A depraved Oklahoma mom has been convicted of letting her husband abuse her 11-year-old daughter — then forcing the girl to give birth to his child in their feces-filled home.
Cherie Walker, 34, was convicted Friday of child neglect and enabling child sexual abuse — just two weeks after her husband, Dustin Walker, was given a life sentence for his abuse, KJRH reported.
Jurors have recommended the mom also get life in prison for allowing the abuse, which only ended with an investigation into the girl giving birth last August without medical help.
The sicko husband and wife were charged last August after the girl gave birth on Aug. 16 and the 11-year-old victim and her five younger siblings — ages 2, 4, 6, 7, and 9 — were found living in “deplorable conditions” in their Muskogee County home, according to court documents seen by NBC News.
“The victims were found to be living in dog feces and had no clothing on,” the complaint said of the kids.
A DNA test then revealed that Dustin Walker was the baby’s father, and his charges were upgraded.
“This is one of the most, if not the most, serious child sexual abuse and neglect cases I have ever prosecuted,” Muskogee County Assistant District Attorney Janet Hutson said at the time.
“This child is traumatized. She’s been through a horrific ordeal,” she said.
“I mean, not only has somebody gotten her pregnant, but she gave birth at home without medical assistance, and this will be her life for the rest of her life.”
Dustin Walker pleaded guilty in March to child sexual abuse and was sentenced last month.
“It’s very emotional to realize that a child at the age of 10 and 11 was having sex with their stepfather, that she became pregnant and no one took her to the doctor and she gave birth at home,” the DA said at his sentencing.
“When you complicate that with the severe, deplorable, uninhabitable conditions of that home, to know that’s where she gave birth, where those children lived, without even the ability to get a drink of water in the middle of the night.”
The victim’s grandma, Michelle Justus, is also charged with child neglect, and will go on trial later this month. She claimed that she and the Walkers didn’t know the child was pregnant.
The other kids have since all been removed from the home.
“My hope is that with justice, these children will find some permanency and a better place,” the DA said.
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