A grand jury in Ohio on Thursday indicted an undocumented immigrant on two counts of rape for allegedly sexually assaulting and impregnating a young girl, who was then forced to cross state lines to seek an abortion in Indiana, where the procedure is still legal.
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The indictment revealed that the alleged rape victim was just 9 years old when she was assaulted — contrary to previous reports saying she was 10 at the time she had her pregnancy terminated.
The girl’s case became a lightning rod in the national debate over abortion rights, with President Biden publicly invoking the child’s plight to highlight the detrimental effects of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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