Yet more outrageous failures to report statuatory rape from abortion clinics.

Citizen: A Web site of Focus on the Family ^ | no date given | Karla Dial

[Lorianne]

That September, though, [JoAnne] Bennett got the news that would bring her tranquil world crashing down: Her fiancé had been sexually abusing her older [13 year old] daughter for more than a year. It didn’t seem like things could get any worse — but a few months later, they did. Her daughter told her that as a result of the abuse, she had gotten pregnant twice within five months. Both times, her mother’s fiancé had taken her to an abortion clinic in Maryland, where they checked in with their real names, ages and addresses. Despite their two last names and an obvious 20-year age gap, the man didn’t claim to be her stepfather or any other relative — he merely reminded the girl to stick to the story he’d coached her on all week, answered all the questions for her during the counseling session and paid for the abortion in cash.

Five months later, when he took the 13-year-old back for the second abortion, clinic workers recognized the pair and told them they didn’t have to fill out all those forms again. But the staff didn’t call the police or the state Department of Social Services to report a suspected sexual abuse case, as the law requires them to do.

[Lorianne]

Outrageous! I can't believe we are allowing this abuse to go on in the USA. How shameful. While we are busy criiticizing other countries for they way they treat girls/women we allow this monstrous treatment of our young girls to go on unabated !!!!

"Choice" my @ss. This is not about "choice" unless we're talking about the free choice for everyone to take advantage of and victimize young girls. One wonders if this was not what Roe v Wade was all about to begin with.

[El Sordo]

Roe vs. Wade was a States rights issue.

This is pretty much more about stupidity by all parties concerned, the mother included.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Ask me if I am surprised. I could believe any atrocity from a place that could callously murder an unborn baby or botched abortion.

[dd5339]

Ping

[Mr. Thorne]

Bingo. If you can kill a baby, what's a little statutory rape between friends?

Yeesh.

[Lorianne]

Roe vs. Wade was a States rights issue.

Legally it became a States' rights issue (and the States lost). However I was referring to the impetus behind legalizing abortion (either by individual States or federally). The impetus was NOT to provoke a States' vs. federal rights debate. The impetus I am more and more inclined to believe was to protect the "choice" to force or coerce women, particularly very young women or girls, into abortion and and sexual obedience. Abortion and the staying mum on statuatory rape is not my only clue. Another is the vigorous opposition in many circles to raising the age of consent for statuatory rape or outright calls for the elimination of statuatory rape laws altogether.

Sexual manipulation of the very young has a prominent place in history in many cultures. Why do we believe we are so much more evolved? It is obvious by this story that we are not.

[Coeur de Lion]

Here in California our social services departments have a policy that since it's customary for older Mexican men to have sex with woman that are considered minors under our law, that they should promote marriage between the two parties involved and not report evidence of statutory rape to the authorities. I agree that promoting marriage here isn't a bad idea, but on the otherhand I do believe their policy violates the law. When in Rome do as the Romans do. Otherwise, where do we draw the line (e.g. I come from a culture which practices "honor killing", why shouldn't that be acceptable under American law?)

[ravingnutter]

Roe vs. Wade was a States rights issue.

And so are parental consent laws, so your point is moot. These types of clinics operate on a national basis and a national platform of skirting the parental consent laws by encouraging minors to lie and/or facilitating incest and rape, the problem is not confined to one family, one clinic or one state.

[Houmatt]

If that is the case, then it should be considered customary when this kind of $hit happens, the pedophile gets a .45 in the back of the head.

[El Sordo]

Points taken.

[shiva]

My question here is this, "Where the HELL was Mom for a whole year while her boyfriend screwed her teenage daughter"? She didn't know what was going on? After the abortions mom didn't ask her why she was bleeding. She didn't notice she went out of state twice with her boyfriend and returned back sick? What kind of a mom is this stupid bi**h?

[Lorianne]

The mom's lack of attentiveness is certainly a concern. However, it was her fiance who actually did the various and sundry misdeeds. And it was the abortion clinic which failed in their feduciary duties, not to mention moral ones. Everyone failed this child, and one can only wonder if it was by design on the part of the actual abusers, and the system itself as opposed to by negligence on the part of the mother. By the way, where was the child's father in all this? Apparently no one was looking out for this child's interests, her parents included. Even so, I put negligence in a different category altogether than premeditated (and repeated) sexual abuse.

[chiefqc]

Just show me the money, and anything is possible.

[victim soul]

You wrote:

"Ask me if I am surprised. I could believe any atrocity from a place that could callously murder an unborn baby ..."

Where are the Freepers??? Where are O'Reilly's declared "religious fanatics"?

I rejoiced when the Freepers came out for "One man, One vote" but where the "heck" are the Freepers when innocent American human lives - no matter what gestational age -- are being "terminated" at will and sanctioned and paid for by our government?