Bombshell: Houston Grand Jury Never Voted on Planned Parenthood Charges
January 27, 2016
Same Assistant District Attorney
that failed to indict another abortionist in 2013 also directed the
grand jury that indicted Daleiden and Merritt.
Houston, TX - Operation Rescue has learned new information, some published in a report today by the Associate Press, which indicates the grand jury indictments
against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were likely in retaliation
against Operation Rescue for filing a complaint against Houston
abortionist Douglas Karpen, which led to a grand jury investigation of
him in 2013.
Josh Schaffer, attorney for Planned
Parenthood, informed the news organization that "the grand jury never
even voted on possible criminal charges" against Planned Parenthood,
according to the AP report.
"No
vote means no investigation," said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Vice
President of Operation Rescue. "The people are entitled to an unbiased
investigation into the serious allegations of illegal conduct by Planned
Parenthood. That does not appear to have happened."
Based on Operation Rescue's 2013 complaint, a grand jury investigated allegations that Houston abortionist Douglas Karpen
had murdered babies born alive during shoddy abortions by twisting
their heads nearly off their bodies. Photographic evidence supported
those allegations.
Chip Lewis, Karpen's attorney,
falsely accused Operation Rescue of paying three former Karpen employees
to testify against him and of "doctoring" grisly photographs of babies
Karpen had allegedly murdered, according to witnesses. Lewis threatened
Operation Rescue after no true bill was returned against Karpen. Lewis
told the Houston Chronicle,
"Those responsible for bringing these wholly unfounded allegations
against Dr. Karpen will be held responsible for their crimes." He
further threatened an investigation of Operation Rescue, which never
materialized.
Lewis has tight connections to District
Attorney Devon Anderson. He is a long time personal friend of hers and
her now deceased husband, former D.A. Mike Anderson, and is the largest
political donor to the Anderson family. It could be assumed that
Anderson owes Lewis for his friendship and political favors.
Lewis
told the AP that after the Karpen grand jury, he helped "soften the
fallout" for Anderson in "Republican circles" by telling them falsehoods
about Operation Rescue, who he wrongly accused of paying witnesses to
testify against Karpen.
The AP article also noted that
the same female Assistant District Attorney that handled the Karpen
investigation also directed the grand jury that indicted Daleiden and
Merritt.
Of that prosecutor, Lewis said, "I don't think she
forgot what she uncovered," referring to bogus allegations against
Operation Rescue during the Karpen grand jury.
Her
bias, based at least in part on Lewis' falsehoods, likely tainted the
grand jury process, turning it against Daleiden because of his
association with Newman.
Because the grand jury was contaminated by bias, Operation Rescue is calling for three specific remedies:
1. Drop all charges against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt or
appoint a special prosecutor that is in no way affiliated with Devon
Anderson, the Harris County District Attorney's office or Chip Lewis.
2. Empanel a new, untainted grand jury to investigate Planned
Parenthood criminality under the direction of a separate special
prosecutor also unaffiliated with Devon Anderson, the Harris County
District Attorney's office or Chip Lewis.
3. Reopen the murder investigation against Douglas Karpen, with a
new grand jury directed by another special prosecutor who is not
affiliated with Devon Anderson, the Harris County District Attorney's
office or Chip Lewis.
"Anderson said that she would let the evidence take her where
it would, and we say the evidence reveals an agenda in the District
Attorney's office, under the influence of Chip Lewis, to get even with
pro-life whistleblowers who have reported evidence against abortion
providers of serious crimes, including murder," said Sullenger. "In
order for there to be justice, we need to stop dipping from a poisoned
well and seek unbiased people to push forward with investigations
against the real culprits."
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