HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston man is accused of repeatedly raping
an 11-year-old neighbor who became pregnant and gave birth this week.
Deandrea Devon Davis-Williams, 21,
was arrested late Tuesday night and charged with continuous sexual abuse of a
child. A judge Thursday tripled Davis-Williams' original $50,000 bond and set
arraignment for April 23.
Court documents show the attacks
occurred almost daily over more than seven months beginning about last June 1.
The girl delivered a healthy child
Thursday, Harris County District Attorney's spokeswoman Sara Marie Kinney said
Friday.
According to the criminal complaint
in the case, the girl's mother received a call from her daughter's school
saying school officials believed she was pregnant. When the mother bought a
home pregnancy test and explained it to her daughter, the girl began crying and
told her about the assaults.
A visit to a doctor confirmed the
pregnancy.
The attacks began last summer while
the girl's mother was at work and occurred "almost every day when no one
was home," police said in the criminal complaint. They continued during
the school year when her mother was working two jobs.
The mother told police she
confronted Davis-Williams, whom she knows, and he denied any involvement.
Attorney Joe Owmby, appointed to
represent Davis-Williams, did not immediately return a call Friday from The
Associated Press.
According to the criminal complaint,
police have copies of phone text messages in which Davis-Williams asked the
girl "why she told on him and told her that he was going to kill
himself."
Investigators said they tried
unsuccessfully to talk with Davis-Williams and enlisted the girl's mother to
arrange a meeting with him but he "did not show up to the
appointment."
Court documents describe him as 5
feet 11 inches tall and 115 pounds with no previous criminal record.
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