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Related: About this forumAn 11-year-old girl gave birth at home. Her St. Charles relative is charged with child endangerment
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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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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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sl8
Feb 2020
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sinkingfeeling
(53,174 posts)1. Oh, thank goodness the Heartland has those family values!
CatMor
(6,212 posts)2. Reading this made me sick ...
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?
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.
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:
Missouri statutes on rape, sodomy, child molestation, etc.:
https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapter.aspx?chapter=566