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Jim Jordan deletes tweet calling child rape case “another lie” after suspect arrested
- GOP Rep. Jim Jordan deleted a tweet calling a story about a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio “another lie.”
- Jordan deleted the Twitter post after a man was arrested and charged with rape in connection to the case.
- The girl’s case has drawn national attention after she was reported to have gotten an abortion in Indiana.
GOP Rep. Jim Jordan deleted a tweet on Wednesday in which he called the story of a 10-year-old girl in Ohio who received an abortion after being raped “another lie.” The congressman deleted his post after a man was arrested and charged in connection with the case.
“Another lie. Anyone surprised?” Jordan wrote on his Twitter official account as a comment to a story about Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office initially saying it had not found any evidence to support the rape charge.
The case received national attention and President Joe Biden mentioned it during a major speech about abortion policy in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
While some news outlets initially had difficulty confirming the story, Yost, Jordan, and a host of conservative commentators questioned the account — some even claimed that it was simply made up.
On Wednesday, authorities charged Gershon Fuentes, 27, with rape, news that was first reported by The Columbus Post Dispatch. Law enforcement said that Fuentes admitted to raping the child on two occasions. DNA from the aborted fetus is also being tested to confirm if Fuentes forcibly impregnated the girl.
The young girl reportedly traveled to Indiana to receive the abortion at six weeks of pregnancy because of Ohio’s new abortion laws.
A spokesperson for the Ohio congressman declined to comment but pointed to a new tweet in which the lawmaker called for Fuentes to “be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Yost celebrated the news of the arrest after previously going on Fox News to question the Indianapolis Star’s early reporting on the case.
“We rejoice anytime a child rapist is taken off the streets,” Yost told the Post Dispatch. He previously told Fox that there had not been a “whisper” about such a rape occurring.
The case received significant attention following Roe’s reversal and Ohio’s ban on nearly all abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy went into effect. The Star was reporting on the growing number of Ohioans who were venturing across state lines to obtain abortions.
Source: Yahoo! News
Mike Tracy
July 14, 2022 at 6:46 pm
I still think its a second fabrication to cover up the first fraudulent story to politicize roevwade. Why would this Guatemalan just pop up and admit to something he knows he’d spend the rest of his life in prison for? Because he got paid a hell of a lot to take the heat away from some crooked lying liberal shitheads that made the story up in the first place. He takes the heat and sets his family up for life. Let’s see some dna that’s going to get lost.
Leslie
July 14, 2022 at 7:20 pm
I’m sure he was paid to make the case more realistic. But he’s gone, either back on the street or back home with family and richer!
No one except J6ers go to jail or prison. Clinton, BLM and Antifa members, all those “peaceful protesters”, anyone causing destruction for the liberals will never see a day in jail or be held accountable for their actions! Not even the corrupt Obiden and Hunter pedo shit show!
Mike Tracy
July 15, 2022 at 9:16 am
How about that! Not even a day later the girls mother admits the rapist story is a lie. Now , why would anybody believe a fkg word that slides off the end of any liberal democrat’s slithering tongue. All lies, more lies, forever lies as long as the Democrat party exists. Do your part to save America, exterminate some demo—-rats.
Coolmeadow Kid
July 15, 2022 at 12:19 pm
I’m not sure we’re past the ‘lie’ yet. There are a lot of things that just don’t add up. Like why was this rape of a 10 year old, according to the Ohio AG, not reported by the Ohio doctor that called the Indiana doctor for help in getting the abortion for the little girl??? Why did the Indiana doctor not report it??? (I understand she is being investigated now). If either of these doctors did report it, why did either state’s officials say there was no record of it??? Who arrested the illegal alien who then admitted to the rape??? Where is he being held now??? My questions go on and on. At this point, I wouldn’t put it past the Left to have done any number of things related to this incident. 1) paid a poor immigrant off for a false admission with the promise that he would be relocated. 2) paid the mom off for any number of possible things. 3) still made the whole thing up. 4) or it’s all true, and they just covered it up at first, but had to come up with something to take the bad press off of themselves so that their using the story, true or not, to advance their Pro Abortion views would still be viable. 5)…………………………..