Accountability
Judge denies bond for accused rapist of girl who traveled across state-lines for abortion
Gerson Fuentes, the Guatamalan man who has been accused of raping a 9-year-old (now 10) in a case that gained national attention due to her having to cross state lines to get an abortion, has been denied bond.
As reported by The Associated Press, Franklin County Judge Julie Lynch said that Fuentes represents “a substantial flight risk,” and the Judge Lynch also said that there is significant evidence to say that Fuentes is living in the United States illegally.
Judge Lynch also highlighted “physical and mental and emotional trauma” of not only what allegedly happened to the girl at the hands of Fuentes, but also the additional burden of having to travel to Indiana to have an abortion.
Lynch concluded by noting that Fuentes lived at the same address as the girl and “to allow him to return to that home, the traumatic and psychological impact would be undeserving to an alleged victim.”
Fuentes has pleaded not guilty to the charges and his lawyer Bryan Bowen asked for bond, stating that there was a lack of evidence of physical abuse, he also stated that Fuentes had family ties and a job in Columbus and has no criminal history.
“We’ve heard evidence about the nature of the offense, but we have not heard any evidence presented about any danger that Mr. Fuentes would pose to any particular person or to the community,” Bowen said.
The girl in question travelled across state lines to get an abortion as “trigger laws” in Ohio made it difficult to obtain one in her own state. According to The New York Post, Ohio’s abortion ban makes an exception only in cases of emergency that is deemed to be life-threatening or involving a “serious risk of the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.”
Fuentes faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if he is convicted.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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He is an illegal aliens and therefor an invader. Regardless of whether he committed the crime or not he needs to held in prison and if found not guilty deported unconditional. We have to expel ALL who are in this country illegally. They are invaders. And if he found guilty sentenced to the maximum time and after serving it expelled from the US.