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Florida Girl Found Buried Alive
« on: May 23rd, 2005, 1:23pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Officer tells of finding Florida girl buried alive
Police say suspect, 17, confessed, will be charged as adult
Monday, May 23, 2005 Posted: 10:44 AM EDT (1444 GMT)  
 
LAKE WORTH, Florida (CNN) -- A police officer who came upon an 8-year-old girl buried in a Florida landfill said "hopelessness turned to hope" when a fellow officer saw a finger move.
 
"Everybody jumped in and started taking the rocks off her," Sgt. Mike Hall recalled Monday, a day after police found the girl buried under boulders in a trash container's recycling bin in Lake Worth, south of West Palm Beach.
 
"She was in a lot better condition than we thought she'd be in. She was able to actually name her attacker while she was still in the Dumpster."
 
Lake Worth Police Chief William Smith called Hall "an excellent officer, the best of the best," crediting him and about 100 other law enforcement officers with finding the Delray Beach girl.
 
"It sure is a miracle," Smith said. "We had some luck and a lot of good police work."  
 
The girl was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, said Lake Worth Police spokesman Dan Boland.
 
Authorities detained a suspect, Milagro Cunningham, 17, whom they said the 80-pound girl identified as her attacker. "She was left for dead," Boland said.  
 
The suspect will be charged as an adult, said Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County state attorney's office.
 
Boland said Cunningham will be charged with attempted murder, sexual battery on a child under 12 and false imprisonment of a victim under 13. He could face life in prison if convicted on all counts.  
 
Boland said Cunningham confessed to all three charges.
 
"If I could put my hands around his neck, he would be dead," the girl's mother told The Palm Beach Post. "He left my daughter to die."  
 
The suspect will make his first court appearance Monday, Boland said. He is being held at the Juvenile Assessment Center in West Palm Beach.
 
Boland said the suspect lived with the girl's godmother, a few blocks from the landfill.
 
The girl had been staying at the home a short time. The relationship between the suspect and godmother was not immediately known.
 
Cunningham reported the girl missing before 4 a.m. ET Sunday, describing abductors and the car they supposedly drove, said Smith, the police chief. "That is bogus," Smith said. "It did not occur."
 
Investigators saw inconsistencies in Cunningham's story and kept him close at hand, authorities said.
 
Smith said it was clear from where the girl was found that her attacker did not expect her to survive.
 
A fence with a locked gate surrounds the landfill, closed more than a decade ago, Boland said. But the fence has holes in it, he said.
 
"We believe it was a sexual assault and possible attempted murder," FBI Special Agent Mike Driscoll said. "He intended to leave her there, and she wasn't going to get out of the situation.
 
"She was in a position that you wouldn't think anyone could survive," he said.
 
CNN's Susan Candiotti and Rich Phillips contributed to this report.
 
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« Reply #1 on: May 23rd, 2005, 4:03pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
This is a sad but happy story.  Its a miracle that the little girl was found, and found alive.  I hope this kid go's to jail for the rest of his life.
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« Reply #2 on: May 23rd, 2005, 4:39pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
:nod:  In the same token I hope the girl here gets the therapy she will need after being put through something like this.
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« Reply #3 on: May 23rd, 2005, 4:52pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
I agree therapy is a must.  Poor girl!
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Re: Florida Girl Found Buried Alive
« Reply #4 on: May 23rd, 2005, 5:40pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
It seems that parents and guardians are not screening the people that they are allowing to stay in their homes and will be around children.  The past few rapes and murders are committed by "a friend, staying with the family"!
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Re: Florida Girl Found Buried Alive
« Reply #5 on: May 23rd, 2005, 6:52pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
There clearly needs to be more active notification when a sex offender with crimes against a child move into the neighborhood.
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« Reply #6 on: May 24th, 2005, 4:50pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Last night on the 11:00 news, after talking about this local story, there was a short segment on the fact that there are over 300 documented sex offenders in the state of Florida who are recieving !!!VIAGRA!!! through their medicare and Medicade benefits!!
They said this information was studied after the state of New York found almost 200 sex offenders were recieving Viagra through medicare benefits.
I have looked for this info in the paper, but haven't seen it.
What a travesty!
Bet these states don't let the victims qualify their benefits to cover their counseling and therapy!!
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« Reply #7 on: May 24th, 2005, 7:26pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Just sickening...
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