Man, 32, is arrested for raping and impregnating his relative, 11, after she gave birth to his baby

                       

A Missouri man has been arrested for raping and impregnating his 11-year-old relative.

Cornelius Lee Page, 32, had forced sex with the girl twice and additional sexual contact with her on two separate occasions in April and May 2017.

The girl told police that "she tried either pushing or kicking" Page off during the alleged attacks but he was "too heavy and tall". According to a probable cause statement, the girl said during the assault, Page would "push her down" so she could not get up and told her to stop or it would "get worse".

The girl eventually became pregnant and later gave birth to a baby boy in January 2018.  A paternity test was conducted by police after the girl gave birth and results showed a 99.999 percent probability that Page was the infant's father. 

Page has prior convictions for possession of controlled substances, stealing a motor vehicle, and assaulting law enforcement and resisting arrest, according to the St Charles County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. He served five years in prison, from 2008 to 2013, in the Missouri Department of Connections.

Page is facing two counts of statutory rape and four counts of statutory sodomy. He is currently being jailed bail is set at $100,000, reported the St Louis Post-Dispatch.

Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar said this case was similar to many cases that he's prosecuted.

"The sad reality is this case is very similar in many ways to most of our child sexual abuse cases," he told KTVI. 

Lohmar said this case exemplifies why parents should be careful of who they leave with their children. He added that in this casemother of the 11-year-girl did not believe her when the girl first told her she was raped.