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Published: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:09 PM CDTVideotaped testimony from Gage ruled inadmissable CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) — A videotaped interview with Jetseta Gage in which the 10-year-old girl described nearly three years of abuse by James Bentley cannot be used as evidence at Bentley's trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. The videotape was a key piece of evidence for the prosecution against Bentley, who is facing two second-degree sexual abuse cases. His brother, Roger Bentley, was convicted earlier this year of kidnapping, sexually abusing and murdering Gage on March 24, 2005. An attorney for James Bentley, 34, of Vinton, has said...

FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) --- Roger Bentley is in isolation at the Iowa State Penitentiary --- status prison officials say will protect the convicted killer and other prisoners.Bentley two life sentences in February for murdering 10-year-old Jetseta Gage He was transferred to the prison last week after spending seven days at an inmate classification center in Johnson County.Prisoners usually spend between 30 and 45 days at the center, but prison officials "weren't going to take any risk," said Fred Scaletta, spokesman for the Iowa Department of Corrections."We not only have to protect the public but also these people while they...

Evidence Suggests Bentley Dabbled in OccultFriday, February 03, 2006, 10:53:11 AM By Josh Hinkle KCRG-TV9 News VIDEO (Cedar Rapids - KCRG) -- There are strange questions about the man found guilty in the murder of Jeseta Gage. But evidence still lingers concerning Roger Bentley, suggesting ties to the occult. KCRG-TV9 News has proof that those ties go back more than a decade. One piece of evidence that caught the victim's family off guard was the "Necromantic Ritual Book." Among other things, this book details the practice of using corpses to rause the spirit of the dead. The book was nothing...

The high profile murder cases involving the deaths of two little girls Jetseta Gage and Evelyn Miller, prompted Channel 13 to spend two months looking into their cases. Both had active files with the DHS at the time of their deaths. That investigation turned up information about how the Department of Human Services handled their cases, but we also found a federal report exposing some flaws in Iowa's system to prevent abuse. (Be sure to click on link in article for part 2 which includes video)

Megan Kanka, Jessica Lunsford, Shasta Groene.These girls, all believed to be sexually molested by men and two of them killed, have generated headlines, prompted states to stiffen penalties against offenders and caused many parents to fear their child could be next.Yet gut-wrenching as these high-profile cases are, they don't tell the whole story of sex offenders in America. They don't reflect the surprisingly good news: Sex crimes against children have dropped dramatically in the last decade. An online national sex-offender registry was launched in July. And recent research shows doctors can better predict which offenders may strike again. "There's a...

IOWA CITY(AP) --- A judge ruled Tuesday that the trial for a man charged in the death of Jetseta Gage would be moved from Johnson County to Scott County. District Court Judge Patrick Grady set Scott County as the site for Roger Bentley's trial after agreeing to a defense motion last month that the trial should not be in Johnson County. Attorneys for Bentley, charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping, had argued that their client could not get a fair trial in Johnson County because of the intense media coverage the case generated. Bentley, 38, of Brandon, is accused...

DES MOINES -- Republican leaders in the Iowa Senate demanded a vote on reinstatement of the death penalty Tuesday and turned up the political heat on a top Democrat who has vowed to block any debate on the issue. But Democrats fired back, accusing the GOP's leading death penalty proponent, Sen. Larry McKibben, Marshalltown, of flip-flopping on the issue. They distributed a 2004 voter guide created by the Iowa Catholic Conference listing McKibben as a supporter of "maintaining Iowa's status as a no death penalty state." The voter guide was compiled from questionnaires filled out by McKibben and other legislative...

CEDAR RAPIDS — On the day Jetseta Gage was buried, her relatives surrounded her mother and grandmother, saying they’re hurt by the criticism and gossip that followed the 10-year-old’s abduction and murder last week. ‘‘What really hurts is, there’s some out there that believe the family could have prevented this,’’ said John Opala of Marshall, Wis. ‘‘But Jetseta was just being the girl she was. That (talk) just adds to the hurt.’’ Opala, a cousin of Jetseta’s mother, Trena Gage, 29, was one of about 300 mourners, dozens of children among them, who attended services Tuesday afternoon at First Church...

CEDAR RAPIDS — O n a warm spring evening like Monday’s, Leo Williams could easily imagine his three young sons running and playing with Jetseta Gage. ‘‘They would probably do what normal kids would do,’’ Williams said. ‘‘Even for those kids, I don’t think it’ll be the same.’’ Williams, of Cedar Rapids, was one of dozens of friends and relatives of 10-year-old Jetseta who gathered at the M urdoch-Linwood Funeral Home to remember the girl, abducted from her home last Thursday. ‘‘She was a loving, bubbly little 10-year-old girl,’’ said Williams, whose wife is the cousin of Jetseta’s mother. ‘‘The...

Per Fox News, body found in Johnson County, Iowa has now been identified as Jetseta Marie Gage. Cause of death is asphyxiation.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - The man accused of snatching a 10-year-old girl from her Cedar Rapids home was arraigned today on one count of child stealing, police said. Roger P. Bentley, a registered sex offender from Brandon, was taken into custody Friday in Johnson County in connection with the abduction Thursday of Jetseta Marrie Gage, whose disappearance set off a statewide Amber Alert. Investigators discovered the body of a young girl Friday at an abandoned mobile home in a rural area near the small town of Kalona, about 45 miles south of the girl's home. But police are waiting...

BREAKING

Fox News Breaking Alert: Suspected kidnapper Roger Paul Bently found. Cops would not release location where he was found. Amber alert for Jetseta Gage remains in effect. She is still missing.

KCCI News in Des Moines is reporting that the brother of Roger Bentley, the alleged abductor of 10-year old Jetseta Gage, is serving prison time for molesting Gage. For more on this case: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1370894/posts(News conference information) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1370810/posts(Story on abduction and discovery of body)

During a news conference at 5:10 PM CT, Johnson County, Iowa Sheriff, Lonny Pulkrabek, confirmed that a body, possibly that of a 10-year old girl, was discovered in a trailer in rural Johnson County. However, identification is pending an autopsy.

Police have canceled an Amber Alert after finding a body in rural Johnson County. A positive identification of the body has not been made. The Alert had been issued after ten-year-old Jetseta Gage disappeared from her Cedar Rapids home on Thursday night. Police located 37-year-old Roger Paul Bentley in Johnson County this morning. He is in custody but has not been charged. Jetsetta's mother Trena Gage says the Bently was a family friend who worked on her car occassionally. He was at the home from about noon until eight and Gage says her son saw the 10-year-old get into Bentley's...

Amber Alert Issued for 10 Year Old Iowa Girl Posted: Friday March 25 4:18 AM CT http://codeamber.org/ The Cedar Rapids Police Department and the State of Iowa issued the Amber Alert late Thursday night after the girl was apparently abducted. Jetseta Marrie Gage, 10 yrs., white female, 4'6", 90 lbs. with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing an orange coat and purple pants. She is mentally challenged. Police are looking for Roger Paul Bently, 37 yrs., white male, 6'1", 265 lbs. with blond hair and hazel eyes. He has a tattoo on his right shoulder and...