Sheriff Asks AG To Investigate Planned Parenthood's Failure To Report Rape

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An Arizona Sheriff has asked two state agencies to investigate a claim

that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Tempe refused to report evidence


of a suspected teen rape.


On May 8, Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles announced his filing of
a 27-count indictment accusing an 18 year old male of sexually related
charges.
The charges were detailed against Tyler Kost in a news release
issued by the PCAO.

According to an indictment, which was e-mailed to members of the
news media May 8, Mr. Kost is accused of:
three counts sexual abuse with a minor, under the age of 15,
six counts sexual conduct with a minor, under the age of 15,
one counts child molestation, a child under 15,
seven counts sexual assault with a minor, 15 or older,
seven counts sexual abuse with a minor, 15 or older and
three counts sexual conduct with a minor, 15 or older.
If the defendant were found guilty on all 27 counts, he would face a
sentencing exposure between 147 years and up to 335.75 years in
prison, according to the county attorneys office.
Following the indictment, a grand jury added a new charge when it
indicted Kost on a charge of sexual conduct with a minor following
allegations made by a 14-year-old girl earlier this month. She said
Kost attacked her on a couch at his San Tan Valley house while they
watched a movie and his parents were home, investigators said. It's
unknown when the alleged attack happened.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CONNECTION
Reports surfaced that a girl who says she became pregnant after Kost
raped her last year visited a Planned Parenthood clinic with her
mother on New Years Eve and the sexual assault was never
reported.
According to the police incident report, obtained by Life
Dynamics and Life Talk News, the victim was 15 years old at the
time of the alleged assault. The person who accompanied the
victim to Planned Parenthood told the counselor about the
sexual assault during the visit.

The PCSO report states.
"[Redacted] became pregnant. She accompanied [Redacted] to
her ultrasound on 12/31/13 and 01/04/14. These appointments
were at the Planned Parenthood in [Redacted].
"[Redacted] disclosed the assault to a counselor at Planned
Parenthood. The counselor intentionally miscoded the assault as
a consensual encounter. The counselor told them that they did
not want the hassle of having to report the assault to law
enforcement as they were a mandatory reporter."
Now, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office has asked two state agencies to
investigate a claim that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Tempe refused
to report evidence of a suspected teen rape.
On May 5, the Sheriff's Office asked the Arizona Department of Health
Services to look into Planned Parenthood's handling of the15-year-old
girl.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu
AZCentral.com reports that on May 13, Pinal County Sheriff Paul
Babeu wrote a referral letter to state Attorney General Tom
Horne, asking for a separate investigation.
"One of the victims and her mother has made criminal allegation
against the Planned Parenthood in Tempe," Babeu wrote.
The next day, Babeu went on conservative talk radio, appearing
on host Laura Ingraham's show. "They're a mandated reporter.
You know, this is a crime," he said, referring to Planned
Parenthood and a state law that compels certain caregivers to
report signs of child abuse. "We should have known, law
enforcement should have known, that this predator was out
there."
Kost's arrest came after a citizen tipped off a Pinal County sheriff's
detective assigned to the Persons Crimes Bureau.
FAILURE TO REPORT SEXUAL ABUSE NOTHING NEW FOR
PLANNED PARENTHOOD

In a 2002 child predator investigation, Life Dynamics called over 800
Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation facilities across
the nation.
The caller portrayed a 13-year-old girl who was pregnant by her 22-
year-old boyfriend. Her story was that she wanted an abortion
because she and her boyfriend did not want her parents to find out
about the sexual relationship. In every call the age of the girl and her
boyfriend were made perfectly clear. It was also made clear that the
motivation for the abortion was to conceal this illicit sexual activity
from the girl's parents and the authorities. Additionally, our caller
never said a single thing that might suggest that her parents would
become abusive if they discovered her sexual activity.
Even though many of these clinics openly acknowledged to the caller
that this situation was illegal and they were required to report it to the
state, the overwhelming majority readily agreed to conceal this illegal
activity. (Listen to actual audio tapes of the calls here)

Life Dynamics president Mark Crutcher explains what they found,
When we began to investigate we found it was even worse than we
thought it was. Initially we thought perhaps the abortion clinics were
only reporting half of the incidents, but instead we found that they
were reporting hardly any of them.
During these calls it was not uncommon for the Planned Parenthood
or National Abortion Federation representative to warn the Life
Dynamics' caller that if someone were to find out about this situation
her boyfriend could go to jail. In those situations it was unmistakable
that the caller was being instructed to be more careful about what
information she gave out and to whom. It was also not uncommon for
the employee to interrupt the caller when she started talking about her
age or the age of her boyfriend. On those occasions the obvious
indication was that the employee did not want to hear this information.
Sometimes the caller would be told that, technically speaking, the
clinic was required to report this activity to the state but that if the
caller would either lie about her age or just keep her mouth shut when
she came in for her abortion, no one would ask any questions. Several
times she was told that the facility had no interest in the ages of the
parties involved or that they do not verify ages or check IDs and would
accept whatever she told them at face value. One employee went so
far as to tell her that if she came in with the cash she could be any age
she wanted to be.
Perhaps even more disturbing is that Life Dynamics identified a
willingness by these employees to facilitate ongoing criminal behavior.
At some point, the caller would raise the possibility that she might not
be pregnant and asked whether the clinic would help her get birth
control. Over 90 percent agreed to supply her with birth control and
thereby help her conceal this illegal relationship. This offer was made
even by people who had earlier in the call correctly identified this
situation as sexual abuse or statutory rape.
"In many of these instances, they told our caller that her adult
boyfriend could come with her to pick up the birth control, and some
even offered to let him pick it up without her," explains Crutcher.
"In other words, even though they had evidence that a sexual
crime was being committed against a 13-year-old child, they were
not only willing to conspire with the perpetrator to cover it up but
they offered to provide him the means by which he could
continue the abuse," Crutcher states.
When Life Dynamics completed their phone survey, one of the most
alarming observations they made was about the manner in which
these Planned Parenthood or abortion facilities handled these calls.
From start to finish, the attitudes of the employees the caller talked to
made it brutally obvious that this is an issue they deal with routinely. In
fact, several of them even volunteered that they get calls like this all
the time.
"In the final analysis, virtually every Planned Parenthood and
National Abortion Federation facility we contacted was willing to
illegally conceal the sexual abuse of this 13-year-old girl, "
reports Crutcher.
Life Dynamics says that they are in the process of compiling shocking
data for the second part to this investigation which will include horrific
details from court cases where children were returned to their
pedophile abusers after being taken to family planning clinics.
This new report will clearly show that the abuse Life Dynamics
documented in 2002 continues to this day.

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For an interview contact Life Dynamics here (940) 380-8800
About Life Dynamics http://www.lifedynamics.com

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