'SHE DIDN’T WANT TO GO HOME WITH DAD': Slain pregnant special needs teen found with uterus cut out had accused stepfather of rape

 A Texas man is accused of raping and impregnating his special needs 18-year-old stepdaughter, who was found slain with her uterus ripped out, following nearly a decade of sexual abuse, authorities said.

On Monday, investigators revealed a damning history of sexual assaults that plagued Holli Jeffcoat dating back to 2008, according to court documents obtained by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

Jeffcoat was found slain in a partially-burned home in Idalou about 100 miles south of Amarillo on Feb. 10, weeks after the developmentally disabled teenager accused her stepfather of raping her.

Cops arrested Jeffcoat’s stepfather, James Holland, 39, on three counts of sexual abuse in March.

Authorities have not charged any suspects in Jeffocoat’s death.

An arrest warrant linking Jeffcoat’s mother Debi Holland to the victim’s death states the home was set ablaze in an attempt to hide gruesome details — the killer slit Jeffcoat’s throat and cut her uterus from her body. She was 13-weeks pregnant.

Police accused Debi Holland of covering up her husband’s abuse following her arrest on Friday. She may have prevented crucial medical exams that may have detected signs of rape and sexually-transmitted diseases passed from the stepfather to Jeffcoat, authorities alleged.

Jeffcoat came forward to school officials and the Children’s Advocacy Center accusing her stepfather of raping and impregnating her. “She didn’t want to go home with dad because she didn’t want to have sex,” KCBD-TV reported Jeffcoat as saying, citing court documents. “The sex hurt.”

Debi Holland and James Holland are in police custody.

The teen told the school she could now feel the baby inside her — especially when she ran in physical education class — and her stepfather intended to abort her fetus with coat hanger.

In a written statement detailed by the Lubbock County newspaper, Jeffcoat claimed Holland molested her in the car ride home from school.

Jeffcoat’s mother denied knowledge of the abuse when confronted by school employees and authorities and said her husband had been “intravenously using methamphetamines” for several years.

Doctors discovered the first hints of sexual abuse following a vehicle collision in 2008 when a blood test revealed Jeffcoat had a STD. She also showed signs of penetration injuries.

The abuser never faced charges related to the findings, the paper wrote.

Because Jeffcoat had the mental age of a 6-to-7-year-old, she could never consent to sex with Holland.

Debi Holland faces one count of aggravated sexual assault of a disabled person in suspicion of Jeffcoat’s abuse.
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