{"id":75362,"date":"2015-10-05T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T13:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=75362"},"modified":"2015-10-06T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:09:18","slug":"us-government-helped-rapists-afghanistan-helping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/us-government-helped-rapists-afghanistan-helping\/","title":{"rendered":"The US government helped rapists in Afghanistan; It\u2019s helping them here, too"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2011, Afghan police officer Abdul Rahman was confronted by two American soldiers. Why? Well, he liked children.<\/p>\n

Especially when they were chained to his bed.<\/p>\n

There were reports Rahman had abducted a boy, tied him to a bed, and repeatedly raped him. It wasn\u2019t the first such allegation, and the boy\u2019s mom believed Rahman would come for her son again.<\/p>\n

Rahman was questioned over the mother\u2019s story, and he admitted it was true. When the Americans expressed their disapproval, Rahman responded by laughing. This didn\u2019t go over well.<\/p>\n

Cpt. Dan Quinn threw Rahman to the ground and reconveyed the message physically; Sgt. Charles Martland gave him a hand. Although Rahman\u2019s injuries weren\u2019t serious, there were lasting repercussions–for Quinn and Martland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quinn was relieved of his command while Martland is now being forced out of the military.\u00a0Despite Rahman being a US funded police official, it seems Quinn and Martland had no authority to confront him. In a recent New York Times<\/em> article<\/a>, military spokesman Col. Brian Tribus was quoted as saying that \u201callegations of child sexual abuse by Afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic Afghan criminal law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Rahman wasn\u2019t unique. In the same article, Quinn recalled how he reported another police officer for raping a 14 year-old girl. The consequences? \u201cHe got one day in jail, and then she was forced to marry him.\u201d Quinn claims that \u201cwe were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did \u2014 that was something village elders voiced to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The policy of ignoring sexual violence wasn\u2019t just callous towards Afghan children–it also cost American lives. In 2012, Marine Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. voiced concerns<\/a> that a group of teens were being kept on base as sex slaves by an Afghan commander. He told his father, \u201cAt night we can hear them screaming, but we\u2019re not allowed to do anything about it.\u201d Buckley died shortly thereafter, along with two other Marines. They were killed by a teen who managed to get his hands on a gun and opened fire. According to Buckley\u2019s father, \u201cMy son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it\u2019s their culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

That the US government would turn a blind eye to rapists in Afghanistan is appalling, but not unprecedented. After all, it\u2019s done the same thing in this country for years; it even funds a group that helps them stay out of jail.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood is America\u2019s largest abortion chain<\/u><\/a>, performing over three hundred thousand every year. It also receives over half a billion<\/span><\/u><\/a> dollars\u00a0in annual\u00a0public funding. While this money isn\u2019t supposed to pay for abortions,\u00a0the meme below illustrates how well that rule works out.<\/p>\n

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And not only does Planned Parenthood perform plenty of abortions, it isn\u2019t picky about who they\u2019re done on, either. That\u2019s good news for sexual predators, something a recent report<\/a> from Alliance Defending Freedom documents.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0multiple\u00a0cases, Planned Parenthood has helped sex offenders destroy the evidence of their crimes. It helped\u00a0Gary Cross<\/u><\/a>; the California man brought his 13 year-old stepdaughter there after getting her pregnant. Despite being well below the age of consent, clinic staff didn’t alert authorities. Instead, they referred the girl for a late-term abortion. With the evidence gone, Cross was free to keep raping her.<\/p>\n

Timothy Smith<\/u><\/a>\u00a0also brought his stepdaughter to Planned Parenthood for a cover-up abortion.\u00a0John Blanks, Jr.<\/span><\/u><\/a>, Adam Gault<\/u><\/a>, Joseph Coles<\/a>, Kevon Walker<\/a>, and Edgar Ramirez<\/a> did the same with their victims, too.<\/p>\n

Denise Fairbanks recounted in a lawsuit<\/u><\/a>\u00a0how she explicitly told\u00a0 <\/em>Planned Parenthood clinic staff that she had been brought in by her incestuous father.\u00a0Instead of calling police, they performed an abortion and turned her back over to him.<\/p>\n

Undercover investigations by Live Action have\u00a0documented the same attitude<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>In 2008, Live Action founder Lila Rose\u00a0told staff at a Memphis Planned Parenthood facility that she was fourteen and pregnant via her\u00a0thirty one year-old\u00a0boyfriend. Rather than report the abuse, a counselor\u00a0instructed Rose to lie about her boyfriend’s age when seeking an abortion. Visits to other Planned Parenthood centers produced similar results.<\/p>\n