Deaf Writer's Alarm

CLAYTON • 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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I am write this because I wanted to say "that is sick!"  That woman is more than mental

 illness for being child pornography.   I not know why she offered to men to sex her

daughter?  How does men willing to sex her daughter that age!   Her daughter was only a

 baby!

I am sure her daughter growing up and very protective herself from that kind of sex abuse

.  I know how she feels when she get older.  Hope she was practicing to be stand herself

up when get old.

I am not happy about the kid suffering from terrible with her mom and her autistic dad, plus

 her sex pornography by her mom.  That is very sick!

I also am glad that she is with foster parents and train her well.  I know she has all

nightmates become fade when get old unless not even let men bothers her much.  Hope

she has much learn the experience before into world more and more....

- Deaf Writer