FL Man Who Killed Girlfriend for Refusing Abortion Faces Death Penalty
A Florida man who killed his 18-year-old girlfriend for refusing to abort their unborn son now faces the death penalty for double homicide.
Last week, a jury found Donovan Faison, 23, guilty of the first-degree murder of Kaylin Fiengo and the killing of their unborn child, by an 11-1 vote, sentencing him to death.
A Florida man who killed his 18-year-old girlfriend and their unborn son after she refused to have an abortion faces the death penalty, the state attorney’s office confirmed in a statement Friday.
“The final decision on Faison’s sentence will be made by Circuit Judge Donna Goerner after another hearing on December 5,” the state’s attorney said. “Assistant Prosecutors Stewart Stone, Domenick Leo and Anna Valentini asked jurors to vote in favor of the death penalty based on the aggravating circumstances outlined in state law.”
During the trial, prosecutors presented text messages showing Faison resented Fiengo for not aborting their unborn child, adding that he vowed to “eliminate her.”
“The messages showed that Faison lured Fiengo to a meeting at Coastline Park on the evening of Sanford Police Department “I found her there, dead in her Nissan Versa, shot in the head,” the prosecutor said.
At the sentencing hearing, Fiengo’s mother, Sarah Schweickert, said “no words can express the depth of pain that comes with losing your daughter to murder.”
Every day, I wake up and face a world that no longer has its smile, its laughter, its hugs. The grief never goes away – it stays in my chest like a weight that will never go away,” she said.
