A Fayette man

who beat his four-months-pregnant girlfriend over two months ago at Marnelle

Mobile Home Park now faces charges that the beating caused the deaths

of the two unborn babies she was carrying.

Michael Antonio

Glass, 35, was charged Wednesday with two felony counts of feticide by

Fayette County sheriff's detectives. According to warrants filed for his

arrest, when he struck her in the abdomen, it caused a laceration to the

liver of one of the fetuses, which subsequently caused its death.

That created

a chain reaction that eventually led to the death of the second fetus

also, authorities allege in the warrants.

Previously,

Glass was charged with aggravated assault and three counts of cruelty

to children in the second degree in the case since the assault took place

in front of the couple's three children, according to authorities.

Glass has been

held at the Fayette County Jail without bond since his arrest. At the

time of his arrest, he had possession of a stolen weapon at a Marshall's

department store in Atlanta where he was a manager, authorities said.

Prior to the

assault, Glass had been angry at the girlfriend because he rebuffed her

wishes to get an abortion. He has a prior history of assaulting women

and was on probation for an assault in Clayton County when the incident

occurred, according to Maj. Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriff's

Department.

The babies

were delivered stillborn at Southern Regional Medical Center July 20.

After the original

charges were filed, authorities indicated the feticide charges could be

filed if autopsies of the fetuses showed they died from injuries received

during the assault.

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