Posted on 02/22/2009 1:02:45 PM PST by wagglebee
WARREN CO., Ohio, February 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A woman who suffered years of sexual abuse at the hands of her father filed a lawsuit today suing Planned Parenthood and five of its employees for refusing to report signs of abuse when she obtained an abortion, with the result that the abuse continued for another 1 1/2 years.
Prosecuting Attorney Brian Hurley told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that the Planned Parenthood employees "played ostrich" when the girl told them she was being raped.
"We believe that they ignored Denise's cry for help ... and as a result she was sexually abused three times a week for a year and a half because they didn't meet their duties to report," said Hurley.
Ohio law requires that Planned Parenthood employees report obvious signs of abuse.
Planned Parenthood has come under fire recently for a trend of failing to report sexual abuse and rape. In a project knows as the "Mona Lisa Project" UCLA student Lila Rose and her friend Jackie Stollar went undercover and videotaped PP employees conscientiously ignoring statutory rape. So far three different PP facilities have been caught covering up rape, which they were required by law to report to the authorities.
Denise, who is now 21, suffered sexual abuse by her father between the ages of 13 and 17. In 2004, when she was 16, Hurley says Denise's father took her to the Mount Auburn facility of Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio to seek an abortion after he had impregnated her.
When questioned by Planned Parenthood, the girl allegedly said "that she had been forced to do things that she did not want to do."
The abuse ended when Denise's father was arrested eighteen months after the Planned Parenthood visit, thanks to the intervention of the girl's basketball coach. He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2006.
Hurley is convinced that Planned Parenthood will be brought to justice for its negligence.
"She tried to put an end to this abuse by informing a Planned Parenthood employee that she had been forced to have sex and to do things she did not want to do. Tragically for her, Planned Parenthood's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy was in full force," Hurley told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
See related LifeSiteNews.com articles:
New Undercover Video Shows Tucson Planned Parenthood Hiding Rape of 15-Year-Old Girl
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09020301.html
Another Indiana Planned Parenthood Caught Covering up Felony Rape
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/dec/08121602.html
Planned Parenthood Suspends Employee Caught Covering Up Rape of 13-Year-Old
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/dec/08120403.html
Never heard of it, as far as I know it’s a foreign bar.
I’ll never accept alphabet soup by you or anyone else.
She gets to live in terror for all those five years waiting for the day that he gets his revenge. He isn’t getting a sentence, SHE is getting a sentence. When he gets out, it’ll get even worse.
The so-called “women’s rights activists” couldn’t care less.
Hopefully, this opens the floodgates.
There is so much corruption in America. What is the point of investing anything in this hopeless and vile nation?
It won’t, the average American is just as evil.
Sadly, I don't think anything substantitive will change until some of these people end up strung up from light poles. And of course there will still be the same gutless simps calling for "talk" and "understanding."
Anyone who can't recognize evil, or lacks the stomach to fight it, might as well be evil themselves.
She says nothing, but sues others for saying nothing?
Amazing how there is just deluge of horrible news - PP is one of the most evil organizations active right now. The fact that it gets one thin dime of taxpayer moneis is hateful.
Thank you for your vigilance in pinging these articles out.
Young victims of sexual abuse - especially at the hands of their father - are terrified. And often threatened with beatings and death. And often other relatives, even mothers, refuse to listen or believe the truth. Where could she turn? The school nurse?
Their job is killing kids, not protecting them.
She did say something. She said it to Planned Parenthood. They failed to report it to the authorities. Maybe it was all the courage she could muster to admit it to them and then they ignored her.
Pray for an end to Planned Parenthood.
A place in British countries where you can buy a beer on tap...
In the States we call it a bar...
Are you just kidding? If not that's a bit nasty pal. An apology to angeltree is in order!
A female DA, the NRA?
I’ll never accept alphabet soup by you or anyone else.
Down with alphabet soup! Minestrone to the people! We have nothing to lose but our lunch!
I think a minor getting raped by her father more than likely will not report...out of fear. The fact that PP did not report is not only illegal...but it is criminal.
If a hospital or doctor examined this girl and she reported the incest rape....they are required by law to notify authorities.
From the story -
Prosecuting Attorney Brian Hurley told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that the Planned Parenthood employees "played ostrich" when the girl told them she was being raped.
I hope you don't teach reading comprehension.
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