‘Child rapist got girl pregnant – then threatened to murder her if she had an abortion’
A suspected child rapist got his underage victim pregnant – then threatened to murder her if she aborted his unborn baby, police say. Michael Pumfrey, 36, was arrested in Electra, Texas, last Thursday after his alleged victim told investigators of the abuse he is accused of inflicting on her.
Detectives later found messages Pumfrey is said to have sent the girl. They said: ‘I wanted to be with you and marry when you turn 17 but now it has to end this way. I love you. I’m taking a big chance of going to prison for the rest of my life for being with you and l know your mom is going to press the issue.’
A third message read: ‘you kiII my kid if you want to I promise … I bring you back and kill you my damn self.’
During an interview with detectives, the girl said Pumfrey had started grooming her when she was 14, and raping her when she was 15. She claimed he’d stopped the assaults in April this year after she told him how she’d gotten pregnant with their child.
The girl said Pumfrey stopped over fears he’d go to prison if he was identified as the father of her unborn child, according to the Times Record News. Her relationship to her alleged rapist has not been disclosed to protect the youngster’s identity.
Pumfrey has been charged with sexual assault on a child, and is being held in jail in lieu of $50,000 bond. He has a lengthy criminal history, and was arrested in 2016 over claims he’d slapped a young child so hard their ear had turned black.
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