Disclaimer: I live in Sarasota, FL. One mile from all of this.
SecretMethod70 has it exactly right. She was only a child. I have two girls 15 and 12, and I could get any 11 yo to come around the corner with me. I will tell you some of the fine points that most of the country has not been hearing. This monster had three kids of his own. All around her age. When they raided the car, they found powdered coke and hypo needles. He was acquitted in the next county of aggravated battery on a 19yo about three years ago. Very similar situation. Judge and prosecutors couldn't believe the jury found him innocent. He was basically a guy with a drug problem. Convicted of illegally obtaining opiate 'scrips. Couldn't hold down a job. The police didn't release the rest of the videos. There were cameras all around the car wash. He circled the lot and parked his car so right after you saw him walk out of the camera range, he put her in his car. It wasn't his car, but a friends who he borrowed. The friend said he put on three hundred miles in the day that he borrowed it. That is from here to the east coast of FL and back. He did not tell the cops where she was. A corrections officer (supposedly a woman) got him to tell one of the other inmates and then that guy told the cops where to find her. It will take two years to prosecute him. He will get the death penalty. He will sit on death row for 15 to 20 years while all the appeals are heard. Hopefully, whoever is governor at the time will speed things along.
They just had her memorial service last night.
Just a shame......a damn shame.
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