Posted on 07/05/2005 5:39:22 PM PDT by Veto!
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - An abducted 8-year-old girl told authorities that a violent sexual predator repeatedly molested her and her 9-year-old brother, who remains missing, according to court papers released Tuesday.
Kootenai County Sheriff's Sgt. Brad Maskell wrote in the terse, handwritten document that both children "were repeatedly molested."
Joseph Edward Duncan III, 42, of Fargo, N.D., was charged with two first-degree kidnapping counts and ordered held without bail. Duncan was shackled and appeared unshaven as he looked intently at the judge during a brief appearance via video link.
The intent of the crimes, court documents said, was to rape, seriously injure or commit a lewd and lascivious act on a child under 16 years old. Convictions can carry the death penalty or life in prison.
The children vanished May 16, when the bodies of their mother, older brother and mother's boyfriend were found at their rural home. Early Saturday, employees and customers spotted the girl eating breakfast with Duncan in Coeur d'Alene.
Authorities on Tuesday continued to wait for DNA test results of human remains found in western Montana earlier this week that may be those of the 9-year-old boy, who authorities believe is dead. Those results are expected to take three days.
Duncan has refused to cooperate with authorities, officials said. Authorities have relied on information from the 8-year-old girl, evidence from Duncan's stolen red Jeep Cherokee and some 100 new tips from the public in the search for the 9-year-old boy.
At a news conference in St. Regis, Mont., FBI Special Agent in Charge Tim Fuhrman of Salt Lake City confirmed Tuesday that the children were with Duncan in the Lolo National Forest of northwestern Montana sometime over the past seven weeks. But he said officials had not yet confirmed whether Duncan was with them the entire time.
A gas station and convenience store clerk in the western Montana logging community of about 300 people told The Associated Press she recognized Duncan after seeing his photo.
Jackie Allen, 26, told police Duncan had been a customer several weeks after the children disappeared. Neither of the children were with him at the time, she said.
"It's been crazy. I mean, if I would have known I probably could have saved those babies," said Allen, a mother of two.
Authorities believe the 8-year-old girl may have tried to get patrons at another gas station and convenience store to recognize her, hours before she was found at the Denny's restaurant.
Security camera videotape showed the girl and her alleged kidnapper at the store Friday evening in Kellogg, about 40 road miles east of Coeur d'Alene.
"In the small takes I saw out of that surveillance video, she's walking around, stopping, looking right at the faces of the different patrons there," Kootenai County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Cameron Conoco owner Ted Beamis told The Associated Press that the girl's alleged abductor, "acted like he didn't have a care in the world" until one point during his visit.
"He was walking around. You could see him kind of watching her. One time in the store she's wandering up and down the aisles, and he kind of loses track of her, and you can see him looking around in a panic."
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Associated Press Writer Sarah Cooke in St. Regis, Mont., contributed
Just take the SOB out back and shoot him.
I pray this child recovers from this. It seems almost impossible.
She's young, seems mentally strong...in time Im sure she will recover...she needs our prayers...poor, poor Dylan...
What a horrific life story she already has.....at the tender age of 8. This hideous monster should die a thousand deaths for his crimes.
Prayers for Shasta and for her family and Dylan.
Or, we could really torture him and send him to Gitmo.
Something that should have happened some time ago, when he first notified society he was a predator and could never be cured.
Dont think so. Just another pedo let free to rape and pillage.
I just saw an interview with the idiot judge that gave him the $15,000 bail even AFTER he was a convicted 3rd degree sex offender...
His anwswer was full of "I don't know's", and "I forgets"...I hope he has a hard time sleeping for a very long time...I also wish there was some kind of "malpractice" recourse that judges like this could be litigated under...
I hate the term "molested". It does not do justice to what these monsters do to their victims.
Maybe, but I'm more inclined to believe that he was stalking these kids and took out the adults and teenager to get to them.
From Foxnews.com:
Shasta said that this creep did the killings too.
"Sgt. Brad Maskell told reporters that according to the girl's account, Duncan bound the family in ligatures after entering the home. She and Dylan were carried out of the house and placed in the pickup Duncan was driving.
"After switching vehicles, Duncan took the two children to a campsite in Montana, the first of what would be several such sites. The two were repeatedly molested, Shasta told investigators.
Duncan is comfortable in prison, but this time I hope the inmates torture him.
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It'll be a sad day if the good people of Idaho don't snuff this guy. It'll also be a sad day when the Lefties start howling for him to be granted the protection of the Geneva Conventions.
I'm beginning to agree, he wanted the kids so killed those who stood in his way. See my post #14 on this thread.
What must this SOB have put them through? Said to them? Twisted their minds and hearts and souls?
Michael Jackson and this POS are the same. They both look for children that are in disfunctional families.
molested or raped? Do they have an issue with saying this? How annoying.
What show had the judge on tonight, Tx?
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