Re: Uncle of Missing Vermont 12 yr Old Girl, Arrested


"E/C Annie" <blake_swann1965@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jun 30, 1:11 am, "Chocolic" <chatter...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Uncle of a missing Vermont girl arrested
By JOHN CURRAN

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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Vermont State Police said Sunday the uncle of a
missing 12-year-old girl - one of the last people to see her before she
vanished - has been arrested on unrelated sex charges.

Michael Jacques, 42, of Randolph, who dropped off Brooke Bennett at a
convenience store Wednesday and was seen leaving it in a different
direction
on a surveillance camera video, was charged with aggravated sexual assault
against a minor. The alleged victim wasn't Bennett, who remained missing
Sunday, despite an intensive search by state police, the FBI and other
agencies.

Jacques, who is married to Bennett's mother's sister, is listed on Vermont
sex offender registry. He was convicted of sexual assault and kidnapping
in
1993.

The arrest came as the result of information uncovered by investigators
assigned to the disappearance.

Jacques was being held at the Southern State Correctional Facility in
Springfield, pending an arraignment Monday. If convicted, he could get 10
years to life in prison.

Police said Jacques and a cousin of Brooke's dropped the girl at
Cumberland
Farms in Randolph about 9 a.m. Wednesday. On the video, which was released

Friday, Jacques and Brooke are seen in the store, where Jacques makes a
purchase with Brooke at his side. They walk out together, then part ways.
She was seen about 45 minutes later inside a coin laundry, police said.

Her grandmother reported Bennett missing 12 hours later, and on Thursday
an
Amber Alert - the first in Vermont history - was issued for Brooke.

Police have said they believe Brooke may have been headed to meet someone
with whom she had been communicating online. On Friday, Vermont State
Police
director Col. James Baker said the investigation centered on contacts
Brooke
made on the MySpace.com social networking site.

No suspects have been named in her disappearance.

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I've kind of had a funny suspicion about the uncle. Maybe he had nothing
to do with her disappearance. Maybe she took off because of what was
happening in the home. Or, maybe he picked her up after they left the
c-store.

Chocolic

Who does Brooke live with? Grandparents who reported her missing?
Father who I've seen on TV making a plea for her return? Where's her
mom? Maybe she's just staying with grandparents for a summer visit.
Just not sure from what I've read thus far.

I guess if this incident had not shown up, the uncle would still have
a "clean" record since 1993. Also, thought I read that she had spent
the night with this uncle just prior to disappearance.

e/c annie (who apparently needs to read more)
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I can't figure out who's who. The link Choc posted doesn't work for me.
Someone or other here suspected the uncle, who did not make me suspicious at
all. But now that his record/warrant has emerged, all bets are off, seems to
me. Crikey.

jc


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