Tag: Vermont

State wanted suspect’s early probation release:

The state government of Vermont is really earning their reputation as being child molester friendly.

It was released yesterday that the Department of Corrections in Vermont recommended an early release for Michael Jacques. The same Michael Jacques who in 1993 kidnapped and sexually assaulted an underage girl. The same Michael Jacques who is Brooke Bennett’s uncle and the prime suspect in her disappearance.

Judge Amy Davenport approved the early release for Jacques in 2006, seven years early.

Now I know hindsight is 20/20 and all that but you would think that any state government in this country would want a violent sex offender like Jacques to serve out his entire sentence.

Brooke Bennett Found Dead:

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.

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.