Posted on 07/25/2022 1:56:29 PM PDT by Morgana
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The man accused of impregnating a 10-year-old Ohio girl made his initial plea Monday in court.
Gerson Fuentes, 27, faces two charges of raping a minor under 13 after being indicted by a Franklin County Grand Jury. For the second time he appeared by video call, rather than in-person, for his arraignment in the Court of Common Pleas. His attorney who was there in person, Bryan Bowen, spoke on Fuentes’ behalf to enter pleas of not guilty to both charges.
Bowen previously represented Fuentes alone at his preliminary hearing Friday, where he told NBC4 that his client was afraid.
“I met with him yesterday at the Franklin County Jail down on Jackson Pike,” Bowen said. “He’s obviously scared. He’s obviously concerned. He’s obviously upset about the situation.”
Fuentes’ plea claiming he is not guilty breaks step with investigators’ account of the case. According to an affidavit, Columbus police took a DNA swab from Fuentes. In an interview with police, he allegedly confessed to the crime.
Before concluding the arraignment, the Franklin County judge presiding over the case did not schedule a bond hearing, because a prosecutor in the courtroom said the state planned to file a motion to hold Fuentes without bond.
The indictment brought forward two charges of rape against Fuentes, saying he committed the acts against the girl when she was nine. The first incident happened between Jan. 1 and May 11, and the report said the second happened May 12.
In the weeks after Roe v. Wade had been overturned, Fuentes’ case drew national attention in the debate over abortion rights. Shortly after the Supreme Court struck down the federal rule, Ohio reenacted a law banning abortion after someone was six weeks’ pregnant, commonly known as the heartbeat bill.
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He is guilty of being here illegally, deport him.
He’d be back in a couple weeks.
This whole story, a ten year old needing an abortion because she was raped. Then we find out she was raped by in illegal alien. Then we find out the ten year old and her mom are also illegals. This whole thing blown up by the left.
Well I remember something Rush Limbaugh said. “Put a bag of dog doo doo in front of the Democrats and they step in it every time”
“They’re not sending their best.”
Well, perhaps he was telling the truth, he was “not guilty” in that particular room. (Now, if it were private and there were any little girls that Biden likes to smell there....well......)
Could be the guy is a scapegoat (paid or unpaid) to give legs to the narrative. If he gets spirited out of the country and shuffled down the rabbit hole (or gets offed in jail), we’ll know.
sure mom probably let him!! so he says “no rape, they let me do it”
Bastard needs to go back to Guatemala and take the rest of that family, too
It is easy enough to find out. Just run a paternity test.
Believe absolutely nothing that comes from Columbus media or government which is basically the same machine . Total left wing commies in the capital .
Not news. At this stage of the criminal justice process, a guilty plea would not be accepted. If the defendant (for some reason) wanted to plead guilty, the judge would not enter it and would plead not guilty on behalf of the defendant — or something similar (local rules may vary.)
“News” orgs that print such headlines are just doing it for the clicks.
Nothing to test.
PP does this often in their quest to make sure rapes of minors can not be prosecuted.
They will also provide the victim with implanted birth control. Which will quite often make her sterile.
Lovely people.
Really? What did we expect him to say?
Better yet just hang him and be done with it.
I personally hate that gif and wish it were banned form FR. She’s a stupid idiot lib know-nothing that thinks she can lecture people and slime conservatives. She doesn’t belong here.
Screw her.
If that’s the case, there’s a good chance he walks. “No evidence, he recants on the admission” (Says he didn’t understand what the police were asking him, or that he was coerced).
Especially with the girl's mother defending him.
If this entire thing is actually true, and he was the one who raped a nine year old, I hope they can nail both of them to the wall.
But it probably will not happen. Because, with any physical evidence destroyed, conviction is going to be difficult.
Go ahead and put him in gen pop and let justice take its course.
Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he? Everyone knows the life expectancy for child molesters in prison.
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