Missing 12yr old girl
 

CNN) -- Investigators have found the body of a 12-year-old Vermont girl missing for a week in a case that led to separate sexual assault charges against her uncle and stepfather, state police announced Wednesday.


Brooke Bennett of Vermont had been missing since June 25.

Brooke Bennett's remains were found Wednesday afternoon in a fresh grave off a road in the town of Randolph, about 60 miles southeast of Burlington, Vermont. An autopsy will be conducted, but "it appears to be foul play," said Col. James Baker, the director of the Vermont State Police.

Her uncle, Michael Jacques, was arrested Sunday on a charge of sexually assaulting another child. Information gathered in a search of his home led police to the gravesite, Baker said, but he provided no details.

The girl Jacques is accused of assaulting told detectives that he had been having sex with her since she was 9. She also told investigators she had a sexual encounter with the missing girl's former stepfather, Ray Gagnon, in June 2007.

An affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington states that Jacques, 42, dropped Brooke off at a farm in Randolph on June 25. He told investigators that his niece was to be picked up by a friend later to visit a sick relative.

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According to the affidavit, the girl recounted how she found a note under her pillow that said she had been chosen to be in a program for sex called "Breckenridge." She was told that her "trainer" was her relative, Jacques. She told authorities that in order to graduate she had to attain a 75 percent on "how you perform."

According to the same affidavit, the girl said Jacques picked Brooke up on June 25 and told her they would be going to a party. The girl told police she understood Brooke would be "taken into the 'Breckenridge' program that day, and that she would have sex with adult males."

The girl stated that she, Bennett and Jacques then went to Jacques' home where the two girls watched television for awhile until Jacques asked Brooke to come upstairs to be with him. The girl said she never saw Brooke again and that Jacques ordered her to lie about what happened that day, according to the affidavit. Watch press conference announcing the discovery of the body »

Gagnon, 40, of San Antonio, Texas, is also charged with sexually assaulting a minor, as well as a federal obstruction of justice charge. In court papers, federal agents say Gagnon admitted to having sex with the same girl Jacques is accused of assaulting and to keeping child pornography on his computer.

Gagnon told state police that Bennett's computer postings indicated she planned to run off with someone she met online, showing detectives a message he said supported that belief.


But investigators believe the posting was written "to make it appear that Bennett was abducted by someone she met on the Internet," the affidavit states.

Changes to the message had been made by a computer at the Texas home where Gagnon rents a room, the affidavit states. The home's owner told investigators that Gagnon had called him Monday and told him to get rid of his safe -- which the owner assumed contained child pornography, according to the affidavit.
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RIP Littleone Doc:mad:

Wow. And people wonder why I don't trust anyone.

Rest in Peace, Brooke.

This is more hideous than you can imagine. Five days ago I was in our local supermarket and they were handing out pins with Brooke's picture on it. When I was approached and offered one I told the person handing them out that I did not want a picture of Brooke but of the POS that abducted her so he could be found and put down. The person was upset not that I did not want the picture pin but that I seemed unforgiving about her abductor.. Little did I know that she was already dead. This main suspect had commited a vicious rape of a young girl in 96 who was his co worker in a fast food place. He forced her into his car, gaged her, tied a rope around her neck and raped her for four hours. He was sentenced to 6-15 years and was out in 3. He had successfully completed sex offender therapy! He allegedly created a sex ring enticing young girls whom he would threaten with death if they told on him. He had been having sex with another young girl since she was nine after he got out and she was complicit in getting Brooke to go to his home where they watched TV together until her uncle took Brooke upstairs for her intiation into the sex ring. She, the girl who was watching TV and her boy friend, left the home at that time. It was the last time Brooke was seen alive. It gets even worse, not only is this jerk her uncle, but her other uncle who lives in Texas was also allegedly involved in this damn thing. He was arrested up here for sexual assault that occurred last year. There is a lot of blame to go around on this one, to include Vermont's leniency in sex offender laws. We have three more registered living in this town and nine others in the surrounding area and over 100 living within a 20 minute driving radius. As I went into town yesterday afternoon they had blocked off portions of the streets to accommodate what was supposed to be a candle light vigil for Brooke's safe return. The vigil turned into a memorial service as they had found her body 3 hours prior to the scheduled start of the vigil. The whole character of this town has changed over night. There is fear and anger but, as usual, I am sure nothing more serious than cheap rhetoric will occur. There are a lot of lessons that need to be learned up here, and one unfortunately is that Vermont's youth are no longer safe to wander their surroundings at will and another that a child's trust is something that will be talked about as having vanished from the bucolic surroundings of what once made Vermont a great place to raise a family. There is a lot more to this sad story; suffice it to say I am really pissed.

And the Liberal members of SCOTUS and the swing vote Justice Kennedy decided last week that vermin like this has the right to life and the ability to propagate this evil seed on humanity.:confused:

Col. Sir,

Very well said.

According to Atty. Gen. at the press conference, "The vermont sex-offender treatment program, is award winning."

Am hoping that some kind of chemicals could be used on this offender, to permenently remove (abilities.):mad:

Rest-in-peace Brooke.

Holly

Yes, the type of chemical treatment for pedophilia should be dissolving the scum's body in acid after a hanging in the town square.

As my profile states I now work with troubled youth a new company that has only been online for a month and as this sad news broke the other staff and I were discussing everything you all have stated above. Then we looked up Megan's Law for our area. I was absolutely floored to see how many sex offender's were in our area. (and we are located in the middle of nowhere hickville PA) One located within 600 meters of our facility. If anyone is interested just Google Megan's Law and you can look up these scum in your town. Pictures, addresses ect... And just think, those are only the ones who have been caught.:confused:

We are way to leaniat to these scum... I like the public hanging idea...

Col Jack

I would like to volunteer to come up and Pull the Plug on this guy free of charge. Oh I am sorry there is no-Death Penalty there.....:boohoo:(
Sorry but if they would like to start it up I am willing to consult on this case.

Bryan

And you can see the results of the award-a life lost before it began.

Just makes you sick don't it...

Sir,

Indeed...or before.

Col. Sir,

So ture! And it is one of the most perverse, sickening things I have ever heard about in my life.:mad:

What astonished me the most however, was the candor of the five men in suits that held the press conference. They actually believed the shit they were shoveling...and to me anyway, their responses smacked of self-graditude and ego boosting.

Am so sorry for this poor child, and a little girl at that.:(

B, let me know if you get the call...I would like to assist in the pouring of chemicals on this offenders' ****!

Rest in peace, young lady...we mourn for the loss of your life.

I think chemical castration is missing the point, these people do not belong among us at all. Simply, castrating the tools they use to molest a child will not end their reign of terror, the sickening source of their actions comes from their brain, and that is not to say they are sick at all. What they do is sickening, yes, but they are not sick, they are sociopaths, and their pleasure is in torturing the most innocent people of all, children. They are calculating, and methodical, and they hide behind a mask of camoflouge within our populations in positions of authority, or within families, and I think it's high time they stayed in prison for good, or awaited execution. You simply cannot rehabilate a hand that is broken to begin with, a tree that is crooked at the root.


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Regards,
George

It is much worse than picked up by the media and this goes a lot deeper than anyone knows at this point. I picked up my weekly paper about an hour ago and the proprietor, who hasn't said a word since I have known him, came over and said, "I think it is time for open season". There are a lot of angry people in town today.

Echoes is right about the suits in the news conference. Suddenly it became all about them and damage control to protect the interests of the state. They seemed to forget all about the little girl. The one thing about Vermont, especially in these small towns like Randolph, is that nothing much happens from day to day. This will probably change the climate of the town for years and the kids of Brooke's age group will not know whom they might be able to trust. This is far from over.

Again... Google Megan's Law and Happy hunting !!!