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

 

[Getting tard comed]

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.

This isn't a hard situation. If the mothers life is in danger due to the pregnancy you abort the pregnancy. That's a basic prolife position. The % of prolifers who are going to force the mother to have a baby that will kill her is so small it's not worth talking about.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

To pretend that this is some incredibly rare scenario that won't ever happen in our life time

I’m going to go ahead and say it is very rare for a parent to let a ten year old daughter get raped by a significant other.

If people are pearl clutching about the odds of this, hope you don’t look at auto fatality rates or your chances of medical malpractice, niggas.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

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.

We have evidence to suggest the woman is some shade of Hispanic even without seeing her face or her daughter's face: The suspect cannot speak English and requires a court interpreter. Also I guess the Telemundo interview through the door, but I had that on mute and just read the subtitles so that has a smaller impact on me.

Yes, I know people can learn Spanish in school, you don't necessarily learn it by being of a certain race or ethnicity. But I don't think most people who learn a language in school get fluent enough to go into pocket communities and get monolingual boyfriends.

 

[Sithis]

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.

No one made the claim that it never happens and would never happen again and that's an invention of your own delusion. The fact of the matter is that if border laws had properly been enforced and the law was being followed none of the relevant people in the story would have likely been here or likely even near one another. This child's rape was facilitated by lax border policy and her rapists escape was nearly facilitated by further refusal to enforce border policy in the form of sanctuary cities. The illegal immigrant who raped her could have easily disappeared into the wind but thankfully it was sifted out in time that a rape had occurred and enough people started asking questions.

You're so determined to make the retarded argument of "well, cases like this happen, so clearly abortion for everyone should be totes legal" without acknowledging that the rape itself would have happened regardless of abortion law, it's the immigration law that could have prevented it.

 

[AnotherPleb]

According to Fox news, the doctor did file a report for the abortion but said the father was 17 year old (so it's not rape?) . Seems like she's covering for the rapist.

Seventeen going on twenty-five.

 

[Lucille Bluth]

Last year, in July 2021, there was another illegal (?) adult who raped a 12 year old girl ans she gave birth. He got arrested because they went to the hospital. The illegal was Mexican and I think the girl was an American citizen of Mexican descent. The mother didn't care and threw a whole baby shower for the welcoming of her grandchild.

I really can't believe that some of the media is finding more "controversy" over a 10 year old understandably having an abortion instead of putting all their anger to the rapist and the family who failed this girl.

I’m going to go ahead and say it is very rare for a parent to let a ten year old daughter get raped by a significant other.

Of course the majority of parents would not turn a blind eye to their child being raped, but I'm pretty certain most rapists would not rape a child in front of their parents/parent. And lots of statistics support the fact that rape victims often know or had some sort of preexisting relationship/connection with their attacker.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

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.

Go back to advocating for fem-pederasty, Judith.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

I'm desperately trying to make heads or tails of this now. So now the 10 year old is 17 or some horseshit? Caitlin put down 17 on the form but reported her age as 10 to the Indiana Star? I feel an ice pick being driven into the tiny space between my eye and nose bridge the more this goes on. If this is true I hope Caitlin never comes out of hiding and disappears off of the face of the earth.

EDIT:
Fuck me I'm tired. I misread the article. She listed the rapist as 17, not the girl. Striking out my previous statement but leaving it up for my own shame.

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.

Another facet of this debacle that angers/worries me is how many people are trying to use this outlier, as horrible as it may be, as a basis for policy. We don't legislate one offs. We work with them as they come. These faggots want abortion legal and available for whatever reason, or no reason, because a 10 year old, which I guess is in fucking dispute now, was raped once.

 

[Mister Ferro]

I guess conservatives are wrong again.

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

This activist abortion barbie Doc has a history of alleged failing to follow the legal reporting requirements to protect young children from sex abuse. From this link:

INDIANAPOLIS, BLOOMINGTON, LAFAYETTE, MERRILLVILLE and SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Today, concerned Hoosier mothers and other pro-life activists are holding five news conferences throughout Indiana regarding Indiana abortion doctors and child sex abuse. Indiana law requires reporting of abortions on girls under 16 to the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) and the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) within three days of the abortion so that authorities can investigate potential child sex abuse.

Forty-eight consumer complaints have been filed against nine Indiana abortion doctors who have allegedly failed to follow the legal reporting requirements to protect young children from sex abuse. The doctors are: Jeffrey Glazer, Caitlin Bernard, Cassandra Cashman, Carol Dellinger, Mandy Gittler, Kathleen Glover, Martin Haskell, Resad Pasic and Sarah Turner. They are employed at all licensed Indiana abortion facilities: Women's Med Center in Indianapolis, Clinic for Women in Indianapolis, and Planned Parenthood in Indianapolis, Lafayette, Bloomington and Merrillville.

Some of the girls under 16 years old who had abortions that weren't reported to DCS were as young as 12 and 13. The alleged 48 instances of failure to report occurred since July 1, 2017. The 48 consumer complaints have been filed with Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill and the Indiana State Department of Health. The Marion, Lake, Tippecanoe and Monroe county prosecutors have also been notified.

The above was filed on June 20th, 2018. Less than a year since, that is an average of 4.6 rounded up to 5 children complaints per remaining 8 docs as 1 doc (Doc. Glazer) had 11 complaints out of the 48.

So yes Doc Bernard filed the report but once again falsified data.

Don't act like she had no way of knowing about the guy. The mother waited a FULL 8 DAYS after notifying Franklin County Children Services to drive across state lines to get the abortion performed by a doc who has history of not reporting child abuse.

 

[BelUwUga]

So, she actively covered for a rapist knowing damn well she’d be putting not just the victim at risk, but could be putting other children in danger by proxy.

As if she couldn’t already be more vile. At this point, I’m thinking it would’ve been better for her career if she didn’t blab to the media, because now I’m starting to think that patients are going to be less trusting of her to do no harm to them.

AG who unknowingly made an ass of himself by calling this fake has already made it abundantly clear they're gunning for her license to practice over this gross misconduct (rightfully so). Her name is out there and this not only incenses prolifers but anyone against pedorape. She'll be lucky not to get fedposted (opinion redacted).
Edit to add: Caitlin Bernard is the accomplice to rape by the pedophile.

I guess conservatives are wrong again.

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

Weird how this was buried in the article:

The form indicates the doctor did not know the age of the "father." In such cases, doctors are required to enter an "approximate age," according to a person familiar with the electronic filing system. Bernard entered "17."

So @Jazz Yahoo why are you working so hard to shield a pedophile rapist and their accomplice?

 

[The Dude]

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.

Nobody is saying that and you're either being stupid or disingenuous. The point is this shouldn't be Americans problem to deal with. Those wet backs should be back in their own countries and their own people/authorities should be dealing with it. Instead our authorities are having to deal with it which means they're taking away resources that could be going to locking up our own sick-fuck pedophiles.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Last year, in July 2021, there was another illegal (?) adult who raped a 12 year old girl ans she gave birth. He got arrested because they went to the hospital. The illegal was Mexican and I think the girl was an American citizen of Mexican descent. The mother didn't care and threw a whole baby shower for the welcoming of her grandchild.

Citation found, if anyone needs one.

but could be putting other children in danger by proxy.

A little more than "could" IMO.

One story made a weird claim

[Ohio detective Jeffrey Huhn] also reportedly testified that DNA from the clinic in Indianapolis is being tested against samples from Fuentes and the victim’s siblings.

I haven't seen much if any discussion of the victim having siblings, but that's a more concrete citation than "sources familiar with the matter" so it's pretty reliable by current year standards imo.

I don't know why the siblings need DNA tests. Are they trying to confirm it was incest? Do they think the clinic lied and swapped samples on them? Whatever the case, the fact that there are siblings implies that the man who had access to the victim had access to multiple kids and this is just the one that got caught getting knocked up.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

more than half the morally bankrupt fucks in this thread to make abortion illegal even in her case

Quote someone in this thread saying that or shut up.

 

[Corpun]

According to Fox news, the doctor did file a report for the abortion but said the father was 17 year old (so it's not rape?) . Seems like she's covering for the rapist

I swear this horror story has tons of shit still hiding in the darkness. If this were a sane society we would be outraged over a mother protecting her ten year old's rapist and why this happened in the first place.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

I’m going to go ahead and say it is very rare for a parent to let a ten year old daughter get raped by a significant other.

If people are pearl clutching about the odds of this, hope you don’t look at auto fatality rates or your chances of medical malpractice, niggas.

Dude, in 2020 CPS dealt with 57,963 csa cases. And that's only the cases that are reported to CPS. The fucked up reality is that young girls being raped by mom's boyfriend or a relative is not that uncommon. Not car crash common, sure, but come on man.

Edit: I went back and looked at the report for 2019 just in case the coff fucked with reporting numbers. There were roughly 60,000 csa cases in 2019, so higher than 2020 but not as much as I expected given lockdown.

We have evidence to suggest the woman is some shade of Hispanic even without seeing her face or her daughter's face: The suspect cannot speak English and requires a court interpreter. Also I guess the Telemundo interview through the door, but I had that on mute and just read the subtitles so that has a smaller impact on me.

Yes, I know people can learn Spanish in school, you don't necessarily learn it by being of a certain race or ethnicity. But I don't think most people who learn a language in school get fluent enough to go into pocket communities and get monolingual boyfriends.

You are a compete moron who can't read.

Go back to advocating for fem-pederasty, Judith.

Oh look, the hamplanet incel who's okay with pastors raping their 16-year-old congregation members.

No one made the claim that it never happens and would never happen again and that's an invention of your own delusion. The fact of the matter is that if border laws had properly been enforced and the law was being followed none of the relevant people in the story would have likely been here or likely even near one another. This child's rape was facilitated by lax border policy and her rapists escape was nearly facilitated by further refusal to enforce border policy in the form of sanctuary cities. The illegal immigrant who raped her could have easily disappeared into the wind but thankfully it was sifted out in time that a rape had occurred and enough people started asking questions.

You're so determined to make the retarded argument of "well, cases like this happen, so clearly abortion for everyone should be totes legal" without acknowledging that the rape itself would have happened regardless of abortion law, it's the immigration law that could have prevented it.

Nobody is saying that and you're either being stupid or disingenuous. The point is this shouldn't be Americans problem to deal with. Those wet backs should be back in their own countries and their own people/authorities should be dealing with it. Instead our authorities are having to deal with it which means they're taking away resources that could be going to locking up our own sick-fuck pedophiles.

They very person I originally replied to tried to make the argument that you can't use this case to be pro-abortion because if the guy haven't been illegal it wouldn't have happened. My point is that if this specific case hasn't happened another one excatly like it but without the illegal part would have.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

This was a M-F period so there's no "day" vs "business day" fucker y in my calculations

I edited my post but wanted to repost for visibility and to ask a question

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.

I've heard there's strategies with the media publishing stories on certain days depending on how long they want people to talk about it, and if they want to have technically published it so they can't be accused of suppressing the info but they don't want much exposure. Is it likely for a similar thing to be happening here if the media published the story Friday and she did the mandatory reporting on Saturday?

Make it just visible enough to have the anecdote to poi t at, file the report on the day there's probably nobody in the office to care, hope it flies under the radar for everyone but the people they need to rally.

Note that it was even a 3 day weekend too, so people were really mentally checked out at the time. Not just a 3 day weekend, but one associated with alcohol.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Oh look, the hamplanet incel who's okay with pastors raping their 16-year-old congregation members.

Salaciously lying about me won't make that parasymbiotic thought experiment relevant, Judith.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

Lying about me won't make that parasymbiotic thought experiment any more relevant, Judith.

I will personally make sure your liver is shipped to China. Your body will fuel a hundred alcoholic Chinese grandpas.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

You are a compete moron who can't read.

Naw, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you're trying to stay somewhat on topic de belong in this thread.

There's been some questioning of if the suspect is the right guy or if he was set up, so I could see people theorizing the actual rapist is some white guy and they're just failing to identify him for some reason. The most charitable interpretation I can come up with is there is a second suspect and the cops are working on it and are trying to lull the real suspect into a false sense of security thinking he got away with it and has a scapegoat, there can be differences in public and investigative knowledge. There being a secondary tier of investigative knowledge would certainly make me feel better about the doctor only doing her mandatory reporting after making the rape into national news, anyways. Maybe it's not a case of not caring if the criminal knows he needs to run, maybe it's deliberate disinformation so suspects can't make informed decisions to evade the authorities.

There's also been questioning of if Telemundo got the right woman, all we really have is a reporter talking at a door, it could be fake news for clickbait.

There's uncertainty around the identities of the parties involved, and the most on-topic interpretation of your statement possible is that this is a story of white trash being funneled at us disguised as a minority story to try to make people buy into the story before they do the big reveal at the end and do a big GOTCHA NAZIS! BETCHA 180 NOW THAT THEY'RE WHITE!

Kind of like how people think an arrest is a big GOTCHA! There was really really a pregnant 10 year old! (Not really a contradiction to my concern that there was no concern about the rape side of the story tbh).

Or how people think her submitting the mandatory reporting on July 2 is a big GOTCHA! to people asking about the absence of such a report while discussing a story published July 1 (with the date of the actual interview possibly being earlier).

If you don't want the assumption of relevancy however... What are you doing here? We do have a general abortion thread available for non-specific cases.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

Naw, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you're trying to stay somewhat on topic de belong in this thread.

There's been some questioning of if the suspect is the right guy or if he was set up, so I could see people theorizing the actual rapist is some white guy and they're just failing to identify him for some reason. The most charitable interpretation I can come up with is there is a second suspect and the cops are working on it and are trying to lull the real suspect into a false sense of security thinking he got away with it and has a scapegoat, there can be differences in public and investigative knowledge. There being a secondary tier of investigative knowledge would certainly make me feel better about the doctor only doing her mandatory reporting after making the rape into national news, anyways. Maybe it's not a case of not caring if the criminal knows he needs to run, maybe it's deliberate disinformation so suspects can't make informed decisions to evade the authorities.

There's also been questioning of if Telemundo got the right woman, all we really have is a reporter talking at a door, it could be fake news for clickbait.

There's uncertainty around the identities of the parties involved, and the most on-topic interpretation of your statement possible is that this is a story of white trash being funneled at us disguised as a minority story to try to make people buy into the story before they do the big reveal at the end and do a big GOTCHA NAZIS! BETCHA 180 NOW THAT THEY'RE WHITE!

Kind of like how people think an arrest is a big GOTCHA! There was really really a pregnant 10 year old! (Not really a contradiction to my concern that there was no concern about the rape side of the story tbh).

Or how people think her submitting the mandatory reporting on July 2 is a big GOTCHA! to people asking about the absence of such a report while discussing a story published July 1 (with the date of the actual interview possibly being earlier).

If you don't want the assumption of relevancy however... What are you doing here? We do have a general abortion thread available for non-specific cases.

I don't doubt for a second that that is the guy or that he or the mother or daughter aren't Mexican you drooling mong.