A 34-year-old man from Muskogee County was charged with child sexual molestation after DNA confirmed he fathered a newborn born to an 11-year-old girl who gave birth at home on August 16. Both the man and a 33-year-old woman, the parent of the minor mother, were initially arrested on felony child neglect counts. The adults allegedly claimed ignorance of the minor's pregnancy despite her small stature and a normal-size newborn. The minor had not seen a doctor in over a year and may have been out of school or homeschooled. Authorities added a charge of enabling child sexual abuse against the 11-year-old's parent.
The charges that the Muskogee county district attorney's office filed against Dustin Walker, 34, on Monday came after a DNA test confirmed he was the father of the newborn at the center of the case, the Oklahoma news outlet KWTV reported, citing officials. The woman charged alongside Walker the parent of the newborn's underage mother is 33. As is the outlet's policy, the Guardian is not identifying her or describing her relationship to Walker to protect the identity of the abuse victim in the case.
Walker and the woman had initially been arrested on one count each of felony child neglect after the 11-year-old gave birth to a full-term baby at her home on 16 August, according to records filed in court and reported on by NBC News. The two adults allegedly claimed that they did not know the girl was pregnant despite the fact that the minor was rather petite and her newborn was of a normal size, the local assistant district attorney Jennifer Hutson told KWTV.
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