Judge Southwick upheld a conviction of a mother as an "accessory after the fact" in procuring an abortion for her underage daughter for a pregnancy that resulted from her statutory rape by her husband, who was not the girl's natural father.<ref>''Sherron v. Mississippi'', 2006 Miss. App. LEXIS 832 (Ct. App. Nov. 7, 2006)</ref> The legal theory for the conviction was that the mother concealed the crime of sex abuse by procuring an abortion to conceal the result of that sex. Mississippi law requires parental consent for a minor's abortion, which the mother provided and for which she was later convicted. | Judge Southwick upheld a conviction of a mother as an "accessory after the fact" in procuring an abortion for her underage daughter for a pregnancy that resulted from her statutory rape by her husband, who was not the girl's natural father.<ref>''Sherron v. Mississippi'', 2006 Miss. App. LEXIS 832 (Ct. App. Nov. 7, 2006)</ref> The legal theory for the conviction was that the mother concealed the crime of sex abuse by procuring an abortion to conceal the result of that sex. Mississippi law requires parental consent for a minor's abortion, which the mother provided and for which she was later convicted. |