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sourceA man who fathered four children with his teenage daughter has been charged with murder after remains of two infants were found in coolers on property where the family once lived, authorities in the US state of Missouri announced.
The 47-year-old is charged with second-degree murder, endangering the welfare of a child, statutory rape, two counts of incest and two counts of abandoning a corpse. An arraignment was scheduled for Friday.
Prosecutor Teresa Hensley said three of the four children the man fathered with his now-19-year-old daughter are dead, but he has been charged with just one of the deaths so far. Authorities allege the man began molesting his daughter when she was 13 and that his wife knew about the abuse and helped deliver the babies.
The Associated Press is withholding the suspect's name because it could identify the victim of a sex crime.
According to court documents, the daughter told police that he had fathered all four children, while the father told detectives he was certain two of them were his. Both said all of the children were delivered at home by the father and his wife.
That woman is charged with endangering the welfare of a child for not reporting the alleged sexual abuse of her daughter. She is free on $US10,000 ($15,243.9) bond.
"We have a child, who at age 13, had her father sexually molesting her. And her mother allowed it," Hensley said. "Who she would have turned to is hard to determine? For six years (the daughter) was under his control."
The father was arrested Wednesday night.
After receiving a tip from the sister of the molested woman, authorities in October used dogs to search the rural property where the family once lived. Nothing was found during that search, but on Jan 1 the new owners of the property found two coolers, each containing a child's body.
The suspect is charged in the death of a boy born November 17, 2006, who is believed to have died of pneumonia on Feb 28, 2007. Authorities believe the suspect and his daughter, who has not been charged, never sought medical attention when the baby became ill.
Investigators are still looking into the death of the other infant, and say a third child fathered by the suspect also is dead.
No information was immediately available about the fourth child who is still alive.
When will the Americans learn that incest isn't nature's course of reproducing their own kind of 6 fingered babies?