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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Ohio rape shows how story can spread faster than facts

2022 Barbara J. Perenic/The Columbus Dispatch/USA Today Network

It took only four paragraphs in a regional newspaper to ignite a media conflagration over abortion that in two weeks engulfed President Joe Biden, the partisan press and some of the country's top news organizations.

In the center of it all: a 10-year-old rape victim, identity unknown, suddenly thrown into a political fight on one of the country's most contentious issues.

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