[eastforker]

Let me get this straight. The mother walks in and sees the baby's father raping the child and it takes her three weeks to turn him in. So all we have is her testimony, when she could have immediately taken the baby to the hospital,verify it,collect forensic evidence etc. How do we know she didn't fabricate the whole story. If the story is true she is as guilty as he is.

[Bikers4Bush]

"Last month, Joseph Lehman Jr., 38, pleaded guilty to raping his girlfriend's 2-month-old daughter last December."

This is how we know she didn't just make it all up.

[Pontiac]

So all we have is her testimony, when she could have immediately taken the baby to the hospital,verify it,collect forensic evidence etc. How do we know she didn't fabricate the whole story.

The man raped a two month old child. The damage he did to a two month old vagina is more than like likely permanent and most certainly would still be evident after three weeks.

[SarahW]

He did plead guilty, after all. He probably confessed.
And believe me, there would be "forensic evidence" even three weeks later.

[BabsC]

If the story is true she is as guilty as he is.

I agree, if I walked in on that and it wasn't even my child I would still have killed that animal where he stood. That is the only thing I could have lived with afterword. The child is forever scarred.

[SarahW]

MOre info at this link.

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:5jHO-IRb4RMJ:www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/120932+%22Joseph+Lehman+Jr.%22+baby&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

He was sexually abusing the infant, but I'm not sure if it is alleged that he inserted his penis or not.

From the article above (local coverage of the story)

"Police said Lehman Jr. admitted having oral and manual sexual contact with the baby for about 10 minutes. He stopped, he said, because the child ``wasn't very happy about it,'' according to charging documents.

A doctor who examined the baby said there were no physical injuries"