Did the pediatrician suspect pregnancy when advising the child go to the hospital? The news item is not clear on that. If the pediatrician did suspect pregnancy, shouldn't the doctor call police or CPS just to be careful? Or did grandma cover her ass by saying the girl might be pregnant by another youngster. After all that happens too, and no one goes to jail over kids getting each pregnant.
Damn, this is so sad and messed up for that girl and now her baby.
O.K. Laws vary by state and overall, are hinky /vague as all get out on healthcare providers who are Mandatory Reporters. Historically, the courts have ruled either for or against Sexual Assault, Rape, etc., based on the age difference between the pregnant child/teen and the biological father. I checked out case law on six different states and when these cases have been tried, the judgments vary greatly. There is nothing specific/concrete on whether or not a healthcare provider would be required to report a pregnancy or the result of obvious sexual activity to the state solely because the child has been sexually active or is pregnant.
That said, if the doc did suspect pregnancy (which we don't know yet), s/he may or may not have stated it, choosing instead to let the hospital figure out if it was a pregnancy, tumor, upper or lower G.I. issue or some other condition - IOW, they may have willfully chosen to pass the buck.
But, even though I can't find any specific case law that *requires* a doc to report suspected/actual sexual activity in a pre-teen/teen, if they DID suspect it, they
*certainly* could have reported it under the general Wisconsin State Sexual Assault and Sexual Consent Statute which states:
"Consent - with regard to sexual assault, means words or overt actions by a person who is competent to give informed consent indicating a freely given agreement to have sexual intercourse or sexual contact, Wis. Stat. sec. 940.225(4). In addition, a 1983 Attorney General’s opinion concludes consent is not an issue for sexual contact involving children under the age of 16 years. Specifically, “Since sexual contact or intercourse with any child under the age of sixteen years is a sexual assault, regardless of whether consent was given, section 940.225(1)(d), (2)(e) and (4), all sexual conduct involving children in that age group must be reported,” Ref. 72 Atty. Gen. 93."
One UA and this disgusting lump up of shit would have been busted a helleva lot sooner than when that child was 7 mos. pregnant.
And this is what her subhuman bitch of a grandmother CAN be charged with, if nothing else - she may deny knowledge, but she can still be charged:
"FAILURE TO ACT. A person responsible for the welfare of a child who has not attained the age of 16 years is guilty of a Class F felony if that person has knowledge that another person intends to have, is having or has had sexual intercourse or sexual contact with the child, is physically and emotionally capable of taking action which will prevent the intercourse or contact from taking place or being repeated, fails to take that action and the failure to act exposes the child to an unreasonable risk that intercourse or contact may occur between the child and the other
person or facilitates the intercourse or contact that does occur between the child and the other person."
That poor baby doesn't sound like she has a snowball's chance in hell of having anyone sane enough in her life to take care of HER, let alone a brand new baby. This shit is so FUBAR and so heart-breaking on so many levels it literally makes me sick.