A vindictive NY woman is facing attempted murder charges for poisoning her husband’s mistress in hopes of causing the woman to spontaneously abort the fetus.

Kisha Jones was also pregnant when she tricked Monique Hunter, 26, into taking an abortion-inducing medication in October 2009.

However, her lawyer, Barry Turner, blamed Jones’ actions on raging hormones. He told the New York Post: “My client was in the last trimester of her pregnancy and was acting irrationally. I guess her hormones were out of whack.”

Here’s more from London’s Daily Mail:

Mr Turner accused 26-year-old Hunter of taunting his client, leaving phone messages with details of her three-year affair and claiming her husband would soon leave her.

Jones, 40, from Brooklyn, had no criminal history, a life-long record of helping disabled children, and deserved leniency, Mr Turner said.

She was under mounting pressure expecting her fourth child and ‘she acted in a manner that wasn’t consistent with her personality’, he added.

Jones admitted using a forged prescription and a disguised telephone number to trick Hunter into taking cytotec, causing her to go into early labour.

Charges of trying to kill the premature newborn in the maternity ward and impersonating a hospital executive to try to get the baby taken off a ventilator were dropped.