Pregnant after being raped, a 10-year-old girl had to travel from Ohio to Indiana to finally be able to terminate such an unwanted pregnancy. This tragic story gives a measure of the extent of the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Roe Vs Wade ruling, which, from the 1970s until now, had guaranteed the right to abortion in the United States.
In recent days, many press outlets had questioned the veracity of this story, but now the authorities have confirmed it too. A 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of raping the girl. Gershon Fuentes, arrested on Tuesday, confessed his responsibility: accused of rape of a minor, he faces life imprisonment and expulsion.
The 10-year-old girl “was forced out of her state to Indiana to try to terminate the pregnancy and, perhaps, even save her life,” US President Joe Biden said last week. “Ten years old, raped, six weeks pregnant, traumatized, forced to travel to another state“.
The affair caught attention after the warhead The Indianapolis Star reported that an Indianapolis physician providing the abortion service, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, claimed to have treated a 10-year-old rape victim. She added that the little girl had to go to Indiana after she was there law on “fetal heartbeat” enacted in Ohio, hours after the Supreme Court ruling on Roe Vs Wade last month. In Ohio now abortions are prohibited from the sixth week of pregnancy, without exception for cases of rape or incest.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said his “heart aches for the child” and “justice must be done.” “I am grateful for the diligent work of the Columbus Police Department, which got a confession and got a rapist off the street.”
Source: Vanity Fair
