{"id":64494,"date":"2015-06-03T18:57:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T22:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=64494"},"modified":"2015-06-03T18:57:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T22:57:39","slug":"rape-victims-family-beats-kicks-force-abortion-8-month-old-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rape-victims-family-beats-kicks-force-abortion-8-month-old-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape victim&#8217;s family beats and kicks her to force abortion of 8-month-old baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In a tale so gruesome it&#8217;s hard to digest, <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeblog.dallasnews.com\/2015\/06\/dallas-police-four-charged-with-beating-14-year-old-family-member-to-abort-unborn-child.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Dallas Morning News revealed <\/a>that after a 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a family member and became pregnant, family members reportedly gave her multiple doses of birth control pills, Plan B, and\u00a0cinnamon to induce an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>When that failed, they brutally beat her for six hours to induce abortion, stopping only when the girl was bleeding heavily.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Two hours later, the victim delivered an eight-month-old stillborn baby. The family then tried &#8220;to cover up the crime by burning the stillborn baby\u00a0on a charcoal grill.&#8221; The forced abortion by the family is garnering national headlines and horror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Morning\u00a0News<a href=\"http:\/\/crimeblog.dallasnews.com\/2015\/06\/dallas-police-four-charged-with-beating-14-year-old-family-member-to-abort-unborn-child.html\/\" target=\"_blank\"> reports<\/a> that the girl was allegedly raped by a family member in August 2012, and her family found out she was pregnant in early 2013. Their motive, they say, was fear that Child Protective Services (CPS) would remove children from their home if CPS found out about the sexual assault. In one of the most tragic displays of irony imaginable, the family then tried to remove the preborn child from the girl by beating and assaulting her.<\/p>\n<p>The family members involved in the brutal assault and forced abortion of the girl are in jail with bail set at $150,000, except for the man accused of raping her, who was arrested Wednesday. The paper reports that 22-year-old Robert Joseph Cayald is only being held on $25,000 bail. The horrific crimes and the low bail amounts are causing outrage among many commenters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BGQmp6dw0B4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dallas Morning News reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Police said the girl\u2019s relatives\u00a0found out between January and March 2013 that she was pregnant\u00a0and &#8216;became very nervous and were concerned about \u2026 [Child Protective Services]\u00a0removing children from the residence,&#8217; the affidavit says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After\u00a0the pills failed to\u00a0induce an abortion,\u00a0Cecila McDonald pinned the girl down while Lonnell McDonald began &#8216;repeatedly bouncing up and down&#8217; while sitting on the girl\u2019s abdomen. He also is accused of kicking the girl repeatedly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The attack didn\u2019t stop until the girl began\u00a0bleeding\u00a0heavily. She said the baby was\u00a0stillborn about two hours later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The relatives tried to burn the baby\u2019s body in a charcoal grill, but the remains were not destroyed, the affidavit says. Two days later, Sharon Jones paid\u00a0Cedric $25 to &#8216;take care of the rest of it,&#8217; and the remains were disposed of in a plastic bag at an unknown location.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The family never sought medical care for the girl but gave her iron pills because of her blood loss.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The officer giving a press briefing is visibly grieved as he reports the facts. After the briefing, he commends the victim for her bravery for reporting &#8220;this unbelievable crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crimeblog.dallasnews.com\/2015\/06\/dallas-police-four-charged-with-beating-14-year-old-family-member-to-abort-unborn-child.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">Readers didn&#8217;t mince words on this horror<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Why are these savages not being charged with murder?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Regarding the precious teen who was beaten so that she would abort a baby is barbaric. Only foreign countries were the only ones I thought who had such barbaric ways. None of the five people should ever be able to be free on the streets ever again. They committed murder, they took that baby&#8217;s life and tried to kill the mother. &#8221;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;These low life thugs burned an 8th month old baby in a charcoal grill after \u00a0beating a 14 year old girl for six hours so that baby would die and the bail is only $150,000? \u00a0Something is very wrong here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;This is the most Horrible thing I have ever read in my entire life. I almost wish I didn&#8217;t read it. Such a TRAGEDY. \u00a0That poor Poor girl and her innocent baby. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly correct to say that this baby was murdered, despite the reality\u00a0that in the United States, there are places where\u00a0the victim\u00a0could have had a legal abortion. A forced abortion by brutal assault killed a baby and stole the innocence of a young girl a second time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The girl, now 16, was taken into protective custody, along with\u00a0the other children in the household, including the victim&#8217;s brother, 15, and sister,14, and the four children of another family member who was charged in the assault. Those children range from ages three to nine.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a tale so gruesome it&#8217;s hard to digest, The Dallas Morning News revealed that after a 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a family member and became pregnant, family members reportedly gave her multiple doses of birth control pills, Plan B, and\u00a0cinnamon to induce an abortion. 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