'She had no medical care': 11-year-old forced to give birth at home without doctors, parents claim they didn't know she was pregnant

A parent and stepfather successful Oklahoma person been arrested for allegedly allowing their 11-year-old girl to get pregnant and springiness commencement wrong of their household location with nary aesculapian unit present.

Dustin Walker and Cherie Walker were both taken into custody this week and charged with 1 number each of felony kid neglect.

The unfortunate is the oldest of six children who lived successful the location with the Walkers but person since been removed, Tulsa NBC affiliate KJRH reported.

While authorities person not released galore details astir the circumstances surrounding the child's pregnancy, a newsman astatine the presumption spoke to the victim's grandma astir the ordeal, who denied that the household knew thing was amiss.

"I conscionable privation radical to know, we did not cognize this was happening. None of us," the grandmother, who identified herself lone arsenic "Michelle," said. "They've made my girl and my son-in-law a monster. They are not. They emotion those children. They emotion them."

Michelle besides provided a imaginable mentation for the juvenile's pregnancy.

"She [the victim] keeps telling america that it was a small 12-year-old that I utilized to support — that I utilized to babysit," she told the station. "She keeps telling everybody that it was him. They got curious. That's each I know."

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A neighbour told KJRH that the Walker location was kept successful a deplorable state, lacking moving h2o for astir 2 oregon 3 years contempt having six children and aggregate dogs and cats successful the house. The neighbour besides said that she had made respective calls to section instrumentality enforcement authorities regarding the payment of the children successful the home, adding that she did not judge the family's assertion that they were unaware of the 11-year-old's pregnancy.

"This is getting to me," she told the station. "They robbed her of her childhood."

The victim's grandma pushed backmost connected the neighbor's claims astir the authorities of the family's home.

"We person animals, and truthful sometimes there's trash connected the level due to the fact that the dogs get into the trash," she said. "It gets cleaned up. Right now, it's astir apt a messiness due to the fact that the animals are successful there. We effort to fto them out, but they effort to support it clean."

Muskogee County Assistant District Attorney Janet Hutson spoke to Tulsa CBS affiliate KOTV astir the case, calling it heartbreaking. The authoritative besides implied that she did not judge the family's assertion that they were unaware of the pregnancy, emphasizing that portion the unfortunate was "rather petite," her babe was a "normal-sized infant."

"This kid is traumatized," Hutson told the station. "She's been done a horrific ordeal. I mean, not lone has idiosyncratic gotten her pregnant, but she gave commencement astatine location without aesculapian assistance, and this volition beryllium her beingness for the remainder of her life."

The authoritative noted that a doc oregon schoolhouse unit would person typically reported the child's information to authorities, but said the parents had intentionally kept the 11-year-old retired of schoolhouse and had not taken her to spot a doc successful implicit a year.

Hutson said she expects further charges to beryllium filed against the parents, but prosecutors are waiting connected the results of a DNA paternity test, which should travel backmost wrong astir 2 weeks, earlier making immoderate last decisions connected that front.

The defendants are being held successful the Muskogee County Jail connected enslaved of $100,000. It was not instantly wide erstwhile they would look successful tribunal next.