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Child services to take no legal action against Planned Parenthood employee

POSTED AT 10:31 PM ON Dec. 7, 2008 | PRINT | Email | SHARE | COMMENTS (8)

The Indiana Department of Child Services will take no legal action against the employee who was suspended from Bloomington’s Planned Parenthood on Wednesday.

The employee was suspended without pay after an online video was released of her advising a woman posing as a 13-year-old girl to cross state lines to get an abortion without parental consent. When the woman posing as a 13-year-old girl said the man who got her pregnant was 31 years old, she agreed not to report what would, if it were true, be statutory rape.

Steve Vaughn, director of the Indiana Department of Child Services, said child services does not plan to do anything to the employee because there was not an actual minor involved in the incident.

“Since there was no minor involved, that takes us out of the picture,” Vaughn said.
The county prosecutor’s office could also file charges, but no one from the office could be reached for comment by press time.

The video showed a 20-year-old UCLA student who went undercover as a 13-year-old going into Planned Parenthood, saying she was impregnated by a 31-year-old man and asking for help. The Planned Parenthood employee, “Diana,” is seen telling the woman to cross state lines to get an abortion that doesn’t require parental consent and telling her she would pretend that she did not know the man was 31.

Vaughn said if the situation were real, the department would become involved, but it would only involve the employee and not Planned Parenthood.

Kate Shepherd, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood, said the internal investigation has not been completed.

Shepherd said the employee still remains suspended without pay.

The video was released Wednesday but was filmed in June at the 421 S. College Ave. location by the student-led Live Action Films, a student human rights organization.
The video also shows the employee acknowledging that she should report the incident to Child Protective Services but was not going to do so.

The video and the 20-year-old UCLA student, Lila Rose, were featured on the Fox News show The O’Reilly Factor last week.

Rose said the group chose Bloomington because it was in a college town and because of Indiana’s strict abortion regulations for minors.

“I saw a huge need to expose and educate on the issue of abortion and other reproductive issues,” Rose said.

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8. Posted by Grumpy Old Fart at 1:48 PM on Dec 12, 2008 | Report this comment

Thank you TheOblivious for your illustrative post. For some time you've been displaying the lazy habits of the pseudo-intellectual, that of simply declaring irrelevant anything that disagrees with you. Normally, I do not engage the invincibly ignorant but felt it would be best to better display the "depth" of your reasoning for others to know what weight to give your musings. Now its there for anyone to see. You may now return to contemplating upon how awesome you are.

7. Posted by TheObvious at 8:45 AM on Dec 12, 2008 | Report this comment

Imagine that - nothing but ad hominems and red herrings from GOF. Attacking another poster's character and words, rather than making any type of real argument him(her)self seems to be all he's capable of, and shows weakness of character on his(her) part. LOL! GOF - when you care to discuss the issues, instead of attacking me, let me know. Since personal attacks reveal you are incapable of real debate, they will be dismissed (or just laughed at).

6. Posted by Grumpy Old Fart at 3:12 AM on Dec 12, 2008 | Report this comment

TheOblivious: I'm sorry, I had interpreted it as you saying that since there was not a real child involved in the sting, it was no big deal. I should have known you didn't mean that since it would be totally moronic to suggest that a health official being willing to break the law and allow a child molester go unreported and molest other children was not a cause for outrage. I should have realized that such a ridiculous piece of drivel could only be satire.

5. Posted by TheObvious at 12:56 PM on Dec 10, 2008 | Report this comment

"So do you think that PP would not have violated the law if it had been a real case and not a sting?" Completely irrelevant to both what I said, and the two comments below mine.

4. Posted by Grumpy Old Fart at 12:15 PM on Dec 10, 2008 | Report this comment

So do you think that PP would not have violated the law if it had been a real case and not a sting? The fact that the girl was running a sting might be a legal defense, but it still exposes the illegal actions of PP. They will claim it was a rogue employee, but what are the odds of Rose hitting that one rogue in her first attempt? The problem is systemic.

3. Posted by TheObvious at 11:53 AM on Dec 10, 2008 | Report this comment

Except that there was no child rapist, or child involved, for that matter. But, don't let that small fact get in the way of your outrage.

2. Posted by Pascal at 10:33 AM on Dec 10, 2008 | Report this comment

This matter exactly(and from the same location)was decided by Indiana judges to be no problem. The dolts accepted the privacy rights of the victem as a defense to the child rapists...Indiana is a mecca for the latter.

1. Posted by Hugh Morris at 11:54 PM on Dec 08, 2008 | Report this comment

One of the disturbing things about this is that the 'counseler' didn't care one iota that a 31 year old man had been messing with a 13 year old girl. She's sick. How can she not care what happened to a '13 year old' little girl?

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