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   Victim testifies pillow, blanket used to keep screams from being heard by   
   siblings   
      
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   Shaun Lamont Morrison   
      
   CHATHAM — A Cascade man was given the strictest punishment possible by a   
   jury for raping a young family member.   
      
   A Pittsylvania County jury recommended three life sentences in prison for   
   Shaun Lamont Morrison, 36, Wednesday evening for rape, forcible sodomy and   
   abduction.   
      
   The victim was a young girl who lived on Cascade Road.   
      
   The incident happened at a residence on June 1, 2015, where Morrison and the   
   victim, 12 at the time, were in a bedroom together.   
      
   The girl, with little understanding of human anatomy, used words like   
   “private area” and “poo poo” to describe Morrison’s actions to her.   
      
   Morrison moved the bed “against the door” before the rape began, the girl   
   testified.   
      
   “Did it hurt?” Pittsylvania County Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney   
   Nate Griffith asked her.   
      
   “Yes,” she replied.   
      
   “Were you crying?” Griffith asked. “Yes,” she responded.   
      
   A “pillow and blanket” were used to keep her screaming from being heard by   
   the victim’s six brothers and sisters, she said.   
      
   Morrison’s attorney, Curtis Thornhill, questioned in his opening argument if   
   the incident went the way the girl said.   
      
   The girl remembers “screaming and yelling the whole time” the incident   
   occurred.   
      
   Her mother admitted she did not call the Department of Social Services at   
   first because she was “shocked” and also was afraid of Morrison.   
      
   For her, the priority was putting the victim and her siblings in a local hotel   
   in Danville for “safety.”   
      
   Morrison was arrested four days after the incident. Pittsylvania County   
   sheriff’s deputies recovered a pair of red shorts the girl was wearing the   
   day of the incident.   
      
   Pittsylvania County Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Haskins said in his   
   opening statement the shorts worn during the “traumatic” and “painful”   
   act were unwashed.   
      
   “The possibility of contamination is extremely high” due to the residence   
   they lived in being unkempt, Thornhill said.   
      
   DNA was found on the shorts that didn’t belong to the girl. “Shaun   
   Morrison cannot be eliminated” as a person who contributed to the DNA,   
   according to a forensic expert.   
      
   It was a 7 billion chance the DNA did not belong to Morrison, Haskins said.   
      
   He is scheduled to be formally sentenced in February.   
      
   Michael ​Livingston reports for the Danville Register & Bee. Contact him at   
   mlivingston@registerbee.com (434) 791-7993.   
      
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