An Army captain will serve 12 years in military prison after pleading guilty to secretly poisoning his pregnant girlfriend with mail-order abortion drugs that killed their unborn baby.
Capt. Brandon Jones-Adams spiked the drink of a junior enlisted soldier — the mother of his child — with mifepristone in what prosecutors called a “deliberate, calculated, and malicious” act.
The victim was 13 weeks pregnant when Jones-Adams drugged her at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington in August 2025. She reportedly suspected foul play after noticing residue in the bottom of her cup.
“What Mr. Jones-Adams did was a disgusting act that killed an unborn child and violated the victim’s trust and autonomy in the most personal way.”
The poisoning sent the soldier to the emergency room with severe cramping. The baby died.
Jones-Adams, 34, had impregnated the junior soldier while the two were romantically involved on rotation in South Korea in May 2025. A forensic examination of his phone revealed he tried repeatedly to obtain mifepristone “from other sources” before using a fake name to order the pills online.
That mail-order purchase was only possible because the Trump FDA continued the Biden administration’s radically relaxed abortion pill policies — allowing mifepristone to be shipped directly to consumers with minimal oversight.
At the time of the poisoning, the victim was more than three weeks past the 10-week gestation limit set in FDA prescription requirements for mifepristone. One in 10 women who take the drug suffer serious adverse events like hemorrhage or infection. The risk of life-threatening side effects — which data suggests is at least 22 times higher than the FDA and pill maker Danco Laboratories claim — increases sharply when the pregnancy exceeds 10 weeks.
Research indicates that 81 percent of online abortion businesses mail mifepristone to women who exceed the 10-week limit. Hundreds of thousands of women down those pills each year, and data shows they don’t feel fully informed about the physical, mental, and emotional effects linked to chemical abortion.
Jones-Adams pleaded guilty to murdering his unborn child, domestic violence, fraternization, and conduct unbecoming an officer. He admitted to investigators in the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division that he spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s drink.
He was sentenced to the maximum prison time under his plea bargain and dismissed from the Army without pay or allowances.
Circuit Chief Lt. Col. Tyler Heimann said Jones-Adams “inflicted profound harm on his victim and betrayed the trust placed in him as an Army officer.”
Special Agent in Charge Michele Starostka of Army CID’s Western Field Office called the act “disgusting.”
The charges remain allegations. The case has not been proven in court.
The prevalence of mail-order mifepristone has opened the door to abuse and injury for women who wanted to keep their babies. A majority of abortions — 70 percent — are already believed to be unwanted, coerced, or inconsistent with the mother’s values and desires.
The years following the Biden administration’s expansion of mail-order mifepristone have yielded horror stories from women across the nation who are susceptible to injuries and even death linked to the drug, especially when taking it unknowingly or under duress.
