At her home in Memphis, Mich., other examples followed: of two girls from Ohio who left an abortion clinic and, she said, told Ms. Anderson that her presence had persuaded them had not gone through with it.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/
Looks like there was an attempt to change persuade from intransitive to transitive. So originally she "had persuaded them and they had not gone..." Then there was an attempt at concision with, "persuaded them not to go..." But alas, the mark was missed, and we ended up with something in the middle.
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