Houston, Texas — Police say a woman tried to cover-up the sexual assault of her adopted 12-year-old daughter, allegedly raped by her 18-year-old son, by taking the young girl to get an abortion.
CPS started their investigation regarding the girl’s pregnancy after an anonymous tipster informed them 50-year-old Cynthia Greenwood had taken the special needs girl to an abortion clinic.
The caller said that the 12-year-old was 17-weeks pregnant but was too hysterical for the procedure to be performed. Greenwood refused to say how the girl became pregnant and the girl would only tell a CPS employee that an adult had touched her privates.
Two weeks later, Greenwood tried again and took the girl to the Center for Women’s Health in Cleveland, Ohio where an abortion would be performed two days later.
Police would interview Greenwood a couple weeks after that and while she admitted she had taken the girl to have an abortion, she denied knowing how the girl got pregnant. The 12-year-old and her sister were taken from the home by CPS on that same day.
In December, the 12-year-old said in a videotaped interview that “she got pregnant because her brother had sex with her.” Prosecutors say 18-year-old Isaac Greenwood assaulted his adopted sister twice in March 2010 and once in May 2010 at a relative’s home.
The girl also said that her mother lied to her about the procedure, telling her she was having “an operation so it wouldn’t hurt when the baby came out.”
Cynthia Greenwood has been charged with tampering and fabricating evidence. Her son has been charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child.
Children’s Protective Services have permanent custody of both the victim and her younger sister.
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