Category Archive for : ‘DEATH PENALTY FOR SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

Joseph P. Smith, 39, has been charged with 11 year old Carlie Brucia’s murder. He is the tattooed man in a mechanic’s shirt who was seen in a car wash surveillance video leading Carlie away by the arm the evening of February 1, 2004.

Carlie was taking a shortcut home on from a friend’s house at about 6:20 p.m. behind Evie’s Car Wash which was closed for the day, when she was stopped by a man wearing a mechanic’s shirt with a name patch on the chest. A desperate

Jofre Bautista, a 34 year old depraved predator who abducted a 13 year old schoolgirl off the street, raped and beat her, then used her cellphone to try to lure her friends, was described as a loving husband and protective father of two young daughters.  According to prosecutors, on October 18, 2005, at about 3:40 p.m., Bautista, of Brooklyn, was driving his minivan in Woodside, Queens, and called out to his victim, saying he needed directions to Queens Boulevard.  When she responded, he punched her, pulled her into the van,

A 13 year old girl missing since January 11 was rescued and an ex-convict was arrested after a man found a handwritten note she had dropped a half-mile from her home in Dresden, Germany.  The scrap of paper had HELP, HELP scrawled on it in brighter red letters.  The note had the address where she was being held and the name of her kidnapper.  A spokesman for city prosecutors said, From what we can tell so far, he kept her in a crate for a while with a gag in

Nassau police are looking for a rapist who they said kidnapped a 15 year old girl at gunpoint in Elmont, threw her into his van and blindfolded her before sexually assaulting her in a basement.  Afterward, he took her pants and gave her sweatpants to wear.  The exchange was an attempt by the attacker to keep any DNA evidence he might have left on the girl’s pants from police.  The girl told police the man’s van had curtains on the side and rear windows.  She also said he was about

Matthew Gray, 18 and Janelle Butler, 19, held a runaway teen captive in a hollow bed frame for weeks and forced her to have sex for money with people they found on the Internet.  the 15 year old girl, who ran away from her home in El Mirage, Arizona in September and met the couple through a friend, managed to call relatives for help while Gray and Butler were sleeping Monday night.  The two were arrested Tuesday.  At a west Phoenix apartment, they imprisoned her in a dog kennel for

More than six weeks after Shasta Groene and her brother disappeared from a home where family members were bludgeoned to death, the 8 year old girl was found July 2, 2005, sharing a meal with Joseph Edward Duncan III, a 42 year old registered sex offender, at a Denny’s restaurant here in her hometown. A day after Shasta turned up, her father, Steve, said she’s doing very well and seems to be in good spirits. Speaking about his son, Dylan, who is still missing, he said, I have high hopes