Posted on 07/14/2022 10:06:28 AM PDT by lightman
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican, said this week that his office will investigate the doctor who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio.
In an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters this week, Rokita said his office will investigate Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an OB/GYN in Indianapolis who told the Indy Star in a story published on July 1 that she provided care to a 10-year-old patient who was six weeks and three days pregnant. Bernard was connected to the patient after receiving a call from a child abuse doctor in Ohio. Allegedly, Ohio’s pro-life laws hindered her options in the state.
“We have this abortion activist acting as a doctor with a history of failing to report,” Rokita said. “So, we’re gathering the evidence as we speak, and we’re going to fight this to the end, including looking at her [Bernard’s] licensure if she failed to report. In Indiana it’s a crime…to intentionally not report.”
“This is a child, and there’s a strong public interest in understanding if someone under the age of 16 or under the age of 18 or really any woman is having an abortion in our state. And then if a child is being sexually abused, of course parents need to know. Authorities need to know. Public policy experts we all need to know as citizens in a free republic so we can stop this. This is a horrible, horrible scene caused by Marxists and socialists and those in the White House who want lawlessness at the border and then this girl was politicized for the gain of killing more babies,” he added. “This abortion activist [Bernard] is out there front and center, the lamestream media, the fake news, is right behind it, and unfortunately, in Indiana, the paper of record is fake news and they were right there jumping in on all this thinking that is was gonna be great for their abortionist movement when this girl has been so brutalized.”
As Townhall has been following, The Columbus Dispatch reported Wednesday that 27-year-old Gerson Fuentes is charged with impregnating the 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines for an abortion (via The Columbus Dispatch):
A Columbus man has been charged with impregnating a 10-year-old Ohio girl, whose travel to Indiana to seek an abortion led to international attention following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade and activation of Ohio's abortion law.
Gerson Fuentes, 27, whose last known address was an apartment on Columbus' Northwest Side, was arrested Tuesday after police say he confessed to raping the child on at least two occasions. He's since been charged with rape, a felony of the first degree in Ohio.
Columbus police were made aware of the girl's pregnancy through a referral by Franklin County Children Services that was made by her mother on June 22, Det. Jeffrey Huhn testified Wednesday morning at Fuentes' arraignment. On June 30, the girl underwent a medical abortion in Indianapolis, Huhn said.
Huhn also testified that DNA from the clinic in Indianapolis is being tested against samples from Fuentes, as well as the child's siblings, to confirm contribution to the aborted fetus.
Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Cynthia Ebner said the case did not warrant Fuentes — who is believed to be undocumented — to be held without bond.
Townhall obtained footage of Fuentes appearing in court for the first time.
As Mia covered, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin confirmed via an Immigration and Customs Enforcement source that Fuentes "is a Guatemalan national in the U.S. illegally & ICE has placed a detainer on him with local law enforcement.”
Spencer reported Tuesday that Ohio Attorney General David Yost, a Republican, said in an interview this week that there was “not a whisper” within law enforcement about the 10-year-old rape victim being unable to obtain an abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
"Something maybe even more telling," Yost continued, "my office runs the state crime lab. Any case like this, you're going to have a rape kit, you're going to have biological evidence, and you would be looking for DNA analysis — which we do most of the DNA analysis in Ohio — there is no case request for analysis that looks anything like this," Yost added.
Yost’s comments came after the story was repeated by Biden in remarks from the White House about executive action on abortion.
“Just last week, it was reported that a 10-year-old girl was a rape victim. Ten years old. And she was forced to have to travel out of the state to Indiana to seek to terminate the [pregnancy] and maybe save her life. That last part is my judgment. Ten years old,” Biden said.
As Spencer noted, the pro-life laws on the books in Ohio would not have prevented the young girl from getting an abortion.
"Ohio's heartbeat law has a medical emergency exception, broader than just the life of the mother. This young girl, if she exists and if this horrible thing actually happened to her — it breaks my heart to think about it — she did not have to leave Ohio to find treatment,” Yost said.
Beat me by 38 seconds. 😁👍
true, but this AG will have to really dig into this. There are too many possible laws which have been broken, which could call the feds into this also. The 10 year old was transported across state lines without the knowledge of the parents for an abortion, from a rape.
There is no end of possible laws which have been broken, by the doctor in Ohio, the provider in Indiana, the rapist, Planned Parenthood, etc.
This could be a great launching point for a political career if the AG handles it right.
Burn that bwitch.
I think the Left’s initial reaction was a big High-Five. Such a perfect case!! A 10-year-old rape victim, heroically transported to a decent-minded state which performed a glorious medical procedure that gave her freedom and independence! Hooray!
But now they realize that their “perfect case” is a deep, deep hole of illegal actions and political malfeasance on so many levels. They’ve really stepped in this one. There is just nothing good here for the Left at all.
I think I read where rokita was against exceptions to the abortion law. So he may aggressively go after this
Okay, I’m looking at the title and wondering what episode of Doctor Who was this?
Doc would never let a little human trafficking get in the way of her bigger agenda.
Or her paycheck.
*** They’ve really stepped in this one.***
Yes, they have. I want Ohio to look into the place where this rapist was employed, and how he had housing, and everything. They will find a vast network of individuals doing a lot of illegal things. I bet this is the tip of the iceberg.
So for a while wasn’t this guy saying that it wasn’t REALLY illegal for her to obtain an abortion because she fell under an exception, but now he wants to persecute the doctor anyway… for doing the thing he said wasn’t for realsies illegal in his state (even though it was!)
Are you SURE you want to go up against a Time Lord?
I was just going to say, Doctor Who lives in Cardiff, Wales, so how does the Indiana Attorney General think he has jurisdiction there?
“he wants to persecute the doctor anyway… for doing the thing he said wasn’t for realsies illegal in his state”
No, he wants to prosecute the doctor for failing to report the sexual abuse of a minor, as doctors are required by law to do when they have evidence of such. And a 10 year old coming into your office for an abortion is prima facie evidence of that type of thing.
IN is NOT going after the doctor for doing the abortion. Rather they’re going after the doctor for NOT making their, as a mandatory reporter, required report of child abuse to the state. Mandatory reporting is an important part of trying to keep repeat and multiple kid child abusers from harming more kids. It’s a big deal from the viewpoint of the state. Would be no different had the kid presented with multiple fractures suspicious for having been beaten. The fact an abortion ended up being involved is irrelevant. Mandatory reporting rules involve more than just child abuse and more than just doctors are covered by them.
Sounds like they did and he made claims to have been up on his facts when he was not
There is such a thing as being required to report suspected child sexual abuse such is the responsibility required of doctors, cops, teachers all kinds of people under laws passed by legislatures of the various states.
The doctor liable for prosecution under such a law.
“Sounds like they did...”
You mean it sounds like the abortionist reported the rape to the authorities? No, the mother of the child reported the rape to the authorities. The abortionist ran to tell the story to the media, instead of fulfilling her legal duty to report the crime.
I saw the man on tv uttering words
I don’t know what you mean by that, it’s a little vague.
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