Law enforcement launched an investigation into the death of Presley Mae after her mother reportedly suffered a ‘suspicious’ miscarriage.
A Texas man is facing an aggravated assault charge after he allegedly slipped the mother of his child an abortion pill that led to the death of his unborn baby.
Law enforcement in Montgomery County, Texas launched an investigation into the death of stillborn infant Presley Mae after the mother reportedly suffered a “suspicious” miscarriage at a hospital in The Woodlands. Interviews with Presley Mae’s mother revealed that she believed the father of the baby, identified as 25-year-old Jon Rueben Gabriel Demeter, secretly fed her an abortion drug to cause her baby’s premature death.
Demeter allegedly resorted to covertly drugging the woman after his attempts to pressure her into abortion, even reportedly offering to pay for her out-of-state travel to end the pregnancy, failed.
“The mother repeatedly refused, expressing her firm intent to carry the pregnancy to term,” a media release from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office states.
It’s unclear whether Demeter used the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s radically expanded mail-order mifepristone permissions to obtain the abortion pill. Investigators concluded, however, that Demeter likely used the drug “without her knowledge and consent with the specific intent to cause the death of the unborn child.” That conclusion led law enforcement to officially charge Demeter with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury-family violence. He could face more charges pending further evidence, the Sheriff’s office was careful to warn.
“The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office commends the tireless dedication of our detectives, crime scene investigators, prosecutors, and patrol personnel who worked on this difficult and sensitive case,” Montgomery County Sheriff Wesley Doolittle said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers remain with the mother and her family as they mourn the loss of Presley Mae.”
Demeter is not the first Texas man to be arrested for allegedly slipping the mother of his child an abortion pill that caused the death of their unborn child. The Parker County Sheriff’s Office arrested 38-year-old Justin Anthony Banta on a capital murder charge in June 2025 for allegedly spiking his pregnant girlfriend’s drink with an abortion drug.
A majority of abortions, 70 percent, are believed to be unwanted, coerced, or inconsistent with the mother’s values and desires. The prominence of the abortion pill, especially following the Biden administration’s rollback of safeguards that required women to attend an in-person doctor visit before they could obtain a mifepristone prescription, has undoubtedly contributed to the number of babies and women who suffer the deadly and dangerous consequences of coerced chemical abortion.
An October poll found that approximately seven in 10 of the 1,600 respondents agree “chemical abortion drugs are used by sexual abusers to cover up rape, exploitation and sex-trafficking” and said doctors should also be required to “screen for and report signs of coercion or abuse” before prescribing mifepristone.
In early February, a Texas father sued California Dr. Remy Coeytaux for allegedly aiding and abetting the murder of two of his unborn babies by illegally mailing mifepristone to the estranged husband of the man’s girlfriend. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton identified Coeytaux, an affiliate of abortion drug dealer Aid Access, in his August 2025 cease and desist orders, which threatened “further legal action, lawsuits seeking injunctive relief, and civil penalties of no less than $100,000 per violation under Texas law.”
Just this week, Paxton filed a lawsuit against Aid Access, Coeytaux, and Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts for their roles in an “International abortion-by-mail enterprise that illegally ships abortion-inducing drugs into Texas in open defiance of state law.”
“Every unborn child is a life worth protecting, and Texas law reflects that fundamental truth. Radicals sending abortion-inducing drugs into our state will be held accountable for ending innocent life,” Paxton said in a statement. “My office will defend the lives of the unborn and relentlessly enforce our state’s pro-life laws against Aid Access and other radicals like it.”
