April 2007
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April 28, 2007
MurderAuction.com: 'eBay' for the Macabre?
Roy Brown was notified of this website yesterday and it caused him unnecessary stress. Like Roy, all of us wonder how anything can be auctioned and the proceeds go to a prisoner on death row. Florida State Statute prohibits an... ... morePosted at 7:50 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
April 27, 2007
Jefferson High Football Star Gunned Down
TAMPA - Grief counselors are at Jefferson High today for students and staff members mourning the loss of a star football player. Cedric Jammar Mills, 17, named one of the best high school football players in the state, died... ... morePosted at 5:51 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Family, Jefferson High Friends Mourn Slain Football Star
TAMPA - Thursday, while crime-scene technicians sifted the dirt in his yard, Vidal Mills regretted not taking his son with him for a drive a day earlier. The former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and his son, Cedric, known to all... ... morePosted at 5:29 AM | Comments (0)
Man Gets 15 Years For Porn
TAMPA - In an emotion-packed hearing, an ailing 62-year-old Vietnam veteran pleaded guilty to 45 charges of possessing photos that depict sex with children. At the hearing Thursday morning, prosecutors asked the judge to sentence John Hoagland to 20 years... ... morePosted at 5:17 AM | Comments (1)
April 17, 2007
Police find child porn tapes
A sex offender made the tapes in the '70s and kept them under his bed, investigators say. By JACOB H. FRIES AND JONATHAN ABEL Published April 17, 2007 CLEARWATER - A registered sex offender has been arrested and charged with... ... morePosted at 8:48 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
April 15, 2007
Onstott Case Shines Harsh Light On Policies
TAMPA - On April 16, 2005, Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies found the decomposing body of 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde after a five-day search. The next day, Sheriff David Gee announced that David Lee Onstott, a sometimes boyfriend of Sarah's mother,... ... morePosted at 7:57 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
April 13, 2007
Child Porn Hunt Nets Teacher
Editorial: Again a person of trust involved with children, not only at school but in a scout troop, is arrested and suspected of being involved with child porn. It seems that the passing of laws doesn't reduce the number of... ... morePosted at 9:27 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
April 12, 2007
Man charged in rape of 10-year-old girl
NORTH PORT -- Police arrested a 52-year-old North Port man Tuesday on a felony county of sexual battery on a child under 12. A 10-year-old girl told police Victor A. Lambert, an employee of PGT Industries in Venice, would pick... ... morePosted at 5:00 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Ex-Convict Arrested On Felony Sex Charges
TAMPA - After serving about seven years in prison for impregnating a 16-year-old, Mark Allen Browder reached out to another girl that age and a younger friend, plying them with wine coolers before molesting them, police said. Tampa police on... ... morePosted at 4:15 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
April 10, 2007
MCIC Advisory Board members
Roy and Sylvia will be traveling to Tallahassee next month. The next MCIC AB meetings will be held at the FDLE Headquarters building located at 2331 Phillips Road, Tallahassee, Florida on May 7 & 8, 2007. The Committee meetings will... ... morePosted at 10:01 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
72-Year-Old Busted on Child Porn Charges
TAMPA A multiagency task force including the FBI arrested a 72-year-old Tampa man on Sunday, charging him with receiving or possessing child pornography. Roger Stowell, of 4808 Wynwood Drive, was held without bail at Orient Road Jail on Monday. The... ... morePosted at 9:03 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Four-Year-Old Shoots Father
From The Associated Press ORLANDO - Authorities say an Orange County man was shot in the arm by his four-year-old son. Deputies say Bruce Tanner left his Glock .45-caliber handgun out yesterday. His son picked it up and accidentally shot... ... morePosted at 9:01 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
April 8, 2007
HAPPY EASTER
May Peace and Love consume the world from this day forward.... ... morePosted at 12:02 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
NOTES FROM FRIENDS
The Amanda Brown Foundation receives many e-mails from people expressing their thoughts and prayers and we appreciate your corresponce. We will begin sharing some of these e-mails with you begining today. Here are two we just received and thought you... ... morePosted at 11:50 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
April 5, 2007
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
to Open New Office in Austin, Texas Mrs. Laura Bush Thanks Texans Working to Protect Children Alexandria, VA – April 4, 2007 – The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) announced today it will open a new regional... ... morePosted at 8:13 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
April 4, 2007
CHRISTOPHER BARRIOS MEMORIAL
This memorial website was created to remember our dearest Christopher Michael Barrios who was born in Brunswick Georgia on January 2, 2001 and passed away on March 15, 2007 at the age of 6. You will live forever in our... ... morePosted at 9:26 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
April 3, 2007
Bones Unearth Quiet Fear
By BRIAN SKOLOFF The Associated Press FORT MYERS - The discovery of eight human skeletons in a remote, wooded area just east of downtown has authorities quietly wondering whether a serial killer might be at work. Using wire screens and... ... morePosted at 5:21 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
April 2, 2007
Florida community sues to remove child
GOD BLESS AMERICA! The land of freedom. LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida homeowners group wants three-year-old Kimberly Broffman to take her Big Wheel and hit the road. They've banded together to oust the toddler from their Tampa-area community, which... ... morePosted at 8:13 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Florida community sues to remove child
GOD BLESS AMERICA! The land of freedom. LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida homeowners group wants three-year-old Kimberly Broffman to take her Big Wheel and hit the road. They've banded together to oust the toddler from their Tampa-area community, which... ... morePosted at 8:13 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
28 Men Charged With Soliciting Child Sex
Some traveled across the state and others were just a county away, but detectives said the men came for the same reason: to have sex with youngsters they met on the Internet. When they arrived at a house in Polk... ... morePosted at 8:02 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
April 1, 2007
TEMPLE TERRACE - Police on Friday charged 65-year-old Eugene Gary Conklin with 804 counts of possession of child pornography, said Temple Terrace police spokesman Mike Dunn. On Jan. 12, Conklin’s wife contacted police and said she’d seen him downloading... ... morePosted at 4:01 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)