The body of 12 year old Brooke Bennett was found dead at approximately 4:45 EDT, hours after documents surfaced that accused her uncle, Michael Jacques, of planning to initiate her into a child sex ring.
Earlier Wednesday, the FBI said an unidentified 14-year-old girl told investigators she was present on June 25 when Jacques, 42, tricked Bennett 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 the 12-year-old “would have sex with adult males” during the initiation. She and Bennett watched television for a while before Jacques told her to leave and took his niece upstairs. The witness said she left the house with her boyfriend and didn’t see Bennett again.
Federal officials say the uncle of a missing Vermont girl took the 12-year-old back to his house to initiate her into a sex ring just before she vanished.
The girl hasn’t been seen since June 25th when a store camera caught her leaving with her uncle, Michael Jacques, (jakes) and then going their separate ways.
However, authorities now say a friend of her’s tells them she helped get the 12-year-old over to his house right after that.
Investigators are looking into the possibility that there may be more victims of sexual abuse by jacques.
Jacques is a registered sex offender and is being held on a different sexual assault charge.
Court papers say the 14-year-old friend of the missing girl says she has been having sex with Jacques since she was nine.
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Rebecca Payne, a 22 years of female Northeastern University student of New Milford, Conn., was found dead in her Mission Hill apartment at 170 Parker Hill Ave yesterday morning, according to the Boston Globe, who confirmed her identity through her father.
Her apartment door was left opened and she was shot in both legs and in the chest, police and a source said.
Investigators still are trying to determine whether Rebecca Payne of Connecticut was randomly targeted and robbed, or knew her assailant, a police source said.
City Councilor Michael Ross insisted Mission Hill is an “extremely safe community.”
“It’s very unusual for this area,” Deputy Superintendent Thomas Lee said. “This is a very safe neighborhood.”
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The Dead Man on UC Berkeley Campus has been identified as Berkeley resident Maceo Smith, 33, who sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene in Berkeley’s fifth homicide of the year.
A second victim in the shooting is being treated at Highland General Hospital for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
Police are not saying how he is connected to the incident, but they said “he is a victim of a violent crime.” and neither Smith nor the second victim is affiliated with UC Berkeley.
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Curtis Whitley, 39 years old former NFL center, who played for three teams in the 1990s, was found dead at around 6 p.m. Sunday, Mother’s Day, and one day after his 39th birthday, in his trailer in Fort Stockton, Tx., where he’d be living since October.
Sheriff Cliff Harris said Curtis Whitley was found face down in the bathroom by friends who went to check on him after they had not heard from him.
Sheriff Cliff Harris said there was no signs of foul play and no reason to believe the death was a homicide. It is being called an unattended accidental death, pending an autopsy.
Curtis Whitley played for San Diego, Carolina and Oakland from 1992-97 and had two suspensions for violating the league’s drug policy.
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A powerful earthquake trapped nearly 900 students in central China on Monday after their school collapsed and at least 107 people were killed across several provinces, state media reported.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central China, but sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.
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