Posted on 10/24/2012 8:04:57 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
The brothers accused of strangling Autumn Pasquale may have been implicated after they exchanged a chilling message on Facebook hours after she was murdered.
Justin, 15, and Dante Robinson, 17, are accused of killing the 12-year-old for her BMX bike parts. Their mother turned them in after she allegedly saw a message Justin wrote to his older brother simply saying 'Autumn'.
Police believe the teens lured 12-year-old 'tomboy' Autumn Pasquale to their home on Saturday night under the pretense of trading bike parts and killed her.
An autopsy performed yesterday concluded she had died from 'blunt force trauma, consistent with strangulation'. She was also beaten. There was no evidence of sexual assault.
Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton said the boys may have wanted parts from Autumn’s bike. They turned themselves in on Tuesday.
The boys have been charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, disposing of a body, tampering with evidence and theft. Justin was also charged with luring. Justin also wrote on his Facebook wall 'Might be moving', followed by a sad face and 'liked' the page set up to find her, despite allegedly knowing she was already dead.
Justin is a student at Clayton High School, while Dante is a student at Bankbridge Regional School in Gloucester County, a school for students with behavioral and developmental disabilities.
Tragic end: Autumn Pasquale's body was recovered late Monday night from a recycling bin
On Sunday night, while people from all over the area were searching for Autumn, Justin joined the 17,000 people on Facebook who liked the FIND AUTUMN PASQUALE page, according to Philly.com.
A break in the case came when the teens' mother alerted investigators to a Facebook post on one of her son's accounts, though it is not clear which son and what the post actually said.
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“Too bad we cannot execute little sociopaths like them.
Or put them in prison for life without parole.
It probably save a life somewhere in the future if we could...”
Easy to say, but would you personally (or anyone else reading this posting) support the following amendment to the Constitution of The United States?
“This Constitution recognizes capital punishment to be an appropriate penalty pursuant to the due process of law.
No person in the United States, nor in the several States, shall face such punishment unless above the age of twelve years and six months.”
By the way, I would wholeheartedly endorse this as being a part of that Constitution. No apologies or regrets.
“This Constitution recognizes capital punishment to be an appropriate penalty pursuant to the due process of law.
No person in the United States, nor in the several States, shall face such punishment unless above the age of twelve years and six months.”
What I find sad is the assertion SO many liberals make that the death penalty has no deterrent effect.
Horse hockey! Execute these sociopaths and it WILL have a deterrent effect on their future crimes.
Get me two ropes....
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