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Former Table 8 Owner Charged With Attempting to Induce Former Girlfriend's Miscarriage
The former owner of Table 8, the Mid-City restaurant that closed down several years ago, has been charged with trying to induce a miscarriage in his one-time girlfriend.
According to a statement from the district attorney's office, 40-year-old Joshua Woodward is accused of giving his then-partner misoprostol, a drug that's used to induce abortion. The accusations suggest that he gave her the drug on four separate occasions in 2009.
The LA Times reports that she did suffer a miscarriage, but that Woodward's lawyer maintains his client's innocence:
"Nothing has changed in the last three years except the prosecution's determination to blame Joshua Woodward for the miscarriage suffered by his girlfriend," [Mark] Werksman said. "Joshua had nothing to do with the loss of his girlfriend's baby. And the evidence marshaled against him is so weak and speculative as to be nonexistent."
Woodward turned himself in today, and his bail was set at $4 million.
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