Idaho girl missing for 6 weeks found alive
 

CNN) -- An 8-year-old Idaho girl, missing more than six weeks, has been found alive and police have arrested a 42-year-old sex offender, a sheriff's department official said Saturday.

Shasta Groene was found at a Denny's restaurant in Coeur d'Alene at about 2 a.m. (4 a.m. ET), a spokesman for the Kootenai County (Idaho) Sheriff's Department said.

Shasta's brother, 9-year-old Dylan, has not been located, but her great aunt, Sue Torres, told CNN that "Shasta's probably going to take us to him."

Kootenai County Sheriff's Department spokesman Capt. Ben Wolfinger said Shasta was accompanied by Joseph Edward Duncan III, a registered sex offender, who was being questioned by investigators.

Wolfinger said Duncan -- who has a Fargo, North Dakota, address -- was charged with kidnapping and there were two out-of-state warrants for Duncan.

Shasta is at the Kootenai Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN. Wolfinger said she was taken to the hospital "as a precautionary measure" and appeared "to be in generally good health."

The children have been missing since May 16, when their mother, a brother and the mother's boyfriend were found beaten to death in the mother's home.

A memorial service was held May 25 for 40-year-old Brenda Groene and 13-year-old Slade Groene.

Authorities said they and 37-year-old Mark McKenzie died from blunt-force trauma to the head. The last time they were seen was May 15, when they had a Sunday get-together with friends at the home.

Police have said they have no suspects in the deaths or the children's disappearance.

"We've always believed that if they were going to kill everybody in the house, they would have killed them and left them there," Wolfinger said in May. "But they didn't."

Authorities are offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the return of the children or information that could lead to those responsible for their abduction. In addition, Kootenai County posted a $7,500 reward. (Full story)

An Amber Alert initially was issued for the children but was canceled because of the lack of new information in the case for five days.

Authorities described Dylan as 4 feet tall, 60 pounds, with crew-cut blond hair and blue eyes.



First off I want to say I am very happy this little girl is alive and safe now.

Next I want to rant about how these goddamn mother f**king child rapers are EVER let out after the first time they're caught. Screw that why are they allowed to live!

These sick F***s should be put down like a rabid dog, every time you turn around you see a story of some goddamned known child molester taking another kid. And then the F'ing libs are sticking up for them and complaining about things like sex offender registration.

They need to just off these bastards and take anyone who supports them and rape them in the ass with a shovel handle till they change their mind.

I'm pissed off.

Wow. Why wasn't this story national news when Michael Jackson was dominating the press.

Maybe the kids would have been found sooner. Our media is all jacked up.

I couldn't agree more. The stinking media slobers all over stories about celebs ( all the jackson and Cruise crap lately) but ignore something like a family slaughtered and 2 missing young children!!

:cuss: :# :bang:

It got a little bit of play for a couple of days, I remember seeing their pics and my heart breaking for them. I really have only contempt and hate in my heart for anyone who would hurt a child. Someone should beat him to death, and I am serious about that. I would pay to watch. fuck his civil rights.

I'd pay to be the one to do it.

Hey Jenny did you ever figure out your web page problem last night?

Naahhh...still working on it.

The media was all over this story day after day, but did not give it the full atention it desrved, they gave up. This is a true blessing, I am quite pleased to find that one of the children has been found alive.

If .. If ... If...

If they would make the punishments for heinous crimes so unspeakably horrid in nature that it would deter 99% of the offenders then I would be all for it. But you better make sure the law catches the right guy cause that would not be good to castrate a sex offender only to find out he/she was innocent.

Just IMO



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Hey.... here's a kinda related question


Lets just say you are browsing the Sex Offender website and find out the one of your coworkers (or someone with the same name and address), is listed for 1st Degree Statutory Rape. I haven't checked this personally, but supposedly that means he had sex with someone 12 or under when he was 21 or older.


What would you do?

I looked it up...

less than 14 years of age... less than 12 has a more severe penalty


makes me sick

I so hope the little boy is okay, I have an uneasy feeling since he wasn't with his sister. How sad that they also lost their mom and brother and were not allowed to grieve for them....


My prayers are with you Shasta and Dylan.

I pretty much agree. How many kids have been killed by repeat offenders in the last few years? Cut their fucking units off. And if after five years that doesn't solve the problem, institute the death penalty for child molesters.

I know for damn sure a bullet in the head would deter at least the one who did it from doing it again.

A true hero is the food server in that Denney's Restaurent who called the police, than stalled the guy by giving the girl a milkshake, waiting for the police to get there.

No doubt she probably saved that little girls life.