Abortion Records Help Convict Child Rapist - Sentencing Wednesday
October 2nd, 2006
Man Guilty Of 9 Felonies Validates AG Kline's Medical Records Subpoenas
Wichita, KS - Operation Rescue has uncovered documents that reveal that
child rapist Robert A. Estrada was captured with the help of abortion clinic
medical records that had been subpoenaed as a result of Attorney General
Phill Kline's investigation into criminal wrong-doing at abortion clinics.
In October, 2005, Kline forwarded the abortion clinic medical records
obtained from the now defunct Central Women's Services in Wichita to the
Sedgwick County District Attorney's office. Those records, along with other
information provided by an adoption group that had seen one of the girls,
resulted in Estrada's capture the following month.
Estrada is scheduled for sentencing in Sedgwick County on October 4, 2006,
at 1:30 PM on nine felony counts of rape and indecent liberties with a child
for the sexual abuse of his two step-daughters, which began when they were
11 and 12 years old resulting in four pregnancies, including two abortions.
His wife, Patricia L. Estrada, earlier pled guilty to two counts of child
endangerment and is currently serving a 14-month prison sentence.
This case is particularly disturbing because the girls' abuse went
unreported for years even though their sexual activity was obvious to adults
who came in contact with them - including abortionist Sherman Zaremski* and
workers at Central Women's Services where they obtained abortions. The
abortion clinic personnel never reported the suspected rapes to the
authorities, as mandated by law, when the girls obtained abortions there
even though the girls were younger than fifteen, but instead returned the
girls to their abuser where the rapes continued. State law states sexual
activity in children aged 15 or under is, by definition, criminal activity
and must be reported. Such reporting could have stopped the abuse years
earlier.
"This case alone validates Kline's abortion clinic investigations and
subpoenas for medical records. There is no doubt that without the medical
records produced by Central Women's Services in response to Kline's
subpoenas, those girls would still be enduring unspeakable abuse to this
day," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
Kline has been under attack in the media for his investigations into
unreported child rape and illegal late term abortions. Abortionist George
Tiller of Wichita and a Planned Parenthood in Kansas City appealed Kline's
subpoenas for abortion clinic medical records. However, Central Women's
Services cooperated with the subpoenas resulting in the Estrada convictions
and the prosecution of another child rapist in Marshall County, in addition
to investigations in three other states.
"If records from an abortion clinic like Central Women's Services that did
relatively few abortions have led to so many investigations and convictions,
you know there are perhaps dozens of cases abuse that Tiller and Planned
Parenthood are hiding," said Newman.
"It is obvious that Tiller and Planned Parenthood would rather have children
continue to be abused rather than turn over records that would prove that
they have been violating Kansas law. For the sake of those poor little
girls, the Attorney General's investigations must continue. It could be
their only hope of deliverance from their rapists."
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