A Ring doorbell camera caught two FBI agents speaking with a pro-life activist’s mother in recently released video.
The Daily Signal first reported Wednesday on the footage showing the agents, identified as Ashley Roberts and Kathleen Brown, visiting the childhood home of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) member Elise Ketch on April 18 at approximately 2:45 P.M. Though Ketch no longer resides in the Woodbridge, Virginia, house, her mother, Tracy Ketch, spoke with the agents who were looking for her daughter.
“We just need to speak with her regarding some information that was sent to us,” Roberts said.
She continued, “She’s not in any trouble. We just have some information we need to ask her about.”
“We would tell you all the information because, like I said, she’s not in any trouble, but just out of respect for her, we’d like to speak with her first and then, if she feels like talking to you, which I’m sure she will because it’s nothing,” Roberts said.
Additional footage showed Ketch’s mother calling Elise to alert her about the FBI agents.
“Mom, don’t tell them anything,” Ketch was heard saying.
The FBI has been criticized for hesitating to investigate crimes against pro-life pregnancy centers. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Ketch began working for the PAAU back in December after previously volunteering for them. Most recently, Ketch was arrested in March with her fellow pro-life activists for blocking traffic after protesting in front of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. The protest revolved around the discovery of the bodies of five unborn fetuses in a medical waste bin outside the Washington SurgiClinic, which performs abortions, one year prior.
While Ketch was concerned for her family’s safety following the incident, she stated, “I refuse to back down.”
This FBI visit followed the controversial arrest of pro-life activist and author Mark Houck in September. Houck was arrested in front of his wife and seven children outside their Pennsylvania home. Houck’s wife and lawyer described the event as involving roughly 25 uniformed agents with “guns drawn” to lead Houck out in “shackles.”
The raid allegedly stemmed from an altercation Houck had with a Planned Parenthood escort back in October 2021. While the Philadelphia Police Department confirmed the event, Houck was not arrested. By May 2022, however, he received a letter from the Justice Department stating that he was being investigated for potentially violating the FACE Act.
Fox News’ Bradford Betz contributed to this report.