Philadelphia abortionist, Dr Kermit Gosnell, has been found guilty of three counts of first degree murder after it was found he killed babies after they had been delivered alive.

He was also found guilty of conspiracy to perform abortions past Pennsylvania’s 24-week legal threshold.

The jury also found him guilty on most of the more than 200 counts of violating the state’s ‘informed consent’ law, which says there must be a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion, the Daily Mail reports.

They found he was guilty of murder in the deaths of babies, who had been named A, C and D for the purpose of the trial.

Mainstream media organisations have come under fire for giving scant coverage to the case.  

In testimony, the court heard how a clinic employee had photographed Baby A after Dr Gosnell had joked: ‘He’s big enough to walk you to the bus stop.’

Dr Gosnell built up a multimillion dollar property empire from carrying out thousands of abortions in a poor neighbourhood of Philadephia.

With annual earnings of more than $1.8m according to prosecutors, the 72-year-old invested his money in a series of properties that included an ocean front home and 18ft sailing boat. He owned at least nine properties in four states.

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

Dr 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 advanced the pregnancy was.

Clinic workers also testified that they had seen Baby C, a little girl, move her arm before her neck was snipped, killing her.

And Baby D was born in the clinic’s bathroom and was seen struggling to get out of the toilet before a worker also snipped her spine.

He was found not guilty in the death of Baby E, who workers had said let out a single cry before the neck was snipped.

Dr Gosnell’s attorney Jack McMahon said they were ‘disappointed’ with the verdict.

Dr Gosnell’s business was discovered more than two years ago when authorities went to investigate prescription drug trafficking at Gosnell’s clinic in a low-income area of West Philadelphia.

Instead, they came across blood-splattered operating tables, bags of body parts, unsanitary instruments, jars of severed feet and the stink of cat urine, according to a 2011 grand jury report.

The report added that dozens of women were injured at Dr Gosnell’s clinic over the past 30 years, calling it a ‘house of horrors’.

Some left with torn wombs or bowels, some with venereal disease contracted through the reuse of non-sterilized equipment, and some left with fetal remains still inside them, the report alleged.

Employees at the clinic confirmed that babies were often expelled from their mothers into the toilet. On at least one occasion the toilet had to be removed from the floor to ‘get the fetuses out of the pipes.’

Former staffers added that patients received heavy sedatives and painkillers from untrained workers while Dr Gosnell was offsite, and were then left in waiting rooms for hours, often unattended.

Dr Gosnell has been in jail since his January 2011 arrest.