Gerson Fuentes, 27, originally from Guatemala and an undocumented immigrant living in Ohio, faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison. He is charged with the repeated rape of a 10-year-old girl.
According to police, Fuentes confessed to the crime. The judge set the defendant a bond of two million dollars.
But there is another relevant consequence in this resolution that describes the prevailing atmosphere in the United States. Now it turns out that the case is real and not a fabrication by the Democrats, as the Republicans proclaimed, to forge a story in favor of abortion after the Supreme Court ruling that revoked that constitutional right enshrined for half a century.
A few hours after the Supreme Court's ruling, a restrictive law came into force in Buckeye state that prohibits the interruption of pregnancy at six weeks, with no exceptions for rape. That girl, whose name has not been given, became pregnant. She exceeded the limit in three days and Franklyn County Children's Services arranged for her to move to Indiana on behalf of the family. In this neighboring state, which still has its 22-week regulation in force, while waiting for another one that is also very restrictive, they were able to perform the intervention.
In order to humanize the meaning of the High Court's decision, the highest legacy of former President Donald Trump's ultra-conservative drift, the Indianapolis Star newspaper revealed this news in its July 1 edition. The source was Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the OB/GYN who took the call from the Ohio clinic.
Pro-abortion groups saw in this information the tragic but expected consequences of the restrictions imposed. He even made it to the White House. "A ten-year-old girl, raped, six weeks pregnant, already traumatized, was forced to travel to another state," stressed President Joe Biden when signing an executive order to mitigate the consequences of the Supreme Court.
"Another lie, anyone surprised?" Jim Jordan tweeted in reference to the case. This congressman from Ohio is one of the most relevant members of the Trumpist extreme right. His opinion was not something isolated among those of his bench. Once again, the Fox network acted as a conspiratorial speaker.
"An unlikely story from a biased but unconfirmable source," The Wall Street Journal, the Murdoch group's prestige outlet compared to Fox and the New York Post tabloid, said on its editorial page.
The Journal later added an editor's note regarding Fuentes' arrest.
“We appreciate our obligation to correct the file, which is terrible. The best news is that a rapist has been taken off the street.” These phrases are part of the editorial that appeared this Thursday in the same header. A full-fledged rectification in which this event was accepted as true from its very first line. "It seems that President Biden was right when he told the story about a ten-year-old girl from Ohio who traveled to Indiana to have an abortion," reads the start.
The governor of that state, Republican David Yost, cast doubt on the veracity of the matter, until this Wednesday he issued a statement in which he praised the operation to arrest the aggressor.
Jordan did not have that reaction, who was in charge of deleting the tweet in which he disqualified the existence of that girl when the arrest of the alleged rapist was spread.
In the corridors of Congress, this Thursday he declared, however, that he did not regret his message nor should he apologize to the victim or his family. Despite the evidence, he assured that "I never doubted the girl's story" and argued, as a good disciple of Trump, that his tweet was misinterpreted by the press and that his comment was a disapproval of the president.
In another twist, from now on, for Fox, Jordan and all those who denied the girl, the story is real and has a culprit: Biden and his open-door policy. Fuentes is an "illegal immigrant," who cares what he previously denied.
