Pregnant women fighting lands woman in court

YOUNGSTOWN — A fight between two woman, one five months pregnant, landed one woman in the county jail and may have caused the second woman to lose her unborn child.

Reports say the fight was over a man both women had been dating.

Regina Cansler, 19, of Kensington Avenue, appeared for arraignment before Judge Elizabeth Kobly, Youngstown Municipal Court, Tuesday morning on felonious assault. She is being held in the Mahoning County jail on a $10,000 bond.

Cansler is due back in the Youngstown Municipal Court July 22.

Police were called to the St. Elizabeth Health Center emergency room just after midnight Sunday in reference to a pregnant woman who had been stabbed. When officers arrived at the hospital, two witnesses to the fight laid out the details of the altercation for police.

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