The mother of the 10-year-old Latina girl raped in Ohio defends the young man who confessed to the crime: "What they say about him is a lie"

The mother of a 10-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio and had to travel to Indiana to terminate her pregnancy, due to new laws that restrict that right, defended the young Latino arrested for the crime on Thursday.

"Everything they are saying against him is a lie," the woman exclusively told Noticias Telemundo.

Gerson Fuentes, 27, of Guatemalan origin, was arrested Tuesday in Franklin County (which includes the city of Columbus), after confessing that he had sex with the girl at least twice.

The youngest was then only 9 years old.

Fuentes, who appears to be an undocumented immigrant, appeared a day later before a judge, using a translator, and was held on $2 million bail because the magistrate believes he is a flight risk and, given the brutality of the crime, .

The man is due to testify again in court on July 22.

Police say the minor identified him as her attacker, and are now checking DNA evidence to see if they incriminate him.

The mother told Noticias Telemundo that Fuentes lives in the same house as her, but defended that she is innocent and therefore has not filed charges against her.

She said the minor "is fine."

Gerson Fuentes.Franklin County Sheriff

The girl became pregnant as a result of the rape, but had to travel to Indiana due to abortion restrictions in Ohio, causing outrage throughout the country in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that eliminated the constitutional protection of that right and triggered bans. in states governed by the Republican Party.

Columbus police said they learned of the girl's pregnancy through a report by the mother to Franklin County Children's Services on June 22;

the minor aborted in Indianapolis on June 30, according to The Columbus Dispatch newspaper.

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The girl was six weeks and three days pregnant.

Ohio law does not include exceptions to pregnancy due to rape or incest.

It is not known whether the girl's condition met the law's definition of a medical emergency, according to which the pregnancy must be life-threatening or pose a "serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function."

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Dr. Caitlin Bernar, who was contacted at her Indianapolis office by a child abuse doctor from Ohio, confirmed the procedure.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, told Fox News on Monday that he had heard "not a whisper" from state law enforcement about any reports or arrests.

Other Republican politicians and conservative media also questioned whether the girl really existed, especially after President Joe Biden used her example to defend abortion rights: “10 years.

Raped.

Six weeks pregnant.

Traumatized already.

Forced to travel to another state.

Imagine being that little girl," lamented the president.

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A day later, after the arrest became public knowledge, the attorney general said: "This young woman, if she exists and if this horrible thing happened to her, it breaks my heart to think about it, she should not have left Ohio to seek treatment." Governor, Republican Mike DeWine said, "The rapist should spend the rest of his life in prison."