Ten-month-old girl dies 'after being raped by her youth football coach father, 29, who Googled "how do I know if a baby is dead" and waited an hour before calling 911'

A Pennsylvania father has been arrested for allegedly raping his 10-month-old daughter, who later died from her injuries at a hospital.

Austin Stevens, 29, of Providence Township, was charged on Tuesday with aggravated sexual assault, rape of a child, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, endangering the welfare of a child and other criminal counts in the death of his baby daughter, Zara Scruggs.

According to a press release from the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, at around 10.40pm on Saturday, Lower Providence police responded to a home in the 3400 block of Germantown Road to a report of an unresponsive infant.

Officers immediately began CPR on Zara and transported her to Einstein Medical Center Montgomery, where she was pronounced dead less than two hours later.

Police obtained a search warrant to download the contents of Stevens' phone, which revealed that the 29-year-old father had conducted multiple Google searches for nearly an hour before calling 911 to get help for his dying daughter.

The subjects of Stevens' online searches included 'If baby stop breathing,' 'What if you don’t hear baby heart or beat,' 'My baby isn’t breathing,' and 'How do you know if a bsby [sic] is dead,' according to prosecutors.

Stevens also allegedly exchanged social media messages and texts with two women, which failed to mention his daughter's condition.

A search of Stevens' upstairs apartment turned up a diaper Zara was wearing during the alleged rape.

'The diaper was saturated with blood,' the press release from the DA's office stated.

An autopsy determined that the baby girl, who had just learned how to walk, sustained anal rectal trauma and blunt force trauma to the head.

'This case is deeply disturbing. It is hard to imagine this child’s death being any more traumatic: sexual assault on an infant, followed by inaction by the father to save her life, led to her death,' said Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, calling the crime 'heinous'.

Stevens is being held at the county jail on $1million bail pending a preliminary hearing set for October 13.

Social media posts indicate that Stevens is the co-owner of a construction company, reported ABC6. He also served as an assistant coach for the Lower Providence Warriors youth football team.

Stevens had a joint custody agreement with Zara's mother, according to authorities. As NBC10 reported, the baby's maternal grandparents were among the last people to see her alive when they placed her in her father's car so he could take her to his apartment for an overnight visit.

Erica Scruggs, the baby's mother, took to Facebook on Tuesday, writing: 'I’m not okay. I really have no words ... He will pay.'

Meanwhile, Zara's relative has launched a GoFundMe page to help her grieving mother. The fundraiser so far has drawn more than $28,000 in donations.

'She sparked so much joy,' the organizer of the campaign wrote in the description. 'She was smart. She was silly. She was sassy. She was perfect. She was a beautiful baby and brought so much beauty into hundreds of lives.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8816307/Ten-month-old-girl-dies-raped-father.html

Never leave your girl child with any man be it her father.

saaphiere:
Never leave your girl child with any man be it her father.

Stop talking shit
I'm a father
I got two female kids
And I can never do this

Did your father did this to you ?
That's why I say most girls of this days hardly think before talking
And that's why they end up spewing trash

speechless

Evil world

saaphiere:
Never leave your girl child with any man be it her father.

Ur statement is not completely right. With strangers yes. How can u not leave a baby girl with her biological father? I have a 6yr old beautiful queen as a daughter and would not hesistate to kill to protect her talk more of being the one to harm her. Granted, Some men including women are perverts.

Madibah:


Stop talking shit
I'm a father
I got two female kids
And I can never do this

Did your father did this to you ?
That's why I say most girls of this days hardly think before talking
And that's why they end up spewing trash

Rapes cases everywhere. Minors being the major victims. I can't leave my girl child with any man.

friday2011:



You sound like someone that was raped by her father or you are married to a man who constantly rape your daughter...

Pls grow up, you see it in the news doesn't mean all men will do such inhuman act with minors not to talk of there own blood.

Not all men are inhuman but better safe than sorry.

petitejolie:
stop saying that joor. Did u father rape you or any of your sisters? U can say sick fathers or fathers that are always under d influence

How do you know a sick father? Was this one sick? The one that raped a minor in his wife's shop days ago, was he sick?

the man needs psychiatric attention...

saaphiere:
Rapes cases everywhere. Minors being the major victims. I can't leave my girl child with any man.

What of the Kano man that left 2 of his children with their mother and they got murdered in cold blood by her

You have to understand You don't have the right to dictate who you leave your jointly owned Child with or not because the father can take you to court and seek for custody



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dangermouse:
Ur statement is not completely right. With strangers yes. How can u not leave a baby girl with her biological father? I have a 6yr old beautiful queen as a daughter and would not hesistate to kill to protect her talk more of being the one to harm her. Granted, Some men including women are perverts.

Her biological father raped her to death.

TechyMm0:


What of the Kano man that left 2 of his child with their mother and they got murdered in cold blood

You have to understand You don't have the right to dictate who you leave your jointly owned Child with or not because the father can take you to court

What's the ratio of people killed by women to people killed by men?

Through rape alone, men have killed more then 100 in Nigeria in 2020.

I think the fantasy of sleeping with a virgin is what causes this barbaric act..
the man has a mental disorder and should be killed also

saaphiere:
What's the ratio of people killed by women to people killed by men?

Through rape alone, men have killed more then 100 in Nigeria in 2020.

I think you are wrong on that statistics and assumptions

When it comes to killing of babies and infants women have done a greater evil

All the kids sold at baby factory by their mothers , don't you understand 90% of them got sold to ritualists who crush them to death to make voodoo

I think if we factor in babies found in trash, infants killed around hostels by teenage mothers, baby factory, then honestly Father's should also be concerned about the new mothers we now have


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saaphiere:
Her biological father raped her to death.

Did urs molested or did same to u?

so much evil in this world

Even devil himself tire for the matter!

Abeg who wan blow trumpet, make the person blow.....level of atrocities being committed by humans have escalated to a whole new level!!

saaphiere:
What's the ratio of people killed by women to people killed by men?

Through rape alone, men have killed more then 100 in Nigeria in 2020.

Shut up abeg. Fallacious statistics

Not again!!!

Its clear we humans are the problem of the world.....I am speechless

Sad! May God always save the female child from evil

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saaphiere:
Never leave your girl child with any man be it her father.

you ain’t wise at all

Nairaland

Wickedness

God forbid. . . I wonder the kind of evil happening in our generation

What is really going on with these men? They can't let their tiny diçks rest.

saaphiere:
Never leave your girl child with any man be it her father.

Creating threads everywhere, please get a fvcking job

Sad.

saaphiere:
Never leave your girl child with any man be it her father.

so your father molested you or raped you when you where a baby..
cause this your statement is without Sense
this is the reason they said most Nigerian girls have fish brain