Your Holiday Feel-Good Story of the Day

[CountDeMoney]

Body of missing Salisbury girl found
Police say sex offender who dated her aunt kidnapped 11-year-old; no additional charges yet
By Michael Dresser
Baltimore Sun reporter

6:44 PM EST, December 25, 2009
SALISBURY —
Wicomico County law enforcement officials have found the body of an 11-year-old girl who police say was kidnapped from her bedroom by a registered sex offender.

The body of Sarah Haley Foxwell was found in the Rum Ridge area of northern Wicomico County about three-quarters of a mile south of the Maryland-Delaware state line, an area that had been a focus of the search.

Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said no additional charges have yet been brought against Thomas James Leggs Jr., the sex offender who had been earlier charged with her kidnapping.

Lewis said law enforcement officials would work on the crime scene, an area of suburban homes and fields, throughout the night. He said Sarah's family had been notified.

The body was discovered by a search team comprised entirely of law enforcement officers, including Maryland State Police and Salisbury police. Police would not comment on the condition of Sarah's body.

Earlier in the day, more than 3,000 volunteers gathered on Christmas Day to take part in the ongoing search for Sarah, and Wicomico law enforcement officials said they were interviewing other potential victims of Leggs.

"We have been interviewing possible additional victims," Lewis said at an afternoon briefing. "There are several."

He did not provide additional details.

The search for Sarah brough out throngs of volunteers who abandoned their holiday plans to help locate a middle school student described as bright and exuberant. Volunteers gathered around 7 a.m. on Christmas Day at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium to register for the search. The night before, more than 200 people scoured frozen fields and ponds the night before without success.

A younger sister awoke during the night on Tuesday to see Sarah leave the room with their aunt's former boyfriend, a registered sex offender, according to court documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun.

Leggs, 30, who lived in a building on the grounds of his parents' Salisbury home, was arrested Wednesday and charged with burglary and kidnapping in Sarah's disappearance, police said. Two older people who answered the door at the home declined to comment Friday afternoon, asking a reporter to leave the property.

As volunteers trudged through muddy terrain, Lewis asked property owners in the county to scour their own fields, woodlands and yards for the girl. He asked owners to display a red ribbon, flag or article of clothing on their mail boxes or other areas to alert law enforcement that the area had been searched.

Leggs, who is listed on sex offender registries in Maryland and Delaware, was not cooperating with police, said Sgt. Charsten Wendlandt of the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office.

Davis Ruark, state's attorney for Wicomico County, gave morning volunteers gathered in the stadium instructions on how not to contaminate crime scenes. His words included explicit advice to "not touch any potential body that might be found," but he also said officials had not given up hope for Sarah, saying it's "our hope and our prayer that she's still alive."

Later, Ruark marvelled at the turnout, as volunteers arrived from as far as Massachusetts and a 16-person dive team was dispatched from Baltimore. "I have never seen anything like this in all my years of being state's attorney," he said. "The community has just risen to the occasion."

Sarah, a sixth-grade student at Wicomico Middle School, is a bright and lighthearted child, said Tracey Powell, a paternal aunt, who attended a Christmas Eve candlelight vigil for the girl at an elementary school last night.

"She would just run the hallways laughing and giggling, and just jump into your arms," Powell said. "All we want is for her to come home safe and sound."

Standing near a shrine of teddy bears and flickering candles, Trent Molnar, who coaches Sarah's brother's baseball team, led the crowd in prayer, asking for Sarah to be returned home for Christmas.

Sarah's younger sister told police she saw the girl leave the bedroom with the man they knew as "Tommy," according to police and court documents. Leggs, who works in his family's custom cabinet business, recently dated the girl's aunt, who is the guardian for Sarah and two of her siblings, Wendlandt said. Another relative discovered Sarah missing in the morning, he said.

Leggs knew the family kept a spare key under a pot on the porch of the home, according to court documents.

Leggs "was developed as a suspect early on in the investigation before we were aware of his criminal background, but he does have a criminal history to include third- and fourth-degree sex offenses of small, young females," said Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis.

The girl's aunt, Amy Fothergill, said Sarah's green toothbrush was missing from the home, and police found it along with a lollipop in Leggs' 2003 champagne-colored Dodge pickup, according to documents. Leggs, who agreed to go to the sheriff's office for questioning, was wearing an outfit similar to what the younger girl said the man in the bedroom had on, according to documents.

Leggs told deputies that he had last driven the pickup about 1 a.m. Wednesday when he left a nearby bar.

The teams of morning volunteers were organized into teams of eight to 10, with each team accompanied by a law enforcement officer and a fire official.

One of the volunteers, Jim Harrington of Roxana, Del, said he arrived at 6 a.m. "because I care." He was willing to do "whatever they want me to do: Climb, crawl, swim -- I don't care."

According to charging documents, Fothergill dated Leggs "for a short period of time a month or so ago and ... Leggs just stopped contacting her." Fothergill told police that she knew that Leggs was a registered sex offender.

Reached by phone Thursday night, Fothergill passed the phone to a sheriff's deputy who said that she declined to comment. Court records indicate that she sued her sister for unpaid child support for Sarah and five other children in February 2008.

Sarah is 4 feet, 8 inches tall and has brown hair often worn in a ponytail. Police say she was last seen wearing red, fuzzy pajama bottoms with Christmas trees on them and a pink John Deere T-shirt.

Police also released a photograph of a 2003 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup used by Leggs and asked anyone who might have seen the vehicle to contact authorities.

Leggs was being held without bail at the Wicomico County Detention Center. His listing as a child sex offender in the Maryland Sex Offender Registry stems from a third-degree sex offense conviction in 1998. His status was listed as "compliant," meaning that he provided his address, employment and other information at the time of his last move in 2007.

In Delaware, he is listed as a "high-risk" sex offender in connection with the rape of a minor in 2001.

Electronic court records in Maryland show that Leggs was charged in September with fourth-degree burglary and malicious destruction of property. His divorce was finalized in April, and he was denied custody and visitation of his child.

Patrick O'Grady of Parsonsburg, who also joined the search, hoped that others would do the same if something were to happen to his 11-year-old daughter, who had attended the vigil. He said she came back and said "Daddy, go find this little girl. You can open your presents when you get back."

She went to the same school I had gone to.  Merry fucking Christmas.

[Cecil]

Is there any evidence pedos ever get "cured"?

[Razgovory]

It's a sexual preference.  The psychiatric community doesn't consider these illnesses anymore.

[syk]

It's a sexual preference.  The psychiatric community doesn't consider these illnesses anymore.

Bullshit. The WHO's ICD 10 (international classification of diseases, the whole world outside the US uses it) classifies deviant sexual behaviour as F65.x
0 - Fetishism
1- fetishistic transvestitism
2- exhibitionism
3- voyeurism
4- pedophilia
5- sadomasochism
6- multiple disorders of sexual preference
8- other disorders of sexual preference (this includes necrophilia, frotteurism, sheepshaggin)
9- disorder of the sexual preference, not specified

So these are the possibilities to classify sexual deviance as a DIAGNOSIS.
They don't necessarily need to be treated as noone would be suffering from e.g. consenting fetishism or SM practices.
Psychiatry however treats dangerousness as well. Diagnosis doesn't need to be followed by treatment.

[syk]

The DSM IV (diagnostical and statistical manual, 4th revision) used in the US lists
exhibitionism , fetishism , frotteurism , pedophilia , sexual masochism , sexual sadism , transvestic fetishism , and voyeurism as paraphilias. 

[Tamas]

OMG CdM WAS NOT PROPERLY OFFENDED!!!! HE IS HETEROPHOBE!

[Martinus]

OMG I bet the guy was gay.

[Razgovory]

It's a sexual preference.  The psychiatric community doesn't consider these illnesses anymore.

Bullshit. The WHO's ICD 10 (international classification of diseases, the whole world outside the US uses it) classifies deviant sexual behaviour as F65.x
0 - Fetishism
1- fetishistic transvestitism
2- exhibitionism
3- voyeurism
4- pedophilia
5- sadomasochism
6- multiple disorders of sexual preference
8- other disorders of sexual preference (this includes necrophilia, frotteurism, sheepshaggin)
9- disorder of the sexual preference, not specified

So these are the possibilities to classify sexual deviance as a DIAGNOSIS.
They don't necessarily need to be treated as noone would be suffering from e.g. consenting fetishism or SM practices.
Psychiatry however treats dangerousness as well. Diagnosis doesn't need to be followed by treatment.

I was trying to Troll Marty.

[Martinus]

It's a sexual preference.  The psychiatric community doesn't consider these illnesses anymore.

Bullshit. The WHO's ICD 10 (international classification of diseases, the whole world outside the US uses it) classifies deviant sexual behaviour as F65.x
0 - Fetishism
1- fetishistic transvestitism
2- exhibitionism
3- voyeurism
4- pedophilia
5- sadomasochism
6- multiple disorders of sexual preference
8- other disorders of sexual preference (this includes necrophilia, frotteurism, sheepshaggin)
9- disorder of the sexual preference, not specified

So these are the possibilities to classify sexual deviance as a DIAGNOSIS.
They don't necessarily need to be treated as noone would be suffering from e.g. consenting fetishism or SM practices.
Psychiatry however treats dangerousness as well. Diagnosis doesn't need to be followed by treatment.

I was trying to Troll Marty.

I wouldn't be trolled, anyway.

Btw, why do you keep trolling me. I thought we were pals.

[Razgovory]

I have been bored lately.

[syk]

I was trying to Troll Marty.

And see what you got! A whole list of doctor approved wanking alternatives plus sources in case you want to poke deeper into the topic after getting bored with looking for dysthymia on a map. Must be christmas! 

[jimmy olsen]

Fuck you Seedy, trying to ruin Christmas, here's a real feel good story.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34593857/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

Girl abducted in Phoenix rescued by police

This undated picture made available via KTVK-TV shows Natalie Flores, who was rescued after being abducted Friday.

updated 1:08 a.m. ET Dec. 26, 2009

PHOENIX - A 5-year-old girl who was abducted while playing outside with her sisters at a north Phoenix apartment complex was found "alive and well" Friday night after a search, a police spokesman said.

Natalie Flores was found around 9 p.m. Friday after a patrol officer spotted the pickup truck of the man accused of kidnapping her, Sgt. Andy Hill said.

After a short pursuit, police stopped the truck and rescued Natalie from inside, Hill said.

"She is alive and well," he said. "I'm told she's in good condition. We have had our Christmas miracle."

The Arizona Republic reported that a suspect was in custody.

Police received the call that Natalie had been taken at about 2:15 p.m. An Amber Alert was issued, and authorities began combing the area on foot, by car and with helicopters.

Hill said Natalie had been playing in a common area at the complex with her two sisters, ages 7 and 9, when a man parked his brown pickup in a nearby parking lot and walked over to them carrying a camera.

"He physically grabbed the 7-year-old girl and forcibly took a photo of her," Hill said.

The man then forced Natalie into the truck and drove away. Witnesses reported that as the man was fleeing, he hit a parked car before entering southbound 19th Avenue.

"At that point, we had a couple of adult witnesses there who saw the suspect and the girl inside the truck with him," Hill said.

Natalie and her sisters had been staying at an apartment in the complex with an aunt, who apparently has legal custody of them, and the aunt's boyfriend, Hill said. The girls' parents live separately out of state.

After the abduction, Natalie's older sister went to a neighbor's apartment and pounded on the door, The Arizona Republic reported on its Web site. The woman who answered, Donna Reed, said the girl was carrying a ball and appeared to be shaking.

"She said some man just took her little sister," Reed told the newspaper. "She was a nervous wreck."

Reed called 911.

The FBI and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children also helped with the search.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.

[Razgovory]

I was trying to Troll Marty.

And see what you got! A whole list of doctor approved wanking alternatives plus sources in case you want to poke deeper into the topic after getting bored with looking for dysthymia on a map. Must be christmas! 

I didn't get anything.  Besides I only know about American Psychiatric practices I have no idea what you furrniers do.

[Martinus]

I am curious why stuff like fetishism is considered a "disease". I mean, isn't it like considering "likes Thai food" or "likes sushi" a disease too? 

And why have psychiatrists classify "deviant sexual practices" and not, say "deviant musical tastes" or "deviant dressing habits"? It all smacks to me too much of Victorian-era mentality.

[CountDeMoney]

And why have psychiatrists classify "deviant sexual practices" and not, say "deviant musical tastes" or "deviant dressing habits"? It all smacks to me too much of Victorian-era mentality.

Particularly since they're not wrapped too tight themselves.