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xcptnl
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Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:34 am |
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Brooke Bennett-missing teen in VT found dead
This is the sickest thing ever. Her freaking uncle!!
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHjvw1NOFGPL0mQ-JPqYfuNZF1LgD91MBEBO0
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/02/missing.vermont.girl/index.html
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Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:39 pm |
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Isn't it just a horrific story? 
Prosecutors: Deception ran deep in Vt. kidnapping
Published - Jul 03 2008 08:06PM EDT | AP
By DAVE GRAM - Associated Press Writer
A Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home carefully orchestrated events and e-mails to make it appear she had gone to see someone she met online, prosecutors said Thursday as they charged him with kidnapping.
Michael Jacques, 42, could face the death penalty under federal law if convicted in the disappearance of Brooke Bennett. An autopsy has not confirmed whether the girl was killed.
Citing statements from another girl, prosecutors claim in an affidavit that Jacques tricked Brooke into thinking she was going to a party and instead took her to his Randolph home to initiate her into a child sex ring on June 25, the day she disappeared.
The girl's body was found Wednesday in a shallow grave near Jacques' house.
But no new evidence of a wider child sex ring has been found, beyond the claims of the 14-year-old that were released Wednesday in another affidavit unsealed in U.S. District Court in Burlington, officials said.
"There's nothing from this investigation that's been turned up, nor otherwise are federal and state authorities aware of, any ongoing efforts to recruit young girls or boys here in Vermont to have sex with adults," Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell said at a news conference Thursday.
Authorities said they still weren't sure if there was a sex ring or whether there was a ruse Jacques might have used to intimidate the girls.
Michael Desautels, the federal public defender representing Jacques, didn't return calls Thursday.
Authorities say Jacques faked and altered postings to Brooke's MySpace pages in an effort to persuade investigators she planned to run off with someone she met through the social networking site.
The tampering was discovered by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, housed at the Burlington P
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