Stepdad Caught Raping his daughter!

After raping his severely crippled daughter multiple times, a dad has been placed under arrest. 

Following the installation of cameras in the girl's bedroom by her mother to monitor her seizures, Brian Kenneth Urban was apprehended. 

Brian Vigil, 51, admitted to raping his disabled stepdaughter Ashley Vigil, 31, and entered a guilty plea to five felonies.

Rett syndrome is a rare illness that disrupts brain development in females due to a genetic mutation. Less than 1,000 people in the US have this disorder, which affects the 31-year-old woman.

She is now roughly the size of a girl who is eight years old. Ashley's 49-year-old mother Paula Vigil stated, "She's not able to communicate." "Her seizure frequency had abruptly increased." 

Paula, who provides full-time care for Ashley, has designated her as the victim in this case and is working to enact "Ashley's Law," which she hopes would protect vulnerable adults in the same way that laws protect children and the elderly.

Even though Urban entered a guilty plea to the charges, which included forced sexual abuse and rape, the victim and her family are still dealing with the horror that his abuse has wrought. 

In October 2022, Paula's daughter Ashley's doctor advised her to install cameras in her bedroom to record her daughter's unexplained seizures to better understand what was happening. This recommendation led to the startling revelations of Urban's despicable behavior. "Instead of catching the seizures, I caught him," Paula stated to 2KUTV.

"In her condition, she can't move. He had to completely undress her, move her to the couch, and take her diaper off, to do what he did. Then he had to dress her and put her back in her bed, so I wouldn't know."

Paula thinks Ashley's body was screaming for assistance, which is why she was having seizures.  

"Her body was seizing, and she was crying for help in the only way she could,' Paula said. 'If not for those cameras, I would have never known, and I would have never had proof."

Paula called dispatch following the horrifying finding, and Urban was taken into custody by South Jordan police.

The abuser is presently being held at the Salt Lake County Jail; but, because of Ashley's age, Urban is not currently required to serve a mandated minimum prison sentence. 

Attorney Nathan Woodward from Utah was "rattled" when he came across Paula's story on Facebook. He chose to get in touch and extend his assistance to the family.

"I just want Paula and Ashley to feel heard. There's a real gap in how our law is written and applied," Woodward said.

The lawyer clarified that if a person is found guilty of sexual assault, the severity of the punishment depends on whether the victim is an adult or a kid. 

But 'no substantive consideration is given as to an adult victim's mental capacity, leading to an inconsistent underlying philosophy as to why we justify more severe sentences for crimes against children,' he clarified. 

Paula clarified that Urban's family is unaware of the exact sentence because there isn't one that is required of them.

"She is an infant in an adult body. He did this to someone who could not fight back. He should be getting a mandatory prison sentence, and there's just this hole in the system."

In an attempt to fix the flawed system, Paula and Woodward want to enact "Ashley's Law," which would take vulnerable adults into consideration. 

'She would never be anyplace where she wasn't safe,' the distraught mother said to her daughter. "He took that one thing I promised away," the woman remarked.

"Brian Kenneth Urban came into our lives pretending. The act he put on convinced me. Convinced me he loved my girls and would care for them as I do. That he would protect them,' Paula said on Facebook. 'Little did I know, what we needed protection from was him."