Arizona authorities are being called on to investigate a Tempe Planned Parenthood facility that allegedly failed to report the rape of a young girl by 18-year-old Tyler Kost, who then reportedly went on to sexually assault others.
Alliance Defending Freedom, the Arizona Life Coalition which includes the Center for Arizona Policy, Susan B. Anthony List, Americans United for Life, Live Action, and Students for Life are demanding the investigation.
“No one should place young girls into the hands of sexual predators, yet that’s what Planned Parenthood appears to have done here and what we know it has done before. Even worse, it does it with our tax dollars,” said ADF Legal Counsel Natalie Decker. “Sadly, this is far from a one-time occurrence. Planned Parenthood’s deception, cover-ups, and abuse of taxpayer dollars across the country are bad enough, but the abortion giant’s complicity in placing young girls at the mercy of adult male sexual predators is utterly inexcusable.”
The group is calling upon state investigators and prosecutors, as well as the Arizona Department of Health Services, to investigate the Tempe facility for potential violations of Arizona’s requirement that sex abuse of a child must be reported to police or Child Protective Services within 24 hours. A new state law, The Women’s Health Protection Act, allows Arizona’s Department of Health Services to immediately investigate an abortion facility upon receiving a complaint.
Pinal County criminally charged Kost with of 27 counts of sexual assault and abuse. According to police reports, a Planned Parenthood counselor told one of the alleged victims and her mother at an abortion consultation that it “wasn’t worth the hassle” to report that the minor had been raped. After that, Kost allegedly committed additional sexual assaults on young females. The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office has asked the Arizona attorney general to investigate Planned Parenthood concerning the incident. Citizens can do the same through an online petition.
“Planned Parenthood has once again proven they cannot be trusted to protect the health and safety of our daughters,” said Center for Arizona Policy President Cathi Herrod. “The Arizona attorney general and Department of Health Services must immediately investigate the Tempe clinic to ensure no other young woman was told that a sexual assault wasn’t worth the ‘hassle’ of filing a mandatory report with the authorities.”
In addition to the Arizona situation, Planned Parenthood has been sued in Colorado for failing to report the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl who received an abortion and birth control after her abusive step-father brought her to a Denver facility. In Ohio, Planned Parenthood allowed a soccer coach who impregnated a 14-year old girl to sign off on her abortion without her parents’ knowledge. Planned Parenthood failed to report the incident to the required authorities, and a court determined it violated Ohio’s informed consent laws.