The Daily Populous Monday September 8th, 2025 day edition
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The grandmother of an 11-year-old girl who gave birth last month at her family's Oklahoma home was charged after prosecutors alleged she knew about the pregnancy and failed to report it to authorities.

Michelle Justus, the child’s maternal grandmother, was charged with six counts of felony child neglect, according to the Muskogee County District Attorney’s Office. The charges are in connection with the 11-year-old and five other children who live at the home.

Attorney information for Justus was not listed. She is being held on a $75,000 bond.

Prosecutors said Justus lives across the street from the family and was children's the "caretaker." Court documents allege that she failed to provide adequate supervision and medical care for the children and allowed them to live in deplorable conditions.

Prosecutors alleged that Justus was in regular contact with the 11-year-old and saw the girl almost daily, including on Aug. 16, when the girl gave birth. The office said Justus did not report the pregnancy to authorities.

The girl's mother, Cherie Walker, 33, and stepfather, Dustin Walker, 34, were arrested and charged last month. The district attorney's office said DNA test results revealed that the stepfather was a 99.9% match for the baby’s father.

Cherie Walker was charged with enabling child sex abuse and Dustin Walker with sexual abuse of a child under 12. They were both also charged with six counts of felony child neglect.

Their attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday. They are being held without bond.

Muskogee County Assistant District Attorney Janet Hutson said the case was "one of the most, if not the most, serious child sexual abuse and neglect cases I have ever prosecuted."

The other children — ages 9, 7, 6, 4 and 2 — were removed from the home.

Court documents said that dog feces were found littered in the home and the children had no clothes on.

Post_office_clerk01 on September 7th, 2025 at 21:55 UTC »

Dog feces littered all over the home and there were other children living there as well... it sounds like these kids lived in literal hell on earth. Sick.

cranberryjuiceicepop on September 7th, 2025 at 21:31 UTC »

She was raped by her stepfather. In case you didn’t want to read the whole, horrific article.

OptimisticPlatypus on September 7th, 2025 at 21:12 UTC »

Some of these kids have no shot at success from the get go