By Kathleen Gilbert
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, December 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday that it has fired the abortion clinic employee caught on tape covering up the statutory rape of a 13-year-old. However, Child Protective Services have said they will not prosecute the woman because the girl she illegally advised had only posed as a youngster who had been raped, and no rape had actually occurred.
Lila Rose, a 20-year-old UCLA student, brought an undercover camera to the Bloomington clinic, and footage released on the Internet last week showed her posing as a 13-year-old seeking an abortion after having relations with a 31-year-old man. Though presented with a clear case of statutory rape punishable as a felony under Indiana state law, the nurse assured Rose that she would not report the affair to Child Protective Services in spite of her obligation to do so.
“Okay, I didn’t hear the age [of the 31-year-old]. I don’t want to know the age,” the nurse told Rose.
In the video she then instructs Rose how to obtain a secret abortion by crossing state lines to avoid Indiana’s parental consent law. The nurse also suggests covering for the 31-year-old man by saying he is only 14. She says, “You’ve seen him around, you know he’s 14, he’s in your grade and whatever. You know what I mean.”
(To see the Live Action video, go to: https://www.metacafe.com/watch/2113345/indiana_planned_parent…)
Steve Vaughn, director of the Indiana Department of Child Services, told the Indiana Daily Student that child services will not pursue charges against the employee because there was not an actual minor involved when she broke the law. “Since there was no minor involved, that takes us out of the picture,” Vaughn said.
Vaughn also said that, had the case been real, the department would have pressed charges against the employee privately and not involved Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana (PPIN) issued a statement yesterday asserting that “a thorough internal review of this matter has taken place” and that “the health center assistant shown in the video is no longer employed by PPIN.”
It is uncertain whether Monroe County prosecutor Chris Gaal will pursue charges. Gaal was not available for comment as of press time.
Rose’s documentation caught the attention of several news media outlets, and she appeared on FOX News’ O’Reilly Factor last week to discuss the scandal. Recently she told the Daily Student she was discouraged by authorities’ hands-off attitude toward the employee as well as their compliance in letting Planned Parenthood absolve themselves of guilt.
“Planned Parenthood is blaming the cover-up on a single woman, and that’s wrong,” Rose said. “I think they need to be convicted for their many abuses.”
Rose said she wants authorities to investigate Planned Parenthood in response to proliferating evidence that the taxpayer-funded institution routinely disobeys the law. Rose and her organization, Live Action Films, have exposed similar abuses by the abortion giant in the past and say that they plan to release more condemning footage as part of what she calls the “Mona Lisa Project.”
“The Mona Lisa Project is … meant to illustrate the wide-spread problem,” Rose said. “For them to not recognize that it’s their ideology, they need to be convicted as an organization.”
To contact Dept. of Child Services director Steve Vaughn:
Local DCS Office in Monroe County
Region 13
1717 & 1783 W. 3rd. Street
Bloomington, IN 47404
phone: 812-336-6351
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Planned Parenthood Suspends Employee Caught Covering Up Rape of 13-Year-Old
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/dec/08120403.html
Planned Parenthood Caught on Tape Covering Up Statutory Rape – Threatens Lawsuit to Hide Evidence
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/may/07051504.html