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Official: Amish Girls Sexually Abused in Abduction
abc ^ | august 16, 2014 | george m. walsh

Posted on 08/16/2014 8:00:37 PM PDT by lowbridge

Two young Amish sisters were sexually abused after their abduction from a roadside farm stand in northern New York, a prosecutor said Saturday.

St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain's disclosure came hours after the county's sheriff said the couple charged in the kidnapping were prowling for easy targets and may have planned to abduct other children.

Stephen Howells Jr. and Nicole Vaisey, both of Hermon, were arrested and arraigned Friday on charges they abducted the 7-year-old and 12-year-old sisters with the intent to physically or sexually abuse them.

"We felt that there was the definite potential that there was going to be other victims," St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin Wells said.

The sisters were abducted Wednesday from the farm stand in front of the family's home in Oswegatchie, near the Canadian border. They were set free by their captors about 24 hours later and turned up safe at the door of a house 15 miles from where they were taken.

The sheriff said Howells, 39, and Vaisey, 25, "were targeting opportunities" and did not necessarily grab the girls because they were Amish.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: amish; kidnap; sexoffenders
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1 posted on 08/16/2014 8:00:37 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

This makes me really sick.


2 posted on 08/16/2014 8:02:05 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Never do anything against conscience, even if the State demands it." -Albert Einstein)
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To: lowbridge

People who harm children deserve all the punishment that is legal.


3 posted on 08/16/2014 8:05:06 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: Politicalkiddo

Heartbreaking. Those evil, evil bastards would almost certainly have killed those girls if they hadn’t gotten away. They should never, ever, set foot outside a maximum security prison again.


4 posted on 08/16/2014 8:05:53 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Politicalkiddo

These two need to swing from a rope.


5 posted on 08/16/2014 8:06:07 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: Politicalkiddo

Just real crazy.


6 posted on 08/16/2014 8:06:56 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: wetgundog

Until dead from starvation


7 posted on 08/16/2014 8:07:40 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: Nepeta
Here's their photo...


8 posted on 08/16/2014 8:11:12 PM PDT by caww
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To: lowbridge

I wish this info had never been released to the public. Now the girls will have to live with everyone knowing. Poor babies.


9 posted on 08/16/2014 8:11:13 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Nothing says you are sad that someone died like looting local places of business!)
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To: denydenydeny
Those evil, evil bastards would almost certainly have killed those girls if they hadn’t gotten away. They should never, ever, set foot outside a maximum security prison again.

First off, we should not imprison them for life because we "think" they would have killed those girls.

Nor should we imprison them for life for kidnapping and abusing those girls.

They should be hanged for it.

10 posted on 08/16/2014 8:11:43 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: lowbridge

NAMBLA perverts want to make this legal.


11 posted on 08/16/2014 8:13:33 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: caww
Parents? ...A neighbor said three children lived at Howell and Vaisey's house..... a picture of Howell with three children posted to his Facebook


12 posted on 08/16/2014 8:14:27 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
Food stand where girls had been abducted

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13 posted on 08/16/2014 8:18:30 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
Family and friends gathered at the girls home in support...


14 posted on 08/16/2014 8:22:11 PM PDT by caww
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To: Nepeta
People who harm children deserve all the punishment that is legal.

They deserve far more than that.

15 posted on 08/16/2014 8:23:29 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Nepeta

Remember the millstone bit from the Bible?


16 posted on 08/16/2014 8:23:59 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: caww

Hang them.


17 posted on 08/16/2014 8:28:04 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: lowbridge

If they are guilty, it probably isn’t their first time. Cops probably need to bring in some ground penetrating radar.


18 posted on 08/16/2014 8:28:07 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Nepeta

But if they would only let them get married and not have to be celibate they.....oops, wrong thread.


19 posted on 08/16/2014 8:36:21 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: PAR35
...”it probably isn’t their first time”....

Nor would it have been their last from what the cops learned in talking with them about this abduction. They were 'predators' and hunted down opportunities to abduct children. I suspect they will find other children they have abducted along the way. There home was in the country so I imagine the police will be searching the property very carefully.

20 posted on 08/16/2014 8:38:27 PM PDT by caww
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