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A 30-year-old convicted sex offender, according to published reports, was charged last week with murdering and raping 17-year-old Chelsea King, who disappeared February 25th after heading out for a run in a park. Last week John Albert Gardner III stood in court in shackles showing no emotion as an attorney entered pleas of not guilty in the potential death penalty case. Gardner was a repeat offender who in 2000 molested a 13-year-old neighbor. His home was located down the street from an elementary school and near the park where King was last seen Thursday wearing running clothes. The question that...

On the morning of March 2, 1998, a loser named Patrick Kennedy brutally raped his wife’s eight-year-old daughter.Afterward, Kennedy called 911 and told the dispatcher that two black boys had raped the girl in the yard. Likely under threat by the rapist, she confirmed Kennedy’s story. The child’s injuries were extensive. According to the opinion, the victim’s “predominate injury was vaginal with profuse bleeding. Her entire perineum was torn and her rectum protruded into her vagina.” Dr. Scott Benton, who testified at the trial, said the girl’s injuries “were the most serious he had seen, within his four years of...