Family Photo via KTVT-TV
Shown in this undated family photo is 6-year-old Hannah Mack of Corsicana, Texas. Her body was discovered Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, hanging inside her family's garage. Police said Wednesday the child was sexually assaulted.
Posted on 09/12/2007 6:59:47 PM PDT by Libloather
6-year-old girl found hanged in Texas
By PAUL J. WEBER - The Associated Press
Posted on Wed, Sep. 12, 2007
Family Photo via KTVT-TV
Shown in this undated family photo is 6-year-old Hannah Mack of Corsicana, Texas. Her body was discovered Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, hanging inside her family's garage. Police said Wednesday the child was sexually assaulted.
CORSICANA, Texas --A 6-year-old girl was found hanged inside her family's garage and had been sexually assaulted before she died, police said Wednesday.
Authorities have made no arrests or named any suspects since Hannah Mack's body was discovered by her mother on Monday. They are saying little about their investigation.
"I will confirm that the hanging and sexual assault were part of this scenario," Navarro County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mike Cox said.
Cox said several people have been interviewed and no one has been ruled out as a suspect.
"We don't want to do anything that would compromise a successful prosecution of this case," Cox said Wednesday before abruptly ending a brief news conference.
Neighbors in the rural lakeside community in east Texas are frustrated by the silence so far and worry that a predator remains on the loose.
In a letter to the sheriff's department, Navarro County Judge Vicki Gray said an autopsy of the body showed "a multitude of events that together caused the death of this child." No other details were released.
Dana Mack found her youngest daughter's body in a garage behind the family's secluded home in Navarro Mills Lake, about 65 miles south of Dallas.
Police said Dana Mack began searching after she realized Hannah was missing at a time she would have been getting ready for school.
The mother last saw Hannah sleeping on the couch around 1 a.m., according to Jean Langford, the girl's great-grandmother.
"(Dana) is just devastated. We all are," Langford said. "This is the worst thing that's ever happened to this family. Hannah was our pride and joy. She was our little sweetheart."
Langford said the family had hoped police would be further along in their investigation.
"What makes this so bad is that we still don't know who did this awful thing."
Those concerns are shared by neighbors. They say imaginations in town are starting to run wild.
"My kids sleep in the bed with me," said Pam Gray, who lives next door and whose children rode the school bus with Hannah. "They get off of school and they've heard all the rumors and wild things, and they're terrified."
"I'm just concerned about the kids out there," said Harold Hocutt, 75, a neighbor who knows the girl's family. "Little girls. Little boys. It's just something you don't forget. Every time I drive by (Hannah's house), I cry."
Police asked state caseworkers to not say whether Hannah's family had been investigated by child welfare officers, said Marissa Gonzales, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. She characterized the request as uncommon.
“Raiding the fridge or because of the droning sound the fridge makes? :)”
Both! They’re great big young men now and still eat every two hours if at all possible!
Yup, You’re right. I just didn’t won’t to get too deep into this tragedy.
One more thing,,Dipstick,,She’s my Daughter
May the Lord send that Monster to the Lowest Pit of Hell.
Police said Dana Mack began searching after she realized Hannah was missing at a time she would have been getting ready for school.
The mother last saw Hannah sleeping on the couch around 1 a.m., according to Jean Langford, the girl’s great-grandmother.
Uh-huh. That’s one independent 6 year-old.
Amen! - We need to slowly drag this excrement to death behind a slow moving truck on a gravel road, naked.
This is terrible.
You’re pretty incoherent there. Calm down. I said STATISTICALLY. That doesn’t mean I think all or most or even a large percentage of stepfathers are dangerous to their stepchildren. STATISTICALLY, they are more dangerous than biological fathers and less dangerous than mom’s boyfriends. And even the vast majority of boyfriends don’t beat or sexually assault or kill their girlfriends’ children from previous relationships.
In cases like this, the death penalty SHOULD be cruel and unusual. We should devise an execution that would make Vlad the Impaler green with envy.
Dallas news just said the live-in boyfriend has been arrested. The charge was for child porn, but I bet murder charges are forthcoming.
I’ve wondered about that and I don’t know. I know there was pedophilia going around because I was almost a victim and you heard things but you never knew if they were true or not. In our small town they kept things like that quiet. We didn’t have 24/7/365 news and so unless it was fairly local or on the national news, you didn’t hear it.
I also think they got away with it a lot more back when.
Once a transient raped and left for dead, a 12 yr old and I remember the Dr. who had to treat the transient saying how hard it was not to grab the gun from the cop and blow his head off.
Sure a lot of nasty folks around.
My daughter just spilled water on her bed. She’s going to sleep on the futon or in the guest bed. Better call CPS.
Good grief.
What a non-surprise. May he fry. The only thing good about this story is that it happened in Texas, so there’s a chance that he may actually get dispatched from the face of the earth by the justice system.
Maybe so,,I am calm,,
My middle one would wander all over the house in his sleep and be found the next morning in the most absurd places. You really had to watch your step if you got up during the night.
One morning he and his blanket were curled up peacefully under the kitchen table.
Didn’t cramp his style or stunt his growth.
On the other hand, it appears that this poor little girl wasn’t living in a good environment. God bless her soul.
(Angrily) "Matt, when are you gonna get around to killin' him?"
As time goes on..I feel how very, very mean people can be.
The Perp’s Death should involve:
1 Steel Tub
1 Blow torch
1 Cattle Prod
1 3 foot section of copper water pipe
10 gallons of water
1 water heating element
3 rolls of duct tape
And 30 days and nights without sleep while being “worked over”.. until it IS over.
I understand, but you don’t instantly become a step dad - you date a single mom first.
(I fully recognize how many times children are hurt by “boyfriends” )
agreed - another article states she had 2 sisters - who knows what the situation was, but a child sleeping on a sofa does not indict a mother. Maybe the living room was closer to mom than the bedroom was?!?
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