Long WaPo article on the Dispatch & Indy Star & that poor kid.
Because I have a subscription, I get to give full articles ,
https://wapo.st/3cVvk2g
Highlight this & open to read the WaPo article.
I also have had a sub to the "Disgrace" off & on for yrs. I mixed feelings about that paper.
The Wolfe family yrs, very conservative, the Gannet group now owns it.
In this, the Dispatch , & Indy Star reporters were stellar in their jobs.
source-https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/07/28/ohio-abortion-journalism/
snip-"The Columbus Dispatch public safety reporter and her colleagues spent days studying public records and calling sources, painstakingly narrowing their search for the girl’s attacker to central Ohio. Then Bruner spotted an entry on the July 13 local court docket and learned a man would be arraigned that morning for the rape of a 10-year-old. She quickly hoofed the half-mile from her office to the courthouse."
snip-"Inside the courtroom, Bruner kept glancing at the door, expecting to see another reporter enter. None did as the judge called up the case. “I guess it’s going to be me,” Bruner thought. “I guess I’m going to be the one.”
snip-"Within hours, the Dispatch and its sister paper, the Star, had locked down one of the first major stories of the post-Roe v. Wade era: Contra the talking heads, police had indeed investigated and charged an Ohio man with impregnating a 10-year-old girl, who had to cross state lines for an abortion after the Supreme Court’s ruling allowed new Ohio restrictions to take effect. Their reporting demonstrated that the girl’s horrifying situation was not as rare as many had assumed. It also showed why the public rarely hears of such abortion stories — and why they will need local journalists to inform them of the impacts of Roe’s demise."
snip-"Their first story — by Shari Rudavsky, a Star health reporter of 17 years, and Rachel Fradette — included an anecdote from a trusted source: Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard said she had just performed an abortion for a 10-year-old girl who had to travel from Ohio, where a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy became law soon after the Roe decision. The girl was a few days over that limit."
much more at source.
About the accused rapist-
https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-07-28/no-bond-for-accused-rapist-of-columbus-girl-who-traveled-to-indiana-for-abortion
snip-" A judge has ordered no release for a man accused of raping and impregnating a nine-year-old Columbus girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion.
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Julie Lynch cited overwhelming evidence Thursday and the fact that Gerson Fuentes is apparently living in the United States illegally."
snip-" Fuentes has pleaded not guilty. His attorney says there was no evidence of physical abuse outside of the rapes or that the girl had been put under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
{Cause the erect penis of an adult man penetrating into the vagina of a child is not physical abuse}
More there
