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Documents give details of 9-year-old's death
CNN.com ^ | April 21, 2005 | CNN

Posted on 04/21/2005 2:12:01 PM PDT by The Great Yazoo

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- New details emerged Wednesday on the last moments in the life of slain 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford...

Today, 292 pages of court documents were made public detailing the prosecution account of her last days at the hands of her alleged killer, John Evander Couey. Bound and buried near her home, possibly while still alive, Jessica cradled in her arms a stuffed toy dolphin, the documents say.

Jessica's body was found buried behind a house where Couey lived with his half-sister. Her body was covered by garbage bags, documents said, and her hands were bound with what appeared to be stereo wire.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: lunsford
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If people who commit sex crimes against children are so dangerous that they have to be registered for life after serving their sentences, why are they let out of prison in the first place?
Thomas Sowell -- Random Thoughts (March 29, 2005)
1 posted on 04/21/2005 2:12:02 PM PDT by The Great Yazoo
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To: The Great Yazoo
Please spare us any bleeding hearts about the death penalty being wrong!

Just execute this bastard as soon as possible.

2 posted on 04/21/2005 2:13:46 PM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: The Great Yazoo

Couey should be sentenced to being bound, raped, and then after 3 days buried alive in the same manner.......sentence should be carried out by the inmates of the general population in Florida's meanest prison.


3 posted on 04/21/2005 2:14:54 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: The Great Yazoo

Drawing and quartering is the appropriate punishment for this type of crime.


4 posted on 04/21/2005 2:15:16 PM PDT by Menehune56
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To: The Great Yazoo

That poor baby.

That poor, precious little angel.


5 posted on 04/21/2005 2:15:34 PM PDT by Skooz (Host organism for the State parasite)
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To: The Great Yazoo

I guess we'll never understand what drives a man to do such a thing. How does anyone arrive at the conclusion that a thing like this is a good idea? It's just so horrible I can't even contemplate it for long. But I can't help but wonder exactly what his thought process was.

Or is it just sick, blind animal lust with little or no concious thought behind it?


6 posted on 04/21/2005 2:22:53 PM PDT by Trampled by Lambs (This Tagline is on hiatus as I think of a new one.)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Agree 1000%! I'd do it myself, with a backhoe, I wouldn't want to actually touch the scumbag.


7 posted on 04/21/2005 2:23:55 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: The Great Yazoo

No one will convince me that the ghouls who live in the trailer were unaware of the evil in their midst. Time to charge and put away/down the ghouls.


8 posted on 04/21/2005 2:24:56 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Trampled by Lambs

I just shake my head! Forever behind bars isn't long enough for these guys.


9 posted on 04/21/2005 2:26:32 PM PDT by The Great Yazoo ("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Couey's worst nightmare will be NOT getting solitary confinement.

All my mind's eye can see is the photo of the pretty little girl and the anguish of her father as he begged this piece of scum to let his daughter go. My heart simply breaks for him.


10 posted on 04/21/2005 2:28:33 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Armed, Female and Southern!)
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To: The Great Yazoo; OldFriend; Vn_survivor_67-68
(wiping tears freom my eye - thinking of my own 9 year old)
I think the combination of the three posts are perfect.
If he is that dangerious, why let him out.
Since were not letting him out, then why keep him alive when there is no doubt of his guilt.
Since execution is called for, then it should be in the mannor or the crime - except 7 fold. 21 days of constant gang raping from the prison inmates, then buried alive.

Romans 1:
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Staggers the mind how anyone could do such a thing....
11 posted on 04/21/2005 2:37:49 PM PDT by GrandEagle
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To: OldFriend
How does someone confess to the murder, lead to the body and then plead not guilty?

As for the other 3 people involved, isn't lying to an officer about a capital murder, a crime? They had to have known

12 posted on 04/21/2005 2:38:58 PM PDT by queenkathy (A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.)
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To: The Great Yazoo

Animal! And that's a slam against animals -- my apologies to all furry creatures.

Re the Thomas Sowell quote at the beginning of this article: I wholeheartedly agree. I don't know if it is a Federal or a State law, but the law requires that sex offenders and sex predators be let out and returned to the community when their sentences are completed. We are having great disputes in my area of Wisconsin right now because the state wants to build a sexual predator half-way house in my community -- or to be precise, across the road from my community in another County.

Our current Wisconsin law requires that they be returned to the community where they are from. That means that lots of them are to be returned to the largest cities. Because nobody wants them, Milwaukee's solution was to harbor about 20 of them in a specially constructed home on the county line right across the road from my relatively quiet, rural, and prosperous community.

It's all on hold now because the neighbors created a ruckus about it. Our Senator's solution is to change the law so that the predators don't have to go back to the community they came from (because they cannot find a place) but could be located ANYPLACE in the state that will have them (they are thinking rural.) I don't think that this is a good solution at all.

I would prefer that the worst of the worst would be given very long sentences -- VERY LONG -- and then released only after Depoprovara treatment and with a GPS bracelet riveted on their ankle.


13 posted on 04/21/2005 2:42:42 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: The Great Yazoo

Why is it that liberals are unmoved by this kind of savagery, but put panties on a man's head, or suggest that men and women are different, and they go into hysterics?


14 posted on 04/21/2005 2:47:54 PM PDT by Spok
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To: afraidfortherepublic
the state wants to build a sexual predator half-way house in my community -- or to be precise, across the road from my community in another County...

Awful! But I'll bet you and your neighbors are being portrayed as mindless NIMBYs.

The only state sexual predator half-way house ought to be the big house morgue.
15 posted on 04/21/2005 2:48:33 PM PDT by The Great Yazoo ("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
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To: MHGinTN

I agree. I am just hoping that the DA is holding off on bringing in these scum as well because he wants to build an airtight case. But am I missing something here or what? If the police come to your door and ask if so and so is here and you harbor that criminal...why isn't that automatically conspiracy or harboring a criminal? Also, they must have known that this was not his or their child?

I am hoping he gets a Life sentence, not the death penalty. Then if gets death, he will be infamous for the twenty or so years it will take and this family has gone through enough. Give him life...it won't be pretty in prison for him!


16 posted on 04/21/2005 2:48:53 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Conservative & Rational..what a concept!)
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To: MHGinTN
Imagine, the SHEER TERROR of this little one.

Imagine, that in her sheer terror, she CRIED, PLEADED for her Daddy/Mommy to come HELP her.

Imagine, what her little heart went through as it REALISED, NO ONE she loved would come to save her...NOBODY would show up to be with her...NOBODY was going to be there to 'make it all better' or to 'make it stop'.

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THAT, is what I wish to see happen to the trailer occupants...the enablers to this crime...the co-conspirators.

Thank God, they DO still walk free. Justice WILL catch up to them.

17 posted on 04/21/2005 2:50:02 PM PDT by mommadooo3
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To: Spok
Why is it that liberals are unmoved by this kind of savagery...

They've progressed so far beyond us conservative philistines that they transcend this stuff. That, and the fact that sexual predators can't afford to live in their neighborhoods.
18 posted on 04/21/2005 2:51:36 PM PDT by The Great Yazoo ("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
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To: The Great Yazoo
Awful! But I'll bet you and your neighbors are being portrayed as mindless NIMBYs.

Absolutely! We are being portrayed as NIMBYs by the committee (most live over by the University) who all go the half-way house banished from THEIR PWN neighborhood!

19 posted on 04/21/2005 3:01:43 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Spok

What makes you think they are unmoved? Because most of them oppose capital punishment?


20 posted on 04/21/2005 3:03:12 PM PDT by neutrality
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