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The Associated Press reports that a mother in Western Pennsylvania is accused of drugging her thirteen-year-old daughter so that the mother’s boyfriend could impregnate the daughter without her knowing. The mother, thirty-two, is no longer able to have children, but still wanted to have a baby with her forty-year-old boyfriend. The mother has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and the boyfriend is facing several counts of attempted rape. Like in Pennsylvania, it is against New York State law to endanger the welfare of a child. The law is New York Penal Law Section 260.10 - Endangering the Welfare of a Child.  http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/web/NewYork/ny3(b).htm.

There were three incidents that occurred in the mother’s home in Uniontown, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, according to the criminal complaint. The daughter informed the police the plot was apparently hatched sometime in December after she rejected her mother’s proposal that she allow the boyfriend to impregnate her and then marry him. In the following months, the boyfriend tried to rape the daughter three times. The first time, in February, the daughter was alone with the boyfriend while her mother went out to buy pizza, according to the criminal complaint. The boyfriend began groping her and she kicked him away, the documents stated. A few weeks later, the daughter believes her mother spiked her Pepsi with rum, according to police. The daughter informed them she felt ill after drinking the Pepsi, passed out and vomited. She was partially naked when she woke up with the boyfriend in the room, according to the criminal complaint. Read the rest of this entry »