An 11-year-old girl gave birth at home. Her St. Charles relative is charged with child endangerment

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An 11-year-old girl gave birth at home. Her St. Charles relative is charged with child endangerment

By Joel Currier
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Feb 19, 2020

ST. CHARLES — A St. Charles woman was charged Tuesday with child endangerment after police say she failed to provide medical care to an 11-year-old relative who gave birth at home after the girl had been raped by a teenager.

Lesbia Cante, 35, was charged with one felony count of child endangerment.

A teenager, Norvin L. Lopez-Cante, 17, was charged last week with statutory rape and statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12. Lopez-Cante admitted sexually assaulting the girl approximately 100 times, according to charging documents.

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Oh, thank goodness the Heartland has those family values!

[CatMor]

2. Reading this made me sick ...

I hope the rapist gets locked up for a long time. Also the woman relative for covering up the crime.

[Merlot]

3. So 12 years old is ok in Missouri?

The law states "statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12"

Missouri, fix your laws.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. I'm guessing this a harsher penalty than for those between 13 and 17.

Also, I wonder if it could be because the rapist was also a minor.

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5. That doesn't appear to be the case. Link to Missouri law:

Missouri statutes on rape, sodomy, child molestation, etc.:

https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapter.aspx?chapter=566