Posted on 09/28/2007 4:44:37 PM PDT by Libloather
Teenager Charged with Hanging 6-Year-Old Neighbor Girl
Last Update: 1:04 pm
CORSICANA, Texas (AP) -- A neighbor of a 6-year-old girl found hanged in her family's garage has been charged in the sexual assault and death of the first-grader, police said Friday.
Shaun Earl Arender, 19, is charged with capital murder in the death of Hanna Mack, whose body was found hanging from the garage rafters before sunrise Sept. 10 by her mother.
Arender lived less than a mile from the Mack's rural home about 65 miles south of Dallas, Navarro County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mike Cox said. It wasn't immediately clear Friday if Arender had a lawyer yet who could comment on his behalf.
Arender was already in jail on unrelated burglary and drug possession charges. A DNA sample taken from the shirt Hanna was wearing was entered into a Texas Department of Public Safety DNA indexing program Wednesday, and it indicated Arender was a possible match, according to the arrest affidavit.
Arender was questioned Wednesday, and, according to the affidavit "would not give a statement, but put his head on the table and cried."
Two days before Arender was questioned, he cut himself with a piece of glass while in custody on the burglary charge and was taken to a hospital "because he was depressed," according to the affidavit.
Arender's bond is set at $2.5 million.
According to the affidavit, Hannah's body was nude from the waist down when police arrived at the family's home. A brown purse and a camera memory stick were also missing from the residence.
Family members have said Dana Mack saw the youngest of her three daughters sleeping on the couch around 1 a.m. before discovering Hanna's body.
"I'm just absolutely shocked," said Pam Gray, who lives behind the Mack's home. "I'll never have that sense of trust here again."
or 5.56mm. BTW the book the movie was based on is “The Breaker” in case your interested, not a bad read.
Imagine if you said..."East St Louis....99% bad negroes"
I dunno.....the kids in our family grew up sleeping in their beds at that time in the morning.
It would be interesting to know what the sleeping arrangements were in that rural house with step-father, mother and siblings.
Leni
Thanks so much - I’ll check it out - pretty much a historical piece opr a drama?
Second, you continue to overlook the facts to make your point. Those on the Sexual offenders list are not suspects, they are convicted. They have had their due process. You want all of us to be speaking of lynching while we are speaking of punishment befitting the crime of those convicted.
Personally, I don’t care what others think about the posts on FR when it comes to pedophiles. Let them sweat because if they are, it might make them think that the father of the child they are dreaming about will make sure they never see a jail cell or see it lacking sexual organs. After conviction, that is.
>>I dunno.....the kids in our family grew up sleeping in their beds at that time in the morning.<<
My kids have crashed on the couch before. I don’t think anything of this.
Oh Please! That's an ignorant statement.
You obviously don't know the brother.
> First, what kind of Threat are you seeing?
It makes me wonder after my backround in Psych what you are seeing.
OK I’ll spell it out. You said in Post #80:
> Continue to champion for the molester and then explain your way out of it and many here will make assumptions about you too.
That to me sounds like a “shut-up-or-else.”
> Personally, I don’t care what others think about the posts on FR when it comes to pedophiles.
The Liberals love that attitude! Go on and feed ‘em more! Say whatever you like, in whatever context you like — they don’t actually care what you think either, so long as it makes us Conservatives look extreme... they live for this stuff, so feed it to ‘em, ay!
As the Bard said, “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances...”
Perhaps you have, for your time on stage, decided to be loud and to call attention to ideas that the Liberals would love to be able to pin upon Conservatives: that’s fine, I guess. None of us is bigger than the wider play. Those seem to be your lines, so recite them with my blessing. ‘Tis, after all, your time on stage...
Looking at the whole picture and set of circumstances in this particular case, however, I still find it very interesting that the little girl was on the couch at that time........unless the couch WAS her bed.
Sherlock Holmes would find it interesting, also. Remember "the dog in the night that didn't bark"? The little girl on the couch........time mom saw her 1:00 AM.......murder most foul in the garage also in the middle of the night or early morning........where was the stepfather when the mother saw the child was missing and why didn't she yell for him before going out to the garage where she found the body........some nagging somethings that just seems a little out of place.
I'm just musing and wondering if there were other players and murky things moving about in that house during the dark of night.
The game's afoot.
Leni
Historical, the name comes from what the main character did in his real life, “break” horses.
Hang 'em high...
And the media with the gall to call the perp a teen instead of an evil adult ...
Why don’t the judge hold him on NO BAIL!!! Let’s hope the cons take care of him.
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