link Sisters, ages 12 and 10, held in alleged kidnapping TOOLS Email Get section feed Print Subscribe NOW Comments Recommend (1) Associated Press ENID, Okla. — Detectives arrested a 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister for allegedly abducting their neighbor's 1-year-old son and demanding $200,000 for his return. Brandon Wells was safe back at home Thursday night, hours after intruders broke into his family's residence and took him while his mother slept, police said. The siblings, who were not identified because of their ages, are accused of sneaking into Sheila Wells' home at about 5:30 a.m., taking her son Brandon and leaving a ransom note. "If you want to see your son again then you won't call police and report him missing and you will leave $200,000 on the sofa tonight and we will return your son back safe," the note read, according to police. The note was signed, "the kidnappers." The plan began to unravel when the girls' mother saw them with the child, police said. They told their mother they had found the boy on the corner, police said. As girls' mother tried to find Sheila Wells' telephone number, the 12-year-old returned to Wells' residence and told her it was the younger sister who was responsible for the abduction, police Capt. Dean Grassino said. Wells immediately retrieved her child from the girls' home and police were called, Grassino said. Wells said she knew the girls and had banned the 10-year-old girl from her home a few weeks ago, but did not say why. The girls appeared in Garfield County District Court on Thursday afternoon and were taken to Community Intervention Center for juveniles. They have not been formally charged. "I know they're so young, but they need to learn from their mistakes," Wells said.
Don't forget 11 year old arrested for DUI: Florida girl, 11, charged with DUI in Alabama ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) -- An 11-year-old Florida girl has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after she led police in this Alabama beach resort on a high-speed chase. Greg Duck, assistant police chief in Orange Beach, said the Tuesday night chase -- which was caught on a dash camera in a police cruiser -- started about 10:30 p.m. in Orange Beach near the Florida line. It ended just inside the Gulf Shores city limits when the girl crashed and rolled the Chevy Monte Carlo she was driving. Duck said the chase began when a patrol officer saw the car speeding west along Alabama 182. When the officer flicked on his lights to pull the car over, it sped up. Police say the car sideswiped another vehicle during the chase, which reached speeds of more than 100 mph. Investigators say the girl was taken to South Baldwin Regional Medical Center. She was treated for minor injuries and released. The girl is from Perdido Key and was vacationing in the area with family members who owned the car. Her name was not released because of her age. Duck told Mobile television station WPMI that the girl told police she was on her way to pick up her sister at a concert in Orange Beach. Duck declined to release the child's blood-alcohol content. He said there was no alcohol in the vehicle and police were not immediately sure where she could have obtained it. The case has been handed over to the Baldwin County Juvenile Court for prosecution. Along with the DUI charge, the girl faces charges of speeding, leaving the scene of an accident and reckless endangerment, Duck said. http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/162376.html
All this negativity, what about the 5 year old that wrestled a rabid fox to the ground?link A 5-year-old boy grabbed a rabid fox by the neck and pinned it to the ground during a family cookout, protecting six other children before his stepfather could step in. "I wanted to protect my little brother," said Rayshun McDowell, who battled the animal in the front yard of his home Sunday in Kingstown, a town about 50 miles west of Charlotte. The fox bit Rayshun in the leg, but the 61-pound-boy held the animal down. Health officials later identified the fox as rabid. "I looked out the window and Rayshun had the fox by the neck and was pushing it into the ground," said his mother, Shinda Linder. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing." Rayshun's stepfather, Ryan Thompson, pulled the boy off the animal and kicked it. A neighbor fired a handgun three times but the fox continued to advance. Thompson, wearing a cast because of a broken leg, said he used a stick and his crutch to beat the fox to death. Rayshun, meanwhile, asked only for a Band-Aid and didn't complain of any pain. "Rayshun was really calm and wasn't upset," his mother said. "I couldn't believe he would do something like that. He was so brave, and I was a wreck." Rabies, which attacks the nervous system, is fatal unless treated before symptoms appear. It is transmitted through saliva and often makes animals aggressive. Rayshun is undergoing treatment for rabies, as is a 6-year-old girl who was attacked by a fox earlier the same day at her home nearby. Cleveland County now has 15 confirmed cases of rabies - twice as many as were reported by the same time last year. Sam Lockridge, a county health official, said the region's rapid growth is likely pushing animals into neighborhoods as their habitat disappears. Officials urged people to keep both themselves and their pets away from wild animals. "I definitely wouldn't advise anyone else to react the way the young boy did, because of the dangers," Lockridge said. "But that shows a lot of heart, and it's a good thing he reacted that way and helped those other children." Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed
Yeah, that looks like a sentence a 10 or 12 year old girl would write. I'm suprised they didn't mix in "u" and "ur" a few times...
What's going on with these crazy kids?!?!? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_on_re_us/gang_rape_teens;_ylt=AgcrfIuNU4k2l4_k7OSKeDPMWM0F Police: Woman forced into sex with son By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Two teenagers were accused of gang raping a woman and forcing her 12-year-old son to join in the attack, then beating him and pouring cleaning solution into his eyes. Authorities allege Avion Lawson, 14, and Nathan Walker, 16, were among a group of about 10 masked suspects who forced their way into the woman's apartment in a crime-ridden housing project the night of June 18. The two were being held without bail Friday on suspicion of armed sexual battery by multiple perpetrators, sexual performance by a child, armed home invasion and aggravated battery. Both were arrested this week, but formal charges had not been filed. "Any rape case is horrible but this takes it to another level, something you can't think of even in your worst dreams," police spokesman Ted White said. According to the police report, a man knocked on the woman's door at about 9 p.m. and told her he had a flat tire. The mother and son, whom police have not identified, went outside and were ambushed by a group of gun-wielding suspects. The victims told police they were forced back into their home and beaten and sexually assaulted. According to authorities, the men raped, sodomized and beat the woman, then forced her son to participate in the assault at gunpoint, making him have sex with his mother in front of them. The boy was then beaten and had numerous household cleaning liquids poured into his eyes, according to the police report. The suspects also stole a few hundred dollars worth of cash and jewelry, White said. White said more arrests were pending, but he would not say if authorities had identified additional suspects. The teens in custody were not cooperating, but Lawson confessed to taking part in the attack, White said. Walker has denied involvement, White said. DNA evidence in a condom found in the victims' home linked Lawson to the crime, police said. Investigators also say they found a palm print belonging to Walker at the scene. The victims did not suffer life-threatening injuries and have been released from the hospital, White said. "They're going through the county victim services for counseling," he said. Lawson lived in Dunbar Village, the hardscrabble project where the attack occurred. Walker was apparently visiting a friend there, White said. Authorities believe the suspects all knew each other from the neighborhood, but they don't think they knew the victims directly. Prosecutors have 21 days from the time a suspect is arrested to formally file charges. Lawson was arrested Tuesday. Walker was arrested Thursday. A call to Lawson's public defender was not immediately returned. It was not known if Walker has an attorney.
Link A 13-year-old Canadian girl, angry over being grounded, plotted with her adult boyfriend to murder her family, and stabbed her little brother herself during the killing spree, the prosecutor in the case has said. The girl, 12 at the time of the killings, faces three counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of her parents and 8-year-old brother last year in the small city of Medicine Hat, Alberta, a grisly crime that shocked the country. The defense and prosecution made their closing arguments for the jury, which is expected to begin deliberations on Monday. Her lawyer contended the girl never believed her family would be slain by boyfriend Jeremy Steinke, then 23, who had been known to tell friends he was a werewolf. The girl cannot be identified under Canadian law because of her age. But prosecutor Stephanie Cleary said the girl's testimony - that her assertions to friends that she wanted her family dead were just idle "venting" - was false. "It cannot raise a reasonable doubt in your mind about her guilt. It makes no sense," Mr Cleary said. "The reason her tale doesn't make sense is not because she's 12, not because she was involved with Jeremy, but because it's not true." The girl's father, 42, mother, 48, and brother were discovered stabbed to death in the family home in April 2006. A day later, the girl and Mr Steinke were found sleeping in a truck parked in a small town in the neighboring province of Saskatchewan. With them were a bag of bloodstained clothing, knives and a purse belonging to the preteen's mother. Mr Steinke's murder trial date has yet to be set. Testimony in the month-long case was often gruesome and heart-rending, including details of how the little brother begged for his life. The girl told the court Mr Steinke broke into the home, attacked her parents and then ordered her to stab the boy. His body was found in his room among blood-soaked toys. Her parents' bodies were found in the basement, stabbed dozens of times. Mr Steinke left the girl at the scene. Prosecutors said she hatched the plot after her mother and father grounded her and blocked access to a computer she had been using to communicate with Mr Steinke. Defense Lawyer Tim Foster said evidence showed the girl did not plan the killings. He said Mr Steinke had to break into the home, there was no escape plan and the duo stayed around Medicine Hat for almost a day afterward. The girl had testified that she met up with Mr Steinke hours after the deed and had sex with him. Her actions showed she was in a state of panic and looking to cling to the last person in her life, Mr Foster said. "In these circumstances, don't you think she needed a hug, someone to comfort her and tell her everything would be OK?" he said.
