Breaking: Police Say Missing Vt. 12-Year-Old’s Body Found - With Video
Regarding the mothers statement: “She said she was “very surprised” by her ex-husband’s alleged involvement.”
BULLSHIT!
The biological father was on Fox News last night: On The Record - Gretta’s show - And stated that he had informed his x-wife that her new husband was a REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER.
ANY woman who takes a risk and places her children in the lap of a child sex offender should be held accountable for her actions! ESPECIALLY when their child is raped and murdered by the very person the mother CHOSES over her own children.
UPDATE:
BETHEL, Vt. - The body of a missing 12-year-old whose uncle allegedly planned to force her into a sex ring the day she disappeared was found Wednesday in Randolph, not far from his house.
State Police Director Col. James Baker said Brooke Bennett’s body was found about 4:45 p.m. and her family had been notified.
The uncle, Michael Jacques, has been in custody since Sunday on charges of aggravated sexual assault against a different underage girl. He has pleaded not guilty.
Brooke was last seen alive with the uncle, Michael Jacques, at a convenience store a week ago.
“The painful discovery of Brooke’s body today is tragic and heartbreaking,” Baker said at a news conference.
He called the death “clearly suspicious” but declined to give details before a planned briefing Thursday morning.
But in an affidavit unsealed earlier in U.S. District Court in Burlington, the FBI said an unidentified teenager told investigators she was present on June 25 when Jacques, 42, tricked Brooke into thinking she was going to a party and took her to his Randolph home to be initiated into a sex ring.
The girl said she was led to believe that Brooke would “would have sex with adult males” during the initiation.
After the three got to Jacques’ home, the girl said she and Brooke watched television for a while before Jacques told her to leave and took his niece upstairs. The witness, who is 14, said she left the house with her boyfriend and did not see Brooke again.
The 14-year-old said she herself had been having sex with Jacques, 42, since she was 9 as part of the sex ring.
Brooke’s former stepfather, Raymond Gagnon, appeared in federal court Wednesday on an obstruction of justice charge in the case. He was denied bail and was held pending another hearing on Monday.
Police say Gagnon, 40, lives in Texas but often visited Vermont. According to the affidavit, he told police he accessed Brooke’s MySpace page from a laptop computer at his home in San Antonio after getting login information from Jacques.
Police said they have evidence that postings to the account were altered to make it appear that Brooke had discussed a secret rendevous with someone identified as “Skittlemeup” shortly before she disappeared.
Gagnon also told police he had downloaded child pornography onto the laptop, according to the affidavit.
In Randolph before the announcement, Brooke’s friends and family put up signs saying they missed her and were praying for her safe return. She lived in Braintree, a small town close to Randolph.
“To the community, thank you so much for all your support and help, and I hope I can keep continuing to get that,” said Brooke’s mother, Cassandra Gagnon. She wore a photo pin of her daughter on her T-shirt.
She said she was “very surprised” by her ex-husband’s alleged involvement.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. - Vermont State Police say they have found a body believed to be that of a missing 12-year-old girl.
Col. James Baker says Brooke Bennett’s body was found in Randolph shortly before 5 p.m. and her family has been notified.
According to an affidavit, a 14-year-old witness has told investigators that Brooke’s uncle brought Brooke to his home to initiate her into a child sex ring the day she disappeared.
She was last seen alive with the uncle, Michael Jacques, at a convenience store a week ago.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 pmTalk about a dysfunctional family! Wow! The poor girl never had a chance. Sorry state of affairs. Why was the Uncle out walking free in the town anyway? Time for the judges in this country to stop being bleeding hearts.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 pmI would like to know if this uncle was the mother’s brother. I just cannot imagine what gets these guys off? The screams of torture must be horrible–and I hope every member of this “club” hears those screams constantly in their ears, so much so that they cannot function any longer. I hope that gangs of large men bond together and start hunting down these pedophiles and gang-raping them, so that they can feel part of what their victim felt. I can’t even imagine what kind of sick bastards there are up in those woods, but a child sex ring? Jesus, what cold-hearted pieces of shit!!! Don’t any of these guys have kids of their own? I’ll tell you all one thing; if any of those maggots comes near one of my nieces or nephews–he’d never make it to jail. Protect your children! They can trust NO ONE!!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 pmYou think the judges are bleeding hearts now, wait til the Democrats get in. It’ll be a friggin’ free for all!
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:28 pmVermont’s liberal court system has been a child molester’s best friend. Time for a change. This guy needs to fry.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:33 pmThink about that Justice Kennedy!
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:43 pmMan this country makes me sick with these shit bags we have walking our streets and dumb as bitches who spread there legs for these idiots
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:47 pmIts time to start holding judges accountable for repeat offenders.If they will not put insane freaks like this behind bars for life put the judges into prison in their place.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 pmThanks a lot SCOTUS! The rat bastard of an Uncle was running a child sex ring and now cannot get the death penalty for it.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 amwhen i was young i was molested by my stepdad…i actually had to runaway because of it, no one believed me …my mother knew and decided to turn a blind eye to it…when i was a runaway i met a lot of girls like me who had been through this scenerio where the mom turns the other way…the mom needs as much jail as the uncle and stepdad if not more because she knowingly put her child at risk..
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 amthis is just another example of how another mother put her dick before her daughter!!!
All you left wingnuts out there keep this in mind:
1) CNN makes no mention of the fact that this was a repeat offender that Vermont had dubbed rehabilitated.
2)ABC news website, front page article of the ManFreak that just gave birth. No mention of the poor girl or her should be dead relatives.
3)CBS News website, brief mention that uncle was a convicted sex offender.
4) NBC News website, again brief mention that uncle was a convicted sex offender.
I wonder if the Huffington post will stay on top of thing to ensure the uncles rights are protected. Maybe Obama could negotiate with him for better behavior!
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:44 amJustice Kennedy, what if this was your grand-daughter? Would you be up for rehabilitating him? Better yet when he walks the streets again (as he probably will) can we house him in your vicinity?
This is one of the sickest things I’ve read short of the father who kept his family in the cellar. How can you rape a child, much less your own niece? And then kill her? I hope you burn in hell bud.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:24 pmMaybe you should all stop pointing the finger at the justice system and take a look in the mirror. The justice system is not the ultimate power in the universe, it cannot know all things. Its time we take up the slack. We should get our fat asses off the couch, off the computer and start doing something about these freaks. In the Philippines many cities have death squads that fill in where the justice system fails. These monsters get a nice bullet in the brain, case closed. I am a liberal but I’ll tell you right now that I have no bleeding heart for these guys. They should be strung up in public as far as I’m concerned. Small groups of people in each city could do this and get away with this… who is going to care about a bunch of monsters anyway. Its time we stop complaining and do something about it. Thats my opinion anyways.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:34 pmThis is indeed another in a string of horrible crimes committed on children in this world today. But, Dan, please don’t believe that because my politics are liberal that I think this guy has more rights than the victim. I agree that the mother plays a huge role in this and should be charged as well. I am wondering what the current relationship was supposed to be? Disgusting. Young girls have enough trouble growing up right today without old men warping them for the rest of their lives. I’m not sure what your point is about the news Web sites. I think all of us can agree that the main stream media — and I don’t mean just liberal msm — plays a huge role in distorting the information we get every day. I’m afraid people are also getting numb from this sort of crime being committed over and over again.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:42 pm