Jean Innocent Allegedly Claims ‘Voodoo’ Made Him Rape 13-Year-Old

A 41-year-old South Florida man allegedly instructed investigators he believed “Voodoo” compelled him to rape his 13-year-old relative after the minor’s hospital go to led police to accuse him of impregnating her. 

Jean Innocent was taken into custody on Dec. 19 and charged with two counts of sexual battery with a baby, one rely of incest and one other of impregnation of a kid, in accordance with a possible trigger affidavit obtained by Oxygen.com from the West Palm Beach Police Department.

The minor — whose identify and relation to Innocent have been redacted from the report back to protect her identification — was dropped at St. Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach after complaining of belly ache that day. A being pregnant check revealed that she was roughly six weeks pregnant, in accordance with the affidavit. 

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West Palm Beach Detective Brittany Tatum wrote within the doc that the sufferer instructed investigators Innocent had sexually assaulted her “approximately four times since she had abdominal surgery in July 2020.” 

The first occasion occurred in the summertime of 2022, she instructed investigators. The subsequent transpired in November. 

Tatum wrote that Innocent got here into the lady’s room, pulled down her pants, instructed her “give me 10 minutes,” received on prime of her and commenced raping her. Allegedly, the lady recalled, he stopped and mentioned “never mind” after the lady mentioned “no” and cried. The encounter, she mentioned, harm and made her “feel weird,” the doc states. 

During a managed name recorded by investigators, in accordance with the affidavit, the sufferer instructed Innocent that she had been vomiting and that the hospital was going to present her a being pregnant check. 

Innocent instructed her that she could not be pregnant as a result of her interval wasn’t due for an additional week, and “told her to say no,” in accordance with the affidavit. He then “began making up a story to tell about a relationship with a boy named ‘Semen,'” and instructed the sufferer “if she tells he will go to jail.” 

The sufferer requested Innocent, “did you do it inside of me?” in accordance with the affidavit. Innocent allegedly replied, “Yes, I think I do it.”

After the damning telephone name, West Palm Beach police took Innocent into custody, the place he allegedly instructed investigators that he “believed Voodoo caused him to have sexual intercourse with [the victim].”

Voodoo is an occult faith primarily practiced within the Caribbean and within the southern United States that mixes parts of Roman Catholicism with conventional West African magical and spiritual rites and characterised by sorcery and spirit possession. 

Innocent is presently being held within the Palm Beach County Detention Center with out bail. The West Palm Beach Police Department didn’t reply to Oxygen.com‘s request for remark.

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