American Conservative has thinky thoughts on Hadley Duvalls rapes & pregnancy

Source-"https://www.theamericanconservative.com/abortion-doesnt-solve-the-problem-of-rape/

**infuriating to read**

snip-"At 12 years old, under the watchful eye of her abusive step-father Jeremy Whitledge, Duvall took her first pregnancy test after a delayed menstrual cycle. The test was positive. Whitledge urged the young girl to either frame the neighbor boy, or he would drive her to Louisville to get an abortion. At the time, Duvall said, she didn’t even know what an abortion was. Two weeks later, she miscarried, something she also didn’t understand until later. The whole incident remained hidden, while Whitledge continued to abuse Duvall for another two years."

snip-"The world boasts many sick men. Those who seek to protect the weak from slaughter by the strong are not among them. One horror does not justify another in the premeditated murder of an unborn child. There is a solution to wicked men who abuse their step-daughters, and it is not to obliterate another human being."

snip-"Indeed, legal protection for the unborn child serves to heighten the seriousness of Whitledge’s crime, in the eyes of both the law and public opinion. This has the effect of preventing others from committing the same crime. Had Duvall’s baby survived, he could have furnished irrefutable proof of the rapist’s wrongdoing by way of a DNA test; if the child’s rights were recognized regardless of his birth status, Whitledge’s insistence on an abortion would be another strike against the abuser."

snip-"Duvall’s tragedy cannot be overstated, and should not be dismissed. It should also not be reduced to those crimes which are politically correct to hate. Duvall’s convicted step-father, who is now serving 20 years in prison, forced her to endure something most of us cannot begin to imagine. Then, when his abominable behavior threatened to bear out living and breathing evidence to condemn him, he demanded that his victim commit a murder to cover up his crime."

more there.


Second local article 2017


source-"https://www.thegleaner.com/story/news/2017/06/14/owensboro-man-accused-sexually-assaulting-child-among-those-indicted-henderson-county-grand-jury/102839464/


Title-Owensboro man accused of sexually assaulting a child among those indicted by a Henderson County grand jury


snip-"An Owensboro man accused of sexually assaulting a child is among 36 people indicted this week by a Henderson County grand jury.

Jeremy W. Whitledge, 41, was indicted on charges of incest, first-degree sodomy, first-degree rape and first-degree sexual abuse (all with a victim under the age of 12) and first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor (victim under 16)."

Mug shot there
no more on Whitledge in this article.