Posted on 05/23/2005 1:32:15 PM PDT by Nachum
LAKE WORTH, Fla. - An 8-year-old girl who was raped and buried alive told a friend she remembers her attacker towering over her before she passed out, then awoke seven hours later beneath a pile of rocks and concrete blocks when she heard the voices of rescuers.
The girl, who had been staying overnight at her godmother's house, was reported missing early Sunday. She was hospitalized in good condition Monday and a teenage boy who also had been staying at the home was arrested. Authorities said he confessed.
"She said the last thing she remembers is that he looked over her with these big eyes and then she said she went to sleep. She said she was waiting for us to find her," said 18-year-old Danielle Holloman, a family friend who calls the girl her sister.
"She said she knew we would come get her. That's why as soon as the police came, she wiggled her fingers," Holloman said Monday.
The girl was found Sunday morning when police Sgt. Mike Hall climbed into a 25-foot long trash bin, opened the lid to a 30-gallon recycling container and saw part of her hand and foot peeking out from under heavy concrete slabs.
Hall told ABC's "Good Morning America" he summoned a fellow officer "and he shouted out, you know, 'her finger is moving!' And at that point, the expression on everybody's face just changed. I mean, it went from a hopeless scene to there's hope there now."
Police Sgt. Dan Boland said there was no doubt that the girl would have been dead if Hall hadn't found her.
"She was dehydrated and in rough shape with pieces of cement blocks on top of her and she was face down," Boland said. "There was no way for her to get out on her own."
She had been sexually assaulted, authorities said.
Her disappearance rattled a state that had been outraged over the arrests of sex offenders in the separate killings earlier this year of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford and 13-year-old Sarah Lunde.
"When a child is abducted and abandoned like this, the critical thing is time," Police Chief William Smith said. "That we found this child alive is a miracle."
The 8-year-old had been staying overnight at her godmother's house. After police found her, the girl named her attacker and described him. The teenage boy she named, a friend who was staying in the home, was arrested.
Authorities said Milagro Cunningham, 17, confessed and was charged with attempted murder, sexual battery on a child under 12, and false imprisonment of a victim under age 13, police said. A court appearance was scheduled Monday.
The teen initially told investigators that the girl may have been abducted by five men in a station wagon, and that he tried to follow them. He changed his story during questioning, Boland said.
"He was a good person. He would clean and do chores, laugh and play jokes and stuff. We never thought he would do something like that," Holloman said. "The only reason I can think he went crazy like this is his father died and his mother didn't want him. Nobody wanted him."
Holloman said the teen stayed with an aunt until she kicked him out about four months ago. He then went to live at the home of Lisa Taylor, Holloman's mother, where the victim occasionally spent weekends while her mother worked.
Cunningham's aunt had accused him of stealing and the teen has a relatively minor criminal record, authorities said. He was on probation for throwing a rock through a car window.
Taylor was asleep when the girl vanished from the bedroom she was sharing with Holloman's 1-year-old son. Holloman and her sister discovered the girl was missing when they came home after a night of roller-skating, authorities said.
A half hour later, Cunningham knocked on the door and the sisters found him with his shirt torn and his clothes covered with dirt. Investigators said that's when he started telling his story about the men in the station wagon.
Authorities said the girl was found far enough from any homes that no one would likely have heard if she had cried out. The trash bin was in a fenced-off former landfill behind a park where she often played with Holloman, Holloman's son and other friends.
The death penalty needs to swift and sure for anyone harming an 8 year old!
And some Freepers think eugenics is a bad thing. Gah. Find the guy, make sure he can't reproduce and the species will be better off.
Oops. Didn't read far enough: they found him. Now, finish the job. This guy needs to be naturally selected for extinction.
Even if he doesn'y reproduce he can still mentor...
Put a .45 cal hole in their head, and send the body to the rendering plant...case closed
No, not the rendering plant. To the nearest thermal deploymerization plant. Turn him into gasoline.
Well, the trouble is
a lot of East Coast Blue Bloods
have "patriarchs" that
"introduce" daughters
to sex at early ages.
"Eugenics" never
seems to apply to
the evil people with big
estates, who retain
their family lawyers
by the year rather than case.
(And they need it most!)
STOP THE PRESSES!! ... the reporterette bimbo Jill Barton (from Jack and Jill fame) just fell into deep coma brought on by an overdose of Extacy!
Does deploymerization = depolymerization?
What chaos these kids are growing up in! This is the kind of anti-home life the Sexual Revolution has engendered. Notice that what substitutes for real family life is a "family friend" who thinks of the little girl as a "sister." A sick and evil environment that breeds the kind of sick, evil behavior in which a little girl could be treated, quite literally, as a piece of trash.
Nobody wanted him, huh? I can sure see why.
This little punk should be drawn and quartered.
He will be put in time out for 4 hours.
Thank God she's still alive.
"That we found this child alive is a miracle."
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Amen.
Don't you oppress me with your spelling conformity, man!
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
I thought deploymerization was the breaking of bonds of our fine soldiers & Marines after returning from combat duty.
Kill him.
Nonono. Keep him in the general prison population for a few months (young guy, child rapist), THEN kill him (if the job hasn't already been done).
The only drawback to the death penalty is that they can only be killed once. Pity.
"He was a good person. He would clean and do chores, laugh and play jokes and stuff. We never thought he would do something like that,"
He was not a good person, He was a rapist and near murderer.
Pre-process the body using a plate type stamping press, then thermally depolymerize the .005" thick sheet and fluids that remain. Kinda like a really thin fruit roll up.
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