Grandmother charged after 11-year-old girl gives birth at family's Oklahoma home

The grandmother of an 11-year-old girl who gave birth last month at her family's Oklahoma home was charged after prosecutors alleged she knew about the pregnancy and failed to report it to authorities.

Michelle Justus, the maternal grandmother of the child, was charged with six counts of felony child neglect, according to the Muskogee County District Attorney's Office. The charges are in connection with the 11-year-old and five other children living at the home.

Attorney information was not listed for Justus. She is being held on a $75,000 bond.

Prosecutors said Justus lives across the street from the family and was the "caretaker" of the children. Court documents allege that she failed to provide adequate supervision and medical care for the children and allowed them to live in deplorable conditions.

Justus was allegedly in regular contact with the 11-year-old and saw the girl almost daily, including on Aug. 16, when the child gave birth, prosecutors said. The office said Justus did not report the pregnancy to authorities.

The girl's mother, Cherie Walker, 33, and stepfather, Dustin Walker, 34, were arrested and charged last month. The district attorney's office said that DNA test results revealed that the stepfather was a 99.9% match for the baby's father.

Cherie Walker was charged with enabling child sex abuse, and Dustin Walker with sexual abuse of a child under 12. They were both also charged with six counts of felony child neglect.

Their attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday. They are being without bond.

Muskogee County Assistant District Attorney Janet Hutson said the case was "one of the most, if not the most, serious child sexual abuse and neglect cases I have ever prosecuted."

The other children — ages 9, 7, 6, 4 and 2 — were removed from the home.

Court documents stated that dog feces were found littered in the home, and the children had no clothes on.

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