This just in from TJ Hart, Please say a prayer for this child – Jan Barrett
The mother of a missing 7-year-old Florida girl who police fear was abducted on her way home from school begged for her daughter’s safe return today as police continued interviewing the dozens of sex offenders who live in the area.
“They should know that she’s one of the most loving little girls in the whole wide world. She doesn’t know a stranger,” Diena Thompson said of her daughter, Somer. “And if somebody has her, please just bring her home.”
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler told “Good Morning America” today that police have interviewed nearly 60 of the 94 registered sex offenders that live within a three-mile radius and plan to expand their “circle of interest” to five miles out. But nearly 48 hours after Somer Thompson was last seen, they are no closer to finding her.
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Somer Renee Thompson, age 7, was last seen on Monday, October 19, 2009 in the area of West Gano and Debarry Avenues in Orange Park, FL. She was wearing a black shirt under cranberry colored sweat suit, with pink stripes running down the arms and legs, possibly has a red bow in her hair; white hat and scarf. Please call the Clay County Sheriff at (877) 277-6911 if you have any information.
97.3 The Sky has learned that Texas EquuSearch will begin a search for Somer Renee Thompson, age 7, on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at 8:00 a.m. The Command Center will be located at Orange Park Athletic Association, 1086 Fromhart St., Orange Park, FL 32073. The website for the park is www.opaa.us.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackGod bless this family and little Somer. I love Tim Miller and I hope he can help find her.
I pray to God or whomever there is to pray to, That they quit doing this to our most innocent ! Please bring her home safely!
I’m happy to hear that Tim Miller is jumping on this case so quickly, when his team is needed the most.
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler told “Good Morning America” today that police have interviewed nearly 60 of the 94 registered sex offenders that live within a three-mile radius
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My God in Heaven,you’ve got to be frickin kidding me!94 within a 3 mile radius and as if that’s not bad enough,they weren’t all questioned the first night?Only 60 have been questioned,what kind of LE work is that?What is that county,Perv Central?All of those perverts right around that school area,also.This is ridiculous!
Interviewing sex offenders? Wouldn’t you think that sex offenders are really good at manipulating just about anyone? What’s the expression, “Don’t lay where you piss,” or something like that. Do you honestly think that a sex offender is going to commit a crime and then bring the victim to his home? I don’t think so! Okay, the Dugard case is special. I hope these “interviews” were conducted at the sex offenders homes, and that there was a search warrant included. I hope they checked every gap and every yard. I hope they looked to see if the grass was pulled up anywhere, and looked under rugs for trap doors.
The news said she was walking home from school but ran ahead. I wish they said what backpack she had with her, along with what shoes. It’s a trick I learned in retail. Always be aware of a child’s shoes, in case of an alert the shoes might stay the same but the clothing might not..
Interviewing all the sex offenders: Do you think they really have anyone’s best interests at heart? If if they did something, what good i an interview? Criminals have way too much freedom here.
To Casey Anthony – Take note of Somer’s mother – THAT is how a mother acts when her precious child is missing. Real tears!
Note all the people who are out looking IMMEDIATLY for dear Somer.
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/9/24/masked_man_wanted_for_trying_to_kidnap_girl_9.html
On Sept 23rd,in Deland,Fl,a white man with gray beard,grabbed a 9 year old from behind as she was walking after getting off schoolbus.He had a mask with cut out eyes and mouth.He ran away when she started to scream.Is this a group of people doing this,copykats or is it random?
Michele Spray, they did describe her back pack. It was a black, pink and white colored backpack with a skull and hearts on it.
I reported that in my first article about Somer missing at http://www.bloggernews.net/122665
Jan Barrett
OMG! My childhood paradise ( I grew up along the river in OP) has become a hell hole swarming with these unholy beasts of prey! When are we going to lock them up and forever throw away the keys, America? Our children will never know the joy of fearlessly playing in the Florida sunshine for hours or walking to the local marina unaccompanied by an adult for a sweet treat. I use to think Orange Park’s biggest worry was halting the destruction of the old Live Oaks by developers (that was unsuccessful), then it was keeping the rivers clean so we could still swim and share the water with a mother manatee and her calf. Is anyone swimming in the St. John’s anymore? Now I have come to realize that the greatest danger is to our innocent children who are being continuously snatched by these predatory scumbuckets flocking to Florida in droves. Call/fax/write all our politicians for laws that keep these beasts behind bars and pray for Somer and all the other missing and exploited children!
Just watching HLN… a body of a small child found in Georgia… A family’s PAIN will increase tonight!!!! Praying for them as I post!!!
Sheriff: Body of small child found in Ga. landfill where officials were searching for Somer Thompson
http://jacksonville.com/community/my_clay_sun/2009-10-21/story/sheriff_body_of_small_child_found_in_ga_landfill_where_offici
So frickin mad right now. Apparently there was an attempted child abduction a week earlier in the same neighborhood. DAMN IT
They the police have found a body and think it is Somer! MY family was all praying for this child we feel so bad for this family! I have to say the police did everthing they could i belive and still could not find this child! Once they are gone the divil is not going to bring them back!
They just found a little girl’s body in a Ga landfilled. My thoughts and prayers are with the parents of this child. They arent sure if it is Somers yet. But a loss of a child is the worest thing to ever go through and it is something that takes time to heal. It changes your life forever but the person that you used to was will change as well. I loss a child seven years ago, even though I found my peace but sometimes I still cry. God will get them through if you lend on Him. I dont understand and I wish I can understand why things like this happens but I cant. I dont understand why there is ugly in this world where our children arent safe any more. I do not believe these sex offenders should get out of jail cause they always goes back to the crime again and again and the state just gives them a slap on the wrist again we need tougher laws for these ugly people.
The location of the found body is at the Chessler Island Landfill in GA, and the town sounded like “Folkstar” 50 miles from Orange Park. Garbage dumped there this morning came from the Orange Park, FL area.
Video Update:
http://www2.counton2.com/cbd/news/national/article/update_body_found_in_georgia_may_be_of_missing_florida_girl/77092/#
It’s Folkston, GA.
I agree GatorGirl! Enough is enough. When will our judicial system change? Make these monster’s who take children face stiffer penalties. If a preditor takes and murders a child, he or she should be given the death penalty. If someone is already serving time for harming a child, DO NOT LET THEM OUT ON PAROLE. They will offend again! Something has got to stop this war on our innocent. Totally unacceptable a child cannot walk home from school in a group of kids and not be safe. This monster must have been watching her for some time and decided he or she needed her more than her family. Such a tragedy, this poor family. I pray they find peace and the siblings do not hold themselves or each other responsible. The only one to blame here is the monster who took her. May Somer rest in peace and dance with the angels…
I just don’t get it….Obama jumped in and took a stand for the guy that was arrested for breaking into his own home….Maybe he will open his eyes (he has 2 little girls) and take all these perveted people and put them away somewhere. Maybe at Gitmo… He is taking charge of everything else in this country…Hopefully he will do something for our little babies…God bless this family….
We call them monsters preditors sex offenders and perverts this is the devil at his work!only a real DEVIL could kill the innocent! GOD help this family!
This is a sick society we live in. Once a perv, always a perv. No need for rehab attempts, kill them so they can’t pass their sick, twisted genes on to another generation.
I just looked on a Florida map and am shocked to see how close Palatka is to Orange Grove!! What in the world is going on in Florida?
I know that it looks like florida has a lot of missing children but there is more children missing look at the girl who went to the concert and she is missing another one out in Californa I believe went missing after leaving a police station there are alot of kids around the states that end up missing.
gatergirl: I agree with you. The Charlesdon area seems to have more missing older females, though.
More than just reacting to how many children in Florida have recently disappeared, I’m really struck by how close Orange Park is to Palatka. That makes me suspicious. I emailed the Clay County Sheriff’s Office to suggest that the Haliegh Cummings crime and Somer’s disappearance might be related. I would certainly check out anyone who has connections to both cities. This whole thing is so horrible!!!!
People what is wrong with everyone?There are missing children all over this country,not just Florida.How about the child that was found in concrete,that was not in Fl.,so stop putting on Fl..The question should be what is happening to man kind?I am shocked that there are so many sick people in the world.There are some countries that think it is okay to take the young children for their oun satifaction.An our country lets anyone come here.And Fl.is a state that many northerners come to for winter months,vacations,and migrants.So people are coming and going all the time.What a shame little children are paying the price for others sickness.I say take the ones that are guilty and do to them what they do to our children,don’t house them,put them to death right after the trail.God forgive me for thinking that way but I am tired of this bull.And still they can’t find Haleigh.My prayers are with Somer and her family.There is know words to ease the pains.Little Butterfly fly and watch over the little children left behind.Sadden and hurt,for all the little children that are missing.
I agree with D.Kerr enough is enough
I have a seven yr old son and now live in PA. I have such great memories of Orange Park and played football at OPAA. The world is full of sick people who cannot be rehabilitated. I work at a max security prison and see these people on a day to day basis. I don’t want to know what their in for because you then feel the pain of the victims the losers hurt. It makes me sick to see just how good these convicts live. The have flat screen tvs in thier cells with candy bars and just about every food item you can get at home. The have guitars, keyboards and Nike shoes. The list goes on and on, they even gave an ice cream man come on the block every evening. Most have more inside then outside, why leave? The real problem is making prison like it should be….. Punishment…… instead of like a college campus…. It’s really sad, families of victims or victims them selves would be sick to see how they live. Prisons need to be reformed, there are to many bleeding hearts out there for the criminals until it’s their family. These are facts.
What is going on in florida? There needs to be a stop to all these innnocent children that are missing? I think parents should always be with thier child 24/7 and not leave them out of there sight? There is sick people in this world that u just dont know.
lovechica, its happening every where. There are younger adult females that are missing as well outside of the state of florida. There are missing children all over not only in florida.
My heart sank when I heard Somer was missing. I have prayed continuously that this sweet little angel would be found alive and returned to her mother. I have not been at peace as I feel so frustrated and helpless. When I learned they found a body that is likely Somer’s, I completely lost it and I am unable to find rest as I have taken this personally and feel like she was my child. We have to find the person(s) responsible and they should be put to death swiftly. We can not allow these predators to continue these horrors on God’s children under the weak system of justice in this country that allows these wicked people to have any rights.
If our lame judicial system insists on releasing sexual offenders (aka “RAPISTS”) back into society, the obvious, and easy solution to prevent them from raping again is to castrate them. Hit ’em where it hurts, I say. Maybe if these predators knew that this would be the penalty, they might actually think twice. As it is, they are released and inevitably rape again. Take away their weapon and they can’t commit the crime.
Enough is enough! We need change now in our judicial laws. Yes, I agree all rapists should be castrated and anyone who has kidnapped and raped a child should spent life in prison and anyone who murders a child should be put to death swiftly, end of conversation. That should suffer a horrific death like they did to these children and be crucified on a cross for all public to see. I’m sick of this and only if we all band together and demand our government to change the laws with these people realize they cannot get away with this.
nomystuff said,
in October 21st, 2009 at 7:05 pm
More than just reacting to how many children in Florida have recently disappeared, I’m really struck by how close Orange Park is to Palatka. That makes me suspicious. I emailed the Clay County Sheriff’s Office to suggest that the Haliegh Cummings crime and Somer’s disappearance might be related. I would certainly check out anyone who has connections to both cities. This whole thing is so horrible!!!!
OMG, You didn’t. Clay County is the neighboring county to Putnam. You can be sure Clay County didn’t need your tip or advice. Please, leave these cops alone so they can do their job. Now they have to spend (waste) some time investigating you. Lt. Greenwood of PCSO said his department spent more time dealing with your kind than real tips. Personally, I think LE should start baker acting some of you ladies for calling in your theories and ideas. Really. LET THEM DO THEIR JOB!
I am sending this from Columbia Boro,Lancaster County Pa. What a sad and sorrowful ordeal this family must be going through. The heartbrake must be unbearable. So many prayers coming your way.
Just on HLN the body found , is believe to be that of Somer Thompson, same birthmark, same clothings ,, soo sad , I hope they capture the child killer or killers , “terrorist” is a perfect name (lable) for them ,
I believe I have read some where where Osama Bin laden said “watch the children ” especially the schools .
(clothing***
nomystuff, please dont feel bad about emailing the sheriff, you did the only thing you thought you could do at that time they have alot of tip lines and they know which ones to put thro to the sheriff! gatorgirl, sorry to hear about your loss! Tony The Tiger, baker acting? really? how do you know one of theses ladies theories ideas might be just what they need to hear, i think the police have done a very good job so far NOW THEY NEED TO CATCH THIS DEVIL, when i think about it i feel pure EVIL!!!!!!!!!
nomystuff,
please dont feel bad about emailing the sheriff, you did the only thing you thought you could do at the time they have alot of tip lines and they know which ones to put thro to the sheriff!
gatorgirl, sorry to hear about your loss!
Tony The Tiger, baker acting? really? how do you know one of theses ladies theories ideas might be just what they need to hear, i think the police have done a very good job so far
NOW THEY NEED TO CATCH THIS DEVIL, when i think about it i feel pure EVIL!!!!!!!!! And i dont like the feeling! Feeling for this family!
To those of you asking WHY these horrific events keep happening over and over…have you ever considered that we may be living in what the Bible calls “the last days”? Read the description of human beings living in the last days, found at 2 Timothy 3:1-5. There, it says that men in the last days will be, among other things, “lovers of themselves”, “without self control”, “fierce”, “without love of goodness”…the list goes on, but…don’t these few traits I’ve listed describe the mindset of those committing these perverted acts on our women and children today??
Yes, it would be great if our justice system could be reformed to better handle all the violence and perversion committed in our world today, but many believe the situation is much too far gone for man’s governments to ever successfully deal with it. Thankfully, such ones can take comfort in God’s promise…that soon, all men committing wickedness will be REMOVED permanently, leaving our earth a peaceful place to live, at last. (Psalm 37:9-11, & 29)
This is every parent’s nightmare!! I cannot imagine the pain,but I believe in prayer,and the strength it will give..My heart goes out to the family,and friends of this precious little girl.Beverly Kline. Nashville, Tennessee
Lover Of Truth, You are so right! At Last!
My prayers are with the family of Somer Thompson and I hope and pray that the individual who perpetrated this horrendous crime is brought to justice. Our judicial system NEEDS to change, MUST change and our esteemed Judges need to lock these monsters up and then throw away the key. This is becoming an epidemic and too many children are being targeted. SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING TO PROTECT ALL CHILDREN!!!
I’m discusted by the animals that prey on our children, and it seems it happens so much more in FLA, I guess I won’t be moving there anytime soon. We need to join John Walsh and Mr Klass and change our laws. It seems the law works better for the criminal!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so sorry that little Somer has lost her life,my heart just grieves for her family,my prayers go out to them.Sincerely,Gaile in Orange Park,Florida
If Somer’s mom ever gets a chance to read these notes, I hope she will reach out to me. Rich and Maureen Kanka have done a lot to help us recognize where these beasts reside, but there is more that needs to be done! I pray that God embraces Somer’s mom and her family during this very difficult time…Susan in New Jersey
Lover of Truth @ 11:08pm – Just in case any reader decides to sit back and wait to let God do His work, I’d like to remind everyone that He also “Loves those who help themselves.”
So I firmly believe that WE MUST take the responsibility to protect ALL children in every way we can including working hard to change the laws so that evil people are taken out of society permanently (to jail or hell whichever comes first).
I am sickened at all this. This poor innocent child has done nothing wrong, but get up every morning and bless this world with her grace. I have not hardly slept in the last 2 nights, all I can do is hold my little 6 year old daughter close to me and pray for Somers family. A note to all parents: Keep your children in your sights, they are not even safe walking in a group any more, there are some wicked, sick, and severly disturbed people in this world, keep what is yours safe!!! What pisses me off the most is that there will be a defense attorney who will defend this prick.
You know what concerns me? How about that they Live one mile from the Elementary School and from 5 miles away from their home lives 94 Sex Offenders….
Honesty, I truely can’t stand some no life person that would do such a thing as kidnap a poor child like that!!! I am a minister of a church in Alabama & my prayers goes out to the families that is or have been victomized to a crime such as this; and I pray for the kids safty as well… Also, whomever read this that have children of there own, gard them with your lifeand pray over them so u can bring them back to JESUS when the time comes!!! JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!!! MAY GOD, JESUS CHRIST BLESS IN THIS TIME OF NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AmI the only person who feels like the mom is putting on an act to cover for something elese.First, Usually if a mother’s child has just been found murdered, the parent is so upset that they wouldn’t want to do a press conference but in this case, she seems gun ho which seems strange to me. Second, during the press conference, she kept saying”We’re gone get him!” If a person is speaking on a situation that there not sure who or what killed their child, why do you keep saying “him?”Third, even though she sobbed alot during the press conferences and on different TV programs, she didn’t shed one tear the entire time her focus was abnormal as if she was trying to divert the publics attention to a person somewhere out here. Fourth, the kids with her didn’t see any strangers, which doesn’t mean they didn’t see anyone they knew either. Finally what really made me sit up and pay attention, is when they interviewed over 80 convicted sex offenedrs in that area of Flordia and all of them came up clear, it really makes me wonder about mom and the way she has been acting. Am I the only person whohas noticed this?
NC nonbeliever – I totally agree with you. She has been out there front and center with her earrings on! If my child were murdered I would have to be medicated. I read the police report and it said Somer ran ahead to another group of children – so when / where was she abducted. The mother was home at lunchtime having lunch with some guy (a friend other than her boyfriend) and asked him to stay til the kids came home. Then there is a two hour gap between the time Somer was missing and they called the police. Also, what’s with the texting to each other (boyfriend(s)) – panic stricken parents use the phone – there is no time to text! Catch her boyfriend’s webpage – favorite movies are porn and he is a “trash truck driver”. Everyone is rallying around the fact that this was committed by a SO and it may not have been. If I am right and it was the boyfriend – everyone has just fed fuel to the fire to the argument over SO rights.
It’s time Ladies and Gentlemen that we sluice our world of all sexual predators. No more should we rely on the local, state, and national government agencies to make certain our children and us are secured. We need to take the dynamic approach, not the biddable one, and bring death to the predators.
The National Registry of Sexual Predators has been nothing but an incessant yearbook photo gallery for the predators to smirk and have this sense of completion enveloping their countenance while they gape back at us. It’s time Ladies and Gentlemen for us to confiscate their smiles and supplant their pride with terror.
For too long, these creatures have played the huntsman and hunted down our precious little lambs. It is us, Ladies and Gentlemen, that need to exchange our roles; we need to take armaments and become the hunter and hunt down our newest game — sexual predators.
Indeed, Ladies and Gentlemen, every season should be open season on sexual predators. Our children are parting this world before their time has come. Why? The other side is that their slayers habitually breathe longer, under the taxpayers (us), than their victims’ collective years on our planet. And again why?
As, Ladies and Gentlemen, as crusaders to this cause, we should not have to ask such rhetorical questions. These inquiries and their sugarcoated retorts, if answers are ever bestowed, do not resuscitate the preceding child’s life nor do they obstruct the next child’s horror.
Often, we inquire too much, and we do little. It is time we do more and worry about asking later. The National Registry of Sexual Predators should be renamed the National Endanger List of Sexual Predators, and we should not stop until we, Ladies and Gentlemen, have raped them from our world.
We can do this together; the time to act is now! Don’t wait until your child, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the one found in a landfill, gutter, trashcan, or ditch or not at all. We have all heard about Somer Thompson, right? Her demise and the demise of thousands of children throughout the world should be your only incentive — crusaders — to exterminate our planet of these less than human sexual predators.
The creatures that live among us should not have the prerogative to breathe the air of the living or the spiritual breath from the lifeless. Crusaders, we have to take liability for our, subjective, actions, which means the implication here is morally fictionalized.
Hence, be wary of what you interpret! Compounding violence with violence will not resolve our calamity. Aggression only works and is only needed when it is aptly justified in a particular instance or manner.
Therefore, crusaders use judgment rather than sentiment to carry out subjective objectives. The text here incites two paths: the rational and the emotional. Yet be cautious, Ladies and Gentlemen, and desire your own path. It is here where the fictionalized consequence becomes what you will.
I am 26 and while i dont have any children yet i take care of them m-fri and i hate to think that if we dont take action to stop and try to prevent it that we a society cant keep these children safe even when you talk and tell them not to ever talk to strangers or never walk alone it can all happen in a split secound and it wont be enough we need to know are neighbors and neighborhoods really well and their families to and rally together to keep on eye on each other’s children.
we also must never let our children walk alone even if to a friends house 2 doors down the always walk them to and from you cant be to safe Its sad this beautiful place we call home isn’t protecting the most invaluble gift and thats why we have to have tougher laws and other methods of tracking these peeps
The mom’s is a part of it, she waited 1 1/2 hours to call the police. I think one of her other kids killed Somer and she was covering it up so the other kid would not go to jail. The mom I am sure disposed of the body how else would someone know when the trashed would be picked up for that week. Also why didn’t the kids dad come from out of state when he heard she was missing unless the mother told the father one of the other kids had killed her. He waited a week to come to town, sounds like a coverup from the mom and dad. I think it is a coverup for the mom and all the attention and money she had gotten from the death of her child. You could see on tv she was not distraught and was all done up. Unlike a parent who is really distraught. God will make her feel Somers pain on judgement day.
JP, your monologue is a little freaky. The repetition of your adress, “Ladies and Gentlemen,” and the way you “preach” your opinion is concerning. While I agree with the sentiment that children need 100% protection we still do not even know how Somer died–if it was a sexual crime, if it was a sexual predator who killed her.
There is one term you used in your diatribe that I agree with: sexual predator. There are people on the offender list who are just that–PREDATORS–and some people on that list who do not fit the profile of predator–who commited acts that fit a wide range of situations and who are not actually dangerous to society or children.
It is preachy, wordy people like you who worry me. There is something creepy about your “sermon” and the way you delivered it.
I wish the best for Somer’s family–for them to get closure and catch the person who took Somer’s life away.
I also continue to hope society learns to determine the difference between PREDATORS and non-predators and have the common sense to judge the difference.
Has anyone from the police station checked out Daniel F Almandares? He lives close to Orange Park Florida. I was a victim of his 11 years ago, and he abducted me in Orange Park! Please get someone to investigate just incase. His information is on watchdog.com.
Thank You
i am so so sorry 2 hear about the lost of this very young child it hurts me to my heart just thinkin about y sum1 would do something like that to a child god bless u n ur fam
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