Stepfather Killed 4-YO Girl
On March - 16 - 2014
Child abuse victim, 4, dies weeks after her stepfather was jailed for ‘using her like a battering ram’
A four-year-old girl who was beaten so severely by her stepfather that she was left with permanent brain damage has died. Kilah Davenport passed away on Thursday three weeks before her 5th birthday from complications relating to the May 2012 attack by her stepfather, who fractured her skull by ramming her head through a wall after the toddler soiled herself. Joshua Houser, from Indian Trail, North Carolina, was sentenced last month to between seven and ten years for the brutal attack on Kilah. He was convicted of felony child abuse and inflicting serious bodily harm on Kilah. READ MORE HERE
By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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