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DC doctor who spiked pregnant girlfriend's tea with abortion pill sentenced

The spiked drink led the woman to miscarry. Sikander Imran will spend several years behind bars and won't be able to practice medicine when he gets out.

ARLINGTON, Va. - A former MedStar Georgetown University Hospital doctor who spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s drink with an abortion pill will spend several years behind bars and lose his ability to practice medicine.

The spiked drink led to the woman miscarrying the baby late last year.

Sikander Imran pled guilty in March. He was charged with causing an abortion and premeditated killing of a fetus of another.

On Friday, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison with 17 years suspended—meaning he’ll serve three years behind bars. After he’s released, he’ll be on supervised probation for 15 years.

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Imran won’t be able to practice medicine and he has to undergo substance abuse counseling. He was ordered to pay the victim more than $3,200 in restitution.

In an interview she gave to WROC—a local TV station in Rochester, NY—Brooke Fiske said she and Imran had been dating on and off for three years. Last Spring, he moved from New York to Arlington, Va. for a new job. Shortly after, he learned she was pregnant. According to Fiske, he wanted nothing to do with the pregnancy.

"He didn't want to have a baby so he tried to talk me into having an abortion, which I didn't want to do," Fiske said.

According to Fiske, she came to Virginia when she was 17 weeks pregnant to discuss how she and Imran would raise their child. It was during that visit police said he poisoned her. A few hours after drinking some tea, Fiske started having contractions.

"When I was drinking my tea in the evening, I got to the bottom of the cup, there was a gritty substance in there," Fiske said. "And when I looked at it, I could tell that it was a pill that had been ground up."

Fiske was taken to Virginia Hospital Center, where she went into labor and lost her baby boy. She told WROC tests showed the abortion pill Misoprostol was found in her system.

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