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Jailed Pro-Lifer Who Was Held in Prolonged Solitary Confinement Suffers Stroke

Louis Knuffke : May 2, 2024  LifeSiteNews.com

Heather Idoni, a defendant in the Washington, DC FACE Act trials, was rushed to a hospital this week after suffering a stroke, but she is reportedly stabilized and will be taken back into custody to await sentencing on May 17.

(Washington DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] A jailed pro-lifer who was held in prolonged solitary confinement last fall suffered a stroke while awaiting sentencing in May. (Image: Heather Idoni with Sister DeeDee Byrne /Credit: Jim Hale-LifeSiteNews)

LifeSiteNews was notified today that Heather Idoni, a defendant in the Washington, DC FACE (Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances) Act trials, was rushed to the hospital this week after suffering a stroke while being held at Northern Neck Regional Jail in Virginia. She is reportedly stabilized and will be taken back into custody to await sentencing on May 17.

Idoni and eight other pro-lifers have been charged by the Department of Justice with violating the pro-abortion FACE Act and "conspiracy against rights" for peaceful civil disobedience in a traditional pro-life rescue at a late term-abortion facility in Washington, DC, in October 2020.

Idoni has told LifeSiteNews that while detained at the Alexandria Detention Center, where she was held in custody until being transferred to another jail in December, she was subjected to 22 days of solitary confinement. In an exclusive interview, she said that she received this punishment for sharing food with fellow prisoners. Idoni alleged that she was allowed to walk outside her cell only for two hours in the middle of the night each day and that the lights of her cell were continually kept on. Idoni has been in prison since she was convicted last autumn... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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