Posted on 07/14/2022 1:54:35 AM PDT by Morgana
The suspect charged with raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl in Ohio has appeared in court, after the case made global waves when the victim had to cross state lines to obtain an abortion due to the Supreme Court's recent ruling.
Gerson Fuentes, 27, was arraigned on Wednesday in Columbus, where he faces a charge of felony first degree rape of a child under 13. Bail was set at $2 million.
Fuentes, whom federal sources said is present in the country illegally, confessed to raping the girl at least twice, a police investigator testified at the arraignment.
The detective also testified that the victim in the case was forced to travel to Indiana to get an abortion following the Dobbs ruling, a claim that Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, along with other conservatives, had cast doubt upon just days ago.
In a statement on Wednesday, Yost quickly took a different tack, saying: 'My heart aches for the pain suffered by this young child.'
'I am grateful for the diligent work of the Columbus Police Department in securing a confession and getting a rapist off the street,' added the Republican attorney general.
Yost said his state investigators are 'ready to support law enforcement across Ohio putting these criminals behind bars.' He didn't address his previous suggestions that the case was fabricated.
The shocking juvenile rape case exploded onto the national consciousness last week, when President Joe Biden pointed it to highlight fallout from the Dobbs ruling and pro-abortion activists seized on it to slam states that have banned the procedure.
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How did this rapist get at this little kid? Momma’s friend??
Rape used to be a capital crime back before the SCOTUS ruled the death penalty for rape unconstitutional back in the 1960’s.
“Fuentes, whom federal sources said is present in the country illegally”
Weird, it’s almost as if he’s an ILLEGAL ALIEN.
Like a wise man once said: “They’re not sending their best”.
At last the wrath of the judicial system is being directed at the correct target now. What happened to that 10-year-old child is highly regrettable and should have been avoidable, but the proper attention was given to her plight once revealed.
Delays and hesitation in acting have consequences that pile up on an amazing scale, like an avalanche as it builds momentum.
Love the DM, but keep in mind that it’s enemedia, too...
Has anyone considered the patsy angke here?
What did Trump say when he came down that escalator that one time, over 7 years ago....
“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
This story will drop right off the front page.
Why didn’t they arrest him a long time ago? Was it because he was an illegal alien and it would to racist to arrest him? The ONLY reason they arrested him is that they had to provide some sort of proof for their story.
What with all the "Not my job" and "Catch-22" scenarios It seems that whatever the situation, the only way to get the government bureaucracy to do it's job is to get some politician involved.
Problem is once politicians get involved, any and all decisions become agenda driven and the *true, original* problem gets lost in the campaign speeches and from there it is all downhill.
Where were the parents after the first rape???
Same as in Uvalde. Can’t function without donuts.
He made no such suggestion, he merely truthfully stated that no reports had been made at the time.
The left would have buried the fact that the rapist of a 10 year old girl was an ILLEGAL ALIEN.
So great that they were able to “catch” him after the story blew up.
So there is actual evidence that the girl is actually 10 years old, or is that age based on a claim somebody made? Hopefully this won’t be another Obama birth certificate story, where it takes years to find documentation that will stand up in court.
The writers of DM, being media, tend to write liberal POVs. That is “fixed,” however, by the comments section that tends to set the writers straight. I often skip the story and go straight to comments. That gives me enough information without raising my blood pressure.
BTTT
Amnesty Senators Cornyn, Tillis, Grahamnesty, Hoeven and Rubio want to give them ALL amnesty.
Be sure to re-elect Amnesty Senators...../s
There is still no evidence that will stand up in court that Obama was born in Hawaii.
And that alone would not make him a natural born citizen as he was born a British subject and a Kenyan national from his British subject/Kenyan father and he came back from Indonesia as an Indonesian citizen.
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