The fetuses were aborted “in accordance with D.C. law," and “there doesn’t seem to be anything criminal in nature...except for how they got into this house,” police said.
Handy and eight others were indicted on federal civil rights counts, with prosecutors alleging that she and others violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
Around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, D.C. police were called to the 400 block of Sixth Street SE to investigate a tip “regarding potential bio-hazard material at the location.”
The items recovered were fetuses aborted “in accordance with D.C. law,” Ashan Benedict, executive assistant D.C. police chief, said at a news conference Thursday.
“There doesn’t seem to be anything criminal in nature about that except for how they got into this house,” Benedict said.
Benedict said he couldn’t confirm that the home was Handy’s. D.C. police were not involved in the investigation, he said.
Authorities have not said how the fetuses were obtained and how they came to be in the home.
The discovery came the same day authorities announced the indictment of the nine people who prosecutors say had gathered near the doors of a D.C. reproductive health clinic in October 2020.
They were waiting for the facility to open and charged in after a medical specialist unlocked the doors, an indictment says.
They then began barricading the entrances with chairs from the waiting room, according to prosecutors.
“We have people intervening physically with their bodies to prevent women from entering the clinic to murder their children,” Jonathan Darnel, reportedly one of the intruders, said in a Facebook Live broadcast documenting the event, according to court documents.
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