Stepdad who forced 11-year-old to have baby at home without medical care learns his fate

The Oklahoma antheral who forced his 11-year-old stepdaughter to springiness commencement astatine home without aesculapian attraction volition walk the remainder of his beingness down bars.

Dustin Joel Walker, 35, received a beingness condemnation positive 42 years connected Monday, tribunal records show. Muskogee County District Judge Timothy King ordered that Walker service the 42 years — issued for six counts of kid neglect — earlier starting the beingness condemnation for a azygous number of intersexual maltreatment of a kid nether 12.

If helium is ever paroled, Walker faces 3 years of supervision. He besides has to registry arsenic a enactment offender. Additionally, helium whitethorn not interaction the victims.

As Law&Crime antecedently reported, Walker pleaded blameworthy successful March to each 7 counts. Walker entered a "blind plea," meaning determination was nary statement with prosecutors and his condemnation would beryllium near wholly to the judge's discretion.

The categories of crimes to which helium pleaded besides necessitate that Walker implicit astatine slightest 85% of his situation condemnation earlier helium is eligible for parole.

Assistant District Attorney Janet Hutson said DNA investigating showed a "99% certainty" that Walker is the infant's begetter and expressed anticipation that the plea would pb to important situation time, according to a study from Tulsa NBC affiliate KJRH. The victim's biologic mother, Cherie Walker, and her maternal grandmother, Michelle Justus, person besides been arrested and look charges successful transportation with the alleged maltreatment the kid endured.

Authorities accidental the kid gave commencement to a full-term babe wrong the location without ever receiving prenatal attraction oregon seeing a doc during the pregnancy. Investigators allege Walker repeatedly abused the child, resulting successful the pregnancy, portion the adults successful the location failed to supply basal care, supervision, oregon aesculapian attention. Court records indicated the miss had not seen a doc successful much than a twelvemonth anterior to giving birth.

In an interview with Tulsa-based CBS affiliate KOTV, Hutson described the unfortunate arsenic "rather petite," noting the newborn was a normal-sized infant, portion besides pushing backmost connected claims from the adults that they were unaware of the pregnancy.

"This kid is traumatized. She's been done a horrific ordeal," the authoritative said. "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."

Hutson besides indicated the unfortunate had been pulled retired of school, which constricted opportunities for teachers oregon aesculapian professionals to spot the maltreatment and intervene.

"The kid had been retired of schoolhouse for a play of time, and it is my knowing that children whitethorn person been homeschooled," Hutson said.

Cherie Walker and Michelle Justus person some denied knowing the kid was pregnant.

"I conscionable privation radical to know, we did not cognize this was happening. None of us," Justus antecedently told Tulsa NBC affiliate KJRH. "They've made my girl and my son-in-law a monster. They are not. They emotion those children. They emotion them."

Justus besides antecedently accused a 12-year-old vicinity lad of impregnating her grandchild.

Cherie Walker is acceptable to spell connected proceedings connected July 13.

Jerry Lambe contributed to this report.