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Posted on 09/08/2008 4:41:37 PM PDT by wagglebee
Santa Clara, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Details have emerged from documents in a California appeals court case that a Planned Parenthood abortion business referred for an abortion on a sexually-abused teenager without telling authorities about the abuse. The case prompts pro-life advocates to say parental notification is needed.
According to court documents, a Santa Clara County sexual predator impregnated his 13-year-old stepdaughter and forced her to have a late-term abortion.
The man then continued to molest her for another seven months until the child's mother discovered the abuse and contacted police.
Despite two visits to Planned Parenthood and a surgical abortion at San Francisco General Hospital, no healthcare provider bothered to inform law enforcement.
Attorney Katie Short, a spokeswoman for the Yes on 4 campaign supporting the parental notification initiative on the November ballot, provided LifeNews.com with the details.
"This heart-rending and tragic real-life case illustrates better than any theoretical argument why Proposition 4 is so desperately needed in California," she said.
"Had Proposition 4 been in place, the victim's mother would have learned of the pregnancy and been there for her daughter. She would have contacted law enforcement right away, and spared her daughter months more of abuse," Short explained.
"Think about it: how long would this abuse have continued – or even been inflicted on this victim's younger sister or other young girls -- had the mother not happened to find out?" she asked.
"Obviously, Californians cannot rely on assurances from abortion providers that they are protecting children," Short added. "Are there any predators in jail right now because of a report from Planned Parenthood?"
Details of the case came in an August 28 decision by the California Supreme Court in an appeal filed by Gary W. Cross, who was 39 at the time he committed the crimes, following his conviction in Santa Clara Superior Court.
An appellate court upheld the sentence of 21 years to life imprisonment, and the Supreme Court agreed, 7-0.
According to the high court's written opinion, the abuse began in the summer of 2002, while the child's mother was at work and her younger siblings were asleep.
The child, identified in court records as "K," told Cross in August 2002 that she might be pregnant.
Details of the case from the court opinion:
On September 25, her suspicion was confirmed by a positive pregnancy test performed at a local clinic to which defendant had taken her.
In December 2002, after K.'s mother commented on K.'s weight gain, defendant took the girl back to the clinic for an abortion. The advanced stage of the pregnancy, five and a half months, required a surgical procedure that could not be performed at the clinic, which then referred K. to San Francisco General Hospital. The abortion required certain medical procedures at the hospital on two successive days. Each day, without her mother's knowledge, defendant kept K. out of school to take her to the hospital.
An ultrasound image of the fetal head indicated that the fetus was 22 weeks and two days old — near the end of the second trimester of pregnancy. Such a late-stage pregnancy required a surgical abortion. That day, hospital staff inserted dilators into K.'s cervix. The next day, defendant brought K. back to the hospital. K. was given anesthesia and, after additional dilation of her cervix, the fetus was removed from her uterus.
After the abortion, defendant resumed sexual activity with K. until July 9, 2003, when her mother came across documents relating to the abortion. The next day, K. reported her sexual molestation to the police, who arrested defendant.
Related web sites:
Yes on 4 - http://www.YESon4.net
Court opinion - http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S139791.PDF
And Planned Barrenhood is complicit in this!
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What I do not see in this article is what .. if anything .. will happen to Planned Parenthood !!
Happens all the time. This is one of the reasons that sexual abusers get away with abuse. It is easy to hide the evidence.
Why oh why don’t people hurt by abortion sue planned parenthood? Until they do, girls are going to get hurt.
A tale of true scum.
If a child needs to have a wart removed, there are all sorts of consent forms that the parent has to sign. Not so with prenatal infanticide.
Just makes you sick.
Planned Parenthood cares nothing about women. They are in the abortion business because of the MONEY.
“What I do not see in this article is what .. if anything .. will happen to Planned Parenthood !!”
Probably nothing. I suspect that the mother would have an actionable complaint in court. But this is San Fransicko, so I doubt a jury would convict their hometown clinic.
“Did she tell them who got her pregnant? Is there any proof of that? Did she say “my stepdad did this” or what?”
Doesn’t really matter. A 13 year old girl is not legally capable of providing consent. A pregnancy should automatically be referred as it is proof of abuse without any further information from the child.
If she had a bruise or appeared unfed they would have referred it to the police. But because she was pregnant they ignore the abuse.
They care nothing for the child, only their political cause.
“They care nothing for the child, only their political cause.”
You’re far too kind. They cared nothing about either child. They cared only about spreading their twisted and insane ethic.
Ironically, if not for the abortion, the sexual molestation may not have come to light.
I’m guessing the baby would have been a clue.
You are right. They do not care about women, only the money.
Please humor me to endorse these websites whenever possible!
http://www.defundplannedparenthood.org/
Also http://www.humanlife.org/index.php because of its pro-life (downloadable) resources.
Dawn Eden’s website exposes Planned Parenthood’s activities as well. This story covers up the rape of an 11-year-old in San Francisco.
http://www.dawneden.com/2005/12/planned-parenthood-boasts-it-covered.html
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