Pregnant Teenager Buried Alive
 

Trial Begins In Gruesome Killing Of Pregnant Teenager

D.A.: Suspects 'butchered that 14-year-old girl'

BOSTON, Massachusetts -- Almost five years to the day after 14-year-old Chauntae Jones was stabbed, beaten with a rock and buried alive, a second man went on trial Monday in her killing and the death of her unborn daughter.

Lord Hampton, 25, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the September 1999 deaths. His friend, Kyle Bryant, who was Jones' boyfriend and the father of her child, was acquitted of identical charges in April, infuriating Jones' family and friends.

Jones was eight months pregnant when she disappeared just weeks after starting eighth grade. Her body was found more than a month later, buried in a shallow grave on the grounds of the old Boston State Hospital.

In opening statements Monday, Assistant District Attorney David Meier said both Hampton and Bryant were equally responsible for the deaths.

Hampton and Bryant were "two men together with a purpose and a plan" who plotted every detail of the killing and then carried it out, Meier said.

"Two men who together butchered that 14-year-old girl, using a rock, using a brick, using a knife, using a shovel," he said.

Hampton's attorney, Randy Gioia, said Hampton was made the "fall guy, the scapegoat" by prosecutors eager to hold someone responsible for the gruesome crime.

Gioia said Hampton had no reason to kill Jones, but Bryant did. Three months before Jones was killed, a juvenile court judge said he planned to notify the district attorney's office about Jones' pregnancy for possible prosecution of Bryant on statutory rape charges. Jones was 13 when she became pregnant; Bryant was 17.

"Kyle Bryant had a reason to kill Chauntae Jones and he killed her -- either alone or with others -- and then he buried her body in a shallow grave to basically get rid of a rape charge and avoid detection," Gioia said.

During Bryant's trial, the defense blamed Hampton for the killing.

In a tape-recording of a police interview played for the jury, Bryant said he watched "like a dummy" while Jones pleaded with him to help her as Hampton stabbed her and hit her with a rock, then buried her.

Bryant eventually took police to the site where Jones was buried.

Getting knocked up at 13. Man this country is fucked up. Then she's killed by her "boyfriend." Something tells me that her parents were pretty shitty parents.

I can't believe the "boyfriend" got off and the other guy was convicted. That is fucked up. :confused:

how dose that make them shitty parents .

If you can't figure out how on your own, I'm sorry. ;)

there not its not there fault there kid got fucked in school or somewhere they could not protect them so yeah there good parents they just weren't around to save the day before she got preg


however it is a boys parents faults if they killed her cause that proves they were mentally ill in the first place and the parents did nothing about it

I won't be too hard on you since you are only 14, but I think it is in your best interest to pay more attention in your English class.

hey i spell good in school but on the net i type fast and don't look for mistakes. plus who cares what sentences sturcutres look like:D

It is hard on the eyes for us old people. ;)