He spent 2 years in prison and earned 1.6 million dollars! He doesn't even want to go back to Nevada again

Patience Rousseau, who lives in Nevada, USA, was struggling with drug addiction and was also homeless when she found out she was pregnant in 2018. When the woman, who was 26 years old at the time and living with her two sons, realized that she could not go to Reno, 265 kilometers away, to have an abortion, she sought the solution of terminating the pregnancy on her own.

As a result of her research on the internet, Rousseau believed that it could cause a miscarriage and tried eating cinnamon and lifting heavy objects. Two months later, the woman gave birth to a stillborn baby boy, named him Abel and buried him in her garden.

In 2019, he was convicted of manslaughter under a law in Nevada that has been in effect since 1911 and makes it illegal for women to intentionally terminate a pregnancy after 24 weeks using medication.

Rousseau was the first person convicted under this law and was sentenced to up to eight years in prison.

But her lawyers appealed the conviction on the grounds that there was no evidence that her drug use resulted in a miscarriage or that she used drugs to terminate the pregnancy. They also said she didn't know exactly what week of pregnancy she was in when she lost her baby.

Rousseau's conviction was overturned in 2021 after serving two years in prison.

He later requested compensation for his prison time, but Nevada authorities initially agreed to pay him only $100,000.

Lawyers who continued to pursue the case were eventually able to reach a $1.6 million settlement, and Rousseau received $1.2 million, minus attorney fees.

Speaking to the Independent newspaper, Rousseau said in his statement after the case: "They tried so hard not to pay me. I've been through a lot, my children have too, and they're still struggling with these problems. It's not fair. The trauma of it all was pretty terrible. I never want to go back to Nevada again, and to be honest, I don't want to see any of the people in Winnemucca again. They ruined everything."