Posted on 07/20/2006 3:22:01 PM PDT by Dysart
ARLINGTON - Police released a photo of a girl on Thursday that they hope the public can help identify because she may be the victim of a crime.
Officers found the photo of the unidentified girl June 28 while conducting searches of the house and vehicle of a man suspected of breaking into several east Arlington homes this year, police spokeswoman Christy Gilfour said.
Nicholas Demont Wilborn, 32, was arrested July 10 and faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault, child pornography and three charges of burglary of a habitation with the intent to commit sexual assault, police said.
Gilfour said detectives have exhausted all leads to identify the child, who is sleeping in the photograph. Police are releasing the photograph in the hope that the girl can be identified and receive help.
Police describe the girl as Hispanic or black and about 10 years old. She is wearing a shiny pink, white and silver shirt with flowers and is covered by a yellow and white blanket.
Investigators do not know whether the May 28, 2006, date stamp on the photo is correct but believe the picture was taken sometime this year.
Police ask anyone with information about the girl’s identity to call (817) 459-5305.
Police found this photo of a sleeping young girl in the home of an accused rapist and suspect this unknown girl may have been a victim of another of his crimes. Let's hope he just took a photo and never had the opportunity to assault her. There is contact info for the police should anyone recognize her.
This child is wearing a night-gown - I recognize the shiny fabric, ubiquitous to nightwear and usually polyester - probably from Wal-Mart, K-Mart or Target. The picture appears to have been taken surreptiously, at very close range, perhaps with a cell-phone camera. One would hope that this would indicate that there is someone nearby who would not want him to take a picture of the child.
Her head appears to be on a clean white pillow, and the blanket appears to be a girl's blanket (pink trim), something that most predators would not keep at crime scene two, unless it was taken from the scene of crime scene one during kidnapping. If the child was at crime scene two the child would probably be awake and distressed, or appear to have taken injury even if unconcious...
I pray that this might indicate that this child, at the time of photo, was in her own enviroment and under the protection of an another responsible - albeit unaware - adult...
I also pray that she remained there, unharmed.
Excellent observations. She doesn't appear to be distressed, does she? Hopefully it was just a photo that jazzed this sicko and nothing more sinister was involved. This story was aired on local news earlier, so maybe with more exposure someone will come forward with an id.
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