Revealed: How 'house of horrors' abortion doctor built up a multi-million dollar property empire after making up to $15,000 A NIGHT



Dr Kermit Gosnell earned more than $1.8 million a year from abortions

He bought an 18ft sailboat and at least nine properties in four states

While he earned up to $15,000 a week, his staff were on minimum wage

Authorities are now looking for more properties after he failed to reveal all of his assets



'House of horrors' doctor Kermit Gosnell built up a multimillion dollar property empire from the pain and suffering he inflicted carrying out thousands of illegal abortions.

With annual earnings of more than $1.8m according to prosecutors, the 72-year-old 'baby killer' invested his money in a series of properties that included an ocean front home and 18ft sailing boat.

MailOnline has discovered Gosnell, who faces the death penalty after being found guilty in three out of four murder charges today after cutting the spinal cords of babies during late term abortions, owned at least nine properties in four states.



They included a $900,000 townhouse in Philadelphia, a $800,000 home overlooking the ocean in New Jersey and several condos.

He also owns property in Delaware and Texas - all paid for from the money earned at his 'disgusting and horrendous' clinic where women were brutally treated by Gosnell and staff who had little or no medical training.



Riches: Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who ran the 'House of Horrors' abortion clinic in Philadelphia, built up a multimillion dollar property empire after carrying out late-term abortions for thousands of patients

Investigators are looking to see if he owns further properties, including any abroad, after he refused to respond to a court order telling him to reveal all his assets.



The IRS is interested in the rogue doctor after prosecutors said Gosnell was mostly paid in cash. When his home was raided they found $240,000 in bundles.



Gosnell's assets are estimated to be worth several million dollars and all paid for from the 15 abortions a day he carried out for the past 30 years.

Women were charged from $450 up to $1850 for the procedure - with the cost based on how far along the mother was.



He also earned hundreds of thousands from Oxycontin. Prosecutors said he was among the top three suppliers in the state.



Gosnell raked in as much as $30,000 a week but paid his untrained staff minimum wages, according to Grand Jury indictment.



Property: This home on 32nd Street in Philadelphia is just one of Gosnell's nine properties in four states

Comfortable: The doctor, who faces the death penalty, is believed to own this home in Friendswood, Texas

Teenagers who were employed to assist the terminations were paid the minimum wage of $7 an hour.



Employees like Ashley Baldwin, who was aged 15 and still in high school, would get $20 if they took part in a late-term abortiosn where the babies were killed by having their necks snipped with scissors.



Conditions at the medical center resembled those of a slaughterhouse with fetuses stored in the basement and the floors sticky with blood.



Body parts from the late term fetuses, including feet, were kept as gruesome souvenirs by Gosnell in his office.



According to the Grand Jury investigation, the conditions inside were described as deplorable, disgusting and horrendous'.



The horrors of what went on every day behind the barred windows and locked doors of the Women's Medical Society on Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia is in stark contrast to Gosnell's life outside.

While he portrayed himself as someone helping out women in their direst need his motivation was simply to earn as much money as possible.

Death: Refugee Karnamaya Mongar, 41, died at Dr Gosnell's clinic after receiving too much anesthetic

It was this constant stream of cash allowed Gonsell to steadily build up his property empire unnoticed by authorities.

With his conviction all will most likely be sold to meet the flurry of civil suits that will be filed by women left sterile or damaged at his hands.



MailOnline has discovered Gosnell has already been forced to sell his most expensive home, an ocean front property in the charming town of Brigantine, near Atlantic City in New Jersey.



While previously valued at more than $800,000 he sold the two-storey clapperboard home for half that amount last year.



The money was needed to pay his legal fees with the deal brokered by his lawyer John McMahon.



The new owner of the home had it torn down and all that remains is a bare stretch of grass.

Gosnell and his wife Pearl were frequent visitors to the shore front home with expansive views across an estuary and the Atlantic Ocean.

Site: Gosnell owned a home on this ocean front site in Brigantine, near Atlantic City in New Jersey but the property was torn down after he sold it for around $400,000 to cover legal fees last year

The peace and tranquility of the small seaside town in the shadow of Atlantic City would have been in stark contrast to the grisly sounds that came from his Philadelphia abortion clinic as untrained staff terminated babies.

Gosnell kept an 18ft sailboat in the driveway of his home, but according to neighbors it was just for show with the 72 year old not showing any appetite for taking it out to sea.

Practice: Gosnell, 72, taught his staff how to snip the necks of babies to kill them after birth

And like the rundown condition of his clinic Gosnell allowed his New Jersey retreat to slip into ruin.



Neighbor John Quizzio said the house became such an eyesore he was forced to erect a five foot high fence.

'I just could not stand looking at it anymore. It was falling apart in front on my eyes,' said John.

'I told Kermit I was going to put up a big fence and all it said was 'fences make for good neighbors.'

'The place was disgusting. It is not wonder the new owner pulled it down as it would have cost a fortune to put right.'

Other neighbors in the quiet N Shore Road said Gosnell never made any attempt to fit into the community where many homes have a boat parked in their driveway or a slip at the rear of their homes.

'He was miserable and not friendly,' said one neighbor who declined to be named. 'No one really liked him. When you read about what he did I am glad to say I don't count him as a friend.'

Neighbor John Quizzo, 74, said he tried to get to know Gosnell but found him cold - and mean.

'He would drive down from Philly just to cut his lawn because he was too mean to pay for a gardening service,' he said.

'He would turn up, cut the grass and leave the lawn mower in his living room. He'd jump back in his car and go home.'

Portfolio: His name is also connected to an office space, pictured, in Wilmington in Delaware

John said Gosnell painted his house purple while every house in the street is in a pastel color.

'It just stood out and was ugly, but he did not care. I guess he did it to piss everyone off.

'But the house was a wreck.He ever did any maintenance to it, probably because he was too mean. He did not like spending money.'



The three bedroom home in Brigantine was sold last year while Gosnell languished in jail on murder charges. A judge approved the sale as the doctor had to find cash to pay his legal fees.

Even without the Jersey home Gosnell and his wife still have assets that total several million dollars.

Gosnell funneled the money he earned carrying out more than 1,000 abortions a year into a mini property empire.

Prosecutors said many of the women paid in cash so there was no trace of them having ever visited the clinic.

Gosnell's main residence is an impressive three-storey building in N 32nd Street in Philadelphia where he lived with his wife and 13-year-old daughter. The 3,000sqft home is worth more than $800,000, according to latest real estate records.

Clinic: Gosnell also owned the property where his abortion clinic was housed, pictured, in Philadelphia

Abandoned: Neighbors are now calling for the building to be torn down following Gosnell's murder trial

HOW DID HE MAKE HIS MILLIONS? A LOOK AT WHAT GOSNELL CHARGED

Prosecutors in Dr Kermit Gosnell's murder trial said in a 212-page document presented to a Grand Jury that they estimated that he was making as much as $15,000 a night. His mercenary approach was typified by a sliding scale of charges for the abortion and even the amount of pain killers patients received.

A woman who was between 21 to 24 weeks pregnant was charged between $1,575 and $1,850. Those over the legal 24-week limit were charged more - and paid cash so there was no record of any procedure. There was also a sliding scale charge for women seeking anesthetic during the terminations.

In what prosecutors said was a naked sign of his greed, women were charged depending on how much pain they could endure - and how much cash they were willing to spend.

Women paid $50 for heavy sedation, $140 for twilight sedation and a top price of $200 for custom sedation. Former clinic worker Latosha Lewis told the Grand Jury that women who paid $50 were given the bare minimum of anesthetic.

Gosnell and his wife Pearl bought the four bedroom home in the Mantua district of Philadelphia as it was conveniently close to the clinic.



The pair would travel to the clinic each Sunday where the late term abortions were performed.



Publicly available property records show that Gosnell also owns two condos in Philadelphia that are worth more than $200,000.



The properties in Brandywine Street and W. Indiana Avenue have three bedrooms and are rented out.



Gosnell is also named in public records as owning a condo in the town of Friendswood, Texas in a development called Boca Raton.

There is also a small office building in Wilmington, Delaware and a further condo in Philadelphia as well as a town home in Berlin, New Jersey.



Real estate experts put the value of the homes at more than $750,000.



His oldest purchase is the now infamous medical center at 3801 Lancaster Avenue in Mantua where the abortions were carried out for more than 30 years.



Gosnell bought the building for just $22,000 in 1979, and later due to the success of the practice expanded into an art gallery next door.

Now the building is shuttered and vandalized and many locals want it torn down.

'The place should be knocked down after what went on there,' said one local resident.

'What other business is going to want to start up there knowing that so many babies were killed on the premises. It is just ghoulish.'



Gosnell, 72, has never revealed how much money he made from performing the terminations on predominantly lower income women.

Hidden: Another of Gosnell's Philadelphia properties. He would not declare all of his assets to authorities

Adding to the list: In New Jersey, Gosnell is believed to own this home in Berlin Township

Prosecutors said in a 212 page document presented to a Grand Jury they estimated that he was making as much as $15,000 a night.



His mercenary approach was typified by a sliding scale of charges for the abortion and even the amount of pain killers they received.



A woman who were between 21 to 24 weeks were charged between $1,575 and $1,850.

Those over the legal 24 week limit were charged more - and paid cash so there was no record of any procedure.



There was also a sliding scale charge for women seeking anesthetic during the terminations.



In what prosecutors said was a naked sign of his greed women were charged depending on how much pain they could endure - and how much cash they were willing to spend.



Women paid $50 for heavy sedation, $140 for twilight sedation and a top price of $200 for custom sedation.

Patient: Desiree Hawkins was contacted by police, who told her they had found a foot belonging to her aborted child - more than three years after she had undergone the procedure

Hurt: Davida Clarke said she is now infertile after having an abortion at the clinic in Phildelphia

Latosha Lewis told the Grand Jury that women who paid $50 were given the bare minimum of anesthetic.



The twilight sedation allowed patients to be half asleep while the custom made sure they were knocked out.



According to the Grand Jury indictment Gosnell complained when staff used too many drugs and drew up a cheat sheet that was pinned up in the clinic.

Prosecutors were unable to get precise details of how much was paid to Gosnell as he destroyed many of the records.



Gosnell had attempted to hide his multi-million dollar assets when he first appeared in a Philadelphia court in 2011.



With his wife he claimed he was almost 'destitute' saying he did not have the money to hire a lawyer and asked to court to provide a public defender.



The request was thrown out after prosecutors told Common Please Judge Renne Cardwell they had found 17 properties in four different states that were linked to the Gosnells.

Inside the clinic: A Grand Jury report noted that the clinic was run down and smelled of cat urine The couple attempted to argue that they couldn't sell any of their homes as they needed the money for their 13-year-old daughter.

Judge Cardwell rejected the couple's plea telling them they would have to liquidate some of their assets to pay lawyers fees. The Jersey shore home was the first to go.

The judge also told them their four grown up children could care for the 13 year old.

Gosnell argued that he only owned seven of the properties listed by prosecutors - but sources within the District Attorney's believe he has been able to conceal much of his wealth.

'You have to ask yourself where as all the cash gone,' said a lawyer who has investigated Gosnell.

'He has a number of properties, but the amount of money he was pulling in, with almost all of it cash, begs the questions where has it all gone.'

Confident that he would be cleared, Gosnell had wanted to shield his money from lawsuits that would inevitably follow his criminal trial.

The family of a Nepalese refugee who died from a drugs overdose following an abortion are first in the line for any damages resulting from a civil suit.



Operating table: Women recounted seeing tables and floors splattered with blood at the abortion clini

Grisly discovery: Investigators also found bags filled with body parts, pictured, during their search

Lawyers acting for 41 year old Karnamaya Mongar, a refugee who died after Gosnell performed an abortion on her in November 2010, were first to demand a list of what he owned.

They filed a civil lawsuit for negligence two years ago against Gosnell.

Fearing Gosnell would attempt to hide his assets from the court they filed an injunction that prevented him from selling them or passing the deeds to the properties to relatives.

In the 53-page application for an injunction lawyers for Mongar expressed their fears that Gosnell would attempt a 'fire sale' to get rid of his property so that it could not be sold to pay for damages.

They cited city prosecutors Joanne Pescatore and Christine Wechsler claiming the Gosnell's owned 17 properties in four different states.

Gosnell was given ten days by the court to supply a list of all the properties he has owned - but failed to handover the required details.

The doctor: Kermit Gosnell Charged: His wife Pearl Gosnell Employee: Elizabeth Hampton

Arrested: Tina Baldwin Assistant: Lynda Williams Worker: Adrine Moton

Accomplice: Eileen O'Neil Mugshot: Sherry West Held: Maddline Joe

The injunction was granted to lawyer Bernard Smalley who was representing the Mongar family from Woodbridge, Virginia.



The civil suit was put on hold until the completion of the criminal trial.



The five-week-long, often stomach-churning testimony has divided America.



Pro-life group say the trial played out over the last five weeks shows that live are being sacrificed needlessly and abortion should be banned.



The pro-choice supporters insist the horrors inflicted by a rogue doctor show that there is a need for greater medical care with facilities subject to regular inspection and control.



Gosnell had tried to portray himself as a saviour in the community catering to low income women.