Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS WHO REOFFEND’

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Jennifer Schuett won’t get to face her attacker in a courtroom but she will have the finalword.  The man who is accused of raping her, slitting her throat, and leaving her to die whenshe was only 8 years old has committed suicide, and Schuett says she wanted the opportunity toconfront him in court. Dennis Earl Bradford, 40, was found hanging from a noose in his jail celllast week.  Schuett, 27, had waited nearly two decades to find her attacker and bring him tojustice. At age 8, she was kidnapped

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Officials say an unexplained four-hour delay gave registered sex predator Tommy Lee Sailorenough time to go to a bar, meet a woman, party with her, bring her home and try to rape her. Around 12:15 am Friday, the company hired by the state to track violent offenders got notice thatsomething was not as it should be with Sailor.  Either the 27 year old’s GPS monitoring devicehad been removed from his ankle, or he had traveled too far from home.  Or maybe there was aneasily explained technical failure, most alerts like

New York Times/Michael S. Schmidt

Taurean Williams, a 25 year old Upper Manhattan man, was arrested on Sunday on rape charges,just a little more than two months after prosecutors dropped similar charges against him. Williams was charged with raping a 45 year old woman on the rooftop of a building at 550 West 153rdStreet on New Year’s Day.  The woman told the police that the man said he was a plainclothespolice detective and displayed a badge, and said he needed to bring her to a local station to checkwhether there were

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Police in Maryland were searching Christmas Eve for a missing 11-year-old girl last seenwearing fuzzy Christmas pajamas, and they have charged Thomas J. Leggs Jr., a 30 year oldregistered child sex offender, in her disappearance.  Leggs, of Salibury, is charged withburglary and with kidnapping Sara H. Foxwell.  A charging document says Leggs was the lastperson seen with Sarah.  A juvenile witness awoke during the night Tuesday and saw Sarahleave the bedroom with Tommy, and said he was wearing blue jeans, an orange jacket and whitesneakers.  Sarah’s aunt says her

Yahoo News/Juliet Williams and Samantha Young

Jaycee Lee Dugard, an 11 year old girl snatched on her way to school was hidden fornearly two decades behind a series of fences, sheds and tents, even giving birth to her suspectedabductor’s children in the suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from her childhoodhome.   Jaycee, now 29, was abducted in 1991 and was taken directly to the house andsheltered from the world by Phillip Garrido, who raped her and fathered two children withher.  The first when Jaycee was about 14.  Those girls, now 11 and 15, also

Newsday/Robert E. Kessler

Joseph Burkett, a 41 year old clerk at a Setauket deli with a history of sexually abusingchildren, has been charged with molesting several boys, at least one of whom he met on the MySpaceWeb site, after using the Internet to lure them to his Sound Beach home.  Burkett, ofShinnecock Drive in Sound Beach, was arrested June 14, 2007 and charged with two counts of using achild in a sexual performance, one count of committing a criminal sexual act and one count ofsexual abuse.  Officials have identified five