Adam Croote, Former Poster Child for Missing & Victimized Kids Gets 25 Years to Life Sentence for Raping 10 Year Old Girl

The sad and tragic life of Adam Croote …

The once poster child for missing and victimized children has now become what he had been victimized by over the years. 23 year old Adam Croote was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the rape and choking of a 10 year old girl. Croote was entrusted with baby sitting the little girl. Instead he raped and left the girl for dead. If the crime was not bad enough, according the court papers the family knew in advance that Adam Croote was a registered sex offender.

However, Adam Croote was not just any registered sex offender, he was the once poster child for missing and victimized children. His story drew national attention and even landed him in the White House. Adam Croote just never had a chance, the adults ion his life saw to that as he wound up becoming exactly what he had been victimized by. The sad, sick and twisted life pf Adam Croote.

At the age of two, Adam’s father murdered his mother and left him alone with her body in Hinesville, GA. Michael Croote, Adam’s  father, is serving a life sentence for the crime in Georgia. Two years later, Adam Croote’s maternal grandparents kidnapped him during a custody fight. In 1992, during an unsupervised visit with then 3 year old Croote, the Ziburas abducted him, setting off a nationwide search that ended in 1995.  The case received so much attention as Adam’s face was on missing child fliers for three years until they were captured. In 1996 Adam Croote was photographed with President Bill Clinton as the then President signed an Executive Order in support of missing children. However, Adam’s life would take and even worse and sad turn. At the age of 17 in Wendell, MA, Adam sexually assaulted a woman who worked at a residential school for sexually abusive youths while she was driving him to school from a doctor’s appointment. Following the incident, Croote was convicted of forcible sexual contact and was labeled a Level 2 sex offender.

Croote has led a troubled life.  His father murdered his mother when he was two.  Two years after that, Adam’s grandparents kidnapped him.  The case received so much attention that Adam was photographed with Bill Clinton as the then President signed an Executive Order in support of missing children.  Later, Croote stood alongside former Attorney General Janet Reno as she lauded the same law.  In 2000, when Adam was a student at Bethlehem Middle School, he sexually assaulted a girl and five years later he sexually assaulted a woman in Massachusetts.

“This case was a tragedy for all concerned. It’s been additionally one more tragic even in Adam Croote’s life,” said Adam’s public defender, James Milstein.

Judge Herrick acknowledged what he called Adam’s “horrible childhood.”  But, ultimately the past didn’t matter and Adam Croote will be spending his future–25 years to life–in prison.

What a tragic story. A one time victimized child who had obviously been exposed to far to much pain and misery in his life becomes everything that he was supposed to be the poster child against.

23 Year Old Fort Bragg Soldier Kelli Bordeaux Missing Since 4/14/12 after Leaving the Froggy Bottoms Bar in Fayetteville, NC … POI Registered Sex Offender Questioned

23 year old Pfc. Kelli Marie Bordeaux goes missing after leaving Fayetteville bar early Saturday morning, April 14, 2012. Kelli Bordeaux was last seen leaving the Froggy Bottoms at 6326 Ramsey St. around 1:20 AM. The police believe her to be in danger. Her sister Olivia Cox said she last spoke with her sister via text messages Friday night and that all seemed well. Kelli Bordeaux is described as 5 feet 1 inch tall and 102 pounds with blonde hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a pink tube top with spaghetti straps and black shorts.

Olivia Cox pleaded for the safe return of her younger sister, a Fort Bragg soldier who has been missing since Saturday.

Fayetteville police say Pfc. Kelli Marie Bordeaux, 23, was last seen leaving Froggy Bottoms at 6326 Ramsey St. around 1:20 a.m. Police believe her to be in danger.

“Being a soldier for Kelli isn’t something she would jeopardize,” Cox told reporters during a press conference Tuesday night. “Kelli is not a soldier that would go AWOL.”

Bordeaux, a native of St. Cloud, Fla., is assigned as a health service specialist with the 601st Area Support Medical Company, 261st Multifunctional Medical Battalion, 44th Medical Brigade.

Kelli Bordeaux was last spotted leaving a bar, Froggy Bottoms, in nearby Fayetteville about 1:30 am on Saturday. She was given a ride home by a bar employee. However, he is not considered a suspect. Hmm, oh really? Who thinks that this is a red flag?

“Supposedly when the guy that was giving her a ride home, was taking her to her apartment, he got to her apartment and something spooked her so … she said, ‘No, no, no just let me out here,’ instead of taking her like around the corner to her apartment,” her mother, Johnna Henson, told wptv.com. “I don’t understand that.”

Missing Soldier ‘may be in danger according to police.

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UPDATE I: Police question person of interest in search for missing Fort Bragg soldier Kelli Bordeaux. Oh yeah, as originally reported that the indovidual who drove Kelli Bordeaux home was not a suspect or POI, wrong. As it turns out, 25 year old Nicholas Holbert, the man who drove her home is a registered sex offender. Holbert was convicted in 2003 of indecent liberties with a 5-year-old child. NICE.

North Carolina police are questioning a registered sex offender and bar hand in their search for a missing Fort Bragg soldier last seen leaving a nightclub.

Pfc. Kelli Bordeaux, a 23-year-old combat medic with the 44th Medical Brigade, disappeared early Saturday after leaving the Froggy Bottoms bar in Fayetteville.

On Wednesday, authorities interviewed 25-year-old Nicholas Holbert, a registered sex offender who works at the bar and who said he drove Bordeaux home the night she disappeared

Fayetteville Police Public Information Officer Gavin MacRoberts said, based on information gathered during the investigation, detectives believe she may be in danger and are asking for anyone who may have seen her to contact Detective Locklear with the Fayetteville Police Department at (910) 587-3254 or CrimeStoppers at (910) 483-TIPS (8477).

For more updates, opinions and to provide your own thoughts, theories and opinions, go to Scared Monkeys Missing Persons Forum.

Search Continues for Missing Sierra Lamar … Teen’s Father is a Registered Sex Offender, But Not Considered a Suspect

The search continues for missing 15 year old Sierra Lamar according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. Sierra Lamar has been missing since March 16, 2012 when she failed to show up for school. Authorities have been interviewing and questioning the too numerous registered sex offenders in the Morgan Hill, CA area. That has brought about a rather peculiar situation. The father of missing Sierra Lamar, Steve Wayne Lamar, is a registered sex offender. He was convicted of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14. Hmm. However, the Sheriff’s office is saying that he is not a suspect and is cooperating.

Tuesday, the sheriff’s Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Task Force was still in the process of contacting the 267 registered sex offenders in Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy to confirm their whereabouts at the time Sierra disappeared, Sgt. Jose Cardoza said.

The Sheriff’s Office also confirmed Tuesday that Sierra’s father, Steve Wayne Lamar, of Fremont, is a registered sex offender but is not a person of interest in his daughter’s disappearance. Lamar has “been fully cooperative since the beginning of the investigation,” Cardoza said.

Just a tad bit bizarre that the dad would be a registered sex offender and your 15 year old daughter goes missing.

UPDATE I: Updates from Police presser.

“It’s frustrating from our standpoint that we haven’t found any clues,” Cardoza said at the press conference.

LaMar’s mother said the teen usually wakes up about 6 a.m., and has been missing since about 7:15 a.m. Friday. Her last “tweet” on her Twitter account was posted at 6:29 a.m. from a computer that day.

LaMar moved to Morgan Hill with her mother Marlene and mother’s boyfriend, Rick, about five months ago. On Monday afternoon, Marlene LaMar stood by with Sierra’s father, Steve, cousins Michelle Allee and Keith LaMar and Sierra’s sister Danielle.

Daily Commentary – Friday, February 24, 2012 – Texas Officials Remove 11 Children from Home of a Sex Offender

• Some of the children were found tied to their beds

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Hero of the Month: 7 Year Old Brittney Baxter Fights Off Attempted Kidnapping of Ex-Con Thomas Andrew Woods in Georgia Walmart

NEVER LET IT BE SAID THAT ALL CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE SHOWN HOW TO REACT IN ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING … ENTER  OUR BRAVE 7 YEAR OLD HERO BRITTNEY BAXTER …

7 year old Brittney Baxter is a hero after her quick thinking yesterday in an attempted kidnapping at a Georgia Walmart. Thomas Andrew Woods, an ex-con convicted of voluntary manslaughter, was on probation just could not help himself. The 25 year old ex-con was taken into custody in the attempted kidnapping of Brittany Baxter. Had it now been for the little girl’s quick reaction to resist the abduction by kicking and screaming when the felony dirt-bag attempted to drag her out of the Walmart, who knows how tragic this story would have become. Actually, we know how bad it would have been.

From the AJC …

Thomas Andrew Woods, 25, of Austell, was taken into custody and questioned before being arrested Wednesday afternoon, Bremen Police Chief Keith Pesnell told the AJC.

“We’re pretty confident we’ve got the right guy,” Pesnell said.

But as Woods was being led in handcuffs from the police department to a patrol car, he told reporters that the police had the wrong man.

“I was never there,” Woods said.

According to police, Woods started talking to Brittney Baxter in the toy aisle of the Wal-Mart and then grabbed her and put his hand around her mouth.

But Brittney kicked and screamed, and the man let her go, police said. Neither she nor her mother, who was nearby in the store, was injured.

From the files of once a piece of law breaking scum, always a piece of law breaking scum, Thomas Andrew Woods was released in October 2011 from the Wheeler Correctional Facility, where he had been since April 2007 following his manslaughter conviction in DeKalb county. Nice, glad to see he learned advanced child sex predator in prison. Let’s hope they lock this POS, oh sorry, alleged POS away and throw away the key. Anyone that would attempt such a brazen kidnap attempt should never be allowed near the general public.

FBI Joins the Search for Missing 9 Year Old Aliahna Lemmon in Indiana (UPDATE: Police Call news conference “very important”)

Nine year old Aliahna Marie Maroney Lemmon has been missing since Friday morning, December 23, 2011 at the Northway trailer park around Clinton Street and Diebold Road. No one has seen or heard from her since. The fact that there have been no sightings or clues to the whereabouts of Missing 9 Year Old Aliahna Lemmon is not a good sign for any happy outcome.

The FBI has now joined the search for the missing Indiana girl. It has been said that missing Aliahna Lemmon has physical and emotional problems. Also and even more disturbing the mobile home park where she  was staying is known as a haven for registered sex offenders. What better place for a 9 year old little girl to stay. How does anybody allow their children to live around so many sex offenders, many considered violent sex offenders. Just curious, so why is the FBI involved?

About a half-dozen people in black windbreakers, several of whom identified themselves as FBI agents, were at the mobile home park Monday where Aliahna Lemmon went missing from a family friend’s home on Friday. Some with search dogs were seen at a nearby storage facility.

Monday’s renewed search came a day after local police significantly rolled back a coordinated effort by several law enforcement agencies, said Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel, a department spokesman. He said the same size search could not be sustained on Sunday because of the Christmas holiday.

Allen County Public Safety Scanner Live Audio Feed – Hat Tip: Cartfly.

Note:  That the FBI does involve themselves in cases if children are missing and possibly kidnapped, with no known interstate transportation. The FBI will initiate a kidnapping investigation involving a missing child “of tender years, 12 years old or younger. This would lead us to believe that authorities are not buying the “sleep walking” stories.

If a child is missing and possibly kidnapped, but no interstate transportation is known, will the FBI begin an investigation?

Yes. The FBI will initiate a kidnapping investigation involving a missing child “of tender years,” even though there is no known interstate aspect. “Tender years” is generally defined as a child 12 years or younger. The FBI will monitor other kidnapping situations when there is no evidence of interstate travel, and it offers assistance from various entities including the FBI Laboratory.

The questions in this case are many:

1. How could any mother allow her children to be exposed to so many convicted sex offenders?
2. Who allows their children to stay with a man ( Mike Plumadore ), living among sex offenders, because they are too sick?
3. Really, the mothers own father was a convicted of crimes who lived with Plumadore prior to his death?
4. How does a mother not see the children since Tuesday, even though we are told that Aliahna had many physical and emotional issues?
5. Why would the 6 year old sisters have told Plumadore that Aliahna was with their mom, if she was not … this according to Plumadore?
6. Why would Plumadore have left the children alone at all? If he had gone for a cigar at 6AM, a bit early for a Tiparillo isn’t it dude?  So he leaves them alone, knowing the 9 year old has issues?
7. Also, why was the step dad not taking care of the children when the mom was sick? Why ask a friend? This kind of stinks of the stereotypical “step-dad” stories.

According to the news account in the VIDEO below, Mike Plumadore, the man who was watching Aliahna, claims that he was going into having a polygraph taken by police. Listening to individuals accounts of the story, I just find it hard to believe it all occurred that way. And still wondering why the step-dad was not taking care of the girls, why a guy friend?

VIDEO of Neighbor discussing concern for missing Aliahna Lemmon. She might be concerned about her own daughter with so many sex offenders near by.

The family friend who was allegedly caring for Aliahna at the time of her disappearance spoke briefly to Indiana’s NewsCenter Monday morning. He reported going in to take a polygraph test, and said he too is eager to find Aliahna.

From CNN’s Nancy Grace:

Story told Grace that search dogs picked up Aliahna’s scent going from Plumadore’s home to a bus stop but her trail then vanished. The bus stop is on the side of a busy road and Story speculated that someone may have abducted her from there.

UPDATE I: Police call newser on missing 9 Year Old Aliahna Lemmon

Allen County Sherriff’s Department calls 10:30 p.m. press conference. FBI is near trailer where 9-year-old missing Fort Wayne girl last seen.

In an email to NewsChannel 15, police called the news conference “very important.” It will be at the department’s detective bureau at 12325 Lima Road.

The Allen County Sheriff’s Department has called a news conference for 10:30 p.m. Monday to update local media on the disappearance of the missing 9-year-old Aliahna Lemmon.

For more updates and to provide your opinions and analysis go to Scared Monkeys Missing Persons forum:  Aliahna Lemmon.

SNAKES ON A PLANE … Utah Man Arrested for Allegedly Viewing Child Porn on Plane

SNAKES PERVS ON A PLANE …

A Utah man,27 year old Grant Smith, was arrested at Boston’s Logan International Airport for allegedly viewing and being in possession of child pornography. ICK!!!  According to WCVB 5, Grant Smith, an engineering professor at the University of Utah, was seated in the first class when another passenger took a cell phone pic of the perv view the child porn.

A man on a Delta Airlines flight from Utah was arrested at Boston’s Logan Airport on Saturday afternoon for allegedly viewing pornographic images of children on his laptop during the flight.

Grant Smith, 27, of Cottonwood Heights, Utah was interviewed by Massachusetts State Police just after 4 p.m. Following that interview, Smith was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.

Syracuse University Fires Asst Basketball Coach Bernie Fine in Wake of Sex Scandal, Tape Release Fine’s Wife, “Bernie has issues, maybe that he’s not aware of, but he has issues. …”

WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S … FIRED!!!

In the wake of the Syracuse sex scandal, assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine has been fired by Syracuse University. As the investigation continues in the alleged accusations of sexual molestation by Bernie Fine, the asst coach finds himself out of a job after 36 years and in hot water. The firing comes after a third individual came forward with allegation of sexual molestation and a search of Fine’s home over the weekend by Syracuse police and US Secret Service agents.

Bernie Fine was fired Sunday by Syracuse University after a third man accused the assistant basketball coach of molesting him nine years ago.

“At the direction of Chancellor Cantor, Bernie Fine’s employment with Syracuse University has been terminated, effective immediately,” Kevin Quinn, the school’s senior vice president for public affairs, said in a statement.

The 65-year-old Fine was in his 36th season at his alma mater. He had the longest active streak of consecutive seasons at one school among assistant coaches in Division I.

After the tape of Bernie Fine’s wife, Laurie Fine, came forward, LISTEN HERE, it was hard to believe that Fine would not be fired and worse. The tape of Fine’s wife was recorded without her knowledge at the time. The tape obviously shows that Fine’s wife had concerns of Bernie Fine’s sexual molestation. YIKES!!! The tape is troubling and disturbing to listen to … um, ESPN had this how long ago?

Bobby Davis, who has publicly accused Bernie Fine of years of molestation that Davis said started when he was in the seventh grade, legally recorded his Oct. 8, 2002, phone call to Laurie Fine.

“I know everything that went on, you know,” Laurie Fine said on the call, obtained by Outside the Lines from Davis. “I know everything that went on with him … Bernie has issues, maybe that he’s not aware of, but he has issues … And you trusted somebody you shouldn’t have trusted … ”

She continued: “Bernie is also in denial. I think that he did the things he did, but he’s somehow through his own mental telepathy has erased them out of his mind.”

Long time Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim released a statement regarding the firing of Fine. Boeheim had initially defended Fine when the story first broke; however, he has obviously developed a change of heart and stated that he was sorry if his initial comments in defense of Fine were “insensitive to victims of abuse.”

“The allegations that have come forth today are disturbing and deeply troubling,” Boeheim said in a statement released by the school. “I am personally very shocked because I have never witnessed any of the activities that have been alleged. I believe the university took the appropriate step tonight. What is most important is that this matter be fully investigated and that anyone with information be supported to come forward so that the truth can be found. I deeply regret any statements I made that might have inhibited that from occurring or been insensitive to victims of abuse.”

First Penn State and now Syracuse University. One really has to wonder how many colleges and universities have such deep dark skeletons in their closets? Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

Saturday Night Live: Even the Devil Offended by the Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal in SNL Skit

The Penn State child sex scandal, it’s pretty bad when even the Devil is taken aback and offended … Evil just ain’t what it used to be.

Saturday Night Live probably did one of their best skits in years and there was nothing political about it. It is a must see VIDEO because it brings light on a hideous scandal and shows the absurdity of how Penn State as an institution so badly handled it. The SNL skit targeted the Penn State child sex scandal in showing that even the Devil was offended by what had transpired in not so Happy Valley.

“SNL” cast member Jason Sudeikis reprised his role as Satan, appearing with red horns and pitchfork. The devil was informed by “Weekend Update” host Seth Meyers of sex charges against a former defensive coordinator and allegations that university officials failed to report the abuse.

Even he was disturbed by the news. Addressing Penn State students who protested football coach Joe Paterno’s firing, the devil spoke directly into the camera, asking, “Do you know how bad that made you look?”

As an upset and disturbed Satan stated when he found out the the scandal at Penn State was a child abuse sex scandal and not selling tickets for money, “I am the Price of Darkness, not a monster”. Doesn’t that pretty much say it all. This SNL is a classic, not because the content is humorous at it’s core, it is just the opposite, the child sex scandal cover up makes any one with a soul sick. Hell, even Satan was appalled and there lies the visceral disgust in this entire matter. As the Devil said, “this is Penn State football, not the Catholic church”. However, these days one has to wonder because they handed the matter of sexually abusing little boys in the same way. Sorry, but facts are the fact.  Through hyperbole SNL showed just how bad this scandal is and was at Penn State … When the Devil is offended, Houston Penn State,  YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!

UPDATE I: The NY Times has their own version of the Devil and Joe Paterno. The interesting point from this article is that Joe Pa might have believed more in the institution than individuals “inappropriate behavior”. And there lies the problem. Protecting the band, rather than protecting children.

They believed in their church. They believed in their mission. And out of the temptation that comes only to the virtuous, they somehow persuaded themselves that protecting their institution’s various good works mattered more than justice for the children they were supposed to shepherd and protect.

I suspect a similar instinct prompted the higher-ups at Penn State to basically ignore what they described as Jerry Sandusky’s “inappropriate conduct,” and persuaded Paterno that by punting the allegation to his superiors he had fulfilled his responsibility to the victimized child. He had so many important duties, after all, and so many people counting on him. And Sandusky had done so much good over the years …

Penn St – Jerry Sandusky Sex Scandal: Two Top PSU Officials, Tim Curley Gary Schultz Step Down … Joe Paterno Says, “We Were All Fooled”

NOT SO HAPPY VALLEY … PSU UNDER A CLOUD OF SEXUAL ASSAULT SCANDAL AND COVER UP …

The shoes are beginning to drop in the aftermath of the child sex abuse scandal that has rocked Penn St. University. Two top PSU officials stepped down Sunday. Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, vice president for finance and business, stepped down Sunday night following an emergency Board of Trustees meeting.

Two top Penn State officials charged with covering up allegations of an explosive child-sex abuse scandal related to former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky stepped down late Sunday after an emergency meeting of the university’s Board of Trustees.

Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley requested to be placed on administrative leave so he could devote the time needed to defend himself against perjury and other charges, university President Graham Spanier said. Gary Schultz, vice president for finance and business, will step down and go back into retirement, Spanier said. He declined to comment to reporters after the meeting.

The resignations follow the shocking allegations of sexual abuse of teen boys and younger on the part of former defensive football coach Jerry Sandusky. The charges against him cover the period from 1994 to 2009. Sandusky was arrested on Saturday and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts.

Head football coach and legend Joe Paterno said, “We Were All Fooled.”

“If this is true, we were all fooled, along with scores of professionals trained in such things, and we grieve for the victims and their families. They are in our prayers,” Paterno in a statement issued Sunday evening by his son, Scott.

In this case the cover up is not worse than the crime, because it appears the criminal allegations are pretty damn bad.  Although the cover up is reprehensible.