Bail tripled for jigaboo accused of impregnating 11-year-old girl

[Black Blight]

A judge on Thursday tripled the bail for a 21-year-old man who
prosecutors said raped and impregnated an 11-year-old.

Deandre Devon Davis-Williams is charged with continuous sexual
abuse of a child. State District Judge Brock Thomas raised the
bail for Davis-Williams to $150,000 from $50,000. He was being
held Thursday at the Harris County Jail, court records show.

The girl gave birth on Thursday to a healthy baby, according to
the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

Almost every day for seven months, authorities said, Davis-
Williams raped the girl, a neighbor, when she got home from
school.

She told police that Davis-Williams began coming to her
apartment last summer through a back door while her mother was
at work at two jobs, according to a criminal complaint filed in
the case.

Davis-Williams lives in the same apartment complex as the girl,
said DA's spokeswoman Sara Marie Kinney.

Prosecutors said he attacked the girl from June 1, 2012, to Jan.
1.

School officials called the girl's mother to say they believed
she was pregnant, according to the complaint.

A doctor's visit in January determined that the child was seven
months pregnant, according to prosecutors.

'Extra sick'

Kinney said it's not a foregone conclusion that the mother would
know her daughter was pregnant.

"It's not a normal pregnancy because it's an 11-year-old with an
underdeveloped body," she said. "Not only that, but if you have
a kid and she's gaining weight or she doesn't feel good, she's
11, so you don't even go there in your mind."

Kinney said higher-level offenses that involve the continuous
sexual assault of a child "are far and few between than just the
average sexual assault. You have these bad guys out there, but
this one is extra sick."

Davis-Williams did not enter a plea at the court appearance on
Thursday. The judge appointed Joe Owmby as defense attorney.

Estella Olguin, spokeswoman at Texas Child Protective Services,
would neither confirm nor deny whether CPS was involved in the
case. She said sexual assaults of young girls are not uncommon,
although most victims do not become pregnant.

"In many cases like this, the victims usually know their
perpetrators, who have easy access of contact with the victims
without it being suspicious to anyone," she said. "In many
cases, the victims know them, love them and trust them. They
gain their trust, and then have them keep the secret."

Effects on child

Dr. Adrienne Tinder, staff psychologist at DePelchin Children's
Center, said the center is not involved in the girl's case, but
she offered insight into the effect that such cases can have on
families.

"This kind of experience can be traumatic and have a ripple
effect in families, the extent of which is sometimes not
understood for years," Tinder stated in an email. "When
traumatic events like this happen early in childhood,
particularly while a child is still developing a sense of self
and their sense of the world, there can be great impact on both
cognitive and emotional development."

"Sexual activity and/or a birth of a child where the mother
herself is still a developing child can lead to long-term
difficulties and challenges in forming a healthy identity and
relationships," Tinder said.

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