It is sad that someone would create a blog and then make up a story about being 8 months pregnant and losing the baby because a policeman hit them with a baton but it does happen. It is also sad when people refuse to look these things up and spread them because clicking ‘reblog’ is much easier than attempting to verify something. It’s what happens when bloggers use emotion in place of logic. It was a sick joke from a blog with 2 total posts.
Might be Truth: A 19 year old homeless woman, named Jennifer Fox who was 3 months pregnant, did claim to suffer a miscarriage around 5 days after she was involved in the Occupy Seattle protests. I say “claim” because there currently is NO PROOF that even this happened. She has said this in interviews but at this time, no medical records or hospital employees have backed this up. That does not mean that it didn’t happen. She did get pepper sprayed and suffered abdominal injuries indirectly from and officer who was “riding his bicycle through the crowd.” She was NOT directly hit with a baton in the stomach as some blogs are claiming.
She claims that she was taken to a hospital and “an ultrasound was performed, and medical practitioners initially told her that everything appeared normal with the baby” shortly after the incident on Nov. 15th.
Update: Both stories are looking to be fake. It is claimed that Jennifer Fox may have done something similar when this same thing happened in September as she was arrested and also 3 months pregnant at the time.
Worth noting: Fox claims the child was a little girl. She has also claimed to be 2 months AND 3 months pregnant in different interviews. If the times are true, it would be very unlikely if not impossible that she could know the sex of the baby. That alone should raise a few red flags on this story.
