AZ Sheriff’s Office: Planned Parenthood didn’t report rape by serial sex offender
From modvive.com, May 2:
An 18-year old Arizona high school student has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting at least 10 and as many as 18 high schools girls….
Making this case even more disturbing is the allegation that a counselor at Planned Parenthood Arizona may have assisted accused serial rapist, Tyler Kost [pictured right], in covering up the actions of a sexual predator over the course of several years.
One reported case has a 15-year-old girl claiming to have been raped and impregnated by Kost, after attending a homecoming dance….
According to a detectives report, after the assault the girl alongside her mother went for care at the facility.
“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,” the sheriff’s office statement says.
Planned Parenthood responded to the allegations with the following statement:
“While we provide confidential care to all of our patients, we have strict policies in place that require all staff to report any illegal activity they learn about, including sexual assault. All patients are asked at least two separate times whether they consented to sexual activity; if a patient says she was sexually assaulted or displays signs of assault, our staff is required to report it immediately to law enforcement officials. We have zero tolerance for staff failing to meet our standards and policies.”…
Two of the rape victims were so severely traumatized that they felt compelled to leave the state, the sheriff said. One of the two victims even required hospitalization after she attempted to take her own life.
In 2009, a Live Action sting caught employees at three separate Planned Parenthood Arizona facilities showing a willingness to cover up underage rape. At that time PPAZ said it was “conducting an internal review.” It obviously cleared itself.
Planned Parenthood Arizona also sued the state (case pending) so as to continue giving the abortion drug RU-486 against FDA guidelines. CEO Bryan Howard said they had to do this to make ends meet.
Coincidentally, the Sex Ed Committee at Tempe Union High School District, which is in the same vicinity as the high school where the serial rapist attended, is to vote tomorrow night on whether to use Planned Parenthood’s sex ed program, which has been a hot topic in the community for months. The timing is not good.
This is a test of Planned Parenthood Arizona’s new roving iPad business model, since it has had to stop abortions at so many of its 13 clinics. Abortions are now only committed at four mills.
The organization is still doing well financially. Although revenue was down $3 million from the year before, Planned Parenthood Arizona still made $8.7 mil in in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, according to its 990. Howard’s salary totalled $202,845.
[HT: LifeNews.com]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Wow.
We don’t want the hassle of reporting an assault?
this makes me sick.
PP is a pedophile’s and rapist’s best friend!!!
God help those poor girls. :(
I pray for JUSTICE!!
I can remember one poster who wrote on this blog how someone working undercover to expose this very thing at PP had resulted in a completely innocent family and their teenage daughter being visited by police. By some amazing coincidence this young lady had the same name given by the person working undercover. By an even more amazing coincidence, she and her family also lived at the same phony address.
I pressed this poster for more information, as the story sounded a little fishy. Exactly who reported this? The family, their lawyer, the police? Was there a police report or log of the visit? How could police visit a non existent address?
The poster could produce a police report…of the visit to PP itself when they reported the incident as required by law. Fine. So where is the follow up report or log of the “visit”? Likely the police determined the address and name were bogus and could do nothing further.
After a lot of hemming and hawing the poster produced the “source” for the alleged “visit”: A Planned Parenthood pamphlet! Imagine.
Should I be surprised?
I can’t stop thinking about them and how they have been violated. God help them.
Two of the rape victims were so severely traumatized that they felt compelled to leave the state, the sheriff said. One of the two victims even required hospitalization after she attempted to take her own life.
Hi Carla,
Yes, but did they get pregnant? If they didn’t there is no need for concern. (sarcasm alert)
Those so “concerned” about rape victims never seem to see much beyond the pregnancy….like the horror the victim endured and lives with….assuming she wasn’t murdered.
Exactly Mary. The first trauma was the rape. The secondary trauma to the rape is abortion.
And if they weren’t pregnant well yes send them on their merry way!!
Ugh. Mary that is a good point and I’ve never thought of it that way. I think I’ll use that next time abortion advocates trot out the rape exception.
Do you care just as much about non-pregnant rape victims?
It’s so horribly sad to me that this girl who came into Planned Parenthood and told them about a rape didn’t get the support and counseling she obviously needed. The PP employees obviously don’t care about future victims because one of my first thoughts other than helping this girl would have been “holy crap we’ve got to get this scumbag caught so he doesn’t rape anyone else.”
Clearly, they don’t really care about women.
I just know I would feel so humiliated and embarrassed and degraded if they employee told me “Oh we’re just gonna put this down as consensual. Reporting would be too much work for me.”
My heart aches for all the victims of this rapist. So, so sad. :(
Arizona is experiencing a renaissance of pro-life awareness and enthusiasm.
Planned Parenthood may not skirt around this for free this time.
I am of the firm belief that Planned Parenthood has the characteristics of a sexual predator i.e. grooming behavior, this can be our little secret, etc. So, why would one sexual predator want to tell on another?
Thank you Carla and Libertybelle,
The Neanderthal mentality toward rape victims is still alive and doing well in this country. I remember when one of the questions a victim would be asked was if she “enjoyed it”?
I will give the feminist movement their due where this issue is concerned, even if they are too happy to blame the woman or turn a blind eye when its one of their idols (Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy)that’s accused or paying a million or two to get an accused rapist off the hook.
Even Billy Graham was happy to excuse Clinton’s Tomcatting by blaming the women. Apparently the same standards of morality he preaches to the rest of us don’t apply to his rich and powerful friends. I completely lost ALL respect for that man from that day forward.
Why did it take so long to catch him ya think?
Is it because of the shame of those precious girls who had been raped? That we STILL don’t rally around them and ask them to TELL SOMEONE? We continue to victimize the victims.
And one other thought I had. Where are the proaborts on this thread? Come and stick up for PP.
CEO Bryan Howard said they had to do this to make ends meet.
This was a fabrication the first time you printed it, and it’s a fabrication now. One can only conclude that you believe that truth is not on the pro-life side.
Link to the truth please LisaC
From the linked post:
“Yet Howard is caught between a rock and hard place, because he already told the press the Flagstaff abortion clinic has a $400,000 annual budget and commits 400 medical abortions a year, meaning it derives 1/3+ of its income (400 x $300 = $120,000) from RU-486. And Howard already told the press he was only able to get an abortionist in the clinic one day a week.”
$120 grand is nothing to sneeze at LisaC, isn’t it??? From Howard’s various statements, its evident that he is intent on maintaining abortions at high levels in order to get that money….
Failure to report also sounds like an accessory after the crime and an accessory before the crime when that crime happens again. There is a War on Women and we see who is aiding and abetting rapists as an enemy of women! See this from Findlaw.com.
“A criminal charge of aiding and abetting or accessory can usually be brought against anyone who helps in the commission of a crime, though legal distinctions vary by state. A person charged with aiding and abetting or accessory is usually not present when the crime itself is committed, but he or she has knowledge of the crime before or after the fact, and may assist in its commission through advice, actions, or financial support. Depending on the degree of involvement, the offender’s participation in the crime may rise to the level of conspiracy.” – See more at: http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/aiding-and-abetting-accessory.html#sthash.hZ5uUq7j.dpuf
Carla, a link to the truth is here: http://azdailysun.com/news/local/abortion-services-resume-at-new-planned-parenthood-clinic-in-flagstaff/article_9da0f2d8-9864-11e3-ae56-0019bb2963f4.html. It doesn’t say what Jill claims it says.
Thomas, there are three readily identifiable falsehoods in this post and in the one that you cite.
Falsehood #1: Howard’s title has been fabricated. He is the president of PP Arizona, not the CEO.
Falsehood #2: The number of abortions that the Flagstaff clinic “commits” in a year has been fabricated. The clinic had about 400 medical abortion clients until 2011, when it stopped providing medical abortions, and did not resume until a couple months ago. An exercise that might help you understand would be to compare the statement “Jill Stanek worked for a facility that provides late-term abortions” and the statement “Jill Stanek works for a facility that provides late-term abortions.” Can you see the difference? The first one is true, and the second one is false. Likewise, the clinic in the past performed 400 medication abortions a year, but it does not in the present.
Even if we accept the comical argument that medication abortions are a source of “income,” they’re obviously not part of the $400,000 budget because that budget was in place before the clinic resumed offering medication abortions. They haven’t speculated on how many medication abortion clients they’ll be getting this year, but it would be foolish to assume that they will get as many as they had in past years because more visits are required now than in past years.
Falsehood #3: The income that the clinic purportedly derives from medication abortion has been fabricated. Jill’s assertion that medication abortions make up 1/3 of the clinic’s “income” relies on the premise that the clinic provides the abortion at no cost to itself. Jill knows this to be untrue: clinics and hospitals have overhead and they do not receive the medications that they sell for free.
When a self-styled “reporter” tells tales that can readily be debunked through publicly-available information, it’s really hard to believe any uncorroborated stories they relate.
If the PP worker knowingly miscoded an assault as a consensual encounter, s/he should be fired regardless of the circumstances. However, I’m wondering if the girl did not want it reported. I can’t think of any other reason why her mother wouldn’t call the police herself.
It was careless of me to imply above that the clinic doesn’t derive any income from medication abortions. If they charge for services on a sliding scale determined by the patient’s income, they presumably charge some people enough to more than cover overhead.
Soooooooo………the young man isn’t a rapist?
Soooooooo………he hasn’t been arrested?
Soooooo…….these young girls were not raped?
Soooooo…….one raped and pregnant little girl wasn’t aborted at PP?
Sooooooo……PP certainly DID report the rape of this little girl to the proper authorities?
Try to keep up LisaC.
Falsehood # 1: president or CEO, an error not of any consequence since the dude runs his mouth as an authority. I would also caution you not to speak about sliding scale too soon…
Falsehood #2: the year is close enough to 2013/2014. Every single statement from Howard indicates that he is intent to keep up with that number. SO WHAT’S YOUR POINT???
Falsehood #3: you corrected yourself on the income issue in a follow-up comment so that is moot…
Carla, nothing I said could possibly indicate that I believe that the young woman was not raped, that the young man wasn’t a rapist, blah, blah, whatever else you said. Do you actually process anything that you read, or does some malevolent force just compel you to screech gibberish into your computer every ten minutes?
For the record, I don’t share your belief that there are no circumstances under which a rape victim should be permitted to choose when and how to reveal her assault to the police.
since the dude runs his mouth as an authority
He’s the president of PP in Arizona. It’s not complicated. I’m guessing that Jill is falsely calling him a CEO because she thinks it sounds more corporate-like.
SO WHAT’S YOUR POINT???
My point is that the money that Jill insists is propping up their business DOES NOT EXIST.
Also, I missed falsehood #4, which asserts that PPAZ made 8.7 million in the 2012 fiscal year. Their excess revenue that year was actually $44,807.
“For the record, I don’t share your belief that there are no circumstances under which a rape victim should be permitted to choose when and how to reveal her assault to the police.”
Let me just say that I totally understand why rape victims (who are not always female, not even close) would not report. People act like it’s so easy, but it’s really not. Going to the cops isn’t something a lot of victims feel comfortable doing. Fear, shame, and other issues can make victims not feel safe about reporting. Or sometimes they even care about the abuser and don’t want him/her to get in trouble.
But mandatory reporting exists for a reason. It’s designed to protect future victims and help those who feel like they can’t report for whatever reasons. Do you think that mandatory reporting, especially when we are talking about a minor who was assaulted by a serial abuser, is wrong? Sexual assault is so underreported anyway, which leaves these abusers (and this boy was only 18 and already assaulted multiple girls, if he hadn’t been caught it was only going to get even worse) free to abuse with impunity. I of all people understand why people don’t report assaults against themselves, but I really don’t understand how a healthcare professional could ignore mandatory reporting and just allow an abuser to walk free. Do you think mandatory reporting is wrong?