Dallas family sentenced for stomping on pregnant teen

Members of a Dallas family who beat a pregnant 13-year-old and stomped on her stomach until she miscarried have been sentenced to prison.  Sharon Jones, 47 (pictured), was sentenced to 12 years

Members of a Dallas family, who beat a pregnant 13-year-old and stomped on her stomach, until she miscarried have been sentenced to prison.

According to The Dallas Morning News, the victim, now 19, was eight months pregnant when she was attacked in 2013.

Sharon Jones, 47, was sentenced to 12 years; her daughter, Cecila McDonald, 28, was sentenced to seven years; and her 29-year-old son, Cedric Jones Jr, was sentenced to five years in prison. 

Each pleaded guilty to felony family violence aggravated assault.

Another man, Lonnell McDonald, received 10 years in prison in 2016 after being convicted of aggravated assault in the attack. 

The victim’s brother, 24-year-old Robert Cayald, faces an aggravated sexual assault charge in the case. He was found incompetent to stand trial last year, and his case is pending.

Cayald is accused of raping his 13-year-old sister in August 2012, which resulted in pregnancy.

Jones's daughter Cecila McDonald, 28 (pictured), was sentenced to seven years; and Jones's 29-year-old son, Cedric Jones Jr, was sentenced to five years in prison

They first forced the teen to take birth control pills and cinnamon tablets to try to abort the baby (Pictured, Cedric Jones Jr)

Jones’s daughter Cecila McDonald, 28 (left), was sentenced to seven years; and Jones’s 29-year-old son, Cedric Jones Jr (right), was sentenced to five years in prison. They first forced the teen to take birth control pills and cinnamon tablets to try to abort the baby

The teen and her younger sister had been sent to Dallas after their grandmother died to live with their aunt, Sharon Jones. 

However, the victim and two of her siblings moved into Cecila McDonald’s apartment, where Lonnell McDonald and Cayald also lived.

The teen testified in court that she told Cecila McDonald and Jones that Cayald had sexually abused Cecila McDonald’s three young children.

Cecila McDonald ‘became very nervous’ and worried that CPS would take away her children if they learned that the teen was pregnant and that Cayald was living with her, according to an affidavit. 

They first forced the teen to take birth control pills and cinnamon tablets to try to abort the baby.

When that didn’t work, they held down the teen and took turns stomping on her pregnant belly.

When that didn't work, they held down the teen and took turns stomping on her pregnant belly. Lonnell McDonald (pictured), received 10 years in prison in 2016 after being convicted of aggravated assault in the attack

Robert Cayald, 24 (pictured), who raped his sister was found incompetent to stand trial last year, and his case is pending.

When that didn’t work, they held down the teen and took turns stomping on her pregnant belly. Lonnell McDonald (left), received 10 years in prison in 2016 after being convicted of aggravated assault in the attack. Robert Cayald, 24 (right), who raped his sister was found incompetent to stand trial last year, and his case is pending

During the attack, Cecila McDonald yelled at the teen, ‘B***h, you ain’t about to get my kids taken away from me.’    

‘They held her down. They forced her to lay there while people stomped her,’ prosecutor Rachel Burris argued. ‘I️t was savage.’

The baby was stillborn and placed in a five-gallon bucket and the family tried to burn the remains on a grill. When they were unsuccessful, Jones gave her son $25 to dispose of the body. He hid the remains in a bag in an unknown location. 

Defense attorneys for the trio argued that the attack was a small mark on an otherwise clean record. They said the defendants had been part of Bible studies and classes in jail and should be granted leniency.

But Burris argued that the defendants merely hid the evil they were capable of.

‘Most people would treat strangers better,’ Burris said. ‘Yet these people did it to someone they promised to love.’  



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