Scary.. this was way too close to home...

[RedHairedandFriendly]

Like 3 blocks away.

http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=6979988

I always thought it safe here in our little town... just 1/2 mile from the school, 3 blocks from where this occurred.

My kids walk to school as a group. I know the place where this girl was raped. My kids have walked that path, through those woods, a short cut for kids to get from point A to point B.

 

[rgraham666]

Christ!

*HUGS*

 

[S-Des]

When I was in high school, my next door neighbor was involved in an attempted murder. He and a buddy had sex with a girl who was a couple years younger, then panicked and tried to kill her a couple of days later. I knew him fairly well and thought he was OK (if slightly weird). It taught me at a young age that no one can be completely trusted and no place is completely safe. It's sad to be so cynical, but this is the world we live in.

 

[Chantilyvamp]

at least they caught him hon so you dont have to worry about him still being loose.

 

[Guest]

Tell me about it. The suspect in a very violent crime that you all read about in the papers was caught staying with friends in our community. I not only want to believe that only good people are my neighbors, but that my neighbors only know good people.

It's sad to be so cynical, but this is the world we live in.

Tis the world we've always had. For all the panic over child abductors we have today that is used to curtail our freedoms, they've always been with us. I have lived in a couple rural communities, and near more, and each one it seems, has a story of a child that disappeared on a long walk home from school sometime in the previous fifty years.

 

[Lisa Denton]

at least they caught him hon so you dont have to worry about him still being loose.

I dunno, didn't they say one of the suspects who shot and killed those teenagers in newark, new jersey, was out on bail, charged with raping a 5 year old girl.

I was gonna go check on that, google or something, but the whole damn thing was just so depressing (world gone to shit kinda stuff) and if he was out on bail for raping a 5 year old it would make the whole thing worse.

Isn't there like no bail in that kind of charge in most states? I would like to see the judge who released him on bail for child rape, charged as asseccory to murder for the other crimes.

I might go look it up later to see.

 

[Guest]

Like 3 blocks away.

http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=6979988

I always thought it safe here in our little town... just 1/2 mile from the school, 3 blocks from where this occurred.

My kids walk to school as a group. I know the place where this girl was raped. My kids have walked that path, through those woods, a short cut for kids to get from point A to point B.

Makes you hug your kids a little tighter tonight.

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

My concern is what do I do now...

There are times my oldest kids have walked home alone the 1/2 mile to our house. The route is one that takes them along the major street through the town, then down the road to our house. A total of 6 blocks. I was leery before this incident of letting them walk alone... sometimes one of the older two would have an after school event that would keep her there till 4 or 5. The other wouldn't and so they would walk home with the third child, then the after school one would walk home alone...

Now, do I stop allowing her to do that and make her miss those after school things, because I can't pick her up? Do I make the other two walk back down to the school so they all walk home together? 13, 12 and 8... are their ages, there isn't much that 8 year old can do to protect the other kid.

I'm torn. I want them safe, but I don't want to make them lose the after school stuff because I or their dad can't pick them up. I also don't want to make them leery of being alone either. I want them aware of the dangers, but not to live in fear of something all the time.

 

[Guest]

I'd be nervous, too.

Is there no one else who can walk home with the one child - someone who is at school for those same activities?

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I'd be nervous, too.

Is there no one else who can walk home with the one child - someone who is at school for those same activities?

I've thought of that too. I plan on finding out if any of their close friends that live near us are still walking to and from school, or if there are some parents that pick up their kids that maybe could drop mine off.

I don't want to keep them sheltered or fearful of everyone. I just want them safe.

To clarify... I do know that my little town isn't safe and there is danger everywhere... But three blocks from the house, you never think it'd be so close to you.

 

[Guest]

I've thought of that too. I plan on finding out if any of their close friends that live near us are still walking to and from school, or if there are some parents that pick up their kids that maybe could drop mine off.

I don't want to keep them sheltered or fearful of everyone. I just want them safe.

To clarify... I do know that my little town isn't safe and there is danger everywhere... But three blocks from the house, you never think it'd be so close to you.

It's horrifying to have something happen that close.

 

[yukonnights]

Tell me about it. The suspect in a very violent crime that you all read about in the papers was caught staying with friends in our community. I not only want to believe that only good people are my neighbors, but that my neighbors only know good people.

I have to force myself to get out of my own bubble sometimes. It is so easy to think that everyone is just like I am and thinks like I think. But, even though most people are decent it just takes a few to screw it up for us all. It's a shame, but nothing new. There have been bad actors since Cain killed Able and they will always be nearby. Bummer!

 

[Lisa Denton]

Oooooops, I made a booboo, my bad. That guy wasn't out on bail for raping a 5 year old, she was almost 5 when he started raping her for 4 years.

Some judge needs to have his head examined after he is removed from office.

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(CBS/AP) A man accused in the killings of three college students and the wounding of another pleaded not guilty Friday in a crime that has outraged a city fed up with continued violence.

Speaking through a Spanish interpreter, Jose Carranza said he understood the charges against him. It was his first court appearance since he surrendered Thursday to Mayor Cory A. Booker.

Carranza, 28, is being held on $1 million bail. His lawyer, Felix Lopez Montalvo, declined to comment after the 11-minute hearing.

The Newark Star-Ledger reports that Carranza already faced criminal charges for aggravated assault and weapons counts before he became a suspect in the Newark killings.

Carranza was also charged under an alias with raping a girl over a four-year period that began when the child was almost 5 years old, the Star-Ledger reports. Carranza was free on bail when he turned himself in on Thursday.
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Sometimes it seems hard to keep children safe ....... from our judges.

JMO

 

[S-Des]

Oooooops, I made a booboo, my bad. That guy wasn't out on bail for raping a 5 year old, she was almost 5 when he started raping her for 4 years.

Some judge needs to have his head examined after he is removed from office.

There is actual video from the hearing. It's incredibly chilling to hear the judge sound like he's barely paying attention as the defense attorney tells him the scumbag doesn't have a social security number and is already on bail from another crime, so the judge tells him to just make sure his client appears. This is one of the saddest examples of judicial misconduct I've ever seen.