Posted on 04/28/2006 1:56:59 AM PDT by beaversmom
Twyana Davis has been living a 10-year-old lie, but is expected to make it right Friday with a guilty plea to rape.
"She's at peace with her decision and it will probably be a blessing in disguise," Davis' attorney, Byron Potts, said yesterday.
Davis, now 30, has admitted that her 10-year-old daughter was born of a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old cousin.
For years, Davis had said she was raped at a party.
Her revelations mean Davis was illegally having sex with a minor.
Her daughter's DNA has since been matched to the cousin, now a 23-year-old inmate serving time for rape and aggravated robbery at the Lebanon Correctional Institution.
Davis' expected plea on Friday will be in lieu of an indictment, county Prosecutor Ron O'Brien confirmed.
The so-called Bill of Information will find Davis guilty of one count of rape, for which she can be sent to prison from five to 25 years under the 1995 statutes in place at the time. She will appear before Judge Michael J. Holbrook in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
A plea form says Davis had sex with the cousin in February 1995, when he was 12.
Though rape of a child younger than 13 now carries a life prison term, there was no provision for a life sentence when Davis had sex with her cousin, Potts said.
Davis likely will serve at least three years in prison before she is eligible for parole, O'Brien said.
She made headlines in November 1995, when after giving birth in her dormitory room at Ohio Dominican College, Davis placed the baby in a trash bin wrapped in clothing and plastic bags. A passer-by found the child and notified authorities. An attempted murder charge was filed against Davis, but later dismissed.
After her arrest and conviction for child-endangering charges, Davis was placed on probation.
She wrote Sacred Womb, a book about her experiences, and appeared on television's 20/20 and Oprah.
Davis regained custody of her child in 2000.
She also formed a nonprofit organization called Second Chance of Life, which focuses on preventing teen pregnancies and offering choices for expectant mothers.
Because of her case and others, Ohio passed the Safe Haven Law, which allows mothers of unwanted babies to bring them to hospitals, and police and fire stations within 72 hours of birth without being prosecuted.
Davis' custody of her daughter is now under review by Franklin County Children Services.
the child needs prayers me thinks
I think you are correct--both (related) parents in prison. I hope she has some good extended family around.
As you point out, both the parents are in jail and she slept with her cousin, so the likelihood of extended family being a whole lot better isn't really good.
Totally bizarre.
What did he learn from his sexual encounter with her?
I'm surprised this isn't beyond the Statute of Limitations. A truly bizarre tale. And I must question whether or not it is in the best interests of the child to put her mother in prison, esp. at this late date.
>>Though rape of a child younger than 13 now carries a life prison term, there was no provision for a life sentence when Davis had sex with her cousin, Potts said.<<
Hopefully there is some provision for statutory rape instead - or else we will eventually see a 14 or 15 year old go to jail for life for having sex with someone a year or two younger.
She didn't mention she was a rapist (claiming she was raped) in her book I sure is going to get Oprah's ire. Recall James Frey and Oprah.
“I feel duped”
This story is horrible on so many levels, but I'm puzzled as to why she decided to "come clean" about it now.
Perhaps she has developed a strong moral compass that won't let her allow her to rest until she owns up to her lie. Since the victim (cousin) of her assault is in prison for rape and robbery, perhaps she feels guilty about her part in how his life has turned out. Maybe he forced the issue in some way, and she felt she had no choice but to own up to it all. My heart goes out to her poor child, who has in her ten short years already lived a life of upheaval and grief, and who now will suffer even more.
What's the deal with all these women raping younger boys stories lately. What agenda is the MSM setting up?
I would not let her babysit my children.
That's what I was thinking.
D.N.A.
Perhaps she has developed a strong moral compass that won't let her allow her to rest until she owns up to her lie
She got caught.
My heart goes out to her poor child
Mine too, she should be placed with a family as far away from her current one as possible.
I suppose it could be that. Then again maybe she has a new book coming out.
That should give some pause to the folks who opine that when it's a young boy "getting lucky", there should be no complaint because "he really didn't have anything bad happen to him".
***Davis' expected plea on Friday will be in lieu of an indictment, county Prosecutor Ron O'Brien confirmed.***
I take that to mean that they somehow got the goods on her, and she pled guilty to avoid an indictment and probably a longer term in jail.
Whatever, that child should NEVER have been given back to the mother who wrapped her up in plastic to GET RID OF HER.
Is she a teacher?
***That should give some pause to the folks who opine that when it's a young boy "getting lucky", there should be no complaint because "he really didn't have anything bad happen to him".***
Agreed! I'm mighty sick of the threads in which men refuse to believe that the boy got "lucky." My tagline says it all.
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