina
Families of murdered pregnant women do not just lose the mother, they lose the child as well. The murderer should be responsible for both lives lost.
# 2,794:
10:35 am PDT, Mar 24, Jean Jay, New York
I hold this dear to my heart as I have a child of my own and they are so innocent.
# 2,793:
10:46 am PDT, Mar 23, Anne Seidel, Germany
# 2,792:
9:34 am PDT, Mar 23, Leigh Lane, North Carolina
# 2,791:
9:07 am PDT, Mar 23, Alicia Nolan, North Carolina
I do agree if a woman is murdered and she is pregant, the murderer should be held liable for two (2) murders even if her pregnancy is not noticable. The murder should not be murdering in the first place. A double murder conviction is what the murderer deserves. The only exception to making the intentional death (murder) of a fetus a crime is in rape or illness cases then the woman should be allowed to make a choice to abort the fetus with a police or medical record stating the factual event. Abortions should be considered murder otherwise and not be used as birth control.

The main reason this is concerning to me is that the media has shown a few murders of pregnats woman and the unborn baby in multiple cases reciently and I live in the same town where Maria Lauterbach and the a--hole that killed her live. How can one kill another knowing that an innocent being is suffering? He basically starved, suffacated,and burned that baby to death.

# 2,790:
2:42 pm PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Oklahoma
Babies are created by God, it is up to Him not us. No exceptions.
# 2,789:
11:29 pm PST, Feb 27, JENNI MARTIN, North Carolina
I AM PRAYING FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUND THE BODY OF THE WOMAN AND THE BABY IN THE BACK YARD. I COULD NOT IMAGINE THAT KIND OF SCENE.

IN NC THERE IS A GROWING RATE OF PREGNANT WOMEN BEING ABDUCTED OR JUST OUTRIGHT KILLED MOST OF THE TIME IT IS WHEN A MARRIED MAN DOES NOT WANT ONE TO KNOW BUT STILL A CHILD INSIDE A WOMAN IS REAL IT HEARS IT SEES IT FEELS.

# 2,788:
3:08 pm PST, Feb 26, Name not displayed, North Carolina
I find it ironic that when someone appears to be dead we check for a heartbeat/pulse to see if they are alive. What do doctors check for when a woman goes in for examinations during the pregnancy? Ummm--the heartbeat of the baby. If a heartbeat is not present, then the doctor becomes concerned because the baby might be dead. How is that possible if the baby has never been alive in the first place? Such a double standard.

I have 2 children. Each time I would go in for an examination, I would hold my breath until the nurse found my children's heartbeat for fear that they were no longer alive. If you have ever been pregnant or touched someone's belly that has been pregnant and they are far enough along for you to feel it, you are able to feel the movement of the child that is growing. My children were growing and very much alive in me as with any other women. I don't see how anyone can disclose that fact. Also, if my mother-in-law has chosen to abort because of an unplanned pregnancy, I would not have a husband or the children that I have today.

# 2,787:
11:19 am PST, Feb 26, Name not displayed, North Carolina
I belive a life begins at the moment of concepttion.It may be minute, but it is a life
# 2,786:
8:21 am PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, Virginia
This is a sin against God. Something needs to be done to stop abortions as well as murder.
# 2,785:
8:25 am PST, Feb 21, Name not displayed, Maryland
Causing harm or death to a fetus should result in charges also.

Because people have been getting away with murder too long.

# 2,784:
6:46 pm PST, Feb 20, Name not displayed, North Carolina
# 2,783:
12:40 pm PST, Feb 20, Joshua Eberly, Michigan
Lex Talionus (eye for an eye tooth for a tooth) First off, a "fetus" is a human being from the moment of conception. this being said how can he only be charged for one murder. this animal deserves to die, even to be executed in the same way that he coldly murdered two innocent human beings. what is our country coming to. we protect the egg of a condor because it could become a condor, but we don't protect our unborn children who are already human? wake up. listen to the people. and for once, forget about funding and do what's right.
# 2,782:
4:25 am PST, Feb 20, Elyssa Moeller, North Carolina
Babies of only 21 gestational weeks have survived premature births! If there is even the slightest chance that a child can survive outside the womb, then they need to be given the right to life, and if someone takes that right away, they should be punished. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that Maria's baby would have survived if she had delivered. Please change NC law to allow Laurean to be charged with the unborn child's murder.
# 2,781:
10:40 pm PST, Feb 19, Melissa Heath, North Carolina
I have no words to express the hurt that I feel when I think of that precious baby and how his mother never got to see him and he never got to take his first breath. I hope that devil and all of those like him rot in prison and/or hell forever.

I have a 6 month old daughter and any woman can tell you that those babies are most certainly alive from the moment that they become a fetus. They play and flip and hiccup and suck their thumbs all while still in the womb. How much more alive can you get?

# 2,780:
8:16 pm PST, Feb 18, Lynett Cavenaugh, North Carolina
My opinion is that from the moment that child is conceived and has a heartbeat.It is a child. So there for it's murdered a woman is pregnant and gets murdered it's two lives that have been taken.

I just can't believe that someone could be this cold hearted. It breaks my heart that this girl didn't even get a chance to see her child be born.

# 2,779:
10:35 am PST, Feb 18, Kathy Shrout, California
# 2,778:
10:10 am PST, Feb 17, Allison Brooks, North Carolina
# 2,777:
12:17 am PST, Feb 17, Name not displayed, Michigan
# 2,776:
10:16 pm PST, Feb 16, Heather Dudley, Maine
I think that this guy should be tried for 2 murders because he basically did kill two human beings. She was almost due to have the baby too. This guy is messed up and to know he was one of our service men is even more screwed up.
# 2,775:
1:58 pm PST, Feb 16, Name not displayed, California
This disgusting excuse for a human being needs to be given the worst possible punishment. I am a firm believer in the death penalty and one murder should give you a one way ticket, never mind the murder of TWO innocent people.
# 2,774:
11:02 am PST, Feb 16, Cassandria Smith, Arkansas
# 2,773:
11:33 am PST, Feb 15, Tammie Newsome, North Carolina
this guy needs to be beat and burnt just like he did to his victims...if we started doing the same to those that do these crimes then we might not have as many!
# 2,772:
7:59 am PST, Feb 15, Kathryn Sharp, North Carolina
I support the life of the unborn!

My twins were born two months premature, they weighed 4 pounds each. I know it is murder to kill the unborn from conception, however so late in the pregnancy, it is clearly murder! My twins are 18 now.

# 2,771:
4:24 pm PST, Feb 14, Name not displayed, California
I can not beleive that every state has not already passed such a law.

This is close to my heart because I am a grandmother of two and I can not imagine not having them in my life.

# 2,770:
10:23 pm PST, Feb 13, Lisa Keils, Florida
# 2,769:
3:19 pm PST, Feb 13, JOHN MILTON BOWMAN SR., North Carolina
PLEASE PASS A LAW TO PROTECT THE MURDER OF DEFENSELESS BABYS WHILE IN THEIR MOTHERS WOMB. MURDER OF THE MOTHER IS MURDER OF HER DEAR UNBORN SON OR DAUGHTER. THEY MIGHT HAVE LIVED TO BECOME GREAT SCIENTISTS, DOCTORS, EVEN PRESIDENT. OR HOMOSIDE DETECTIVES OF FUTURE MURDERS OF THE DEFENSELESS.. GOD BLESS

BECAUSE LIFE OF ANY HUMAN IS SACRED IN GODS EYES, ABORTION IS EVEN FIRST DEGREE MURDER WITH SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANTS, BECAUSE OF THE CRUELITY TO THE BABY AND THE PREMEDIATION OF EVEN GOING TO AND PAYING FOR THE ABORTION

# 2,768:
7:32 pm PST, Feb 11, Nancy Gibbons, Massachusetts
# 2,767:
11:23 am PST, Feb 11, Melody Bruce, North Carolina
Human life starts at conception. A baby inutero has movement, a heartbeat and other major organ functions. This man and others like him should be charged with murder of any baby inside the womb just the same as a baby outside of the womb.
# 2,766:
8:45 am PST, Feb 10, Teresa Mann, North Carolina
How could this not be murder? This child would have had the opportunity to live had it been born at this age.

While I believe in women's choice, I also believe in the time frame for that decision, and that it is the mother's choice. This was a double homocide.

# 2,765:
10:52 pm PST, Feb 9, James Rudy, New York
# 2,764:
8:34 pm PST, Feb 9, Deb Breault, Canada
# 2,763:
7:58 pm PST, Feb 9, Edward Hall, New York
people including the lawmakers need to realize that from the moment of conception the "fetus" is a baby, a living human being entitled to all the rights we have.
# 2,762:
12:54 pm PST, Feb 8, Frances Miller, North Carolina
# 2,761:
10:54 am PST, Feb 8, CARL OSGOOD JR., Maryland
# 2,760:
10:26 am PST, Feb 8, Name not displayed, North Carolina
# 2,759:
8:26 pm PST, Feb 7, Emily Tesh, North Carolina
I live less than two miles from where this coward took the lives of two beautiful people. My heart drops to my stomach every time I drive by there and think about what that poor young woman went through. Though I did not know her, my condolences go out to her family.

I am a mother of three babies and I don't see how anyone can hurt an unborn child (or any child for that matter). I just don't understand...

# 2,758:
7:10 pm PST, Feb 7, Name not displayed, North Carolina
I feel if a child could be born and survive at the time a mother is killed than in my eyes it is MURDER.

This women and her unborn child died in a very tragic and painful death. This is not human for someone to do this to anyone. This man is a cold hearted murderer, his wife is no better, she needs to pay for Maria and Gabriels death.

# 2,757:
4:40 pm PST, Feb 7, Frances Tan, Kansas
# 2,756:
3:30 pm PST, Feb 7, Judy Gragg, North Carolina
# 2,755:
12:28 pm PST, Feb 7, Rebecca Wilhite, Florida
I can't even imagine this happening to someone in my family. If it did happen, I would want the person held responsible for both deaths. What could that child have become? What good could he have done to benefit the entire world?
# 2,754:
10:25 am PST, Feb 7, Anthony Fraune, North Carolina
This is a subject that should have been and stayed on the books -- if your daughter had been the one, I bet that you could find a way to make this a murder of an unborn child without the political worry about the abortion issue.
# 2,753:
9:11 am PST, Feb 7, Robert Clagett, North Carolina
# 2,752:
4:24 am PST, Feb 7, Connie Getsinger, North Carolina
I am pregnant and expecting my first child this year. This murder is not only appalling but saddens me greatly to know not only one life has been taken but two.
# 2,751:
7:58 pm PST, Feb 6, Dianne Lewis, North Carolina
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