Statutory Rape Reporting

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Statutory Rape and Abortion Clinics

If a 13 year old girl said she was pregnant by her 22 year old boyfriend, would you protect her boyfriend? Would you tell her how she could cross state lines for an abortion to avoid telling her parents? Even if she never said they would be mad?

A study by Life Dynamics’ Mark Crutcher has shown that out of 800 calls to abortion clinics, most calls resulted in actions designed to get the girl her abortion even if it’s clearly something that should instead be reported to the State for investigation.

Crutcher’s story points out that girls under 15 who become pregnant are more likely to be involved with a grown man than a young teen. They are also more prone to venerial diseases, estrangement from their parents, and other life complications up to and including suicide than are the ones whose social life is in their own age group.

Based on the figures for abortions and for statutory rape reportings, Crutcher decided that abortion clinics just had to be failing their legal responsibility to report suspected statutory rapes. His organization therefore called 800 abortion clinics, with someone posing as a worried 13-year old with a 22-year old boyfriend.

In very few cases did the clinic worker attempt to get the identity of the boyfriend. In most cases the advice that was given was to not mention the boyfriend’s age, and many of them acknowledged to the "teen" that they were supposed to report such situations.

Planned Parenthood was offered the chance to hear the tapes, but was not interested unless they could hear them for the first time without witnesses. They simply indicated their suspicion that the tapes were falsified.

WTIC-TV checked out the calls allegedly made to the various Planned Parenthood offices and were able to confirm all of them, according to the article on their website. The telephone tones heard on the tape matched the ones they heard when they called the numbers and when they asked for the employees by name, some of whom had relatively uncommon names, they found every one.

According to WTIC-TV, Chief State’s Attorney John Bailey and Assistant Attorney Steve Sedensky both said that the actions on the tapes were clear evidence of abuse and one commented that it was a violation of the law. Crutcher may be interested in bringing suit against the clinics.

WTIC-TV in Hartford quoted Crutcher as saying, "Haul them into court and put them in jail. That's exactly where people who protect pedophiles ought to be and that's true whether it's a bishop or a cardinal or a priest, or a counselor at Planned Parenthood."

Information from:

1. www.ctnow.com/news/local/statewire/hc-23012205.apds.m0982.bc-ct--mandmay23.story

2.  http://fox61.trb.com/wtic-052202-abortion.story?coll=wtic%2Dhome%2D1

3. Mark Crutcher’s story www.ChildPredators.com

 


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