NC - Man fathers infant with daughter whom he had been sexually abusing since she was 13-years old - Erwin, May 2024

[Clearsky]

Erwin father and daughter charged with incest

An Erwin father and daughter were arrested and charged with incest on Dec. 18 after DNA tests reportedly showed the man had fathered his daughter’s infant son.

www.mydailyrecord.com

Erwin Police Department Detectives Charles Norris and Ethan Core have been interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence in the case since May 9, 2024. That’s the day police say Mackenzie Elizabeth Hicks, then 18, came to the station reporting her father, Julius Grant Jackson, had committed multiple sexual assaults on her since she was approximately 13 years old.

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<modsnip: By WS standards daughter is a victim and her image has been removed>

 

[killarney rose]

Why is she being charged with a crime? She is a victim.

 

[Twick]

Why is she being charged with a crime? She is a victim.

Because police in Erwin want to make sure reporting victims suffer? Can’t think of much else.

 

[Stunned]

Why is she being charged with a crime? She is a victim.

That part makes to sense. Why did this take so long?

 

[Ghostwheel]

Why is she being charged with a crime? She is a victim.

If I read the article correctly, it appears she had the opportunity to file charges when she was 18 years old (an adult), but did not. And there is evidence on a tablet that the relationship continued on a "consensual" basis after that, hence charges because she is an adult. How it will all play out is another matter. They may have charged her trying to get her to testify, IMO.

 

[SherryLock]

It appears that when the daughter was 18, she reported ongoing SA by her father from age 13. But then she declined to press charges. She later had a baby with her father and both she and her father were arrested for incest when she was 20 years old.

I was surprised that they arrested her. Of course, a victim doesn't stop being a victim just because they turn a certain age and there can be a complicated psychological component to it also, as is apparently going on here.

However, there's also the piece I found below to consider, which is pretty grim. I agree with @Ghostwheel that LE may be handling it this way to try to get her cooperation.

BBM
"In short, the odds that a newborn child who is the product of brother-sister or father-daughter incest will suffer an early death, a severe birth defect, or some mental deficiently approaches 50 percent."

The Problem With Incest

There is a good reason why sex with close relatives is taboo in nearly every human society.

www.psychologytoday.com

MOO

 

[killarney rose]

The abuse went on for so long that there has to be a psychological effect. Which is why IMO, she shouldn’t be prosecuted.

 

[thref23]

She shouldn't be prosecuted and she also should not have been arrested.

They can drop charges, and to some effect it won't matter. The arrest may still show on her criminal record, and for the rest of her life anybody Googling her name stands to come across her mug shot, in which case they will see that she was arrested for the crime of incest.

Even if it doesn't work like that, I imagine it will be a source of insecurity and a reminder of whatever happened.

I am sure her arrest was technically justifiable; it might also be technically justifiable to charge whoever was responsible for the arrest warrant, as an accessory to her father's crimes.

 

[SherryLock]

I can definitely understand LE wanting to put a stop to this mess, especially since there could be another child born, and that child is likely to have serious congenital defects (re the article below, which was also posted earlier in this thread).

However, I wonder why they couldn't achieve that same end just by locking the perpetrator father up, then using the earlier statements made by the victim daughter, along with the DNA proof, to prosecute him if the daughter doesn't want to testify. Arresting her does seem wrong, in my opinion.

The Problem With Incest

There is a good reason why sex with close relatives is taboo in nearly every human society.

www.psychologytoday.com

MOO

 

[Stunned]

Why wasn't he arrested when she first reported it?

 

[wendybtn]

Why wasn't he arrested when she first reported it?

Because she didn't want to press charges, ie, testify. Not uncommon.

 

[Stunned]

Because she didn't want to press charges, ie, testify. Not uncommon.

For incest? I didn't know LE could just ignore that!

 

[wendybtn]

For incest? I didn't know LE could just ignore that!

I believe she reported it as an adult, but laws are different from state to state.

 

[DS2021]

For incest? I didn't know LE could just ignore that!

Probably couldn't secure a conviction without her cooperation and testimony

 

[Gameman]

If I read the article correctly, it appears she had the opportunity to file charges when she was 18 years old (an adult), but did not. And there is evidence on a tablet that the relationship continued on a "consensual" basis after that, hence charges because she is an adult. How it will all play out is another matter. They may have charged her trying to get her to testify, IMO.

Thank you for making it make (some) sense. I really hope they didn't want to charge her and offered her to testify against him before resorting to this humiliating ordeal. My god, the whole thing is heartbreaking.