AP Explains: Man charged with rape of girl in Ohio

Описание: (14 Jul 2022)

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Columbus, Ohio – 14 July 2022
1. Wide of Julie Carr Smyth speaking about the case involving the rape of a 10-year-old girl in Ohio.
HEADLINE TEXT: AP Explains: Man charged with rape of a girl in Ohio
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2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press:
"The story emerged in Indianapolis out of a newspaper account about a doctor who had performed this abortion on this 10-year-old girl from Ohio who had, she said, had had to cross state lines because of the state's new restrictions on abortion."
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2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press:
"Those who supported abortion rights were using it as an example of the horror stories that could happen if access, now that access had been restricted, and those who were in favor of those restrictions began to question that maybe it was a hoax because it was a single source story."
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3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press:
"Someone came forward to children's services about the girl's condition, and that was shared with Columbus police, who then found a person who they arrested and accused of this crime. So suddenly what seemed like it couldn't be verified was very much verified."
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4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press:
"There are a few open questions. One is that our (Ohio) attorney general had said in an interview that under Ohio's heartbeat law, there would have been an exception under which this girl could have gotten treatment in the state because it does have a medical emergency exception. However, we're looking into that because the law would appear to say that there needed to be an active emergency in order for the doctor to invoke that in Ohio."
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STORYLINE:
An Ohio man has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl whose case drew national attention following a doctor's comments that the child had to travel to Indiana for an abortion, an account that had led some prominent Republicans — including Ohio's attorney general and a congressman — to suggest it was fabricated.
Democratic President Joe Biden highlighted the case last week at the signing of an executive order aimed at protecting access to abortion as state after Republican-led state, including Ohio, enacted near-total restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court's recent landmark ruling.
A detective testified Wednesday at an initial court appearance for the 27-year-old suspect that Columbus police learned about the girl's pregnancy after her mother alerted Franklin County Children Services on June 22, The Columbus Dispatch reported. The detective said the girl had an abortion in Indianapolis on June 30.
The detective said DNA from the Indianapolis abortion clinic was being tested to confirm paternity.
An Indianapolis physician who provides abortion services, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, had told The Indianapolis Star that an abortion had been provided for such a child because the girl couldn't get the procedure in Ohio under a newly imposed state ban on abortions at the first detectable "fetal heartbeat." A judge lifted a stay on the ban after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
Appearing Monday on Fox News, Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said he hadn't heard "a whisper" from law enforcement in Ohio about any reports or arrests made in connection with such a case.
"Another lie. Anyone surprised?" Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan tweeted in reaction.
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