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A man has been charged with raping a 10-year-old Ohio girl, whose travel to Indiana to seek an abortion attracted international attention following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Gerson Fuentes, 27, whose last known address was an apartment in Columbus, Ohio, was arrested Tuesday after police say he admitted to raping the child on at least two occasions. He's since been charged with rape and is being held on a $2 million bond.
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.
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That’s horrible man 🤦🏽♂️
@space witch You blame the pro-life and Fox for doing what the President did first. And you do it without knowing all the facts. Maybe “you people” should do less accusing and more self reflecting. Both parties are a mess, but yours holds the legacy of Sanger dearly to their chest. Research and decency go a lot further than rampaging in internet comment sections.
Was Donald Trump really wrong about him?
@PrinnyCast You’re effectively calling for the prosecution and potentially extrajudicial murder of a doctor based on incomplete facts, yet you’re lecturing me on “research and decency”? Give me a break, this little girls situation is a direct result of forced birther politics, thank goodness the doctor was able to help her avoid the horrible fate you all created for her. I have a ton of respect for her doing the right thing, despite the danger she has been put in by people like you.
How about you go “research” what’s already happening to women in Texas with ectopic pregnancies (spoiler: it’s exactly the kind of thing forced birthers claimed wouldn’t be happening).
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“A gentleman” I’m really sick & tired of over politeness towards monsters.
“Undocumented citizen”
Disgusting
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Please please please repent from all your secret sins before Lord Jesus Christ immediately without wasting your time to rule 1000 years again back on earth and there by to go to Eternal Kingdom of Heaven and live a very very Happy Life with God Almighty.🙏🙏🙏
When is child rape going to be a serious crime? When is something going to be done with these sick people?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Because powerful people in Hollywood and government won’t allow it plain and simple my guy
@Dirty Red I like your thorough explanation of what exactly you’re referring to… Anways – such as?
@Dirty Red Do you unferstand what the term ‘open border’ means?
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A lot of guys on the inside have kids too …he will not live.
@david to If I was ever accused of something like this that’s exactly what I would do honestly
@Rob they make it too easy smh
but the coward can request solitary confinement for 24 hours the day…
He will just get in a gang and they will watch out for him
Thanks for sharing, horrific situation, thank goodness they got him.
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Holy Bible Explicitly says to Humans:- The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand, please repent from all your sins before Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt be saved and thy family members from eternal Hell to eternal Heaven Amen.🙏
Please please please repent from all your secret sins before Lord Jesus Christ immediately without wasting your time to rule 1000 years again back on earth and there by to go to Eternal Kingdom of Heaven and live a very very Happy Life with God Almighty.🙏🙏🙏
@Alltid Sömnig they ran and got an abortion in a different state, didn’t even try to get one in Ohio which this case she could’ve had it done. Instead of doing it in Ohio she went to Indian to make a big story out of it, then days later when the story became national news a criminal report was finally made. Their goal was political for the start not the well fare of the 10 year old.
@Matt Kelly Why don’t you have a woman you know see how easy it is to schedule a procedure in Ohio, because what we’re told in Europe is the moment the decision was announced, women who had procedures scheduled were contacted and told their appointments were cancelled in states with triggers.
@P That bible of yours says life doesn’t begin until breath is taken. Bet you can find exactly where that is.
“Something that doesn’t happen everyday” when referencing something like this happening to a ten year old in the US?? Why mince words like that?? It’s gross.
Apparently USA Today failed to highlight what’s currently known about this case to focus on abortion politics.
@BWolf 100% I assumed this would be the result & I still tuned in anyway to hopefully learn some facts & details about the case.
@OmniCat Seems to some the issue of the rap_st being a 27 yr old illegal immigrant being in a relationship with the mother…is of no matter when it comes to promoting the political potential of this case…from only one viewpoint.
She’s right this is just one case like this that is brought to light!
Better put that guy in General Population and make the inside society judge him . Rass this be happening to these kids😡
I’m thankful this was confirmed because this DOES happen. When I was a kid, a girl in my school got pregnant at 11. Living in a very small community, everyone found out about it. These things happen and they are horrific. I think that sometimes you don’t hear about the details or it’s kept quiet for the privacy of the victim, especially when it’s a minor.
I DO think there is disinformation but there is also a reason why we don’t always have the full story right away. It angers me because this was spread as false only because it goes against the narrative of pro-lifers who fail to realize that there are rare and severe cases which should be given special consideration!
@Richard Gilley drinking the Kool-Aid (per Jim Jones) means In my world view you’re not begging for it… It’s innocuous
@Pogo but then they broke the story before the rapist was in custody. Swell.
* Wanna live 1000 years again back on earth?
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Holy Bible Explicitly says to Humans:- The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand, please repent from all your sins before Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt be saved and thy family members from eternal Hell to eternal Heaven Amen.🙏
Please please please repent from all your secret sins before Lord Jesus Christ immediately without wasting your time to rule 1000 years again back on earth and there by to go to Eternal Kingdom of Heaven and live a very very Happy Life with God Almighty.🙏🙏🙏
@section8usmc53 That’s what happens with most cases.
News flash, some rapes even murders don’t ever get an arrest.
“Gentleman”… I can’t believe my eyes and ears, witnessing the destruction of our morality.
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@Aaron Fox fu
@Jack Haus gesundheit
THIS Country better –Wake The Hell UP– before we don’t have a Country anymore))😡
Hell is made for ppl like this, as they made hell for some ppl on earth.
Good work finding the actual case, its important to find, I just wish that it wasn’t framed in a video that feels more like an ad than a news report.
its been on the news for a few days. just check out a different news source. this is a bit sensationalized but it doesn’t change the fact that it happened
“Good work” Bullshit…at least where USA Today is concerned. So the arraignment was on 7/13, and on 7/15 USA Today combined this with the Ulvade killings/police non-response to tout their “We told the truth” narrative…and just like they did in this video/report, leaving out the details about the illegal immigrant in an apparent relationship with the mother and the mother’s defense of the 27yr old rapist who was reported by the Indiana abortionist as a 17yr old minor…while also ignoring the abortion could have been performed in Ohio legally regardless or 6 weeks or 16 weeks or more.
@BWolf in the other reports it was stated that Ohio refused to do because it was beyond the 6 week period
@DvniOS Doesn’t change the NOT reporting on the other aspects of this case…meanwhile the initial “cause” is still questionable as the Ohio AG says otherwise in other reports.
Mother needs to be investigated “where Gerson Fuentes lived, arrested for the rape of a 10-year-old girl in Ohio. The woman, who did not want to give her name, identified herself as the minor’s mother, stated that she is “well”, and defended the detainee, assuring that she has not filed criminal charges against him.” -Telemundo
@Lil go to h e l l
@Lil my point is the mother is probably a single mother that had to leave her daughter within reach of this monster!! DAMN!!!! Eff you and the horse you rode in on!!!!
🤐 happy Sunday y’all! 💕💖
* Wanna live 1000 years again back on earth?
Holy Bible says to Humans:- Today we appear and tomorrow we disappear, our life is like shadow on Earth.
Holy Bible Explicitly says to Humans:- The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand, please repent from all your sins before Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt be saved and thy family members from eternal Hell to eternal Heaven Amen.🙏
Please please please repent from all your secret sins before Lord Jesus Christ immediately without wasting your time to rule 1000 years again back on earth and there by to go to Eternal Kingdom of Heaven and live a very very Happy Life with God Almighty.🙏🙏🙏
Amazing that everyone is screaming about the doctor being a criminal, and focusing solely on that, and all but ignoring that a known criminal and illegal raped a 10 year old. It’s disgusting.
@J. Ramirez its been on 90% of all news networks lol
@Just A Hair you know what else is in the news? The mother did not press charges on the suspected rapist. She’s defending him. Could it be she crossed state lines to protect him?
@Just A Hair I also found on the news the pregnancy was known on June 22nd. Was that past the 6 weeks? At any rate, the SCOTUS decision was June 24th. It’s not like the abortion clinics had to stop immediately as the announcement came on the news. No clinic is going to flip a switch immediately based on watching the ruling on CSPAN or whatever. They probably have to wait for instructions on how to proceed.
@J. Ramirez yes when they went to get an abortion it was longer than 6 weeks into the pregnancy
They made it about her having to go 200 and some miles but not a thing about a 10-year-old child being raped… That’s just sick
@R J it has nothing to do with hate. It has everything to do with the wording in the law. You refusing to go look at the law and finding out for yourself, is what?
You are doing exactly what you are accusing me of.
There is exceptions but she did not qualify for them, very simple to read the law and see that. But you want to be stuck on what they said instead of finding out for yourself…. Ignorance is bliss I suppose.
Actually, it was the publicity of the abortion that led to the rape investigation. The doctor and the mother can actually be charged with not contacting authorities. Actually, the media was complicit as well.
The doctor contact the cps and the police department of the rape. So she can’t be charged.. nice try on trying to make the doctor a villain, but you need to get your information right.
@Ann Le Where does it say the doctor contacted cps and police. She reported the minimal documents necessary to denote she had a ten year old patient, the she went on MSNBC to push the abortion agenda, not even mentioning the details of the perpetrator.
@Ryan M where is anyone saying to charge the child??????
@Mike Hunt it doesn’t say in this short video, but there is other information on the case. The mother reported it on June 22nd. The doctor who referred the girl was told the father was also a minor, as was the doctor who performed the abortion and leaked the story. They arrested the guy on July 13. The girl identified him, and he admitted to molesting her twice. They have his DNA, some from the clinic where the abortion was performed, and they’re getting some from the girl’s siblings.
A ten year old got pregnant where I live years ago but of course it didn’t make headlines or big news. These kind of things happens all the time. They just go untold.
First, we’re sending positive waves to that poor little girl who has been so traumatically used, second, You have no idea how refreshing it is to find an actual, legitimate, real-live journalist! Hats off to you, Bethany Bruner, thank you, don’t stop, and maybe remind your colleagues from time to time of what you obviously know, it’s about the truth, not the narrative.