"Baby Girl" VANVLERAH - 5 Months/ Convicted: Mother-Tessa - St Louis MO

A woman who admitted participating in the rape of her infant daughter
was sentenced Monday to two consecutive life sentences in prison after
her attorneys failed to convince a judge that she should get probation
because of a psychological disorder.

Attorneys for Tessa L. Vanvlerah, 22, had a forensic
psychologist testify at the sentencing hearing in St. Louis County
Circuit Court that Vanvlerah has a dependent-personality disorder.

Dr. Brooke Kraushaar said it caused Vanvlerah to
participate in the sexual fantasies of Kenneth M. Kyle, a college
professor from California about twice her age, even though she knew sex
acts involving her then-5-month-old daughter were wrong.

Kyle, who met Vanvlerah online, was sentenced in March to
37½ years in federal prison after pleading guilty of abusing the child
during several visits to St. Louis in 2009. He first came to
authorities' attention through the sharing of child pornography online.

Kraushaar, who was hired by the defense lawyers, Brent
Labovitz and Kevin Whiteley, described Vanvlerah as "a passive offender"
who was so afraid of being rejected by others that she also allowed
Kyle to choke, burn and urinate on her.

The psychologist said prison time would put Vanvlerah at
risk of getting into further trouble because of the dominant personalities there.

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kathi Alizadeh, however,
disputed the diagnosis and pressed for the two life sentences.

She pointed out in cross-examination that Vanvlerah
exercised free will in electronic communications with another man.
Vanvlerah carved her nickname for the man, "Lord Nikon," into her skin
at his request, the prosecutor said, but drew the line at one of his
suggestions involving bestiality.

Alizadeh said police also learned that Vanvlerah talked
with a man from Avon, Mo., who sent her child pornography and who spoke
of coming to St. Louis to have sex with her infant. It was never acted upon.

In 2008, a woman obtained a court order of protection
against Vanvlerah, then 18, accusing her of seducing and having sex with
the woman's 16-year-old autistic son. According to Alizadeh, it
resulted in Vanvlerah's pregnancy.

Alizadeh pointed out that Vanvlerah smiled in pictures showing Kyle with the infant.

Vanvlerah, of the 200 block of Solon Drive in Ballwin,
was forced to give up custody of the child after being charged in April
2010 with first degree statutory rape and sodomy, as well as incest and
child pornography. The pornography charge was dropped prior to her
guilty plea in January.

The child's foster mother, who has since adopted her,
said in a victim's impact statement that the child initially would
scream and cry when someone bathed her or changed her diaper. Today, at
age 3, the woman said, the child has night terrors and asks her at each
bedtime to make sure nobody else comes into the home.

The woman, in tears, said the girl was, however, getting
better day by day now that she "is no longer Tessa's plaything and she
is no longer Tessa's child."

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