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It is a tale of horror, depravity and death. It is told by a child.
She says she was raped for the first time at age 7, in the back seat of a car parked at the top of a hill in Florida. She remembers watching Christmas lights twinkling in the houses below. When she was 8 years old, the rapist, her mother's husband, promised to stop. But he didn't.
In a house near the East Lake Country Club where doors were bolted and windows were nailed shut, the abuse grew worse, the girl says. She says she was forced into sex acts in front of her mother, some even with her mother.
On the day before her 11th birthday, she learned she was pregnant. The horror was just beginning. She says her rapist stomped on her stomach and tied belts around her. Still, she delivered a baby boy Oct. 18, 2002. She named him Kevin.
The rapist wouldn't take him to the hospital, the girl says, and Kevin died within a few hours. She saw the little body dressed in blue and yellow doll clothes and then taped up in a box. And she never saw him again.
It was almost a year, prosecutors say, before the girl told anyone except her mother, Sheila Hearns, described by a prosecutor as "borderline retarded." A defense lawyer in one hearing suggested that Hearns, despite being in her mid-30's, might be "very easily led." She is certain to be questioned closely about why she didn't go to the police.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/met...N_NUObNVUbTTUWUXUTUZTZU]UWUbUcUZU]UbUcTYWYWZV
She says she was raped for the first time at age 7, in the back seat of a car parked at the top of a hill in Florida. She remembers watching Christmas lights twinkling in the houses below. When she was 8 years old, the rapist, her mother's husband, promised to stop. But he didn't.
In a house near the East Lake Country Club where doors were bolted and windows were nailed shut, the abuse grew worse, the girl says. She says she was forced into sex acts in front of her mother, some even with her mother.
On the day before her 11th birthday, she learned she was pregnant. The horror was just beginning. She says her rapist stomped on her stomach and tied belts around her. Still, she delivered a baby boy Oct. 18, 2002. She named him Kevin.
The rapist wouldn't take him to the hospital, the girl says, and Kevin died within a few hours. She saw the little body dressed in blue and yellow doll clothes and then taped up in a box. And she never saw him again.
It was almost a year, prosecutors say, before the girl told anyone except her mother, Sheila Hearns, described by a prosecutor as "borderline retarded." A defense lawyer in one hearing suggested that Hearns, despite being in her mid-30's, might be "very easily led." She is certain to be questioned closely about why she didn't go to the police.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/met...N_NUObNVUbTTUWUXUTUZTZU]UWUbUcUZU]UbUcTYWYWZV