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.
A 10-year-old? If convicted, let us hope he never comes out. I understand child abusers are not held in high regard by savage felons.
ReplyDeleteWhat I want to know is why was a pre-teen Ohio girl made to travel to Indiana for a therapeutic abortion? In spite of becoming pregnant, how would a ten-year-old be able to carry a pregnancy safely to term? At that age, even with the onset of menses, a pregnancy would be life-threatening to a 10-year-old mother, and not illegal.
Someone in the Child Protective Services, Family planning, or county prosecutor's office is trying to lie to the mother and anyone else who is obligated under the law to keep the child safe.
There is more to this story than the media is letting on.
She probably had no need. Ohio's law is based on fetal heartbeat which at six weeks is not there. I agree that a 10-year-old giving birth is a plausible save the life of the mother situation. My guess is Planned Parenthood sent her out of state as a PR stunt.
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