Contact: Troy Newman, President, 316-841-1700; Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor, 316-516-3034; both with Operation Rescue, info.operationrescue@gmail.com 

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 21, 2015 /Christian Newswire/ -- Operation Rescue has received credible new evidence, apparently leaked from an inside source, that criminal conduct may have been involved in the abortion-related death of Lakisha Wilson at Preterm, a Cleveland, Ohio, abortion facility last year. 

Operation Rescue has joined once again with other state and national pro-life leaders in calling for a criminal investigation and the closure of the abortion clinic.

"The credibility of the evidence is beyond reproach," said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue. "It was unsolicited evidence provided to me by an unknown source who obviously wants the truth to come out. Once this information came to our attention, it was our duty to report it to the County Prosecutor."

A letter of complaint was sent to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty on January 16, 2015, calling for a criminal investigation and prosecution based on the new evidence. Signers of the letter included:

• Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue
   
• Day Gardner, National Black Pro-Life Union
   
• Denise Leipold, Right to Life of Northeast Ohio
   
• Molly Smith, Cleveland Right to Life
   
• Denver Sallee, Lake County Right to Life
   
• Pastor Walter Moss, National Black Pro-Life Coalition

The groups are calling for an immediate cessation of abortions at Preterm pending the outcome of the criminal investigation.

Copies to the letter were sent to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Attorney General Mike DeWine, and Executive Director of the Ohio Department of Health Richard Hodges.

The letter focused on two allegations supported by documentation now in the possession of Operation Rescue:

• Criminal negligence, related to a small and repeatedly malfunctioning elevator at Preterm, which delayed emergency access and treatment to Ms. Wilson.
   
• Illegal abortion, related to evidence that Ms. Wilson's pregnancy was well beyond Ohio's 20 week limit and that Preterm abortionist Lisa Perriera conducted no viability testing as required by law.

"The size and unreliability of Preterm's elevator was unquestionably responsible for delaying emergency care to Lakisha Wilson when every moment meant the difference between life and death," said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. "In addition, there is evidence that there was manipulation of ultrasound results to make it wrongly appear that Ms. Wilson's abortion was legal."

Due to the sensitivity of the evidence that supports the complaint, Operation Rescue will only release it to designated law enforcement officials.

Additional details regarding the complaint are available at OperationRescue.org.

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