Purvi Patel v. State of Indiana

CRONE, Judge.

Case Summary

[1] Thirty-two-year-old Purvi Patel managed her father’s restaurant in Misha-waka. A relationship with a restaurant employee resulted in her pregnancy. In June 2013, she purchased mifepristone and misoprostol online from a Hong Kong pharmacy and used those drugs to terminate the pregnancy at home. On the evening of July 13, she delivered a live baby of approximately twenty-five to thirty weeks gestation who died shortly after birth. She drove to the restaurant, put the baby in a nearby dumpster, and drove herself to the emergency room.

[2] The State charged Patel with…