PDATED: 7:22 p.m. March 22, 2008
Mother charged in daughter's statutory rape

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published on: 03/22/08

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Police have arrested a mother on charges she harbored a man who impregnated her 14-year-old daughter.

Authorities say 42-year-old woman allowed Lucio Gomez-Gonzalez to stay at her home for two weeks and permitted him to have sex with her daughter. Gomez-Gonzalez's age is unknown.

Police charged Gomez-Gonzalez with statutory rape on Thursday. The mother was charged the previous day with being a party to statutory rape.

According to arrest warrants, both suspects are Mexicans in the country illegally.