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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.

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