BREAKING: The suspected rapist accused of impregnating the 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio was arrested Tuesday and booked into Franklin County Jail.
Columbus Dispatch says bond was set at $2 million and that Gershon Fuentes, 27, is believed to be an "undocumented" immigrant.
Fuentes, charged with first-degree felony rape of a child under 13yo, was arraigned Wednesday morning. He has a preliminary hearing in Franklin County Municipal Court scheduled for July 22.
BREAKING: Video inside the courtroom of Fuentes's arraignment hearing for the rape & impregnation of the 10-year-old Ohio child.
The court provides translation services for the 27-year-old alleged rapist, who is reportedly an illegal immigrant.
UPDATE: @townhallcom has obtained full footage of Fuentes's first court appearance. The aborted child being called "the products of conception" in court was entered into evidence for DNA testing, a detective testified, to confirm the baby's paternity.
WATCH: 27-year-old alleged rapist Gerson Fuentes, a Guatemalan national who's been living in the U.S. illegally for at least SEVEN YEARS, appeared in court for the impregnation of a 10-year-old Ohio girl at the center of the viral post-Roe abortion story.
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TIMELINE pt. 1
- June 22: Police assigned case after Children Services referral via 10yo pregnant child's mother
- June 29: Abortion consultation
- June 30: Abortion performed in IN
- July 2: Aborted baby retrieved, entered into evidence for DNA testing
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TIMELINE pt. 2
- July 6: Detectives contacted victim's family/10yo girl "acknowledged that Gerson Fuentes was, indeed, the father of the pregnancy"
- July 12 (ARREST): Search warrant issued for Fuentes's DNA/suspect confessed to raping child at least 2x
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Ohio authorities suspect that Fuentes, an illegal alien who's been living in Columbus-area FOR YEARS, isn't using his real name. DETECTIVE testifying: "We have no legal documents to ascertain who he may actually be."
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Prosecutor stressed that the child had just turned 10-years-old and that Fuentes faces a potential life sentence in prison, if convicted.
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UPDATE: A criminal complaint naming Fuentes says the rape of the 10-year-old child took place on May 12 around 8:00 pm.
Police weren't assigned the case until June 22 (over a month later) when the girl's mother reported she was pregnant.
A probable cause affidavit says that, on July 6, the 10-year-old girl referenced Fuentes "as the suspect who raped her."
Detectives served a search warrant to obtain a buccal swab to DNA test Fuentes's saliva. Then at police HQ, the suspect "confessed to raping" the child.
🚨 BREAKING: All public records requests for the rape report have been DENIED by Columbus Police because it was initiated by "a mandated reporter" and "is not a public record."
No other records will be released from this investigation until the Fuentes case is adjudicated.
Columbus Police have released the division's mugshot of Fuentes when he was arrested Tuesday.
WATCH: Mother of the 10-year-old rape victim defended Fuentes, an illegal alien from Guatemala, in an interview with Telemundo, alleging that the child "is fine" and "everything they say about him is a lie."
h/t @BonillaJL
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