‘Not a Whisper’ of Alleged Rape of 10-Year-Old After Reports Claimed Girl Crossed State Lines for Abortion: Ohio AG Dave Yost

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said there is no evidence that showed a 10-year-old girl was raped and impregnated, following reports that claimed a girl in such a predicament was forced to travel across state lines to get an abortion.

The story said that the girl was reportedly denied an abortion in Ohio and had to travel to Indiana to have the procedure. The Indianapolis Star published the story on July 1 and attributed the story solely to an Indianapolis-based obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Caitlan Bernard.

When asked by Fox News host Jesse Watters in an interview on Monday about whether there were any alerts about investigations into such a case, such as police reports, Yost responded: “Not a whisper.”

Yost said that his office has regular contact with prosecutors, local police, and sheriffs, but there was “not a whisper anywhere” of a case involving a raped 10-year-old girl.

The Ohio attorney general, a Republican, also said that his office runs the state crime lab, but also did not come across any case reports resembling the story.

“Any case like this, you’re going to have a rape kit, you’re going to have biological evidence, and you would be looking for DNA analysis, which we do most of the DNA analysis in Ohio. There is no case request for analysis that looks anything like this,” he said.

Yost also acknowledged that it is illegal in Ohio to not report the rape of a minor and that if any doctor in Ohio failed to report such a case, they should be prosecuted.

He also noted that Bernard, the OBGYN in Indiana, isn’t in the jurisdiction of Ohio law enforcement.

“We don’t know who the originating doctor in Ohio was—if they even exist. But the bottom line is, it is a crime if you’re a mandated reporter to fail to report,”

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