Judge rules Rokita violated law, but denies abortion care provider's request to halt...

A county judge ruled Friday that Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita violated state law, breaking confidentiality in his office’s investigation of Dr. Caitlin Bernard.

But the judge also denied Bernard’s request to put a halt to Rokita’s investigation.

Records show that Bernard filed the proper paperwork after providing an abortion to a 10-year-old Ohio girl and cooperated with authorities investigating her rape.

But Attorney General Todd Rokita went on cable television, accused Bernard of breaking the law without any evidence and threatened to revoke her medical license.

Since then, Rokita’s office launched an investigation of Bernard based, he said, on consumer complaints.

Bernard sued Rokita, seeking to stop his investigation from continuing and block his office from accessing medical records of her patient, which they had requested.

Marion County Judge Heather Welch ruled that Rokita broke the law by publicly discussing the investigation before his office filed an official complaint with the Indiana Medical Licensing Board.