I know it seems just too wild, too weird, too wicked to be true...but, alas, it is -- a former abortionist (a twice-convicted felon) is working as a Chicago school principal!Here's the story as compiled from Jill Stanek and a couple of other sources...
Arnold Bickham is the man who used to kill preborn babies. Indeed, he claims to have once made over a million dollars doing abortions. But the way he conducted his business posed some problems. For instance, he defrauded the government and did two years in prison.
Following these events, Bickham claimed a religious conversion and attended for a time Chicago's famous Moody Church downtown. But his conversion didn't "set in" and he was quickly drawn back to the loathsome (though lucrative) business of abortion.
Even though he didn't have a medical license.
In fact, his Illinois license had been revoked three times; first for committing abortions on non-pregnant women; secondly for disgustingly cruel and unsafe practices revealed in a now celebrated Chicago Sun-Times expose' series; and thirdly for killing Sylvia Moore during an abortion. (26 year old Sherry Emry also died from the incompetence shown by Bickham and his abortion clinic staff.)
But, inexplicably, Bickham did no time for that crime, only 30 months of probation, 2,600 hours of community service, and a $10,000 fine. This despite his record and despite police having discovered drugs on the scene that Bickham was not licensed to dispense...and 3 guns!
And now this guy is taking care of kids as junior high principal, a job he was given even though the school council (made up of 6 elected parents, 2 elected community representatives, and a teacher) were told of Bickham's history.
Perhaps the decision of that council is the most egregious horror of all in a story that, as you can well see, is full of them.
