Ohio man arrested for raping 10-year-old girl that led to abortion in Indiana
Ohio man arrested for raping 10-year-old girl that led to abortion in Indiana
Gerson Fuentes of Columbus, Ohio was arrested and charged with impregnating a 10-year-old girl. According to documents obtained by HollywoodLife, the 27-year-old was listed in the official complaint as the suspect the young victim accused of raping her. He was arrested on Tuesday, July 12, by . Authorities handling the case say he admitted to raping the unnamed girl twice, which led to her pregnancy. He was charged with rape, a first-degree felony in the state, after the girl traveled to Indiana to get a medical abortion on June 30.
Gerson Fuentes (Franklin County Sheriff/MEGA)
The girl's mother is said to have referred the case to City Services. Childhood in Franklin County on June 22 according to Det. Jeffrey Huhn's testimony provided at the Wednesday July 13 arraignment. According to Assistant Franklin County District Attorney Daniel Meyer, the girl had just turned 10, meaning she was likely impregnated when she was 9. Gerson Fuentes is currently being held in the Franklin County Jail on a $2 million bond.
The case sparked anger and sympathy after the shock decision of the United States Supreme Court to overturn Roe V Wade on June 24. The ruling immediately sparked legislation in Ohio, where a 'heartbeat' bill bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected - hence the need for the child to travel outside the country. for Medical Abortion. Some anti-choice activists had previously doubted the 10-year-old girl's existence. The arrest and details confirmed that his story was all too real.
, an OB-GYN from Arizona, predicted catastrophic consequences for reversing abortion rights in an interview with HollywoodLife in May. Taylor founded her independent abortion clinic in 2013 to provide safe abortions. “There will be people who will be forced to continue pregnancies and those will be the people who are already struggling. People of lower economic status,” she told HL. Worse still, young women with additional health problems may be at risk of death if forced into childbirth.
"Young women with potential heart failure have a very high probability of dying in childbirth," she explained. “The medical term is cardiomyopathy, where there is a defect in the heart muscle and it cannot withstand the stress of all the changes that are happening in a body to prepare someone for the massive blood loss that occurs during childbirth. So if they continue the pregnancy, their heart will give out."
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Gerson Fuentes of Columbus, Ohio was arrested and charged with impregnating a 10-year-old girl. According to documents obtained by HollywoodLife, the 27-year-old was listed in the official complaint as the suspect the young victim accused of raping her. He was arrested on Tuesday, July 12, by . Authorities handling the case say he admitted to raping the unnamed girl twice, which led to her pregnancy. He was charged with rape, a first-degree felony in the state, after the girl traveled to Indiana to get a medical abortion on June 30.
Gerson Fuentes (Franklin County Sheriff/MEGA)
The girl's mother is said to have referred the case to City Services. Childhood in Franklin County on June 22 according to Det. Jeffrey Huhn's testimony provided at the Wednesday July 13 arraignment. According to Assistant Franklin County District Attorney Daniel Meyer, the girl had just turned 10, meaning she was likely impregnated when she was 9. Gerson Fuentes is currently being held in the Franklin County Jail on a $2 million bond.
The case sparked anger and sympathy after the shock decision of the United States Supreme Court to overturn Roe V Wade on June 24. The ruling immediately sparked legislation in Ohio, where a 'heartbeat' bill bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected - hence the need for the child to travel outside the country. for Medical Abortion. Some anti-choice activists had previously doubted the 10-year-old girl's existence. The arrest and details confirmed that his story was all too real.
, an OB-GYN from Arizona, predicted catastrophic consequences for reversing abortion rights in an interview with HollywoodLife in May. Taylor founded her independent abortion clinic in 2013 to provide safe abortions. “There will be people who will be forced to continue pregnancies and those will be the people who are already struggling. People of lower economic status,” she told HL. Worse still, young women with additional health problems may be at risk of death if forced into childbirth.
"Young women with potential heart failure have a very high probability of dying in childbirth," she explained. “The medical term is cardiomyopathy, where there is a defect in the heart muscle and it cannot withstand the stress of all the changes that are happening in a body to prepare someone for the massive blood loss that occurs during childbirth. So if they continue the pregnancy, their heart will give out."
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Gerson Fuentes (Franklin County Sheriff/MEGA)
