Man murders his pregnant girlfriend in car because she wanted to keep their baby
Mum-of-one Kaylin Fiengo, 18, was brutally killed by her boyfriend Donovan Faison when she arrived at a park after she told him she intended to give birth to their child
A man killed his his pregnant girlfriend after she refused to have an abortion.
Monster Donovan Faison was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his pregnant girlfriend, 18-year-old Kaylin Fiengo. Prosecutors argued Kaylin was killed after she refused to have an abortion.
The jury deliberated for just two hours before they convicted Faison of the 2022 killing. Kaylin's body was found inside a parked car with an apparent gunshot wound on November 11, of that year.
Officers later determined Kaylin was about three months pregnant at the time of her death. She had been involved in several arguments with Faison over her decision to continue with the pregnancy.
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An investigation launched shortly after Kaylin's death found she went to Coastline Park "with the intent to meet a person known to her." Kaylin was also the mother of a 1-year-old boy at the time of her death.
"We've been waiting a long time for this," said Kaylin's aunt, Tatiana Fiengo. "It doesn't bring her back, but at least he's not out hurting other people."
According to US crime reports, about one in five homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner. The reports also found more than half of female homicide victims are killed by a current or former male intimate partner.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said there were 1,361 homicides in Florida in 2023. It added there was a death rate of 6.5 per 100,000 people.
In comparison, there were 590 homicide victims in England and Wales - which has a population nearly three times that of Florida - in the year ending March 2023, according to the Office for National Statistics.