Couple ends pregnancy with mail-order pills, leaves dead baby in shoebox, Ohio cops say

An Ohio couple is accused of terminating a pregnancy in the third trimester and putting the deceased baby in a shoebox, media outlets report.

Licking County prosecutors says Kalina Gillum, 21, and her boyfriend Braden Mull, 25, ordered misoprostol pills from India in September to induce labor, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

Misoprostol is used off-label in obstetrics and gynecology for medication abortion, management of miscarriages and inducing labor, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Gillum took a dozen of the tablets and gave birth to a boy the next day in an apartment bathroom, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

The couple went to a hospital the next day, and employees called the police, WSYX reported. Investigators reported finding the baby inside a shoebox in a trash bag, the TV station reported.

They purchased the pills from India, WBNS reported. Investigators say Gillum was about 28 or 29 weeks pregnant, the Columbus TV station reported.

Prosecutors say the couple already had a child together and decided they didn’t want another baby, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

The couple was indicted last week, according to WBNS.

Gillum and Mull are charged with abuse of a corpse, endangering children with obvious injury inflicted, involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence, according to jail records.

This story was originally published February 10, 2020 at 3:41 PM with the headline "Couple ends pregnancy with mail-order pills, leaves dead baby in shoebox, Ohio cops say."