• March 28, 2024

Man Rapes YOUNG CHILD Then Tells Judge It’s The Toddler’s Fault For 1 Act She Performed

A jury in West Virginia has taken less than 30 minutes to convict a man of incest with his three-year-old daughter, after he repeated his confession that he mistook the child for his 24-year-old wife.

The brief trial of Henry Vincent Bennett, 26, began on Wednesday in Bluefield and ended on Thursday with his conviction on two counts each of first-degree sexual assault, sexual abuse by a parent, and incest.

The sickening case took a dramatic twist when Bennett, who had claimed police pressured him into a false confession, slipped up on the witness stand and repeated his confession in front of the jury.

‘It’s a TV moment. It’s a thing that happens on crime shows like Perry Mason,’ prosecutor George Sitler told WVVA after the trial.

‘You wait your whole career to get somebody to actually confess to what they’re accused of on the stand, and this is the first time I’ve ever seen it happen,’ the prosecutor added.

Bennett was first arrested in February, after his daughter told family members and then state child safety workers that she had been sexually abused.

The young girl at one point made a model of a penis out of Play-Doh and said it was Bennett’s ‘butt’, and said that her father had put his ‘butt on her butt’, testified Cindy Lambert, a child advocacy worker.

When police first brought Bennett in for questioning, he denied sexually assaulting the three-year-old girl.

Eventually, Bennett confessed to sexually assaulting the girl on two occasions: once involving a sex toy, and once involving oral sex.

Bennett told police that both incidents were accidents, after the child crawled into the bed while his wife was away in the bathroom. He claimed he mistook the 30-pound girl for his 185-pound wife both times.

In the first instance he said he he ‘accidentally’ placed a sex toy in the child’s buttocks.

The second time, he said his wife was performing oral sex on him, and then got up to go to the bathroom. He claimed the girl came into the room and began performing oral sex on him before he realized she was not his wife.

Both Bennett and his wife, 24-year-old April Bennett, were arrested. April was originally charged as an accessory to Bennett’s crimes, but later took a deal pleading guilty to a charge of child neglect.

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