Texas family allegedly beats 14-year-old girl to induce abortion
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Cedric Jones, 27; Sharon Jones, 45; Cecila McDonald, 25; and Lonnell McDonald, 27, were charged Tuesday with organized criminal activity and are being held on $150,000 bail each, the Dallas Morning News reports. Police also charged another family member, 22-year-old Robert Joseph Cayald, with aggravated sexual assault of a child, the newspaper said.
The incident reportedly occurred in 2013 after a family member raped the girl, then 14. When the teen was eight months' pregnant, Sharon Jones gave her "multiple doses of birth control pills, Plan B [emergency contraception] pills and cinnamon tablets … to abort the baby," police said. Later, Lonnell McDonald allegedly bounced on the girl's abdomen and kicked her while Cecila McDonald reportedly held the teen down.
