A 39-year-old youth baseball coach is dealing with at the least seven felony fees after being caught allegedly raping a 12-year-old woman by the woman’s mom.
A kind of fees derives from the truth that Donovan Scott Sheppard instructed officers that he was HIV optimistic, in accordance with an affidavit cited by KFOR in Oklahoma Metropolis.
In accordance with these information, Sheppard needed to be picked up by the lady with whom he was residing after he’d gotten right into a combat at a bar in close by Moore, Oklahoma, on Jan. 13.
The lady then went to mattress in her southwest Oklahoma Metropolis house, however discovered Sheppard raping the woman, her daughter, when she wakened.
She held Sheppard at gunpoint till police arrived and arrested him.
The younger woman instructed police that Sheppard had raped her a number of occasions beforehand.
He was charged with three counts of first diploma rape of a minor below the age of 14, however Fox News reported that the woman stated he’d sexually assaulted her six different occasions whereas she was 11 or 12 years outdated, together with one time on her twelfth birthday. (Different sources stated that she had been raped a complete of six occasions, not six extra occasions.)
Sheppard is at present in Cleveland County Jail dealing with fees of lewd molestation, rape by instrumentation, exposing others to AIDS, sample of prison offenses, and the aforementioned three fees of first diploma rape.
The Kansas City Star reported that Sheppard instructed police he didn’t put on a condom when he raped the sufferer.
His bond was set at $500,000, KFOR stated, citing unspecified “information.”
Fox reported that Sheppard coached a youth baseball crew referred to as the Oklahoma Aftermath and had achieved so for “the final a number of years.”
One other southwest Oklahoma Metropolis minor was raped final October by a person posing as a minor on social media, KOCO reported on the time.
Police instructed the outlet that the 18-year-old man had communicated together with his alleged sufferer by means of Instagram for weeks earlier than selecting the 14-year-old up from faculty, taking her to a close-by park and raping her a number of occasions.
He had claimed to be solely 17.
The person, whom KOCO didn’t title in its report, was arrested and charged with “a number of sexual assault complaints.”
The Oklahoma Institute for Baby Advocacy instructed the outlet that the rise of social media’s recognition has led to an increase in child predation on these platforms.
“We’d encourage dad and mom to be cautious. Verify your child’s social media often. Some individuals really feel it’s an invasion of privateness, however to maintain these children secure, you actually need to know the conversations they’re having,” OICA CEO Joe Dorman instructed KOCO.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
