A 13-year-old girl who was raped by her brother suffered a late-stage miscarriage when family members decided to abort the baby by stomping on her protruded stomach.
As reported by the SUN, the rape victim’s relations did not stop at that. As the baby was aborted, they attempted to cover their crime by trying to burn the stillborn on a grill.
The victim, who is now 19, was eight months pregnant when she was battered by aunt Sharon Jones, 47, her daughter Cecilia McDonald, 28, and her son Cedric Jones Jr, 29.
She had been sent to live with McDonald and brother Robert Cayald in Dallas, Texas, with a younger sister where she was raped.
Terrified that her three young children would be taken away from her if social services discovered that the victim was pregnant, McDonald tried to force an abortion using birth control pills and cinnamon tablets.
When her plan failed, McDonald, Cayald and a man who was squatting in their house, Lonnell McDonald, held the teen down and took turns to stomp on her stomach, Dallas Morning News reports.
During the brutal attack, Cecila McDonald yelled at the teen: “B***h, you ain’t about to get my kids taken away from me!”
She was left bleeding in a bathtub, while the family placed the stillborn baby in a bucket and tried burning the remains on a grill.
When they were unsuccessful, Sharon Jones gave her son $25 to dispose of the body, which has never been found.
Prosecutor Rachel Burris told the court: “They held her down. They forced her to lay there while people stomped her.”
Sharon Jones was jailed for 12 years, Cecila McDonald for seven years and Cedric Jones was sentenced to five years in prison after admitting family violence and aggravated assault.
Defence attorneys had argued that the attack was a small blip on an otherwise clean record, and said the family were part of Bible studies and should be given leniency.
But Ms Burris said: “Most people would treat strangers better. Yet these people did it to someone they promised to love.”
Cayald has been charged with aggravated sexual assault but was found incompetent to stand trial last year and his case is pending.
Source: SUN
