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Suspect in student's disappearance arrested on unrelated sexual assault charges

Published: Friday, October 13, 2006

Police have identified Brian Rooney, 36, as a suspect in the disappearance and death of University of Vermont student Michelle Gardner-Quinn. Rooney, most recently residing in Winooski, was arrested and is currently in police custody on charges unrelated to the disappearance of Gardner-Quinn. Those charges include sexual assault and lewd and lascivious conduct with a child.

Each of the charges stems from events that occurred several years ago, according to police. Rooney will be arraigned Monday on those charges in Vermont District Court on St. Johnsbury. He will be held at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington until that time.

ALERT: AMANDA CARPENTER OF HUMAN EVENTS, WHO WROTE THE NEW HILLARY BOOK .......... ON WITH HANNITY & COLMES NOW.

The talks about "dangerous strangers" does not just apply to our young children. I think our college-aged children living away from home, or travelling on spring break are the most vunerable. They are older and think that these things only happen to others.

Like the disappearance of the young girl in Aruba...I still cannot conceive that friends are not staying together late at night!!! In college and even now...when out with friends for just dinner...we never walk to our cars alone!!! Never...never...never!!! Even at what would seem like the early hour of 9 or 10 at night. In college we always went into an establishment together and out with all the same friends. And there is no way that we would leave a friend behind who was either drinking...or had just met some wonderful guy...too bad...give him a number...and time to go. Oh...and even to the most athletic of women...I was and am one...you are never a match for a man..who wants to do you harm.

Prayers for this young woman and her grieving family. There are real monsters out in our socitey, and somehow it seems even more so than years past.

Burlington, VT Police Web Site with detailed Quinn Info: