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Police have discovered the body of Brooke Bennett about a mile from her uncle’s property just a day after he was named a person of interest. Documents also came out yesterday implicating him in planning on using Bennett as part of a child sex ring.

The girl’s uncle, Michael Jacques, who has been in custody since Sunday on sexual assault charges involving another underage girl, is to be charged in federal court with kidnapping, police Sgt. Tara Thomas said.

Bennett last was seen alive with Jacques at a convenience store last Wednesday.

“The painful discovery of Brooke’s body today is tragic and heartbreaking,” Baker said.

He called the death “clearly suspicious” but declined to give details before a planned briefing Thursday morning.

Police have turned their attention to the uncle of missing 12-year-old Brooke Bennett, a registered sex offender who is being charged with sexually assaulting another girl.

The alleged victim of the sex assaults, a relative of [Michael] Jacques, told police Jacques assaulted her during a five-year period, beginning when she was 9 years old and ending a few weeks ago, Orange County State’s Attorney Will Porter said.

Meanwhile, Jacques, pronounced “Jakes,” was being described as “a person of interest” in last Wednesday’s disappearance of Bennett. Col. James Baker, commander of the Vermont State Police, said investigators narrowed their probe and began focusing on Jacques based on information developed late Saturday and early Sunday through computer forensics.

You have to wonder how a father that would leave an 18-month-old locked in a hot car would get custody of his four kids to begin with. The outside temperature on the day this allegedly took place was nearly 100 degrees.

Cosimo Capitiano offered no explanation to the judge Monday about why he left his baby in a hot car Sunday, but his estranged wife’s attorney said he shouldn’t have had custody of the children to begin with.

The attorney representing the children’s mother, Aurelius Capitiano, said the father lied that she was keeping them in an unsafe home in south Florida so that he could get custody of them and avoid having to pay child support. Until he did that, the children had been with their mother. The judge’s decision Monday means all four children are going home with their mother.

Kathy Fishbough just happened to park her car at the Chuck E. Cheese parking lot next to Capitanio’s vehicle. She quickly realized the toddler was locked inside the car.

“All windows were up. The car wasn’t on. No keys in ignition. I was like, ‘You’ve gotta be kidding me,’” she said.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a 10-month-old boy who was allegedly kidnapped by his mother from a hospital in Orange, California.

Alakahi Thompson was taken from the hospital at 455 S. Main St. in Orange around 10 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

The suspect is identified as Ida Marybel Torres, a Latina who is 5 feet 4, 125 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

Investigators say Torres also fled with her 5-year-old and 11-year-old children. It’s believed she is driving a rental car– a silver 2008 Chrysler Sebring, license plate 6AHA682, and may be headed for Kentucky.

The Sheriff’s Department said the boy’s father has legal custody of the child and Torres only has visitation rights.

A boy at the Meadowbrook Middle School in Orlando, Florida hid behind a bookcase in his classroom, urinated into his teacher’s lunch box, closed it, and gave it back to her. School officials think that perhaps the boy took the teacher’s joke to its literal conclusion. We don’t think that teacher will be too quick with the jesting going forward. We also think she might be in the market for a new lunch box.

The teacher, Jameeka Chambers, was put on paid leave Tuesday while district administrators continue investigating what happened in her classroom last week.

Based on statements from other students in the class, school officials think that when the boy asked to go the restroom on Thursday, Chambers told him to hold it or use her lunchbox. The boy then took the lunchbox, hid behind a bookcase, urinated in it and returned it to the teacher, said Frank Kruppenbacher, attorney for the Orange County School Board.

“I think we clearly know she didn’t tell him, ‘Go pee in this box,’ in the sense of going to go do that,” Kruppenbacher said. “That’s beyond our comprehension.”

Police in Brea, California last night made a grisly discovery in an Orange County home — three children and two adults were found dead in what appears to be a murder/suicide.

Brea police Sgt. Peter Rodriguez said a 14-year-old boy called 911 about 11 p.m. Saturday to report that his father had shot him and his brother at their condominium.

Police went to the home and found the body of a woman on the doorstep. Inside were the bodies of a 5-year-old boy and two girls, ages 8 and 9.

Rodriguez said officers also found the body of a man, with a shotgun beneath him.

A man was arrested on child abuse charges after he beat a 7-year-old boy with a belt because the child put pink fingernail polish on his own nails, according to Orange County sheriff’s deputies.

Aundre Jermaine Hill, 25, was arrested on Saturday at about 5:19 p.m. after sheriff’s deputies responded to a home in reference to a call saying that a boy was discovered with bruises on his body.

Mickey Mouse…Goofy…Donald Duck…semi-automatic hand guns. It’s all good…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) — A 63 year old woman from Pennsylvania was arrested on Sunday after attempting to enter Walt Disney World with a loaded handgun. Walt Disney World security personnel discovered a silver color, Beretta .32 caliber semi-automatic handgun during a routine safety check as the woman was attempting to enter the park with other family members.

This death is clearly the parents fault. A 13 year old boy is not capable and should not be responsible for taking care of 6 siblings on his own.

What a tragedy…

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A 13-year-old boy is facing charges of first-degree murder, accused of killing his own 8-year-old brother. Demetrius Key was arrested late Tuesday night at a relative’s home in St. Cloud.

Police say Demetrius beat his brother, 8-year-old Lavarius Key, to death inside their Orange County apartment.

The boys’ second cousin, Brandon Holcy, watched the arrest go down Tuesday night and painted a picture of a 13-year-old Demetrius who was often left alone to care for more than a half-dozen siblings.