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PEGGY JO CONNER’S GUILTY PLEA STANDS IN HER WOMB ATTACK CASE. SHE WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY YESTERDAY TO WITHDRAW HER GUILTY PLEA TO TRYING TO STEAL AN UNBORN CHILD BY CUTTING HER PREGNANT NEIGHBORS STOMACH, BUT CONNER DECLINED. CONNER, OF MANOR TOWNSHIP, ARMSTRONG COUNTY, PLEADED GUILTY MONDAY TO ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE AND OTHER CHARGES. HER ATTORNEY AND ARMSTRONG COUNTY JUDGE KENNETH VALASEK SAY THEY BELIEVE THE JUDGE WOULD DETERMINE WHETHER SHE INTENDED TO COMMIT FIRST DEGREE MURDER. IF THE JUDGE DECIDED SHE DID NOT, DEFENSE ATTORNEY DAVID DEFAZIO SAYS THE ATTEMPTED HOMICED CHARGE WOULD BE DROPPED. BUT DISTRICT ATTORNEY SCOTT ANDREASSI DISAGREES. YESTERDAY, WITH CONNER AND OTHERS READY TO TESTIFY, VALASEK ACKNOWLEDGED THERE HAD BEEN WHAT HE CALLED MISCOMMUNICATION AND MISUNDERSTANDING. VALASEK AGREED WITH ANDREASSI PLEADING GUILTY TO ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE MEANT BY DEFINITION THE PERSON INTENDED TO COMMIT FIRST DEGREE MURDER. CONNER ATTACKED VALERIE OSKIN NEARLY A YEAR AND HALF AGO INSIDE HER HOME WITH A BASEBALL BAT. THEN SHE DROVE OSKIN TO A REMOTE LOCATION, WHERE SHE CUT OPEN OSKIN’S ABDOMEN IN AN EFFORT TO REMOVE HER UNBORN BABY.

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