That is just sad and twisted, that they have to use pregnancy as physical harm to make this guy pay. How about the mental harm which will take a long time if not a life time for this little girl to heal from? That's a whole other bag of worms for female equality. That the emotional and mental damage caused by rape is downplayed. Of course it's severe physical harm to a little girl to be pregnant. Just being penetrated by an adult male at that age would probably cause her scars that would never go away. This makes me sick to my stomach.

Yeah, really, you'd think that raping a ten year old repeatedly would be enough to give you life in prision. And you're right about the equality aspect, too.

that's so sad and wrong. The poor girl probably didn't have a clue what was going on to her body.

I agree with the mental/emotional damage of rape.

I agree with life in prison to any type of rape charge, reguardless of age.

That poor girl

I am going out on a limb since I havent read the case material but it seems that maybe they could get a harsher sentence on the perp if they included the incredible damage a pregnancy can do to a girl that age.. I need to lookup something fought about on another board pertaining to a doctor being excommunicated for performing an abortion on a 10 year old victim of child rape and incest.
There are serious health consequences to a child that age gestating.

poor little girl.. She's still a baby herself.. Some People make me ill.

Yes, that's what they are doing, since apparently just raping a ten year old won't give a harsh enough sentence. Ridiculous.

I agree.. I wanted the jail jacked up and the jerk thrown under.

and now the research: Factors influencing the effects of sexual abuse and keep in mind this is for a 11 year old little girl.

Earlier age at first pregnancy has been linked to lower bone density later in life. Accumulating data has shown that bone loss is more significant in pregnant, growing adolescent girls when compared with pregnant, adult women. In addition, breast-feeding adolescents experience more bone loss than breast-feeding adults.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (12/03)

Acutally some snooping around here shows that the girl had a 60% higher risk of death gestating the pregnancy then would a mature woman would.

Adolescent pregnancy is associated with higher rates of illness and death for both the mother and infant. Teenage girls are not only less ready than older women EMOTIONALLY to have a baby, they are less ready PHYSICALLY to have a health baby.

Pregnant teens are at much higher risk of having serious medical complications such as toxemia, pregnancy-induced hypertension, significant anemia, premature delivery, and/or placenta previa. The maternal death rate for mothers age 15 or younger is 60% greater than for women in their 20s.

Infants born to teens are 2-6 times more likely to have low birth weight than those born to mothers age 20 or older. Prematurity plays the greatest role in this, but intrauterine growth retardation (inadequate growth of the fetus during pregnancy) is also a factor.

I think if you factor in these issues there can be a case for an attempted 'homocide' charge on the rapist, that carries a harsher sentence then child rape does (depending on the state of course).

No wonder you're limping all over the forum with your nonsense. But wait, before you go out again on a limb, let me grab you a pair of crutches so you don't keep falling on your limp.

That man deserves life in maximum security prison!!!!!! How can you say ten to twenty is enough when there is a girl who might not ever trust another man in her life. The mental damage alone is enough, how can she go on knowing that someday this guy will be out on the street just looking for another girl to rape.
CANNOT BE SAID BETTER!

What the heck was the reason for that wisecrack? Are you so uneducated that you are unfamiliar with the very common phrase, "out on a limb"? Are you a child molester? Are you angry that Jincks thinks this scumbag needs to be severely punished?