Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 / 15:23 pm

A 28-year-old man was found guilty of assaulting two elderly pro-life activists in front of the Planned Parenthood facility in Baltimore but was sentenced to just one year of home detention and avoided any jail time.

Judge Yvette M. Bryant handed down Patrick Brice’s sentence after he was found guilty of assaulting then-84-year-old Richard Schaefer and then-73-year-old Mark Crosby on May 26, 2023, when the two were providing sidewalk counseling in which they encouraged potential Planned Parenthood clients to choose life instead of getting an abortion.

The Baltimore Banner reported that Brice told the judge: “I just snapped one day” during the sentencing hearing and apologized to the victims. The outlet reported that Crosby shouted “

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