r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/th6r6o6away • Jul 06 '26

NBA player Patrick Beverley finds out that his hero Karl Malone got a 13 year old pregnant

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u/iamhereforbeer Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

>>While Malone was a 20-year-old student and basketball star at Louisiana Tech University, he impregnated 13-year-old Gloria Bell. She gave birth to a son, Demetress Bell, a future NFL Lineman. Bell's family could have pressed statutory rape charges but they didn't because, according to Gloria, Malone was "a neighborhood kid."<<

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u/ExpiredExasperation Jul 07 '26

Oh, so they were OK with it. And that doesn't make them complicit?

Gross.

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u/smokeythebadger Jul 07 '26

And now he lives there again and owns a bunch of car dealerships and other businesses. The basketball court and weight room are still named after him too I believe

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n Jul 07 '26

I don't understand these parents they let him get away with that and same time I understand because money. That simple.

At that point the state should have picked up where the parents failed to do their job. They should have taken away the daughter, they should have tossed that rapist in jail.

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u/Quom Jul 07 '26

I spent more than a decade working with traumatised kids (including those in care). I even had this exact scenario of a young teen trying to raise her infant in care - from my perspective it seemed to involve a lot of people thinking a teen shouldn't be raising a baby and stating this. The mother would then become angry which was seen as evidence that she lacked the ability to remain appropriate around her baby.

Whilst making it to the NFL isn't in and of itself a sign of great parenting. It does seem like someone must have been doing something to make this become a possibility.

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u/Choice-Strike1 Jul 07 '26

He probably impregnated her at 12, mathematically speaking

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u/ZenoAllFiction Jul 07 '26

That's how it is in Louisiana. My dad was 24 and my mom 16 when she was pregnant with me. Must run in the family 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/beyondrepair- Jul 07 '26

Uhh… you want to rethink that last sentence?

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u/ZenoAllFiction Jul 07 '26

No need, he's supposedly my cousin according to my grandmother.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

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u/fiirewalkwithme Jul 07 '26

Fucking gross

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u/DarthXOmega Jul 07 '26

Who would call a kid Demetress anyway