Crime (Update) Arrest Made in Rape of Ohio 10-Year-Old Who Had to Travel Out of State for Abortion

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An Ohio man was arrested Tuesday for raping a 10-year-old girl who became a central figure in the debate over abortion rights after she reportedly traveled to Indiana to have an abortion when Ohio outlawed the procedure last month.

Arrest records and court records viewed by The Daily Beast confirm that Gerson Fuentes, 27, was arrested Tuesday in Franklin County on a felony charge of raping a person under 13. The Columbus Dispatch, who first reported on his arrest, attended Fuentes’ arraignment in Columbus on Wednesday.

The unidentified girl’s plight became national news when the Indianapolis Star quoted a doctor who said a 10-year-old rape victim, who was six weeks and three days pregnant, had been forced to travel from her home in Columbus to Indiana for an abortion. Her home state had a trigger law that immediately outlawed abortions after six weeks once the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

A Columbus Police detective, identified by the Dispatch as Jeffrey Huhn, testified in court Wednesday that the 10-year-old victim was impregnated and had an abortion in Indianapolis.


“The victim went out of state to have a medically terminated abortion,” he said, according to video of the arraignment.

The video showed Fuentes staring blankly during the arraignment and standing with a slouch as a translator relayed the proceedings to him in Spanish.

Court records say the alleged rape occurred on May 12. Detectives said in court that police were made aware of the girl’s pregnancy through a referral filed with the local child services’ branch by her mother on June 22. Eight days later, the girl had the abortion in Indianapolis.

The aborted fetus has since been tested for DNA and entered into evidence, Huhn said, and officials say Fuentes confessed to the rape when he was questioned.

Fuentes’ arrest comes as conservative media claimed the girl’s story was made up for political theater, something parroted by Fox News presenters as recently as Tuesday night—while Fuentes was already in custody.

But those also with egg on their face in light of the horrific crime: the top law-enforcement official in Ohio.

Indeed, state Attorney General Dave Yost spent much of the past week effectively dubbing the story a hoax, suggesting he had heard nothing about any such crime being reported.

“We have a decentralized law enforcement system in Ohio, but we have regular contact with prosecutors and local police and sheriffs,” Yost said in a Fox News segment Monday. “Not a whisper anywhere.”


Yost released a statement Wednesday afternoon that did not address his previous comments.

“My heart aches for the pain suffered by this young child,” he said. “I am grateful for the diligent work of the Columbus Police Department in securing a confession and getting a rapist off the street.”

Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist who first described the rape and its aftermath to the Indy Star, previously told The Daily Beast she expected vindication.

“It will all come out in time,” she said via text message on Tuesday.


Court records show Fuentes is being held on a bond of $2 million. The judge said he was considered a flight risk and, given the brutality of the crime, a high bail was necessary to protect the child involved.

—with reporting by Pilar Melendez

 

[Jazz Yahoo]

I guess conservatives are wrong again.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news...a-todd-rokita-dr-caitlin-bernard/65373626007/

 

[notafederalagent]

Mom of 10-year-old Ohio girl who got abortion defends child’s rapist​

New York Post (archive.ph)
By Lee Brown
2022-07-15 7:50am ET

The mother of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to get an abortion has defended her daughter’s 27-year-old confessed rapist — who was wrongly listed as a minor during the medical visit, according to reports.

The mom spoke to Telemundo while hiding behind the door of the Columbus apartment that was also listed as the home of rapist Gerson Fuentes, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala.

“She’s my daughter,” the mom, who refused to give a name, confirmed to Telemundo of the girl who would have been just nine when she was abused and impregnated.

“She’s fine. Everything that they’re saying against him is a lie,” she insisted of Fuentes, who confessed during police interviews to raping the youngster at least twice, according to court records and officials.

The defensive mom, who hid her face when speaking to Telemundo in Spanish, insisted that she had not been the one to file charges against her young daughter’s abuser.

The shocking case came to light when the girl was taken across state lines to terminate the pregnancy in Indiana on June 30, with President Biden highlighting it as proof of the evils of anti-abortion legislation.

However, despite Fuentes being 27, the person listed as getting the girl pregnant was described as being a minor in the report her abortionist sent to authorities, according to Fox News Digital, which obtained a copy.

Dr. Caitlin Bernard listed the rapist as being aged approximately 17 in her official filing to the Indiana Department of Health, the outlet said.

It was not immediately clear if Fuentes was identified in the document. Fox only said it showed how Bernard reported performing a non-surgical abortion for a 6-weeks pregnant 10-year-old girl of Mexican ethnicity on June 30.

Bernard was the one who then highlighted the tragic case in an interview with The Indy Star on July 1.

The doctor’s attorney, Kathleen DeLaney, insisted that Bernard “took every appropriate and proper action in accordance with the law and both her medical and ethical training as a physician.”

“She followed all relevant policies, procedures and regulations in this case, just as she does every day to provide the best possible care for her patients,” she told Fox.


DeLaney also said they are “considering legal action against those who have smeared my client, including Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita,” who is investigating Bernard’s actions.

Fuentes was busted Tuesday, and is being held on $2 million bond after being charged with felony rape of a minor under 13 years old in the case. He is scheduled back in court next Friday.

“My heart aches for the pain suffered by this young child,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said.

“I am grateful for the diligent work of the Columbus Police Department in securing a confession and getting a rapist off the street,” he said.

 

[Hillary Clinton's Ass]

Mom of 10-year-old Ohio girl who got abortion defends child’s rapist​

New York Post (archive.ph)
By Lee Brown
2022-07-15 7:50am ET

The mother of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to get an abortion has defended her daughter’s 27-year-old confessed rapist — who was wrongly listed as a minor during the medical visit, according to reports.

The mom spoke to Telemundo while hiding behind the door of the Columbus apartment that was also listed as the home of rapist Gerson Fuentes, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala.

“She’s my daughter,” the mom, who refused to give a name, confirmed to Telemundo of the girl who would have been just nine when she was abused and impregnated.

“She’s fine. Everything that they’re saying against him is a lie,” she insisted of Fuentes, who confessed during police interviews to raping the youngster at least twice, according to court records and officials.

The defensive mom, who hid her face when speaking to Telemundo in Spanish, insisted that she had not been the one to file charges against her young daughter’s abuser.

The shocking case came to light when the girl was taken across state lines to terminate the pregnancy in Indiana on June 30, with President Biden highlighting it as proof of the evils of anti-abortion legislation.

However, despite Fuentes being 27, the person listed as getting the girl pregnant was described as being a minor in the report her abortionist sent to authorities, according to Fox News Digital, which obtained a copy.

Dr. Caitlin Bernard listed the rapist as being aged approximately 17 in her official filing to the Indiana Department of Health, the outlet said.

It was not immediately clear if Fuentes was identified in the document. Fox only said it showed how Bernard reported performing a non-surgical abortion for a 6-weeks pregnant 10-year-old girl of Mexican ethnicity on June 30.

Bernard was the one who then highlighted the tragic case in an interview with The Indy Star on July 1.

The doctor’s attorney, Kathleen DeLaney, insisted that Bernard “took every appropriate and proper action in accordance with the law and both her medical and ethical training as a physician.”

“She followed all relevant policies, procedures and regulations in this case, just as she does every day to provide the best possible care for her patients,” she told Fox.


DeLaney also said they are “considering legal action against those who have smeared my client, including Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita,” who is investigating Bernard’s actions.

Fuentes was busted Tuesday, and is being held on $2 million bond after being charged with felony rape of a minor under 13 years old in the case. He is scheduled back in court next Friday.

“My heart aches for the pain suffered by this young child,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said.

“I am grateful for the diligent work of the Columbus Police Department in securing a confession and getting a rapist off the street,” he said.

An absolutely sick person, how do you defend the man who raped your daughter? Your 9 year old?

I say, hang them, the rapist, the parents, the doctors that didn't report it, hang them in the same gallows together.

 

[notafederalagent]

I say, hang them, the rapist, the parents, the doctors that didn't report it, hang them in the same gallows together.

Hanging is relatively quick and painless. These "people" deserve to be subjected to a someone who has been through the School Of The America's torture courses.

 

[Bob Loblaw Law Blog]

Mom of 10-year-old Ohio girl who got abortion defends child’s rapist​

New York Post (archive.ph)
By Lee Brown
2022-07-15 7:50am ET

The mother of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to get an abortion has defended her daughter’s 27-year-old confessed rapist — who was wrongly listed as a minor during the medical visit, according to reports.

The mom spoke to Telemundo while hiding behind the door of the Columbus apartment that was also listed as the home of rapist Gerson Fuentes, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala.

“She’s my daughter,” the mom, who refused to give a name, confirmed to Telemundo of the girl who would have been just nine when she was abused and impregnated.

“She’s fine. Everything that they’re saying against him is a lie,” she insisted of Fuentes, who confessed during police interviews to raping the youngster at least twice, according to court records and officials.

The defensive mom, who hid her face when speaking to Telemundo in Spanish, insisted that she had not been the one to file charges against her young daughter’s abuser.

The shocking case came to light when the girl was taken across state lines to terminate the pregnancy in Indiana on June 30, with President Biden highlighting it as proof of the evils of anti-abortion legislation.

However, despite Fuentes being 27, the person listed as getting the girl pregnant was described as being a minor in the report her abortionist sent to authorities, according to Fox News Digital, which obtained a copy.

Dr. Caitlin Bernard listed the rapist as being aged approximately 17 in her official filing to the Indiana Department of Health, the outlet said.

It was not immediately clear if Fuentes was identified in the document. Fox only said it showed how Bernard reported performing a non-surgical abortion for a 6-weeks pregnant 10-year-old girl of Mexican ethnicity on June 30.

Bernard was the one who then highlighted the tragic case in an interview with The Indy Star on July 1.

The doctor’s attorney, Kathleen DeLaney, insisted that Bernard “took every appropriate and proper action in accordance with the law and both her medical and ethical training as a physician.”

“She followed all relevant policies, procedures and regulations in this case, just as she does every day to provide the best possible care for her patients,” she told Fox.


DeLaney also said they are “considering legal action against those who have smeared my client, including Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita,” who is investigating Bernard’s actions.

Fuentes was busted Tuesday, and is being held on $2 million bond after being charged with felony rape of a minor under 13 years old in the case. He is scheduled back in court next Friday.

“My heart aches for the pain suffered by this young child,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said.

“I am grateful for the diligent work of the Columbus Police Department in securing a confession and getting a rapist off the street,” he said.

What in the fuck did I just read?

Arrest this bitch. This bitch is illegal too, deport her unfit as mom ass.

Holy shit. What in the fuck?

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

The mother of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to get an abortion has defended her daughter’s 27-year-old confessed rapist — who was wrongly listed as a minor during the medical visit, according to reports.

“She’s fine. Everything that they’re saying against him is a lie,” she insisted of Fuentes, who confessed during police interviews to raping the youngster at least twice, according to court records and officials.

However, despite Fuentes being 27, the person listed as getting the girl pregnant was described as being a minor in the report her abortionist sent to authorities, according to Fox News Digital, which obtained a copy.

Dr. Caitlin Bernard listed the rapist as being aged approximately 17 in her official filing to the Indiana Department of Health, the outlet said.

So confessed to raping her at least twice which people already suspected in the thread but confirmation is helpful. The doctor put it down as approximately 17, I suspect because that's the cutoff age for her legally having to report it if there's some sort of exception for minors on minors. Or not, might be how it was reported to her. Somehow I doubt it though.

Edit apparently she performed the abortion 30/06 and it was reported 02/07.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

I guess conservatives are wrong again.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news...a-todd-rokita-dr-caitlin-bernard/65373626007/

Records: Dr. Caitlin Bernard reported 10-year-old Ohio girl's abortion

archived 15 Jul 2022 09:31:34 UTC

archive.ph

Timeline
June 22: Police in Columbus, Ohio, are made aware of the girl's rape through a referral by Franklin County Children Services that was made by her mother, according to police.
June 24: U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. An Ohio law restricting abortions when fetal cardiac activity is detectable goes into effect.
June 27: Bernard receives call from a child abuse doctor in Ohio seeking an abortion for a 10-year-old who had been raped, according to what Bernard previously told IndyStar.
June 30: Abortion is performed.
July 2: Bernard files the required "terminated pregnancy form" with the Indiana Department of Health and the Department of Children Services.

This is our first thread on the topic, and this is the article the first thread was based on. That article is dated July 1st. That's one day before the date listed for the report, two days after the procedure, and 4 days after she became aware she'd probably do the procedure. This was a M-F period so there's no "day" vs "business day" fucker y in my calculations.

It is accurate enough to say she didn't do her reporting because really, the article is a snapshot of what we know at a given time, and as of the time the original story was published she hadn't don't the report yet. She only bothered to do it after people started talking about the story and started questioning the rape side of the story.

Given her track record it is plausible that she only did a report in response to the coverage, just as the cops only bothered to do the arrest in response to the coverage. Even if it legitimately took her that long to do her paperwork however, it's odd that she went to the news before she completed the report.

Again, given her track record she should know why the report is needed, she should know that it is used to spot pedophile rapist scenarios. She should know that going out so publicly would give a smarter man than Gerson a heads up notice that he should flee the state.

Disgusting and irresponsible behavior.

Clarification: The time from when she became aware she'd probably do the abortion to when the news story everyone is talking about is a M-F period with no "business day" weirdness to hinder the calculation. July 2nd when she filed the report is a Saturady, so she worked weekends to turn it in at the time when I assume the authorities are probably running in maintenance mode, dealing with only emergencies until regular business hours again.

 

[elite_club]

Too morally corrupt to do the right thing and out a pedophile, too stupid to do the smart thing and not try to get street cred for being morally bankrupt.

 

[murdered meat bag]

Saw some ditzy anti abortion broad get grilled by Eric fangang Sewell because she sajd the 10 year old's abortion wouldnt be an abortion. He kept asking if society should force 10 year olds to carry to term and she floundered, which is understandable since it was on national television.

but i have colleagues who ask the same shit and they really hate "its a bridge I'll cross when i get it to" because they dont like hearing that its still a baby even if the mother's 10.

everyone wants simple black and white answers.

 

[The Dude]

An absolutely sick person, how do you defend the man who raped your daughter? Your 9 year old?

I say, hang them, the rapist, the parents, the doctors that didn't report it, hang them in the same gallows together.

I'm going to assume the girl's father isn't in the picture. Spics are often just as bad as niggers when it comes to fathers not being in their kids lives. Sounds like beaner mom got a beaner boyfriend, let him move in with her and her daughter before finding out if beaner boyfriend is safe and trustworthy to have around her 10 year old little girl, beaner boyfriend rapes daughter at least twice and got her pregnant, and now beaner mom is in full-goose denial because she either doesn't want to admit that she's a shitty mother who put her sexual needs before the safety of her little girl, or because she's STILL putting her sexual needs above the safety of her child.

However, if the dad is in the picture and is just sitting on his ass after his daughter was raped by his baby mama's new boyfriend then he needs to be deported out of a helicopter over the middle of the Pacific right along with beaner mom and beaner boyfriend.

 

[Petrusha]

"The mother is 10" is like the world's most obvious medical exemption, though. No matter how stringently anti-abortion you are, it's still better to have a dead baby and a living mother than a dead baby and a dead mother. The baby's going to die anyway since the odds of the mom making it long enough for the baby to survive outside of the womb are so low, on account of the mom being a child herself. It fucking sucks and neither kid deserves it, but sometimes you have to take the lose-lose-lose-win over the lose-lose-lose-lose.

 

[Kiwisee]

Mom of 10-year-old Ohio girl who got abortion defends child’s rapist​

New York Post (archive.ph)
By Lee Brown
2022-07-15 7:50am ET

The mother of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to get an abortion has defended her daughter’s 27-year-old confessed rapist — who was wrongly listed as a minor during the medical visit, according to reports.

The mom spoke to Telemundo while hiding behind the door of the Columbus apartment that was also listed as the home of rapist Gerson Fuentes, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala.

“She’s my daughter,” the mom, who refused to give a name, confirmed to Telemundo of the girl who would have been just nine when she was abused and impregnated.

“She’s fine. Everything that they’re saying against him is a lie,” she insisted of Fuentes, who confessed during police interviews to raping the youngster at least twice, according to court records and officials.

The defensive mom, who hid her face when speaking to Telemundo in Spanish, insisted that she had not been the one to file charges against her young daughter’s abuser.

The shocking case came to light when the girl was taken across state lines to terminate the pregnancy in Indiana on June 30, with President Biden highlighting it as proof of the evils of anti-abortion legislation.

However, despite Fuentes being 27, the person listed as getting the girl pregnant was described as being a minor in the report her abortionist sent to authorities, according to Fox News Digital, which obtained a copy.

Dr. Caitlin Bernard listed the rapist as being aged approximately 17 in her official filing to the Indiana Department of Health, the outlet said.

It was not immediately clear if Fuentes was identified in the document. Fox only said it showed how Bernard reported performing a non-surgical abortion for a 6-weeks pregnant 10-year-old girl of Mexican ethnicity on June 30.

Bernard was the one who then highlighted the tragic case in an interview with The Indy Star on July 1.

The doctor’s attorney, Kathleen DeLaney, insisted that Bernard “took every appropriate and proper action in accordance with the law and both her medical and ethical training as a physician.”

“She followed all relevant policies, procedures and regulations in this case, just as she does every day to provide the best possible care for her patients,” she told Fox.


DeLaney also said they are “considering legal action against those who have smeared my client, including Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita,” who is investigating Bernard’s actions.

Fuentes was busted Tuesday, and is being held on $2 million bond after being charged with felony rape of a minor under 13 years old in the case. He is scheduled back in court next Friday.

“My heart aches for the pain suffered by this young child,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said.

“I am grateful for the diligent work of the Columbus Police Department in securing a confession and getting a rapist off the street,” he said.

What I am gathering from this report is that the dumb whore decided that protecting her pedophile boyfriend came before protecting her own fucking daughter. She just assumed the case would simply be brushed under the rug, so that the pedophile could continue abusing the girl… but what she didn’t count on was the doctor going to the media before the authorities. Oops.

I’d say dox the mom, but that would put the poor girl at risk. I hope that woman gets charged for child neglect; there’s no way she didn’t know about the pedo raping her daughter.

I swear to god, Latinas are the absolute worst for being pedo defenders

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

She's Mexican. Mexicans do this shit all the time, child abuse and mothers defending their child rapist boyfriend is extremly common. I keep telling you idiots Mexicans are nothing but more dangerous niggers who don't speak English but you refuse to face reality.

I'm glad that the girl was able to get an abortion. I have previously stated I wish to give pro-lifers the wall right after white liberals. I change that, I now want to keep them for perpetual blood and organ harvesting/prostitutuon. After all, every life is scared, and if someone NEEDS your blood and part of your liver well you should be just fine with it being taken from you.

 

[Sithis]

Damn it's like this story was engineered specifically to make everyone who tried using it as a pro-abortion argument look like a retard. Like, how do you tout this as anything but a tangible example of why allowing a porous border and sanctuary cities to exist is fucking stupid?

 

[Linako 2.0]

I stand corrected in believing it was fake.
I'm mad that they left out who the rapist is and how easily this could have been prevented if we had a country that actually did ityjob in protecting it's citizens.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

Damn it's like this story was engineered specifically to make everyone who tried using it as a pro-abortion argument look like a retard. Like, how do you tout this as anything but a tangible example of why allowing a porous border and sanctuary cities to exist is fucking stupid?

Because little white girls never get rapped by their white momma's white boyfriend, AMIRITE? I despise illegals but this stupid cope by retards like you is pathetic.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Imagine people debating about abortion and getting heated over it vs. instead getting heated over a mom who pimped out her kid to her boyfriend while also being an illegal leech.

 

[Sithis]

Because little white girls never get rapped by their white momma's white boyfriend, AMIRITE? I despise illegals but this stupid cope by retards like you is pathetic.

"Hurrrrrr durrrrr it's irrelevant that this entire fucking thing could have been prevented by simply enforcing border law". Christ, what a special brand of stupid you are.

By the way, the procedure to save her life wouldn't have been illegal in Ohio anyway, it wouldn't have been considered an illegal "abortion" under the states law since it would have been required to save her life. My guess is the real reason they crossed state lines was to avoid deportation and find a sanctuary city. Now cope seethe and dilate.

 

[The Dude]

Damn it's like this story was engineered specifically to make everyone who tried using it as a pro-abortion argument look like a retard. Like, how do you tout this as anything but a tangible example of why allowing a porous border and sanctuary cities to exist is fucking stupid?

Not to mention the failure of abortion providers like Planned Parenthood to report child sexual abuse cases like they're legally obligated to. I guarantee you that the professional baby killer who went to the press only reported the case to law enforcement when she realized the narrative couldn't be controlled and people were going to expose everything eventually. She did it to cover her own ass, not because a 10 year old girl was raped and impregnated.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

"Hurrrrrr durrrrr it's irrelevant that this entire fucking thing could have been prevented by simply enforcing border law". Christ, what a special brand of stupid you are.

By the way, you objectively retarded monkey, the procedure to save her life wouldn't have been illegal in Ohio anyway, it wouldn't have been considered an "abortion" under the states law. My guess is the real reason they crossed state lines was to avoid deportation and find a sanctuary city. Now cope seethe and dilate.

It is irrelevant because there have and are and will be other cases excatly like her but without the illegal part. To pretend that this is some incredibly rare scenario that won't ever happen in our life time, or that purging the beaners will make cases like this disappear, is a flat out lie.

And it's the goal of the pro-life movement and more than half the morally bankrupt fucks in this thread to make abortion illegal even in her case, you aren't cute by pretending it isn't.