Susanna Foo’s alleged victim has miscarriage
Philadelphia police are taking a closer look at restaurateur Susanna Foo’s alleged assault of a Philadelphia Parking Authority employee because the alleged victim suffered a miscarriage over the weekend.
Juanita Lewis, 38, was seven weeks pregnant and writing a ticket when the confrontation occurred next to Foo’s Center City restaurant Friday afternoon, according to Phil Rhedrick, who identified himself as Lewis’ boyfriend.
Though Rhedrick was not at the scene, he described Foo as “real violent, punching, kicking, scratching… She was just outraged.” Lewis, he said, “tried to ward her off.”
The police report of the incident says the 63-year-old Foo - arrested under the name Susanna S. Lan - struck Lewis in the stomach and the face with an open hand after seeing Lewis ticket a van making a delivery to her restaurant. Foo was arrested and spent the night in a holding cell before she was released on her own recognizance Saturday morning.
Thomas J. Bader, an assistant professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, said direct trauma was unlikely to cause a miscarriage so early in a pregnancy. It is later - when the uterus has expanded with the fetus - that direct trauma could seriously injure the baby, he said. more…
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