Grandmother Of Victim In Alleged Pregnancy Plot Speaks Out

A western Pennsylvania mother has been charged with giving her 13-year-old daughter drugs and alcohol so the woman's boyfriend could impregnate the girl without her knowing, police said Thursday.

Shana Brown, 32, is no longer able to have children but wanted to have a baby with her current boyfriend, Duane Calloway, said Uniontown Police Detective Donald Gmitter. The pair decided to drug the girl so Calloway, 40, could have sex with her, he added.

“They would get the girl intoxicated to a point where she had no idea what was going on,” said Det. Donald Gmitter of the Uniontown police.

The 13-year-old girl, whose identity is being protected, said, "(My mother) said 'I want you to have his baby.' And I said, 'No.'"

“He grabbed me by my wrist,” the girl said. “I said, 'Get him off me.'”

Her mother said everyone else can be happy but her, the girl said.

Brown, who has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, turned herself in Thursday and was being held in the Fayette County Jail, police said.

Calloway faces charges of attempted rape, police said. He, too, is being held in the Fayette County Jail. A preliminary hearing for both suspects is scheduled for Wednesday.

"There's some sick people on this case," Gmitter said.

The three attacks occurred in Brown's home in Uniontown, according to the criminal complaint.

"I can't fathom what kind of mother would do that to their daughter," the girl's grandmother told Channel 11 News. "A mother does everything they can to protect their kids, not exploit them."

The girl told told police the plot was apparently hatched sometime in December after she rejected her mother's proposal that she allow Calloway to impregnate her and then marry him.

In the following months, Calloway tried to rape the girl three times, Gmitter said.

The first time, in February, the girl was alone with Calloway while her mother went out to buy pizza, according to the criminal complaint. Calloway began groping her and she kicked him away, the documents stated.

A few weeks later, the girl believes her mother spiked her Pepsi with rum, according to police. The girl told them she felt ill after drinking the Pepsi, passed out and vomited. She was partially naked when she woke up with Calloway in the room, according to the criminal complaint.

The third time occurred in mid-March, when the girl told police she came home early from school because she was not feeling well. She said that her mother forced her to drink tea.

The girl said she pretended she was asleep until Calloway made a move, at which point she bolted upright and he left the room.

In a search of the Brown residence, police said they found an empty rum bottle, Tylenol PM and a pill crusher.