{"id":217831,"date":"2020-02-04T11:29:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=217831"},"modified":"2020-02-03T23:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:27:54","slug":"years-father-sexually-abused-killing-preborn-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/years-father-sexually-abused-killing-preborn-child\/","title":{"rendered":"For years her father sexually abused her. She wants him convicted for killing her preborn child."},"content":{"rendered":"
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At age six, Shannon Clifton’s father Shane Clifton began beating and raping her. She told the BBC<\/a> that the abuse went on for eight years and she became pregnant three times. Clifton is currently in prison for raping her, but Shannon believes he should also face a conviction and jail time for killing her preborn baby.<\/p>\n

Now 19, Shannon first became pregnant at age 11. When Clifton realized she was pregnant, he beat her unconscious in an attempt to kill the preborn child. It worked, and the baby died. Shannon told the BBC that he may have buried the baby’s remains in the garden of their home because a neighbor reported seeing him digging a hole.<\/p>\n

“He basically beat me to the point where I didn’t have a baby inside me anymore. […] I lost my baby and I almost died myself,” she explained. “He didn’t want the baby. In his eyes he was lucky he had got rid of it and he could carry on with the life he was living and what he was doing to me.”<\/p>\n

Shannon became pregnant again at age 12 and had a miscarriage. At age 13, she discovered she was pregnant for the third time. The nurse at school became suspicious, however, and told Shannon to take a pregnancy test, but she didn’t. Her father, realizing his crimes were about to become known took her and ran. Police searched for them for six days.<\/p>\n

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