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Nanny Groomed 11-Year-Old Boy and Ended Up Pregnant

A Florida mom hires a nanny to help care for her son, unknowingly inviting a sexual predator into her home.

Chris McBride was 11 years old when his family’s live-in nanny changed his life forever. The Nanny, Marissa Mowry,  at the time was 22 years of age when she was hired by Chris’s mom, Nadean Campbell, to care for the boy. Instead of treating the child with the care he needed the Port Richey woman sexually assaulted the 11-year-old boy and even gave birth to his baby.

Nanny Mowry was recommended by Nadean’s sister-in-law, who had also employed her to watch their own children. Marissa Mowry moved in with the family, treated like a daughter by Nadean. But Mowry was grooming young Chris behind closed doors. “It was a game called ‘are you nervous,’ and the object of that game was she’d place her hands somewhere on my body and I’d say if I was nervous or not and things escalated from there,” a 17-year-old Chris told Inside Edition.

The sexual abuse began fairly quickly, Chris claims it happen almost every night. It didn’t stop until he was 14 years old, according to the Tampa Bay Times. “She said that she loved me. She said that she wanted to date, but she couldn’t let anyone know because it was obviously wrong,” Chris explained. “You have to lie or else I’m gonna have to go away,” he said Mowry told him. Then came the news that she was pregnant. “I was a little bit freaked because I was confused,” Chris recalled.

Mowry gave birth to a baby boy named Bentley. She told Chris’s mother that another man, her then-boyfriend, was her child’s father. Chris eventually had the courage to tell his mother the truth. Soon after Nadean notified the authorities. A DNA test confirmed the mother’s worst fears, that Chris was Bentley’s father. “When the results came back, I went and threw up,” Nadean admitted, saying she felt like a failure. “How did I let this woman manipulate me and my family in such a way that she could do this and I was blind to it?”

According to NY Post, five years after giving birth Marissa Mowry was arrested outside the Busch Gardens theme park, where she was working as a food attendant. She was charged with multiple counts of sexual battery. Due to the charges, she faced life in prison. She told detectives Chris McBride had forced himself on her at the time of her arrest. But, in a phone call with the boy, which investigators recorded, she admitted that wasn’t true.

Marissa Mowry took a plea deal and at 28 years old, five years after giving birth to Chris’s baby, she was sentenced. According to the Tampa Bay Times, 17-year-old Chris sat in a courtroom to watch as she was handed down the sentence of 20 years in prison for what she did to him. Upon her release, she will have to complete 10 years of probation and will need to register as a sex offender, meaning she will spend the rest of her life adhering to a series of strict conditions.

Nadean mourns the childhood her son lost. Chris is now a teenager raising a 5-year-old son himself. The irony of Chris taking Bentley to school every morning then going to school himself is not lost on his mother.

Rather than hanging out with friends, Chris plays with his son in their backyard when he gets home. “Who wants to date a 17-year-old who has a 5-year-old?” Nadean asked, pointing out just one of many obstacles Chris now faces. “It has not ruined his life, but it’s changed his life.”

Chris may face many hardships due to his fatherhood status, he still, however, strives to do all he can. He’s trying to be the best dad he can be. The 17-year-old father has the support of his mother, and 5-year-old Bently says he is “the best daddy!” Nadean agrees, saying, Chis “has turned into one of the most amazing dads you’ll ever meet.”

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