Pennsylvania Mom Accused of Drugging Daughter

…in plot to have boyfriend (right) get the girl pregnant.
A western Pennsylvania mother has been charged with giving her13-year-old daughter drugs and alcohol so the woman’s boyfriend couldimpregnate the girl without her knowing, police said Thursday.

Shana Brown, 32, is no longer able to have children but wanted tohave a baby with her current boyfriend, Duane Calloway, said UniontownPolice Detective Donald Gmitter. The pair decided to drug the girl soCalloway, 40, could have sex with her, he added.

“There’s some sick people on this case,” Gmitter said.

Brown, who has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child,turned herself in Thursday and was being held in the Fayette Countyjail, police said. Brown’s attorney did not return a call for comment.

Calloway faces several counts of attempted rape. He was arrestedWednesday and remains in jail. It was not immediately clear whether hehad an attorney.

The three attacks occurred in Brown’s home in Uniontown, about 50miles south of Pittsburgh, according to the criminal complaint.

The girl, who wasn’t raped and didn’t getpregnant, told police the plot was apparently hatched in December aftershe rejected her mother’s proposal that she allow Calloway toimpregnate her and then marry him.

In the following months, Calloway tried to rape the girl three times, Gmitter said:

The first time, in February, the girl was alone with Calloway whileher mother went out to buy pizza, according to the criminal complaint.Calloway began groping her and she kicked him away, the documentsstated.

A few weeks later, the girl believes her mother spiked her Pepsiwith rum, according to police. The girl told them she felt ill afterdrinking the Pepsi, passed out and vomited. She was partially nakedwhen she woke up with Calloway in the room, according to the criminalcomplaint.

The third time occurred in mid-March, when the girl told police shecame home early from school because she was not feeling well. She saidthat her mother forced her to drink tea.

The girl said she pretended she was asleep until Calloway made a move, at which point she bolted upright and he left the room.

In a search of the Brown residence, police said they found an empty rum bottle, Tylenol PM and a pill crusher.

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