I really am close to tears, and at the same time I want to fly to Florida and kill this sick fuck myself.
*A sex offender was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a case that led to a crackdown around the country on people convicted of sex crimes.
Jurors deliberated about four hours before returning the verdict against John Evander Couey in the slaying of Jessica Lunsford, who was snatched from her bedroom in 2005 about 150 yards from the trailer where Couey had been living.
Her body was found in a shallow hole, encased in two black plastic trash bags. She had suffocated, and was found clutching a purple stuffed dolphin.*
If you want to be disgusted, read this more thorough account, and then ask yourself what could Couey’s family members/trailermates be expected to have not heard or seen while that girl was still alive.
Don’t read that link if you’re unwilling to feel even more disgusted and saddened though.
In addition to the reporting in the OP’s link, there’s reason to believe that Jessica was still alive when the police first investigated neighborhood residences. But, since no one “ratted out” Couey’s presence to the police they didn’t do the sort of extensive search that might have found her. And based on residue analysis from Jessica’s stomach, there’s room to question whether Couey ever bothered to feed her during the time he’d held her.
In other news, a Massachusetts man a few days ago took his two small children from their day care, drove to the parking lot of the company where his common-law wife, the mother of the children, worked, doused car, self and children with an accelerant, and set them ablaze. The first responders who put out the fire didn’t even know there was anyone inside the car till they knocked down the flames and saw what was left of the three bodies inside.
Yup, some people are sick fucks all right. Always have been, always will be.
Yea, I was down in the Tampa area on spring break right when the abduction occurred and I remember it getting a lot of press. I kind of figured most people knew about it up north too.
Iowa has its share of scumbags too. Recent cases in our news include a little girl who was molested by a family friend. The friend’s brother raped and killed her so she couldn’t testify against him. Both of them were convicted.
In another rape/murder case, the only logical suspects were friends of the mother. Apparently there’s no evidence to prove they abducted and killed the child (and dumped her body in a river), but one of them was recently convicted on child pornography charges. The mother has lost custody of her other children.
What can be done about these abominations? How can we protect our kids? All the laws in the world don’t seem to make a difference.
The really sick thing: this man was living with his niece, his sister, and another man in the same house trailer! NONE of these people EVER told the police about the fact that the perp was a registered sex offender! The poor little girl would have been saved, has his dirtbag relatives gone to the police!
A friend of mines daughter ran off a few months ago (she was 14) with some guys (yes, plural) she had met on myspace. The police were of no help. He went to three counties to try and get a hospital to do a rape kit on her (they told him she had to say she was raped before they would do it) and the police said since the guys dropped her off at a friends apartment, that they weren’t going to go after them. The wouldn’t tell the father WHICH apartment in the complex, he was not able to find his daughter until she showed up the next day at school.
Yes, I live in Tampa. Things like Cooey make the news, but it hasn’t seemed to have an effect on the day to day running of the police/hospitals.
BTW, the guys that she was with were all in their 20’s.
The cops already knew that Couey was a registered sex offender that’s why they were looking for him. The poor little girl would have been saved, if the fucking cops had looked in the fucking closet.
And just this week, another sick fuck abducted his 8 year old daughter, strapped her into his Cessna, and (allegedly) intentionally flew the plane into his ex-mother-in-law’s house. How anyone could take the life of their own child is beyond my comprehension.
Wow. Reading stories like this you’d think that caucasian citizens of a Christian-Judeo society based on law and order and democracy were barbarians or something.
I totally, completely, utterly, and the rest of the thesaurus, agree with you on this.
We have the tools and skills and knowledge - let’s use them for prevention and treatment and save worlds of grief.
