Sex offenses my minors have increased drastically since a new study came out and they are typically more violent in natures.
The number of children under 18 accused of forcible rape, violent and nonviolent sex offenses rose from 24,100 in 1985 to 33,800 in 2004, the AP’s analysis found.
18 year old Randle Terry had been missing since Tuesday, May 29, 2007 while swimming in Spring Creek near Riley Fuzzel Road. Volunteer members of Texas Equusearch joined the efforts to help find the missing Terry.
Texas EquuSearch crews used boats to search the water.
“The current is not as strong as I thought it was going to be,” said Tim Miller with Texas EquuSearch. “The waters went down considerably since yesterday, so all we need now is a little bit of luck and a lot of prayers.”
The Coast Guard and local law enforcement agencies searched the area until about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, and then again on Wednesday but found nothing.
Searchers said the water is very murky and about 20 feet deep because of recent rainfall.
The searched turned into a recovery mission by Wednesday afternoon. Volunteers believe Terry’s body is near where he was last seen.
“Normally, they don’t go too far. But, we do realize we’ve got quite a current here,” Miller said.
However, on Thursday the body of Randle Terry was found by members of Texas Equusearch in Spring Creek.
TES crew members have found the body of Randle Terry about a mile from where he went underwater in the creek. We pray that this family can now find the peace and begin to heal as they find ways to deal with this tragedy. We wish to thank everyone for their genuine care and concern to find this young man. A special thank you to all of our members who continue to dedicate themselves for such a tough job. Thank you to all of Randle’s classmates, teachers, family and friends that came to support each other. May you all continue to stay close and keep each other through this difficult time and always. God Bless you all.
This beautiful photo was provided by Carolyn Mitchell. Randle’s family wanted us to share this photo with you all. May You Rest In Peace. (TES)
Harold Sissom has been missing since May 24, 2007 in Grapeland, TX. Texas EquuSearch and its volunteers joined the search in hopes of finding the missing Sissom.
Harold Sissom, age 54, was last seen at his home on FM 227 in Grapeland, Texas on Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 4:00 a.m. and has not been seen or heard from since. Harold was last seen wearing blue jeans, a button up shirt and white tennis shoes. Harold is a severe diabetic and insulin dependent. It is unknown if he has his medication with him. He is driving a white 1992 Ford Escort, 4 door, license plate 109FHN.
Texas EquuSearch has just received news of Harold’s disappearance and is traveling to Grapeland immediately. If you can help, please call the office at 281-309-9500. (TES)
Volunteers Join Search for Missing Man
UPDATE I: Breaking, TES finds Missing Harold Sissom in Lake.
The body of Harold Sissom was found in his vehicle in a lake in Grapeland, TX. According to sources the body has been positively ID’d as the missing 54 year old Sissom. Lee Roberts, a Texas Equusearch member was on the scene and one of the individuals who located Sissom. A prayer for his family and may Harold Sissom rest in peace.
According to Tim Miller, founder of Texas Equusearch, this is the 64th documented recovery that his non-profit organization has found in its 7 year existence. With the shoe string budget that TES operates on that is truly an amazing number. Now imagine what TES could do if it was supported 20, 10 or 5% that of other larger and well known non-profits. Help TES find missing people with your donations. Giving never felt so good or was for a more noble cause.
Missing Man’s Body Found
Search Coordinator Frank Black said, “I try to put myself in the place of the family of the person that’s missing and say ‘hey, if I was missing or my family member was missing, I’d want somebody here to help me real quick and find that person’.”
Houston County sheriff’s investigators said a car belonging to 54-year-old Harold Sissom was found by Texas EquuSearch in a large culvert under water on FM 230 near Lovelady. An autopsy has been ordered. (KTRE-TV)
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Two Paul Smith College students, Sean Cornell, 20, of Manchester Center, Vt., and Lee Walker, 18, of Enosburg Falls, Vt., are missing after two canoes and a power boat capsized in Lower St Regis Lake in the Adirondacks.
The missing students from Paul Smith’s College were among six thrown into Lower St. Regis Lake just off shore from campus late Friday on the last day of classes before exams, college spokesman Kenneth Aaron said.
Four students got out of the water safely.
A state police helicopter, divers and rescuers from local fire departments were on the scene Saturday.
Aaron said state police were investigating why the boats capsized. The powerboat was not near the canoes when it overturned, he said.
The two missing students were in one of the canoes. They were identified as Sean Cornell, 20, of Manchester Center, Vt., and Lee Walker, 18, of Enosburg Falls, Vt. (AP)
UPDATE I: Body of Missing Paul Smith student, Lee Walker, Recovered from Lake
The body of one of the missing Paul Smith’s students has been recovered from Lower ST. Regis Lake.
Officials said a New York State Police scuba team recovered the body of 18-year-old Lee Walker late Saturday afternoon.
Walker was part of a group of six students whose two canoes capsized on the lake. Another student, 20-year-old Sean Cornell remains missing. Divers plan to resume their search this morning. (News Watch 50)
One student’s body found, another missing after boats capsize
The body of Lee Walker, 18, of Enosburg Falls, Vt., was recovered by State Police divers late Saturday afternoon, Aaron said. Sean Cornell, 20, of Manchester Center, Vt., remains missing. The search was suspended for the night and was to resume Sunday morning.
A community gathering was planned at the college Sunday morning.“Our entire community is deeply saddened by this tragic event,” college president John Mills said in a prepared statement. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of both these young men.”
Paul Smith’s enrolls about 850 students and offers degrees in natural resources, forestry, hospitality, recreation, business and biology, according to its Web site. The school is located 124 miles north of Albany. (WCAX-TV3)
Updates from Paul Smith College
UPDATE II: Second body found, Identified as Sean Cornell
New York State Police said they have found a second body in Lower St. Regis Lake, and have tentitively identified it as Sean Cornell, 20,of Manchester Center, Vt.
Police found the body just gefore noon Sunday.
After 63 years, the remains of World War II navigator, Air Force 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly has been ID’d. Kelly’s plane crashed on July 22, 1944. Some 63 years later, one of our hero’s from our Greatest Generation is finally home.
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The remains of a World War II navigator listed as missing in action for almost 63 years have been identified two years after they were found in Croatia, the brother of the deceased pilot said.
Air Force 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly’s B-24 crashed on July 22, 1944, south of Dubrovnik, Croatia, near the Adriatic Sea. The plane carrying 10 crew members was returning from a bombing raid on oil fields in Romania.
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The remains of a World War II navigator listed as missing in action for almost 63 years have been identified two years after they were found in Croatia, the brother of the deceased pilot said.
Air Force 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly’s B-24 crashed on July 22, 1944, south of Dubrovnik, Croatia, near the Adriatic Sea. The plane carrying 10 crew members was returning from a bombing raid on oil fields in Romania.
The trial of John Couey in the Murder of Jessica Lunsford is over and the Jury has recomended that he recieves the death penalty for the horrific crime.
In less than one hour the jury deliberated to determine that Couey was guilty of abducting, raping, and killing 9 year old Jessica. Their verdict now means Circuit Judge Richard Howard will determine whether Couey will be put to death or face life imprisonment.
AMBER ALERT: Infant kidnapped from Covenant Lakeside Hospital in Lubbock, Texas. The kidnapping occurred on 3-10-2007 at approximately 1:20 AM according to the Lubbock Police Department. The infants name is Mychael Darthard-Dawodu.
Description Last Seen:March 10, 2007 – 1:20 AM Last Location:Lubbock, Lubbock County, TX Date of birth: March 10, 2007 Height: 1′ 7″ Hair Color: Black Weight: 10 lbs. Eye Color: Brown Gender: Female Race: Black
The victim is a 3-day-old African American female approximately 1’7″ long and 5.2 pounds. She is jaundiced and in need of medical attention.
(Sketch of suspect)
The suspect is described as an African American female in her early 20′s, approximately 5’3″ tall and 150 pounds. She has a round face and black hair that has been dyed auburn and was pulled back in a short ponytail with a scrunchy. She was last seen wearing a pink hospital scrub style shirt with purple and blue flowers, blue scrub style pants, a black jacket with fur around the hood and carrying a tan purse/bag. The suspect was last seen in a 2000-2006 red Dodge pick-up truck with black trim and tinted windows. (KCBD)
If anybody has information about this kidnapping please call the Juvenile Crimes Section of the Lubbock Police Department at 806-775-2788, or the Lubbock Police Department Front Desk at 806-775-2816 or Crime Line at 806-741-1000.
UPDATE I: Baby Kidnapped from Texas Hospital.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A woman posing as a medical worker kidnapped a three-day-old infant from a hospital early Saturday, police said.
Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was last seen at 1:20 a.m. at Covenant Lakeside Hospital when a woman wearing blue and flower-print hospital scrubs and a gray hooded jacket took her and drove off in a pickup truck, police said.
Hospital surveillance video showed the woman with the jacket hood pulled around her head and holding a purse as she walked through the lobby.
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The woman may have had a male accomplice, Hudgens said.
“At this point we don’t have any reason to believe that the family knew the suspect,” Hudgens said.
The suspect had gone into the mother’s room several times before the baby was taken, telling the mother the baby needed treatment, said Stafford.
“I think there was more than one attempt,” Stafford said. “I’m trying to verify if it was two or three times.”
UPDATE II: Kidnapped Texas Newborn Found in N.M.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) – A newborn kidnapped from a hospital here was found safe in a New Mexico hospital on Sunday, police said.
Four-day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was in good condition in Clovis, N.M., and transportation was being arranged to return the baby to Texas, said Lubbock police Lt. Scott Hudgens.
“We’re ecstatic to be able to locate the child still in good health and to be able to reunite her with her mother,” Hudgens said Sunday morning.
It has been more than a month since 3 year old Ethan Foley went missing. He was kidnapped by his biological mother, Noel Raleigh and his aunt Stephanie Martinez. Sharon Foley-Pryor is Ethan Foley’s paternal grandmother and his sole legal guardian. The missing persons case was initially handled rather poorly.
Time is critical in any missing person’s case — especially when you’re searching for a kidnapped child. But in the case of 3-year-old Ethan Foley, there was no Amber Alert issued and it took a month for police to finally alert the media. Now, we find out why police waited and why Ethan’s grandmother fears too much time has passed. Sharon Foley-Pryor, Ethan’s grandmother said, “I’m frightened for him… so frightened for him.” (KLAS-TV)
Ethan’s grand mother fears for his safety as his mother lead a rather wild and dangerous life using drugs. AMBER ALERTS are usually a beneficial tool in helping locate missing children; however, in this case it failed miserably. It supposedly did not meet the criteria. One needs to seriously ask themselves why there would be restrictions on a tool used to find children. It hardly makes sense.
That same night — Sharon Foley-Pryor says, with her legal guardianship documents in hand, she and her attorney pleaded with Metro to issue a statewide Amber Alert for Ethan — but she was told the case didn’t meet the criteria. “They said because she didn’t say that she was going to hurt him, that it couldn’t be an Amber Alert,” said Foley. Metro Missing Persons detective, Sandy Southwell, confirms there must be an imminent threat of danger to enact an Amber Alert. Metro says parental abductions are also the most complex kidnapping cases they deal with.
If you have any helpful information, call Metro’s Missing Persons Unit at 828-LOST.
UPDATE I: Missing Las Vegas Boy Found in Virginia
A three-year-old Las Vegas boy missing for a month is back in the Valley.
Ethan’s Foley’s grandmother, Sharon Foley Pryor, told Eyewitness News Friday afternoon he was located in Virginia. She is flew there to get him over the weekend.
She now hopes to work on changing the criteria for Amber Alerts so they can be issued in cases of child abductions in which it is not immediately known if there is a threat to the child. (KLAS-TV)
Yesterday it was reported that 5 year old Geontae Glass was taken while asleep in the back seat of a car that was stolen. This morning it was reported that the body of Geontae Glass was discovered deceased. Now Sholinda Glass and Kevin Andrae Towles have been arrested and are suspects in the death of Geontae Glass.
Sholinda Glass and a man are being held in the Etowah County jail in Gadsden in the death of her son, Geontae, 5, whose body was found early today in the Mountainboro area.
Sheriff James Hayes said in a news conference this morning that Glass, 25, of Rainbow City and Kevin Andrae Towles are suspects in the death of the child.
The child’s body was found about 2 a.m. in a car at a residence on Shady Grove Road. Hayes said Towles is believed to be the owner of the home where the body was found. Hayes also said other persons are being questioned in the case. (Huntsville Times)
