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8-24-05 On 8-24 ART WOOD told “Court TV” that he spoke with the attorney of the 16 year old ARUBAN girl who claims to have been date-rape-drugged and date-raped by Main Suspect J. SLOOT and her attorney said she is going to file a criminal complaint with the ARUBA police. “Court TV” reported the rape allegedly occurred circa 5-8, only 3 weeks before NATALEE disappeared. WOOD said she has been afraid because she never told her parents about the rape, but she did tell her attorney. The girl reported the rape to the “Child Advocates of Aruba” organization. At this point she does not want to speak to any AMERICANS or the media, and her attorney will work to keep her name unknown after the criminal complaint is filed.
On 8-24 WOOD told “Court TV” that he has seen 2 of Main Suspect J. SLOOT’s declarations that were each different in 5-29/30 events content, and each was signed by 4 witnesses.
On 8-24 WOOD told “Court TV” that he has not been able to confirm if STRAATEN is Main Suspect J. SLOOT’s Godfather, or not.
On 8-24 “FoxNews” reported that Current Suspect STEVE CROES is now working at “Carlos ’n Charlies.”
On 8-24 GRETA said it is her belief (having been in the KALPOE’s home) that Current Suspect D. KALPOE had the only computer in his room that the family had.
On 8-24 “MSNBC” received approval from the warden of the ARUBA K.I.A. prison to film the prison and interview the warden. The “MSNBC” crew, which included reporter MICHELLE KOSINSKI, interviewed the warden, FREDDY MADURO, then MADURO asked them if they would like to see the prison. At one point MADURO took them to the recently constructed juvenile section of the prison. After a moment, the “MSNBC” crew noticed Main Suspect J. SLOOT sitting in his jail cell with 2 cellmates. KOSINSKI said when they first saw Main Suspect J. SLOOT he was sitting in a chair in his boxer shorts with his feet propped up reading a paperback book. The “MSNBC” crew started filming Main Suspect J. SLOOT, and concurrently asked him a few simple questions, to which he responded in a friendly, curt manner. KOSINSKI reported that neither Main Suspect J. SLOOT nor the warden ever asked them to stop filming Main Suspect J. SLOOT. KOSINSKI reported that they filmed not even 2 minutes of Main Suspect J. SLOOT. Somehow after “MSNBC” filming Main Suspect J. SLOOT, Current Suspect P. SLOOT found out and quickly contacted the defense lawyers, who contacted a DUTCH judge in ARUBA, who called an immediate court hearing that night with all parties present (“MSNBC,” apparently, was able to get some attorneys to ARUBA to represent “MSNBC“). After the hearing the DUTCH judge ordered “MSNBC” not to ever broadcast the footage from a tour of an Aruban jail that shows Main Suspect J. SLOOT. The DUTCH judge further imposed that if “MSNBC” does show the specified film footage, it would be fined the equivalent of US$ 600,000.00 every time “MSNBC” shows the specified footage. In a statement, “NBC News” said it would not broadcast the footage though its news crew had permission from the warden to film inside the jail. “While we respect the court’s decision of this evening, we are considering our next course of legal action,” the network said. (MSNBC.com is a joint venture between NBC Universal and Microsoft.) NBC first showed a portion of the video from its tour of the jail on the “MSNBC” program “Rita Cosby: Live and Direct,” and well as the "Today" show on 8-25 but did not include the images of Main Suspect J. SLOOT.
On 8-24 “MSNBC’s” MICHELLE KOSINSKI reported that right after the 16 year old girl was date-rape-drugged then raped by Main Suspect J. SLOOT, she did go to the ARUBA police and reported it, but, apparently the ARUBA police did not investigate her report further.
On 8-24 HELEN LEJUEZ said she has spoken with (but is not representing) the 16 year old girl who will be filing a complaint with the ARUBA police against Main Suspect J. SLOOT of him date-rape-drugging then raping the girl.
After being asked on 8-24 about her reaction hearing about the 16 year old girl reporting shortly after 5-8 to the ARUBA police that Main Suspect J. SLOOT had date-rape-drugged then raped her but the ARUBA police did not follow up her claims, LINDA ALLISON was reminded of an unnamed ARUBAN woman/wife she has met who had told her that the woman and her husband were having a marital domestic dispute that the husband escalated into physical abuse of the woman/wife, so the woman called the ARUBA police. The woman/wife told ALLISON that shortly after the police arrived, and with the ARUBA policeman standing right there, the husband became enraged and threw his wife to the ground right in front of the ARUBA policeman. When the woman/wife looked at then asked the ARUBA policeman for help, the woman/wife claims that the ARUBA policeman told her, “I can’t. This is a dispute between you and your husband.”
On 8-24 “CNN” reported that Mr. JOE MAMMANA’s total dollar contributions pledged to the reward money for NATALEE is now $250,000.00. (up from $150,000.00) MAMMANA said that he speaks to BETH almost daily, and he has committed to her that he will help her financially, and “if it takes forever, we will bring NATALEE home.”
On 8-24 MADURO said of Main Suspect J. SLOOT, “When he doesn’t get his way, he gets very angry” and even stepped towards his mother in anger before he was stopped.
On 8-24 Main Suspect J. SLOOT was not interrogated by the DUTCH interrogators specialists
8-25-05 On 8-25 the “AP” reported an Aruba group is seeking divers to continue the search for NATALEE. The “Aruba Search and Rescue Foundation” has been helping search for NATALEE since she vanished 5-30. Co-founder EDUARDO MANSUR said the group wants to lead the divers in exploring waters off Aruba's west coast, where NATALEE was staying. MANSUR said that although the waters have been searched before, the group wants to try again with 12 to 20 divers and the help of a machine invented by JOE WALKER who claims it can detect human bones and teeth under water. "We have been working very hard on the case from the beginning," Mansur said. "We are following all leads." Mansur said he and Walker are recruiting local divers. He said they will start when enough divers volunteer.
On 8-25 MADURO was suspended for 6 weeks by ARUBA Minister of Justice, RUDY CROES, pending a review of events of 8-24. He explained that he just wanted to help the “MSNBC” crew in their video piece about the prison and especially showing them the recent new construction areas of the prison, and that there was no pre-planned intent to film Main Suspect J. SLOOT. MAURO also apologized on “MSNBC” to Current Suspect P. SLOOT, MADURO’s “boss” RUDY CROES, and MADURO’s co-workers.
On 8-25 Main Suspect J. SLOOT issued a statement about the 8-24 prison “MSNBC” film incident saying that he saw the camera crew’s taping equipment. In his statement he did not say that he objected to being filmed.
On 8-25 WOOD reported he talked with the ARUBA police about the pants belt found near the “California” lighthouse by GOLBA. WOOD was told by ROY TROMP that the ARUBA police determined--on their own--that the belt was “too old” to have been Main Suspect J. SLOOT’s, and that is the reason the ARUBA police have never sent the belt to HOLLAND for forensic testing.
On 8-25 Main Suspect J. SLOOT was not interrogated by the DUTCH interrogators specialists
