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Girl, 8, found buried alive in trash bin
By JILL BARTON
Associated Press Writer
LAKE WORTH, Fla. (AP) -- An 8-year-old girl who was raped and buried alive told a friend she remembers her attacker towering over her before she passed out, then awoke seven hours later beneath a pile of rocks and concrete blocks when she heard the voices of rescuers.
The girl, who had been staying overnight at her godmother's house, was reported missing early Sunday. She was hospitalized in good condition Monday and a teenage boy who also had been staying at the home was arrested. Authorities said he confessed.
"She said the last thing she remembers is that he looked over her with these big eyes and then she said she went to sleep. She said she was waiting for us to find her," said 18-year-old Danielle Holloman, a family friend who calls the girl her sister.
"She said she knew we would come get her. That's why as soon as the police came, she wiggled her fingers," Holloman said Monday.
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The girl was found Sunday morning when police Sgt. Mike Hall climbed into a 25-foot long trash bin, opened the lid to a 30-gallon recycling container and saw part of her hand and foot peeking out from under heavy concrete slabs.
Hall told ABC's "Good Morning America" he summoned a fellow officer "and he shouted out, you know, 'her finger is moving!' And at that point, the expression on everybody's face just changed. I mean, it went from a hopeless scene to there's hope there now."
Police Sgt. Dan Boland said there was no doubt that the girl would have been dead if Hall hadn't found her.
"She was dehydrated and in rough shape with pieces of cement blocks on top of her and she was face down," Boland said. "There was no way for her to get out on her own."
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Sainz reports an officer searching with a team of officers walked up to a trash bin at a landfill.
She had been sexually assaulted, authorities said.
Her disappearance rattled a state that had been outraged over the arrests of sex offenders in the separate killings earlier this year of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford and 13-year-old Sarah Lunde.
"When a child is abducted and abandoned like this, the critical thing is time," Police Chief William Smith said. "That we found this child alive is a miracle."
The 8-year-old had been staying overnight at her godmother's house. After police found her, the girl named her attacker and described him. The teenage boy she named, a friend who was staying in the home, was arrested.
Authorities said Milagro Cunningham, 17, confessed and was charged with attempted murder, sexual battery on a child under 12, and false imprisonment of a victim under age 13, police said. A court appearance was scheduled Monday.
The teen initially told investigators that the girl may have been abducted by five men in a station wagon, and that he tried to follow them. He changed his story during questioning, Boland said.
"He was a good person. He would clean and do chores, laugh and play jokes and stuff. We never thought he would do something like that," Holloman said. "The only reason I can think he went crazy like this is his father died and his mother didn't want him. Nobody wanted him."
Holloman said the teen stayed with an aunt until she kicked him out about four months ago. He then went to live at the home of Lisa Taylor, Holloman's mother, where the victim occasionally spent weekends while her mother worked.
Cunningham's aunt had accused him of stealing and the teen has a relatively minor criminal record, authorities said. He was on probation for throwing a rock through a car window.
Taylor was asleep when the girl vanished from the bedroom she was sharing with Holloman's 1-year-old son. Holloman and her sister discovered the girl was missing when they came home after a night of roller-skating, authorities said.
A half hour later, Cunningham knocked on the door and the sisters found him with his shirt torn and his clothes covered with dirt. Investigators said that's when he started telling his story about the men in the station wagon.
Authorities said the girl was found far enough from any homes that no one would likely have heard if she had cried out. The trash bin was in a fenced-off former landfill behind a park where she often played with Holloman, Holloman's son and other friends.
This guy needs to be ass ed with a hot fireplace poker and then have about about 15 blocks of concrete put on his head while the entire state of Florida takes turns kicking the living out him...he should then be dumped in a prison sewer and die a slow painful death in the excrement of s . His remains should then be tossed in a pig pen so he can become the pig that he truly is.
The absolute worst humanity has to offer.
word.
Im sure someone will say, "It doesnt make it right to do unto him though"
him. Get a rope.....
Sounds like the kid is sick to me. He needs mental help. He should be locked up, but not tortured.
Rope? Get the ing dull butter knife out....
Yeah...he's a victim of society...I wonder how many times he's been raped and left to die in a trash bin with blocks of concrete on top of him...
It must have been a lot for him to do it to others... this guy.
IF you give me a choice of him or Usama being put to death...I have to think about it.
poor little girl. glad she was found alive.
:vomit
I'm not kidding when I say if anyone did this to my child, I would seek violent, painful vengeance. I wouldn't care about spending the rest of my god-forsaken life in prison. I would him up as badly as I possibly could.
Oddly, I don't believe in the death penalty.But "mama bear" syndrome is entirely different.
Get a flamethrower and get a dildo and make his butt hole nice and loose first stick the end of the flamethrower a couple of times really hard and ignite it!!!!
Good thing she survived, this strupid ass mother er should be hung by his genetalia, with a very tight rope, throwing him off a 2 story building, and after the rope hanging rips out his male sex organs, he shall fall into a pit of 50 gay men, where he will be sexually abused, and then after all that, take the men out of the pit, leaving him in...everyone in the US will on him, eventually burrying him alive.
Innocent until......ah, never mind.
If he is found guilty of this, he doesn't deserve any punishment other than taken out back of the prison, a $0.50 slug between the eyes, an unmarked grave, and never to be spoken of again.
Pieces of trash that do things like this have forfeited their their claim to the human race.
Foo, all the talk of bloodlust and revenge, while understandable, does nothing in the long run. If the accused is indeed guilty, no measure of beatings/torture/etc makes any difference. He should just be done away with.
Why cant we just ing have a society with harsh, but simple rules.
If you kill someone or try to - you will be killed - not stuck in prison after trial, but you will die.
amen.If you kill someone or try to - you will be killed - not stuck in prison after trial, but you will die
I am sorry to keep going into the money talk tonight, but I think spending tons of cash on keeping a convicted murderer alive in prison is bull . I want them dead. I will kill them myself each night after I get back from work. Just give me the bullets and its on.
lol.I am sorry to keep going into the money talk tonight, but I think spending tons of cash on keeping a convicted murderer alive in prison is bull . I want them dead. I will kill them myself each night after I get back from work. Just give me the bullets and its on
just toss em into the middle of the ocean.
Fly a plane over the atlantic, open the hatch, adios....
Really? I am talking about like a guy shoots another guy. It goes to trial, he is found guilty. Then instead of a figuring out his sentence, he is taken out side and shot to death. End it right there, no more problems from him.
NEXT!
Gezz, I've been wondering where all the War-Hawks have been hiding.Who wants to kill him first?
Not that this guy doesn't deserve whatever he gets, but lately it seems like Republicans want to kill everybody. Drug addicts, people with mental disorders, the handicapped, liberals, em. Line em up, mow them down, and God forbid if his name is Muhammeed and he's black.
Perhaps people like Whott are guilty of a little displaced anger over their Emperor?
Drug addicts , murderers, and rapists are nothing more than a cencer to our society world wide. They are nothing. They got nothing. and nothing good will ever come to them. Stop wasting time and money and be down with them. End them right now.
Does this apply to drug addicts like Rush Limbaugh or is he "exempt" because of his social status?
Funny that you automatically assume the people who seek vengence are Republican. It's also funny that you have to throw Bush into this discussion. Without Bush you would probably have a pretty dull life.
well, lets just keep the focus on murderers and rapists then.
i'm pulling more and more for life for these people, cuz i truly believe that they will get offed in general population, once word gets out that they were child murderers/rapists, and save all of us alot of time and money.
The state should hold itself to its own standards. If murder is wrong, then murder is wrong. The US is one of the few (perhaps only... I'm too lazy to go check) industrialized countries that still practices the death penalty. Someday, many moons from now, when nobody does it anymore, it will be remembered as a barbaric practice.
There's no room for error with the death penalty. You can't give a life back if you realize you've convicted the wrong person. Mistakes do happen in our legal system, and most death-row inmates can't afford great lawyers. Yes, child rapists and murderers are the s of the earth... but WE are supposed to be civilized.
AND BEING CIVILIZED ALSO MEANS PAYING OUT THE ASS TO TAKE CARE OF A MURDERER. NO. KILL THEM. NOW.
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