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sl8

(16,252 posts)
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 09:43 AM Feb 2020

An 11-year-old girl gave birth at home. Her St. Charles relative is charged with child endangerment

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From https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/an--year-old-girl-gave-birth-at-home-her/article_f7c55aef-34f4-526a-a43a-755e34bcd5e7.html

An 11-year-old girl gave birth at home. Her St. Charles relative is charged with child endangerment

By Joel Currier
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Feb 19, 2020

ST. CHARLES — A St. Charles woman was charged Tuesday with child endangerment after police say she failed to provide medical care to an 11-year-old relative who gave birth at home after the girl had been raped by a teenager.

Lesbia Cante, 35, was charged with one felony count of child endangerment.

A teenager, Norvin L. Lopez-Cante, 17, was charged last week with statutory rape and statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12. Lopez-Cante admitted sexually assaulting the girl approximately 100 times, according to charging documents.

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An 11-year-old girl gave birth at home. Her St. Charles relative is charged with child endangerment (Original Post) sl8 Feb 2020 OP
Oh, thank goodness the Heartland has those family values! sinkingfeeling Feb 2020 #1
Reading this made me sick ... CatMor Feb 2020 #2
So 12 years old is ok in Missouri? Merlot Feb 2020 #3
I'm guessing this a harsher penalty than for those between 13 and 17. Lucky Luciano Feb 2020 #4
That doesn't appear to be the case. Link to Missouri law: sl8 Feb 2020 #5

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
2. Reading this made me sick ...
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 10:03 AM
Feb 2020

I hope the rapist gets locked up for a long time. Also the woman relative for covering up the crime.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
3. So 12 years old is ok in Missouri?
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 10:22 AM
Feb 2020

The law states "statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12"

Missouri, fix your laws.

Lucky Luciano

(11,472 posts)
4. I'm guessing this a harsher penalty than for those between 13 and 17.
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 10:38 AM
Feb 2020

Also, I wonder if it could be because the rapist was also a minor.

sl8

(16,252 posts)
5. That doesn't appear to be the case. Link to Missouri law:
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 10:48 AM
Feb 2020

Missouri statutes on rape, sodomy, child molestation, etc.:

https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapter.aspx?chapter=566

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