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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:27 PM
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The bastard abducted and killed the little girl
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 06:47 PM by Pirate Smile
Press conference in Florida - Jessica

Jessica Lunsford. It was the sexual preditor from her neighborhood -John Couey.

The police said at the end of the polygraph he said you don't need to tell me the results. I know what they are, bring the investigators back in and he admitted it.

Sex offender admits abducting,
killing Fla. girl, sheriff says
Suspect John Couey was neighbor
of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford

HOMOSASSA, Fla. - A registered sex offender on Friday admitted he abducted a 9-year-old girl and later killed her, authorities said.
Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy announced at a news conference that John Evander Couey, 46, earlier identified as a "person of interest" in the Feb. 23 disappearance of Jessica Lunsford, had confessed Friday after failing a polygraph.

After the test, Couey said, "I don’t need you to tell me the results; I already know what they are," Dawsy said. He then asked for investigators to return to the room and "admitted to abducting Jessica and subsequently taking her life," the sheriff said.

Searching for body
Dawsy said authorities were looking for Jessica's body in an area near Couey's home, where he indicated he had buried it.

-snip-
During a burglary in 1978, he was accused of grabbing a girl in her bedroom, placing his hand over her mouth and kissing her, Dawsy said. Couey was sentenced to 10 years but was paroled in 1980.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7190457/
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:27 PM
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DesEtoiles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:28 PM
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Jesus Saves Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:29 PM
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5. What would a troll say to a post like this?
???

There's nothing political about it. It's just pure tragedy.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:58 PM
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19. They tried to act like they knew the political affiliation of the monster.
Dumbass!
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:46 PM
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11. What Did It Say?
eom
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:30 PM
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:28 PM
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3. Couey confessed to killing Lunsford - Breaking CNN...
...no link yet.
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Neecy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:29 PM
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4. oh, no...
That's terribly sad news.
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:30 PM
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7. How horrible for her family
I'm glad they caught him. Hopefully that will bring some measure of peace.
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Lefta Dissenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:36 PM
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8. that's so sad
Poor little Jessica - and her heartbroken family. :cry:
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:38 PM
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9. Fucking scumbag Couey
I hope he rots in jail....
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bluedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:57 PM
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18. lynch his azz

he confessed.he don't need no stinking trial...did he give Jessica a chance?..Hell NO..........Hes guilty as hell..........I think we can all agree......don't waste our time on the court..........
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:16 PM
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33. Keep him alive to suffer in jail.
And he will.

People who kill children do not have a nice time in prison.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 08:09 PM
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41. You are right. Prison is a death sentence. More frightening.
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:41 PM
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10. Perhaps we should devote a small portion of the U.S. budget to...
finding out how to control sexual predators like this BEFORE they abduct and murder children. It's too late for that poor little girl and her family now whether they jail or execute this twisted soul.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:53 PM
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15. Perhaps that money
would be best invested in keeping people who have committed sexual offenses against children, who fit a "high risk" profile, safely housed away from an unsuspecting public.
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buzzard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:16 PM
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32. Lock them up and throw away the key, I don't believe they can be
rehabilitated.
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:34 PM
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38. Other than permanent incarceration,
or, as one Doctor at a rehab facility in Oregon once said, "Magnum therapy", there IS no controlling these freaks.

I did an undergrad thesis on sex offenders...and learned more than I ever wanted to about them :puke:

May that baby rest in peace and her family find comfort, some how, some way :cry:

Jenn
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:40 PM
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39. Yep.
My favorite supervisor liked to quote a faculty member from Syracuse, who said the only cure came from the barrel of a gun.
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thinkingwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 08:16 PM
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43. it is so disgusting
that we let these people out of jail to hurt and kill again. As many have posted, they cannot be rehabilitated.

It's even more disgusting that we fill our jails with people who only hurt themselves (druggies) while we let this filth out to walk the streets!
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 10:07 PM
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44. Well said.
What are our values as a society, when we lock-up wounded people and let demons out to prey on children.
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KPN08 Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:48 PM
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12. I can't even articulate my anger n/t.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:52 PM
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14. Nor I, KPNO8 -- thanks for joining our DU community...
in outrage against the loss of this precious little girl.
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KPN08 Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:55 PM
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16. I held out hope...
Thanks for the welcome.
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:50 PM
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13. Oh my. How very sad.
These are times when I really question my opposition to the death penalty. I could quite happily see this guy strung up by his nuts.
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:05 PM
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24. Remember Jeffery Dalmer!
His fellow inmates made sure he got his just deserts.
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:05 PM
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25. Remember Jeffery Dalmer!
His fellow inmates made sure he got his just deserts.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:07 PM
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26. "just deserts"
interesting choice of words to describe Jeffery's fate!
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:12 PM
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29. Certainly true
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 07:12 PM by mvd
These kinds of cases are big tests. I don't care if he's executed, though I'll keep my opposition to having a death penalty since that's what is best for society IMO.

Really, a case like this makes you think evil exists, and that we aren't just life forms going our own way.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:15 PM
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31. It does.
I oppose the death penalty, and will never trust the government to decide who to kill. But if this child's father put a bullet in the murderer's head, I would understand his actions.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:56 PM
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17. I'm going to hug my son right now--be back soon.
Or maybe I'll play a game of checkers with him.

Today is not a good day to give a damn. I wish I didn't, but I do, dammit.
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KPN08 Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:59 PM
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20. No words..
An extra hug for mine.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:03 PM
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22. How did he get in the house? These are the really scary ones
when they take them out of their bedrooms at night.

I have a 7 year old little girl.

Does anyone know the website that tells you the sexual predators in your neighborhood? But really, what does that do to stop this kind of thing?
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KPN08 Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:09 PM
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28. Google...
Your state and key words sex offenders. It should bring you to a site that you can search your area.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:13 PM
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30. Thanks.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:19 PM
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34. One precaution a parent can take...
is to drill a hole through the window frames in such a way,
that when a good sized nail is inserted, the window cannot be opened.
Make sure the nail can't be seen from outside the window, though.

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KPN08 Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:27 PM
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36. Great tip thanks n/t.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:30 PM
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37. Welcome to DU, too.
Heard abouit doing this when my daughter was young.She was about the same age as another little girl that had been taken from her own bedroom. :scared:
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Vadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 08:13 PM
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42. All of my windows are like that, with the large nail through the frame!..n
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:03 PM
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21. These men are everywhere. And for every one that's registered,
there are 10 more who plead their charges down or had them dropped. And how many more who haven't been caught?

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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:04 PM
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23. Thoughts and prayers to her family. As for retribution...
Mr. (short eyes) Couey will have a difficult time in the prison system. Child molesters/killers are often the target of "jailhouse justice."
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:24 PM
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35. BTW: I'll bet he knows what awaits him in prison - It's why he killed her.
:mad:
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Norbert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:08 PM
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27. I had tears in my eyes when I heard the press conference
Hell is much too good for the likes of him.

My heart goes out to her family.
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 07:47 PM
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40. As sad and horrifying as this awful case is,
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 07:48 PM by EST
I find myself even more distraught at the veiled snickering about what the perp is gonna get while he is in prison. My, oh my, oh my...(shaking head)
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