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How brazen and sick can some people truly be? The facts that sex crimes occur is bad enough. That fact that they are prepared on children is even worse. But for a rape to occur to an eight year old in broad day light is truly repulsive and heinous. How sick and dangerous an individual is on the loose that would do such a thing.
Have you seen this man in the St. Petersburg, FL area?
Police say the suspect is described:
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an Asian male between 17 and 21-years-old
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He’s 5’6″ and 125-pounds.
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Officers say the suspect may be a transient
An 8-year-old girl was raped on the side of a residential street in full daylight less than half a block from her apartment, police said.
The girl was leaving a park at about 12:55 p.m. with her 7-year-old brother when a man grabbed her from behind, pulled her to the ground and raped her, police said. Their mother had left them alone for a few minutes to return home and turn off the kitchen stove.
(First Coast News)
Luckily people near by who witnessed and heard the attack and called 911 and ran to the scene causing this rapists to run off. Neighbor Aaron Chambiss was playing basketball and ran to the scene and chased the attacker down the street. The incomprehensible actions of the sick individual are beyond belief in that he committed this crime in broad daylight, out in the open and with people running toward him.
When he ran to the park. he couldn’t believe what he saw.
Aaron chased the suspect down the block but he got away, “He seemed to be high on something because he saw me and attempted to run the first time but then he jumped back on the little girl.”
Parents like Aaron are worried, “It’s a sick individual, broad daylight in front of a park. Residential neighborhood, lots of kids around here, we don’t need any sexual predators in our neighborhood.”
Aaron says it made him sick to see what happened, “She was begging and pleading for him to stop and it touched my heart. I got kids of my own.”
(Tampa Bays 10)
Police were able to recover the man’s shirt; however, he got away. Hopefully there may be DNA on the shirt that they may be able to match to a sex offender database.
Neighbors had never seen him in the area before. Call the St. Petersburg Police Department if you have any information.
UPDATE: According to Tampa Bays 10 a suspect has been arrested in the 
daylight rape of 10 8 year old St Petersburg girl.
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UPDATE: Henry Sengaroun, 18, arrested in case of raped 8 year old Henry Sengaroun, 18, who suffers from mental health issues was arrested in a rape in broad day light of an 8 year old girl.
Henry Sengaroun, 18, was arrested Thursday, Detective Joe Bross said. A shirt Sengaroun left at the crime scene, and descriptions from witnesses led to his arrest. He faces a charge of capital sexual battery. Sengaroun recently lived in the area, but was described as a transient. (First Coast News)
July 20th, 2006 at 05:20pm
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Five-year-old Destiny Norton has been missing since Sunday. Destiny Norton went 
missing from her home around 8:30 Sunday night in the area of 720 South and 500 East near Trolley Square. Even though Destiny as not been found, the Amber Alert has been cancelled as it does not meet the requirement. One of the flaws of the system of helping missing children.
Police said that they are missing criteria required for an Amber Alert because they do not have a suspect or direct evidence that the child was kidnapped. They have now changed the status of the case to “endangered child or juvenile”.
Description:
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She is 3’ 6” tall
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weighs between 45 and 50 pounds.
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She has blond hair with green streaks in the back
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Was last seen wearing an adult-sized black shirt with gray stripes.
Sevkija Ferhatovic was questioned and released by the police in her disappearance. 
He may be re-questioned, there is no evidence that Sevkija Ferhatovic was involved in her disappearance; however, he has been charged in the past of sexual abuse but was found not guilty.
In 2002 Ferhatovic was charged in 3rd District Court with two counts of sexual abuse with a child and one count of sexual abuse of a minor but was found not guilty on all those charges.
(KUTV)
UPDATE: Police ask for help in search for missing girl
Police today, emphasizing their belief and hope that Destiny Norton is alive, issued a passionate plea for residents to scour their immediate surroundings and to reflect back to what they were doing and may have noticed Sunday evening, when the young girl was reported missing.
Meanwhile, searches by volunteers continued in Millcreek Canyon and surrounding areas in hopes of turning up some clue that may help produce a resolution in the case.
(Desert News)
A $15,000 reward has been offered leading to Destiny’s return. Call 799-INFO (4636)
Project Safe Kids: Missing Endangered Child Alert for Destiny Norton
July 17th, 2006 at 11:14pm
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We are witness every day to the exploitation of our children by those that are older and in positions of authority. Teenagers are getting into compromising situations that they are ill prepared to handle. Some cases are where teens are having sex with there teachers. In other more bizarre cases we have teens flying off to the Middle East to meet with people they met on the internet.
Well, 15 year old girls need not worry in Colorado anymore. Your parents might have to and the communities you live in, but you will not. The brilliance of the Colorado Court of Appeals overturned the lower courts ruling and made it ok for 15 year old girls to enter into a common-law marriage. Unbelievable.
A 15-year-old girl can enter into a common-law marriage in Colorado, and younger girls and boys possibly can, too, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
While the three-judge panel stopped short of setting a specific minimum age for such marriages, it said they could be legal for girls at 12 and boys at 14 under English common law, which Colorado recognizes.
The ruling overturned a lower-court judges decision that a girl, now older than 18, was too young to marry at 15.
The panel said there was no clear legislative or statutory guidance on common-law marriages, and that Colorado courts have not determined an age of consentage of consent.
For traditional ceremonial marriage, Colorado law sets the minimum age at 18, or 16 with parental or judicial approval.
So a 15 year old cannot drink, smoke or enter into a binding contract; however, some how in the eyes of the Court they have the decision making capability and maturity to marry. The unbelievable stupidity of the Courts lately is something to just shake one’s head at. Encouraging teens to marry is one of the most irresponsible things our liberal Courts have handed down in recent time.
So much for safety of minors or exploitation. Why do we say exploitation? Lets take a look at the case that prompted this disastrous decision.
Willis Rouse, 38, argued that he and the girl began living together in April 2002 and applied for a marriage license a year later. Did we mention that Rouse is serving time for escape and a parole violation? Did we also mention he was 38? The 15 year old’s mother even consented to the marriage and accompanied the girl and Rouse to obtain a license. Did we mention that Rouse was 38 and his bride to be was 15?
A judge invalidated the marriage, saying anybody under age 16 needed judicial approval for either common-law or ceremonial marriage.
Not any more according to the higher court. The Colorado court has made a decision that is paramount to State sponsored child exploitation. Every day we deal with predators attacking the children of this country, and we get this out of Colorado? OK, someone just needs to come out and say it.
WTF is a 15 year old girl doing with a 38 year old man with the blessing of her mother!!!
Without a marriage license this would be exploitation and rape. What are we supposed to presume what happened between these two prior to the attempted marriage?
The Law makers in Colorado need to step in here and do the responsible thing. Such a law cannot be allowed to exist in the 21 century with manipulative child predators and ignorant non-caring parents who think its fine for their daughter to marry someone 23 years her elder. This is not the 19th century where girls married early to give birth to children so they could help out on the farm.
How are we supposed to help protect our children, if we have courts that make rulings that are in direct conflict with that very principle? I hope the 15 year old’s is Colorado that decide to take advantage of this ruling do not decide to celebrate their nuptials with champagne. That would be illegal. You can marry, but not drink … how screwed up is this?
UPDATE: Looks like we actually do have some law makers upset. They best not just talk about it, but actually do something for a change.
Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald said she was appalled by the ruling and said lawmakers need to look at the issue next year when the Legislature reconvenes.
“That’s a child. You’re taking advantage of an undeveloped person, putting them in a situation that’s for life. That’s something we need to take a look at,” the Democrat said.
(Yahoo News)
No you do not need to take a look at it … YOU NEED TO CHANGE IT!!!
June 15th, 2006 at 07:32pm
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What is wrong with judges in this country? A 5-foot-1 man can sexually abuse a 12 year old girl but some how he is too short to survive i n jail according to a judge. First of all who cares, second of all how is being too short a defense? This low life had no problem molesting a child, yet some how our legal system protects him as he is too short to survive i jail. What ever happened to protecting the children, the defenseless of our society?
A judge’s decision to sentence a 5-foot-1 man to probation instead of prison for sexually assaulting a child has angered crime victim advocates who say the punishment sends the wrong message.
But supporters of short people say it’s about time someone recognizes the unique challenges they face.
Cheyenne County District Judge Kristine Cecava issued the sentence Tuesday. She told Richard W. Thompson that his crimes deserved a long prison sentence but that he was too small to survive in a state prison.
Though he could have been sentenced to 10 years behind bars, he ended up with 10 years of probation instead. On Thursday, the state’s attorney general, Jon Bruning, promised to appeal within two weeks, calling the sentence far too lenient.
“I’m concerned about the message this sends to victims and perpetrators,” said Marla Sohl with the Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition, adding that it shows more concern is being placed on the criminal and his safety in prison than the victim.
(Yahoo News)
How can height play a part in the sentencing of a sexual predator? Obviously his height did not prevent him from committing the crime. This just plays in a long line of judges who would rather protect the rights of child molesters than their victims.
May 26th, 2006 at 07:39pm
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Marlene Brito, 13, of Interlachen has been missing since Sunday afternoon. An Amber Alert has been issued for Marlene Brito. She is believed to be with 25 year old Juan Martinez-San Augestino. Earlier a child endangerment alert is issued for the Alachua County, but had been upgraded to an Amber Alert.
Marlene Brito, 13, of Interlachen, was last seen Sunday afternoon on a blueberry farm in Windsor, which is the outskirt of Gainesville. The girl told relatives she was going to the restroom but didn’t return.
Investigators believe the teenager may be with another person who was working at the farm, Juan Martinez-San Augestino, 25. They may be traveling in a green, 1994 Plymouth van with the Illinois license plate 9-6-2-0-4-0-0. (CBS4)
Marlene Brito Description: 
Brito has long brown hair, is 4’11″ and approximately 90 lbs. She has brown hair and brown eyes and was wearing a white T-shirt, blue jacket and blue pants.
If anyone has any information on either party please call the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office at (352) 264-6640 or the Florida Law Enforcement Children Information Clearinghouse at (888) FL MISSING.
AMBER ALERT
- Date Missing: 5/7/2006
- Missing From: Windsor, FL County: ALACHUA
- Birth Date: 1/11/1993
- Age Disappeared: 13 yrs 3 months
- Height: 4′ 11″
- Race: White/Hispanic
- Hair: Black
- Weight: 88 lbs
- Sex: Female
- Eyes: Brown
Narrative: MARLENE WAS LAST SEEN WEARING A BLUE JACKET, WHITE T-SHIRT, AND BLUE PANTS IN THE WINDSOR, FL AREA, WHICH IS THE OUTSKIRTS OF GAINESVILLE, FL. THE CHILD MAY BE IN THE COMPANY OF JUAN MARTINEZ-SAN AUGESTINO, A HISPANIC MALE, 25 YEARS OLD UNKNOWN DESCRIPTION. THEY MAY BE TRAVELING IN A 1994 GREEN PLYMOUTH VAN WITH ILLINOIS TAG NUMBER 9620400.
UPDATE: Police: Teen Missing From Florida Found In Georgia
Cobb County police said a car carrying Marlene Brito was stopped by officers in Marietta, Ga., and the girl was OK.
An Amber Alert was issued early Wednesday morning in north Florida and Georgia for the girl, who lives in Interlachen, Fla.
May 10th, 2006 at 06:41pm
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The body of missing the missing 8 year old Woonsocket girl, Savannah Smith, was found on Monday in the woods, near an industrial area in Cranston. The police have charged Joshua Davis, the 20-year-old boyfriend of Savannah Smith’s babysitter with the murder.
The body of a missing 8-year-old Woonsocket girl was found in a wooded area in Cranston early Monday, and police charged the 20-year-old boyfriend of her baby sitter with her killing.
Joshua Davis of Woonsocket was ordered held without bail at his arraignment Monday afternoon in Providence District Court on one count of murder in the slaying of Savannah Smith.
Friends, family and neighbors searched for the missing child when she did not return home only to learn the worst.
“We were all out looking,” Jennifer Lebrun told the newspaper. “We were yelling out her name, but we couldn’t find her anywhere.”
Savannah’s body was found by police at about 3:30 a.m. Monday in the woods, near an industrial area in Cranston, said Michael Healey, a spokesman for state Attorney General Patrick Lynch.
“She was such a sweetheart and I feel very bad for the family,” Lebrun told The Call. (Boston Globe)
May 9th, 2006 at 12:17pm
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Colt Levi Clark, 9, has been missing for approximately two weeks. A $10,000 reward has been offered for his safe return.
A reward has now been offered in the case of a missing Seminole boy.
Colt Levi Clark, 9, has been missing for almost two weeks. His adoptive parents have offered a $10,000 reward for his safe return.
An Amber Alert was never issued for Colt Levi Clark as authorities stated there is no evidence of an abduction. This is one of the real flaws of Amber. I guess a nine year old just wondered off on his own for two weeks and is in no danger. Once would think that getting info out to as many people as fast as possible would be in this child’s best welfare.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children poster and description for Colt Levi Clark
May 4th, 2006 at 09:59pm
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Sick and tired of reading about judges from Vermont and Ohio letting child rapists out with little to no punishments for their crimes? Tired of hearing about the rights of the criminals and that they have an illness?
South Carolina has an answer to that illness that will cure it permanently. In a backlash to the recent “Dungeon rapes“ by sex offender Kenneth Glenn Hinson, the SC attorney general backs a proposal that will execute twice convicted child molesters.
Some S.C. legislators want to execute twice-convicted child molesters, and experts say such a law could be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
“This is a historic moment for South Carolina to step forward and force the Supreme Court’s hand,” said Sen. David Thomas, R-Greenville, who is supporting a bill that could make the state the second — behind Louisiana — to allow the death penalty for a crime other than murder. “We have changed as a nation since the 1970s when the court last addressed the constitutionality of capital punishment for a sex crime. It’s a horror — someone who twice rapes a young child — they deserve a death sentence.”
It is about time someone start taking the protection of our children seriously. All too often we hear that a sexual predator needs to be rehabilitated and provided therapy. This of course after they have violated how many children? It is well documented that a sex offender has committed far too numerous to count acts before they are ever arrested. Then when they are, misguided judges provide a slap on the wrist. Not any more in SC if the legislature and AG get their way.
“I’m going to give the General Assembly a green light on passing this law because we need this to protect our children and to deter these sexual predators,” McMaster said late Monday.
Robert Blecker, a professor who teaches a course in death penalty law at New York Law School, says he believes the “right case” for capital punishment for a twice convicted child molester could be ruled constitutional.
Several states seem to be following this same “get tough” attitude to protect children. However, some states like Maine just don’t get it and actually have the audacity to call things that would protect children like Jessica’s Law, an election-year gimmick.
Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, said several states, including Oklahoma and Georgia, are considering capital punishment for repeat child molesters. Kentucky has tightened penalties for repeat child molesters but decided recently not to pursue the death penalty.
In Louisiana, a convicted child rapist has been sentenced to death row, and in 1999 the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the ruling.
(Charlotte Observer)
SC Sex Offenders List
The most dangerous states for American kids
March 28th, 2006 at 07:34pm
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A new system called the Child Rescue Alert (CRA), based on the Amber Alert in the United States, will begin in England and Wales. Its purpose is to make it easier and quicker for police to find missing children. The program is designed to contact the media at the earliest stage of a suspected child abduction.
Text messages will also be sent out to members of the public.
Senior officers say the public can act as the “eyes and ears of the police” to help finding missing children.
CRA’s will be sent out if the missing person is under 18 and if there is “a reasonable belief” they have been kidnapped, abducted or are in “imminent danger of serious harm or death”.
“The CRA will be a valuable resource to the police to enable them to carry out their investigations swiftly and effectively to better safeguard the lives of children.”
(BBC News)
There can never be enough safe guards and programs for the protection of children.
March 27th, 2006 at 11:55pm
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Kenneth G. Hinson, a previously convicted rapist, was arrested today on charges of 
what else? Rape. He was arrested on charges of assaulting two 17 year old girls. Hinson had been previously convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl in 1991. Once again another case of giving the benefit of the doubt to the criminal and endangering the publics safety.
Kenneth G. Hinson, 47, fled on foot after the girls escaped and called police. Although he was carrying a handgun, Hinson was arrested without incident after a neighbor spotted him, said Deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Stec.
The two 17-year-old girls were taken from their nearby home late Monday and assaulted in a room under a shed on Hinson’s property, police said. The girls were left bound inside the room but managed to wriggle free and walk to safety. (AP)
Hinson had created an elaborate underground room behind his home hidden by a shed where he committed the rapes and imprisoned the teens. Hinson abducted both girls separately while they slept.
Authorities say that late Monday, Hinson, 47, took the two 17-year-old girls one at a time from a nearby mobile home while they were sleeping. He bound the first girl’s mouth with tape and took her to a shed on his property, where a trap door led to an underground room not much larger than a closet with a 4-foot ceiling, Darlington County Chief Deputy Tom Gainey said.
Hinson sexually assaulted the girl, then left her in the underground room 
bound with duct tape while he went back to the mobile home for the other girl. She was also sexually assaulted, Gainey said.
After Hinson left, the teens managed to wriggle free, open the trap door and kick down the door to the shed. They walked through some woods and flagged down a passing motorist, Gainey said.
(Houston Chronicle)
Like in so many cases we see today, Kenneth G. Hinson was arrested and sent to prison for nine years in 1991 for the rape of a 12 year old girl. The problem being that Hinson was sentenced to 20 years for the crime, yet in 2000 Circuit Judge Edward Cottingham let this predator out of prison and said, “authorities failed to show the man was capable of committing a sexual offense in the future”. Judge Cottingham, what do you think now? Review Committees at the time had requested that Hinson remain in prison and was a risk to society. Yet Circuit Judge Edward Cottingham in his infinite wisdom allowed this animal back on the streets to prey on innocent girls. This is just the latest in a long line of judges that need to be shown the door as they do not have the publics safety or interest at heart.
In 1991, Hinson was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl. He was released from prison in 2000 after serving nine years of a 20-year sentence, a decision state Attorney General Henry McMaster blasted Friday.
“This man was sentenced to 20 years. Had that 20 years meant 20 years, he’d still be in jail now, and this wouldn’t have happened,” McMaster told Fox News.
McMaster also chided a judge’s decision to not place Hinson in a program for sexually violent predators.
Just before Hinson’s release, a review committee recommended that he be committed indefinitely to a Department of Mental Health facility for treatment, but Circuit Judge Edward Cottingham rejected the recommendation, saying prosecutors failed to show Hinson would likely offend again.
“I can’t control what comes before me as a judge,” Cottingham said Friday. “And I deal with what’s before me and make a ruling to the best of my judgment.”
Cottingham said he did not remember Hinson’s specific case but that state law requires prosecutors to show probable cause that the person will commit another sexual assault.
When is enough, enough? When is the judiciary going to actually start making the primary concern the publics safety first? One can only imagine the rapes that Hinson may have done between 2000 and today that he was never charged with, or worse. Just recently we were presented with Judge Edward Cashman in Vermont who gave a sexual predator, Mark Hulett, 6 months until pressure was brought to bear.
“The one message I want to get through is that anger doesn’t solve anything. It just corrodes your soul,” said Judge Edward Cashman speaking to a packed Burlington courtroom.
Then there was the Ohio judge, Judge John Connor, that gave a convicted sexual predator who raped two boys probation. A judge that also seems to have his own issues and many wonder how continues to be a judge.
See more of Judge John Conner’s past and questionable decisions.
Now this brilliant decision by Circuit Judge Edward Cottingham to let this convicted rapist out early was he did not this he would rape again. What are these people thinking, especially when he was advised by two panels not to let this criminal out of jail. These judges should be charged with crimes for their pathetic, ridiculous and harmful decisions that they make that expose predators on society.
EARTH TO JUDGES … THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A ONE TIME RAPIST!!!
March 17th, 2006 at 08:40pm
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