By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - The man charged with raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to neighboring Indiana to obtain an a.
The case made international headlines because the child and her mother sought the abortion in Indiana just days after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the half-century old Roe v Wade decision that guaranteed the right to the procedure.
(Reuters) - The man charged with raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to neighboring Indiana to obtain an abortion last year pleaded guilty on Wednesday and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
The man charged with raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to neighboring Indiana to obtain an abortion last year pleaded guilty on Wednesday and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Gerson Fuentes, who was the live-in boyfriend of the child's mother, confessed to raping the child in a police interview, and DNA evidence showed he fathered the aborted fetus, prosecutors said in court in Franklin, County, Ohio, on Wednesday. The case made international headlines because the child and her mother sought the abortion in Indiana just days after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the half-century old Roe v Wade decision that guaranteed the right to the procedure.
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