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   A judge on Thursday tripled the bail for a 21-year-old man who   
   prosecutors said raped and impregnated an 11-year-old.   
      
   Deandre Devon Davis-Williams is charged with continuous sexual   
   abuse of a child. State District Judge Brock Thomas raised the   
   bail for Davis-Williams to $150,000 from $50,000. He was being   
   held Thursday at the Harris County Jail, court records show.   
      
   The girl gave birth on Thursday to a healthy baby, according to   
   the Harris County District Attorney's Office.   
      
   Almost every day for seven months, authorities said, Davis-   
   Williams raped the girl, a neighbor, when she got home from   
   school.   
      
   She told police that Davis-Williams began coming to her   
   apartment last summer through a back door while her mother was   
   at work at two jobs, according to a criminal complaint filed in   
   the case.   
      
   Davis-Williams lives in the same apartment complex as the girl,   
   said DA's spokeswoman Sara Marie Kinney.   
      
   Prosecutors said he attacked the girl from June 1, 2012, to Jan.   
   1.   
      
   School officials called the girl's mother to say they believed   
   she was pregnant, according to the complaint.   
      
   A doctor's visit in January determined that the child was seven   
   months pregnant, according to prosecutors.   
      
   'Extra sick'   
      
   Kinney said it's not a foregone conclusion that the mother would   
   know her daughter was pregnant.   
      
   "It's not a normal pregnancy because it's an 11-year-old with an   
   underdeveloped body," she said. "Not only that, but if you have   
   a kid and she's gaining weight or she doesn't feel good, she's   
   11, so you don't even go there in your mind."   
      
   Kinney said higher-level offenses that involve the continuous   
   sexual assault of a child "are far and few between than just the   
   average sexual assault. You have these bad guys out there, but   
   this one is extra sick."   
      
   Davis-Williams did not enter a plea at the court appearance on   
   Thursday. The judge appointed Joe Owmby as defense attorney.   
      
   Estella Olguin, spokeswoman at Texas Child Protective Services,   
   would neither confirm nor deny whether CPS was involved in the   
   case. She said sexual assaults of young girls are not uncommon,   
   although most victims do not become pregnant.   
      
   "In many cases like this, the victims usually know their   
   perpetrators, who have easy access of contact with the victims   
   without it being suspicious to anyone," she said. "In many   
   cases, the victims know them, love them and trust them. They   
   gain their trust, and then have them keep the secret."   
      
   Effects on child   
      
   Dr. Adrienne Tinder, staff psychologist at DePelchin Children's   
   Center, said the center is not involved in the girl's case, but   
   she offered insight into the effect that such cases can have on   
   families.   
      
   "This kind of experience can be traumatic and have a ripple   
   effect in families, the extent of which is sometimes not   
   understood for years," Tinder stated in an email. "When   
   traumatic events like this happen early in childhood,   
   particularly while a child is still developing a sense of self   
   and their sense of the world, there can be great impact on both   
   cognitive and emotional development."   
      
   "Sexual activity and/or a birth of a child where the mother   
   herself is still a developing child can lead to long-term   
   difficulties and challenges in forming a healthy identity and   
   relationships," Tinder said.   
      
   http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Bail-   
   tripled-for-man-accused-of-impregnating-4373671.php   
      
            
      
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