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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours ago

Mom who forced 11-year-old to give birth at home with 'no medical care' gets max sentence

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Mom who forced 11-year-old to give birth at home with 'no medical care' gets max sentence

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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours ago
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Cherie Walker will spend the rest of her life behind bars for letting her husband impregnate her 11-year-old daughter, whom they forced to give birth without medical care.
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    This entire article and some clarifications in the comments make me feel sick. This entire story is fucked up and i wish I hadn’t read it. Poor child is traumatised for life

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      Sadder still, society will expect her get over it and carry on. Society doesn’t understand that there’s no “normal” for her any more.

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    (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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    Why was an 11 year old pregnant?

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I haven’t read the article, but I bet it’s in the South

      banjos approaching

      Edit: banjos confirmed

      Muskogee County, Oklahoma

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Biblical values

    • Kirp123@lemmy.world
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      Because the woman’s pedophile husband impregnated her.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        Because the PEDOPHILE’S pedophile husband impregnated her.

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      when a dad and a daughter love each other very much…

      • CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social
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        I don’t mind dark humor but you’ll find that love has nothing to do with any of this

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    Jesus, that’s a bad headline. She wasn’t sentenced for the home birth; she was sentenced for her part and cover-up of her husband raping and impregnating their daughter. The lack of proper medical care is just part of the cover-up.

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      every conservative is like this. this is the world they want. this is their utopia.

      • DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org
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        This is why they want homeschooling, much easier to abuse children away from prying eyes

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    Things I wish I could unread.

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    A 34-year-old Oklahoma mother will spend the rest of her life behind bars for allowing her husband to impregnate her 11-year-old daughter, then forcing the child to give birth at home without any medical care.

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      That’s not even the worst thing said in that article:

      “This child is traumatized. She’s been through a horrific ordeal,” [Assistant District Attorney Janet] Hutson previously said in an interview with Tulsa CBS affiliate KOTV. “Not only has somebody gotten her pregnant, but she gave birth at home without medical assistance, and this will be her life for the rest of her life.”

      “This will be her life for the rest of her life”??? I know it’s the job of the prosecutor to frame things in the worst way, but fuck everything about that. Whoever is left of her family needs to do everything they can to try to help her get past this trauma. And that baby is not her responsibility, either, and never will be.

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      i thought the post title was bad enough… but daaaaaaamn. they sure do go the extra mile.

      • eatshitforeverbutinaniceway@quokk.au
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        Christian culture, baby!

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          You can even have an alternate exclamation by dropping the comma

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      “Brotherson” is a word I had never expected to learn, and in retrospect one I had hoped to never know.

      Edit: The article is vague, so I suppose “sisterdaughter” is another word I can add to the list of words I don’t want to think about.

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        It’s probably more likely he was a stepfather. The article is very ambiguous

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          https://lawandcrime.com/crime/stepdad-who-forced-11-year-old-to-have-baby-at-home-without-medical-care-learns-his-fate/

          So at least it’s not actual incest I guess?

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        I wonder if the authors in the USA in around 20 years or so will be casually mentioning brothersons like it’s perfectly normal.

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          Christians love this shit

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        Pretty sure I learned it from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwA1VeYpvaM and I’m from the next state over.

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      What the actual fuck

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        In-fucking-deed.

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        a ten year old the actual fuck. did you not read the Bible?

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      to hide the pregnancy of incestual rape course.

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        That’s what she gets for having sex with my man.

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    This headline made my eyes want to punch my brain in the throat for being made to read it.

  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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    So this child rapist gets life in prison, but the one doing it at scale gets… the Presidency.

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      He’s not rich enough for that playground.

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      “kill a man you are a murderer but kill 10k and its a statistic” vibes

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    Such a difference between this and Epstein, while the subject of sexual abuse of minors is roughly the same. I guess the lesson is, if you’re gonna rape and pillage, first be filthy rich.

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      Always has been.

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    Oh gosh oh gee, I wonder who they voted for?

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      Really? Come on. That’s quite a stretch you’re making here - really grasping at straws to assume they might have voted for anyone other than Trump. The nerve.

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        Had me in the first half…

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        No it can be just non political where the republican is too moderate so they don’t vote or only vote for a random third party. There are plenty of hard right people that don’t vote especially in deep red or non competitive areas.

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    Seems like there’s often a Maxwell when you find an Epstein.

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      I think this mainly comes down to the fact that abusive and manipulative men like this actively seek out women who will do what they say and enable their predatory behaviors.

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    Mom goes to jail, father gets a seat in Trump’s cabinet.

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      That’s for the rich pedophiles

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      He got 87 years, a life sentence plus 42 years, consecutively. His life sentence won’t even begin until he’s been in prison for 42 years.

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      Article says he was sentenced to life+42 years before her. Good thing Trump’s got pardon powers, huh? 🤮

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        Presidential pardons can’t touch state-level convictions, only federal. That said, there’s nothing stopping the Oklahoma governor from issuing a pardon…

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          It wouldn’t be the first time Trump has leaned on a governor to pardon someone. That said, this is surely low even for him… Right?

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    Just another reason to make home “schooling” illegal. It enables abuse on so many levels.

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      You want to home school? No problem. Just need to make sure your home is up to the same standards as regular school.

      • Teacher with a master’s degree (depending on state)
      • ADA compliant with wheelchair access (so the inspectors can get in if they’re in a wheelchair of course!)
      • Kid still needs to take the same standardized exams as every other kid at the school.
      • Everyone in the home has to be up to date on vaccinations.
      • Everyone in the home must undergo a thorough background check.
      • Regular welfare visits since the child can’t be regularly observed by state employees five days a week.
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        you really only need the testing and education requirements for the teacher, everything else costs too damn much.

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        That would still missing the key issue here: regular contact with children of the same age group.

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        i grew up homeschooled with extreme abuse, and have been saying this for years. i have gotten a surprising amount of pushback for it, even by friends who i consider progressive. it’s strange

        oh, and the adult administering the curriculum must be licensed to teach in that state and keep up with licensing. (my mom had the equivalent of a self taught 3rd grade level education)

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        They’d scream and cry that you’re trampling their rights. Though I absolutely agree with you.

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        Good luck getting any of that done if they claim they’re a “religious teaching institution.”

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          Like that pos nazi home schooling cult Americans have. I cant believe this is real life.

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          put that damn wall back up. they get sundays, real school gets monday through friday.

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    Jesus Christ Oklahoma

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    Yeah, the story isn’t about a mother giving shitty medical care to her daughter. It’s about how she got pregnant in the first place…

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