Bennett death ruled a homicide:
Coming as a surprise to absolutely no one Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Nolan announced today that Brooke Bennett’s death was, in fact, a homicide.
However, Nolan did not release any details in her death or who they think killed Brooke.
Brooke Bennett’s parents have finally spoken to the media.
Brooke’s father and stepmother, Jim and Janet Bennett, basically want to see Michael Jacques burn in hell.
“I hope they put him away forever and he rots in hell,” says Janet Bennett, Brooke’s stepmother.
Brooke’s mother, Cassandra Gagnon, agrees…
“I hate that I’ve got so much anger in me, but I think the death penalty is what he deserves, but I think that is a sweet justice for him,” she says.
Now a lot of you have been questioning why Brooke’s mother would leave her alone around a known sex offender. She had this to say…
Gagnon says she never allowed her daughter to visit Jacques house if another adult wasn’t present.
“They have no idea. I could have been right next to her and someone could have grabbed her. I was at work and I knew where my children were. They always talk to me, so if people want to judge me, that’s their choice, but to hell with them.”
I’m sure you’ll have a lot to say about that.
Details in police’s case reveal chilling, devious planning by victim’s uncle:
This is an article from the Barre Montpelier Times Argus that details the timeline of Michael Jacques planned kidnapping of Brooke Bennett. It also shows what kind of scumbag Jacques really is.
First Jacques was using two different online personas to communicate with an underage girl that he was abusing. The first one was simply ‘E’ and the second one was Rauel Domingo. Domingo is not a third suspect as some blogs would have you believe. One of the things he told the girl was he was hunting wild zebra in Africa. To me, that sounds like some kind of code.
Jacques and the juvenile plotted on how to lure Bennett away.
Jacques ordered $1,033.45 in sex toys.
Another underage female says that she will participate in the ‘tie down’.
Jacques emailed one of the girls asking her to collect her boyfriend’s semen in order to throw police off the trail once Brooke disappears.
According to the report, Jacques altered Brooke’s MySpace before she was abducted.
Ray Gagnon then logged into Brooke’s MySpace and changed the password.
When Jacques reported that he found some of Brooke’s clothes police also found blood and semen which they now believe Jacques planted.
Those are just some of the lowlights that Jacques and Gagnon are accused of committing.
How elaborate this whole scheme was just sickens me and anything less than the death penalty for Jacques would be an injustice.
In court papers, Jacques accused of falsifying Web posts:
Yesterday when I posted about the discovery of Brooke Bennett’s body I wasn’t sure if her body was found on her uncle’s property or not. It turns out a fresh grave was discovered on a rural road just off of Michael Jacques’ property.
Now here’s the reason I didn’t want to post Brooke Bennet’s MySpace, it was, in fact, a fake. Police say that Jacques is the one who changed Brooke’s account to make reference to how she was supposedly leaving Vermont for Texas to meet someone. Jacques even told police about the MySpace in an attempt to throw them off the track.
By the time I post this (as I am writing it Thursday morning), Jacques may have already been charged with federal kidnapping. If also charged with federal murder Jacques could be looking at the death penalty. The feds may have jurisdiction since I believe tampering with someone’s MySpace like that in order to hide a crime may be a federal offense.
Now on to Brooke’s former stepfather Ray Gagnon. He’s been arrested for destroying evidence. That evidence turned out to be a laptop filled with child porn. Gagnon called his landlord back in Texas and asked him to destroy the computer. Gagnon also had a hand in altering Brooke’s MySpace after speaking with Jacques. Gagnon is also looking at federal charges but as of now those charges aren’t clear but I would assume they would also be for tampering with Brooke’s MySpace.
The body of missing 12-year-old Brooke Bennett was found earlier today. The article was unclear whether her body was found near her uncle’s property or not but only says that her body was found in Randolph, Vermont, the same town where her uncle lives.
If you’ll remember her uncle, Michael Jacques, is alleged to have been part of a child sex ring known as Breckenridge. Now details are emerging that Brooke was to be initiated into that ring.
In an affidavit released Wednesday, federal officials said a 14-year-old girl told authorities she helped Jacques take Brooke to his Randolph home on June 25 to be initiated into a child sex ring to which he belonged.
No word yet if her death is being treated as a homicide.
My thoughts, prayers, and condolences go out to Brooke Bennett’s friends and family.
Police caution 13yo girl over sex pictures on MySpace:
I hate doing these stories because it draws all the pervs out of their pervy woodwork.
Anyway, a 13-year-old girl from Australia took sexually explicit pictures of her self and sent them to her 17-year-old boyfriend. The 17-year-old is facing charges but that’s not the half of it.
Somehow another 13-year-old girl came into possession of said explicit photos and posted them on MySpace.
The second 13-year-old has been cautioned by authorities.
Remember kids, no matter what your age is if you’re in possession of pictures of a person under 18 you are in possession of child porn.
First, before I get into the post I want to make one thing clear to my readers and commenters.
Stop posting links to Brooke Bennett’s MySpace. I have a rule about posting the MySpaces of victims. I don’t. End of discussion.
Former Stepfather Implicated in Disappearance:
40-year-old Ray Gagnon of Texas was arrested during the same investigation that netted Brooke’s uncle Michael Jacques. Neither has been named as a suspect in Brooke’s disappearance.
Gagnon is accused of destroying evidence and sexually assaulting a minor last summer in Vermont.
Now here’s where it gets really scary. Michael Jacques belonged to a child sex ring called Breckenridge. Police aren’t saying if Gagnon was involved.
In my opinion, these two investigations are now linked but that’s just a hunch. There’s just way too many coincidences.
If you can stomach the details the police affidavit against Jacques is here in PDF format. (Source)
Investigation into Brooke Bennett’s disappearance shifts to Randolph:
Police in Vermont have all but named Brooke Bennett’s uncle, Michael Jacques, as a suspect in Brooke’s disappearance. Police have searched his property and have ordered helicopter searches of the area. This was this afternoon and I have not heard any updates as it regards to the search.
Judge orders Jacques held on $250,000 bail; helicopter searches Jacques’ property:
As far as Jacques is concerned he’s no harmless guy who got put on the sex offender registry because he got caught with a 17-year-old. The most recent charge that Jacques has been jailed for sexually assaulting a relative over a 5 year period starting when she was 9.
In an affidavit released afterward, Vermont State Police Detective Sgt. William Jenkins said the girl told police that when she was 9 or 10, she was told — in a telephone call and in a note left under her pillow — that she had been selected for enrollment in a “program for sex” and that Jacques was to be her trainer.
“The first who does it lives and the second gets her throat cut,” she told police, according to the affidavit.
The victim stated he had other victims as well.
In 1993 Jacques landed on the sex offender registry for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor.
There are just too many coincidences here in my opinion.
Police Arrest Missing Girl’s Uncle:
The uncle of missing Vermont girl Brooke Bennett has been arrested.
42-year-old Michael Jacques was arrested on sexual assault charges that are not related to Brooke’s disappearance. Police uncovered the assault while investigating Brooke’s disappearance. Jacques is a registered sex offender stemming from a kidnapping and sexual assault from 1993.
To make matters worse Jacques and Brooke were seen on surveillance footage at the mini-mart together the day she disappeared.
MySpace linked to Vermont girl’s disappearance:
An Amber Alert has been issued in the disappearance of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett of Vermont and they believe that MySpace has played a part in it.
Relatives dropped her off at a local mini market thinking she was going to meet a friend however security footage shows she walked off by herself.
Items of hers were found on the side of a highway.
After police investigated they found that she was communicating with somebody from MySpace who may have had something to do with her disappearance.
Her parents had previously cut her off from MySpace but police seem to think she made a new one at a different computer.