Man impregnates underage teen girl THEN ALLEGED RAPIST GETS CUSTODY OF BABY
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Community outrage after a Louisiana mom loses custody of her daughter to the man who raped her as a teen. Crysta Abelseth was 16 years old in 2005, when she says she was raped by John Barnes, then 30 years old.
Abelseth became pregnant. DNA tests show, and Barnes admits, he is the father of the now teen child. Barnes claims the sex was consensual. Abelseth told WBRZ that she met Barnes during a night out with friends at a Hammond restaurant and that he offered to drive her home.
Abethseth says Barnes took her to his home and raped her on his living room couch. Barnes found out about the child six years later and pursued custody.
Abelseth pressed charges against Barnes in 2015, but since then no investigation has taken place. And also, now the teen girl is sad her father has assaulted her. John Barnes says the allegations against him are lies. He denies raping the then 16-year-old. Barnes says he thought Abelseth was an adult.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Sarah Ford - Legal Director, South Carolina Victim Assistance Network, SCvanLegal.org, Former Prosecutor focusing on Crimes Against Women and Children, Facebook: "SCVAN Legal Services Program" Adjunct Professor, Claflin University & South Carolina State University,
- Dr. Mindy B. Mechanic - Professor of Psychology (Emeritus) at California State University Fullerton, Forensic Psychologist Focusing on Trauma/victimization, Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking
- Dr. Monte Miller - Director, Forensic DNA Experts LLC, Specialist in Sexual Assaults and Murder, Former Forensic Scientist for Texas Dept. of Public Safety State Crime Lab
- Chris Nakamoto - Chief Investigative Reporter, WBRZ-TV, Facebook: "Chris Nakamoto WBRZ", Twitter: @ChrisNakamoto
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like Alice in Wonderland where everything is upside down or there was a series of Batman |
| 0:21.1 | mini books I would read to the twins and they were little and there was a world called |
| 0:25.2 | Bizarre World where everything literally was the reverse. Do I have this right? A rape victim |
| 0:35.1 | is ordered to pay her rapist child support and the rapist has actually gotten partial |
| 0:45.6 | custody of the child that was born of a rape. I need to see Grace this is crime stories. |
| 0:53.9 | Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and series XM111. I've never seen anything |
| 1:01.0 | quite like this and let me tell you having prosecuted nothing but violent felonies for |
| 1:05.9 | over a decade. I've seen a lot but forcing a rape victim to pay her rapist take a listen |
| 1:15.7 | to our friend Chris Nakamoto WBRZ. |
| 1:19.1 | He offered to bring me home that night because my friend wanted to leave early. |
| 1:23.7 | Krista Abel Seth knows all too well about overcoming adversity. The 32 year old is the |
| 1:28.9 | mother of a 16 year old who we are not naming were identifying because she's a minor. She |
| 1:34.3 | was also born from a rape. It was a 30 year old man and I was 16. |
| 1:39.2 | Abel Seth recalls meeting this man John Barnes at a bar in Hammond back in 2005. He offered |
| 1:45.4 | to take her home instead of bringing home he brought me to his home and once inside he |
| 1:52.4 | proceeded to rape me on his living room couch. |
| 1:55.7 | Abel Seth did not know Barnes before that night but came away from it pregnant. |
| 2:00.3 | Everybody else just assumed it was from a boyfriend and I just let them believe that. |
| 2:05.6 | I have twins boy girl twins they are 14 they are about to turn 15. This then a little |
| 2:14.0 | girl was about a year older than my little Lucy. |
| 2:19.2 | What is a 30 year old man doing with a teen girl having sex on the sofa of his home? |
| 2:27.1 | That's rape. That is statutory rape. There's no other way to state it. That is rape. A child |
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