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Shaniya Raped, Killed on Day of Abduction: Cops

NC 5-year-old was asphyxiated, arrest warrant says

3 hours, 43 minutes ago
(AP) - A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released today. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according... More »

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kidnapping • murder • rape • North Carolina • Oprah Winfrey • child abuse • abduction • child prostitution • child rape • child abduction • child murder • Shaniya Davis • Bradley Lockhart • Mario Andrette McNeill • Antoinette Davis • Antoinette Davis charged with sex slavery • sex trafficking • Oprah Winfrey Show

BAD IDEAS DEPT.

 Porn Director 
 Making Jaycee 
 Dugard Film 

Rep slams Shane Ryan's plan to focus on Jaycee and Phillip Garrido

Nov 18, 09 10:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Worst idea of the day (year?) so far: A horror-porn director plans to make a film about kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard and her relationship with accused abductor—and rapist—Phillip Garrido. A spokesperson for Dugard called the idea “exploitive, hurtful, and breathtakingly unkind” after filmmaker Shane Ryan told a... More »

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kidnapping • pornography • rape • kidnapper • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • rapist • Jaycee Dugard pornographer • Shane Ryan

 Smart's Co-Abductor: 
 'I Am So Sorry, Elizabeth' 

Barzee expected to serve another 9 years in prison

Nov 17, 09 1:53 PM CST
(AP) - A woman charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty today as part of a deal with prosecutors and asked Smart to forgive her. Wanda Eileen Barzee is expected to receive a 15-year sentence, with credit for about six already served. "I am so sorry, Elizabeth, for... More »

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kidnapping • Elizabeth Smart • Brian David Mitchell • Elizabeth Smart kidnapping • Wanda Barzee

 Mom Charged 
 With Sex Slavery 
 in Girl's Death 

Shaniya moved in with mother just last month

Nov 17, 09 4:47 AM CST
(Newser) - The mother of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl found dead appeared in court yesterday and was charged with human trafficking and felony abuse. Antoinette Davis, 25, delivered daughter Shaniya to a man "with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude ," according to court documents. Davis was... More »

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crime • kidnapping • murder • abuse • child rape • Shaniya Davis • Shaniya Davis found • shaniya davis found dead • Antoinette Davis charged with sex slavery

Elizabeth Smart's Co-Kidnapper to Plead Guilty

Wanda Barzee in court on kidnapping charges today

Nov 17, 09 4:10 AM CST
(Newser) - A woman accused of helping kidnap schoolgirl Elizabeth Smart in 2002 is expected to plead guilty today. Wanda Barzee could face a life sentence on kidnapping charges, although her lawyer declined to comment on whether her guilty plea is coming as part of a deal. Barzee was ruled competent to... More »

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kidnapping • Utah • guilty plea • Elizabeth Smart • Brian David Mitchell • Elizabeth Smart kidnapping • Wanda Barzee

In Venezuela, Criminals, Police Turn to Facebook

Citizens fear gov. will crack down on social networking

Nov 16, 09 5:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Update your status at your own peril in Venezuela: A pair of university students burglarized their Facebook friends' homes after collecting info on what they owned and when they wouldn't be home. Theft and other crime facilitated by social networking sites are on the rise in Venezuela, and in a... More »

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NC Police
Find Body of Missing Girl, 5

Mom was charged with trafficking after Shaniya Davis spotted with man

Nov 16, 09 1:13 PM CST
(AP) - Searchers found the body of a missing 5-year-old off a road today, ending a weeklong search for the girl, whose mother stands accused of offering her for sex, police said. A Fayetteville Police spokeswoman says that searchers found Shaniya Davis' body southeast of Sanford in central North Carolina. Two people... More »

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kidnapping • North Carolina • missing child • human trafficking • child prostitution • child murder • Shaniya Davis • Shaniya Davis found • Bradley Lockhart • Mario Andrette McNeill • Antoinette Davis • shaniya davis found dead

JAYCEE DUGARD CASE

Garrido Apologizes,
Says 'Sexual Problem' Cured

Accused kidnapper 'a changed man': lawyer

Nov 13, 09 10:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Phillip Garrido, Jaycee Dugard’s accused kidnapper, says he “would like to apologize to every human being for what has taken place.” In a letter—his third sent to KCRA from prison—Garrido adds that, “through the spirit of Christ,” a “sexual problem believed to... More »

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kidnapping • rape • abduction • kidnapper • child rape • public defender • child abduction • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido

love triangle

 'Diaper' Astronaut 
 Gets Light Sentence 

Nowak pleads to lesser charges, gets year of probation

Nov 10, 09 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Ex-astronaut Lisa Nowak will serve a year of probation for the bizarre attack on a romantic rival in 2007. Nowak pleaded guilty to lesser charges of misdemeanor battery and burglary of an automobile. She drove 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando, famously telling police that she wore a diaper... More »

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Lisa Nowak • Astronaut love triangle • kidnapping • astronauts • attack • Colleen Shipman

 Jaycee Shielded 
 Kidnapper 
 From Cops 

Stockholm syndrome turned victim into abductor's defender

Nov 5, 09 5:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard lied to a suspicious parole officer in a desperate bid to protect her abductor when she was discovered, according to just-released report of her questioning. Jaycee, kidnapped when she was 11 in her northern California town, called herself Alyssa and presented herself as Phillip Garrido's wife.... More »

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California • crime • kidnapping • abduction • sexual assault • child rape • child abduction • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido

CIA Officer: We 'Broke the Law' With Kidnapping

She's one of 23 Americans convicted in Italy for 2003 rendition

Nov 4, 09 6:30 PM CST
(Newser) - One of the CIA agents convicted in Italy today of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in 2003 says the mission "broke the law" and that she feels "abandoned and betrayed" by the US government. The case involving ex-officer Sabrina DeSousa and 22 other Americans is the first challenge to... More »

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CIA • rendition • Italy • kidnapping • House Intelligence Committee • harsh interrogation • terror suspects • extraordinary rendition • Pete Hoekstra • Sabrina DeSousa

Italy Convicts CIA Agents of Kidnapping

2003 case is first to challenge practice of extraordinary rendition

Nov 4, 09 11:12 AM CST
(AP) - An Italian judge today convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism. Judge Oscar Magi acquitted three other Americans, citing diplomatic immunity. Former Milan CIA station chief Robert... More »

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 Video Appeal 
 Renews 
 Maddy 
 Search 

Message accompanies interviews by Kate McCann

Nov 2, 09 6:42 PM CST
(Newser) - A video designed to go viral is an appeal to the friends and associates of Madeleine McCann's kidnapper, saying, "It is never too late to do the right thing." The video, released tonight, includes images of what Maddy—who was 3 when she went missing in 2007—might... More »

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Madeleine McCann • kidnapping • England • abduction • Portugal • Gerry McCann • Kate McCann • Praia da Luz • Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre • child abduction

Somali Pirates Demand $7M Ransom for UK Couple

Paul and Rachel Chandler went missing a week ago

Oct 30, 09 5:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The British couple abducted from their yacht at gunpoint are being held for $7 million ransom, a rep for the Somali pirates who kidnapped them said today. Paul and Rachel Chandler went missing a week ago in the Indian Ocean. "NATO operations had a lot of negative impact here,... More »

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Garrido's 1976 Victim Attends Jaycee Hearing

Katie Callaway Hall 'here because he kidnapped, raped me'

Oct 30, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A woman kidnapped and raped by Phillip Garrido unexpectedly visited the Bay Area to watch a court hearing for Garrido, who stands accused of the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard. Garrido abducted and assaulted Katie Calloway Hall in 1976, but was released on parole in 1988. Hall says... More »

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California • kidnapping • rape • trial • abduction • parole • child rape • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Katie Callaway Hall • Placerville, Calif.

 UK Yacht Couple 'OK' 
 With Somali Pirates 

'We are well,' Paul Chandler says by phone

Oct 29, 09 7:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - A British couple taken from their yacht by Somali pirates say they’re in good condition and are being held aboard a hijacked container ship. “We are well and being looked after OK,” Paul Chandler, 59, told the BBC by phone today; he also spoke to British channel... More »

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Somalia • kidnapping • pirates • container ship • yachts • Royal Navy • Paul Chandler • Rachel Chandler

Dad Busted for Kidnapping Daughter's Killer

German was trussed up, dumped at French courthouse

Oct 22, 09 3:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - A French man has been arrested after the German convicted of killing his daughter was found bound, gagged, and dumped in front of a French courthouse. Cardiologist Dieter Krombach was found guilty in absentia by a French court for killing 14-year-old Kalinka Bamberski in 1982, but German authorities refused to... More »

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 Jaycee: 
 'A Real 
 Innocence 
 in Her Eyes' 

Friends say Dugard adjusting well to new life with mom, daughters

Oct 21, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hello! magazine offers another glimpse at kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard as an adult, riding horseback and posing with mother Terry Probyn. Sources close to the family say Dugard is bonding with her mother and 19-year-old half-sister, and that Dugard’s two “smart, playful” daughters—who were always told she... More »

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kidnapping • missing child • child abduction • women's issues • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Terry Probyn

 NYT Reporter Recounts 
 7 Months as Prisoner 

David Rohde begins first-person account of capture, escape

Oct 17, 09 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York Times reporter David Rohde begins a gripping first-person account of his 7 months as a Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan before he managed to escape. In the first of the five-part series, he writes of his capture ("I waited for the sound of gunfire. I knew I might... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • New York Times • kidnapping • reporter • hostage • David Rohde

 Jaycee: I'm Happy to Be Home 

Dugard releases first statement, photos of herself as an adult

Oct 14, 09 7:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jaycee Dugard’s 18-year kidnapping ordeal is over, and she spends her time now riding horses, cooking, and maybe collaborating on a book. The 29-year-old lives “a surprisingly normal life” with her mother and daughters Angel, 15, and Starlit, 11, says her mother’s stepmother. Now, Dugard speaks out... More »

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