Woman tricks love rival into taking abortion pills

An American woman has pleaded guilty to attempting to murder the unborn baby of her husband's mistress.

Kisha Jones, 40, is accused of trying to trick seven months pregnant Monique Hunter, 26, into taking an abortion pill.

According to reports, Jones called Hunter pretending to be a medical practitioner and asked her to pick up a prescription from her pharmacy.

Jones then masked her number and voice and sent a fake prescription to Hunter's pharmacy.

Hunter, who followed her instructions and took the medicine, immediately went into premature labour and had to be rushed to the hospital.

Her baby boy luckily survived the forced labour.

Jones, who is heavily pregnant herself, tried to kill Hunter's baby on two other occasions when she learned that Hunter was also expecting.

At one time, she was accused of sending two water bottles filled with poisoned milk to Hunter while she was in a hospital. In another plot, she pretended to be a hospital executive to get the baby’s ventilator turned off.

Hunter had been dating Jones’ husband Anthony for three years but claimed she did not know he was married.

Jones' lawyers claim her actions were “out of character” and that her "hormones were out of whack".

Jones has been jailed for four years beginning February 10 but could be released within two years.