Posted on 03/25/2005 1:14:41 PM PST by JCRoberts
Police have canceled an Amber Alert after finding a body in rural Johnson County. A positive identification of the body has not been made.
The Alert had been issued after ten-year-old Jetseta Gage disappeared from her Cedar Rapids home on Thursday night.
Police located 37-year-old Roger Paul Bentley in Johnson County this morning. He is in custody but has not been charged.
Jetsetta's mother Trena Gage says the Bently was a family friend who worked on her car occassionally. He was at the home from about noon until eight and Gage says her son saw the 10-year-old get into Bentley's truck. She told TV9, "My son said he saw my daughter in the truck...she has permission because because we've known him so long. I got back at 8:30 and she was gone."
"I'm distraught. I'm just praying," Trena told the Cedar Rapids Gazette. "I just want her home."
Jetseta, who is mentally challenged, is a white 10-year-old, stands 4 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 90 pounds. Again, she was last seen wearing an orange coat and purple pants.
The suspect Roger Bently is listed on the Iowa Sex Offenders Registry for a 1994 Buchanan County conviction involving a white female under age 13.
crap. When will we learn?
Time to put locater bracelets and 24hour-camera surveilance on these offenders.
Even just the fact it is a dead body it is upsetting...If its her...all the more so
It's not curable. Don't let them go free.
He was picked up this morning in Johnson County, and that is where the body was located as well. Johnson Co. is just south of Cedar Rapids.
If they have known him so long they must of known what he was. Why would they allow him around their children.
I agree 100 %
Sure it is...you fry them...no more problems.
.....When will we learn?....
We have learned. It is they who have not.
Judges are again the problem for believing in rehabilitation.
We have learned. Judges and Parole Boards haven't.
once convicted, they should never see a jail cell, just a pine box
B@st@rd! These things seldom end well.
Prayers for that poor little girl and her family.
Yet another horrific family tragedy.
It is a hellofalot easier to track them if you just keep them locked in a 10x12 cell for the rest of their lives.
Nice of you to volunteer other people's money for this.
As soon as human predators are identified, they should be killed. No question about it.
I'm sure, as this sad story becomes known, that it will become clear that some little girl was destined to die because we missed the chance to kill her murderer first.
Didn't they know he was a registered sex offender? Sounds like this has happened before if she had "permission" to go with him places.
I'm not sure who makes me madder, the courts for not putting these monsters away for good, or an irresponsible parent who would let their child go off with one.
So sad.
Castration would fix it too, wouldn't it ?
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