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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 10:09 AM Sep 2018

Four charged in plot to kidnap, rape and kill a child

Michigan State Police said Friday they uncovered evidence of the plan to find a child at a local county fair or in a parking lot of a Walmart or Meijer store. The group intended to torture and sexually assault the child until the child was dead and then dispose of the body, according to the Office of Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.

The charges stem from evidence state police collected from an investigation involving alleged sexual assault and manufacture of pornography by the four suspects. "They committed acts on their own children and were making sexually abusive material," Yott said Friday afternoon. "They were all sharing and exploiting their own children and other children."

Schutte's office has charged the four with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The suspects are Matthew Toole, 32, of Battle Creek and his girlfriend, Talia Furman, 32, of Springfield, Jayme LaPointe, 19, of Athens and David Bailey, 37, of Coldwater. Bailey is formerly of Kalamazoo.

The charges all carry maximum sentences of life in prison.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/09/22/plot-kidnap-rape-kill-child-leads-charges-michigan/1398636002/

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Four charged in plot to kidnap, rape and kill a child (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2018 OP
Horrible intended crime snowybirdie Sep 2018 #1
How many of the kidnapped children from the border are in dewsgirl Sep 2018 #2
This is horrible. What is wrong with people? Frustratedlady Sep 2018 #3
I hope they never see the outside of a prison again. Maraya1969 Sep 2018 #4

snowybirdie

(5,227 posts)
1. Horrible intended crime
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 10:13 AM
Sep 2018

But being used to promote (R)Bill Schuitte for Governor! The article should mention that doncha think?

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
2. How many of the kidnapped children from the border are in
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 10:16 AM
Sep 2018

Michigan? I know there were quite a few back in June.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
3. This is horrible. What is wrong with people?
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 10:26 AM
Sep 2018

It would be bad enough to have one thinking up schemes like this, but four? I hope to hell they get life.

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