You may or may not remember back to July and the disappearance of Brooke Bennett. If it hadn’t been for me going through my own archives I would have thought about the case at all. To make a long story short she disappeared and everyone blamed it on her internet activities. Then the case quickly went away, I blogged about it on July 1, 2008.
In the end we found out she was not killed or kidnapped by an internet stranger, but a family member as is too often the case. No details have been released about the case and I am not sure I really want to know them. She was a girl whose life was cut tragically short by someone who should have been looking out for her. Take a moment if you have forgotten this case to not only remember Brooke Bennet, but all the kids who go missing and are exploited every year. The greatest failure we have as a people is how often we forget simply because we don’t want to remember.
A funeral will be held for 12-year-old Brooke Marie Bennett on Wednesday at the Randolph Union High School in Randolph, Vt.
The viewing will be Tuesday evening at the same location.
Brooke would have turned 13 on July 12.
Her body was found last Wednesday in a shallow grave in Randolph, a week after she was last seen on a convenience store video walking out of the store.
Brooke’s uncle Michael Jacques has been charged with kidnapping. Police have not released a cause of death.
Post 14 of 100 of Brad’s Tiny World Scribefire Challenge.
have you heard any results of the autopsy? i keep looking for it on google but have yet to find anything. results were to be available in about 8 weeks and it has been well over that now.
thanks
@marcia -
I haven’t heard anything else, but I haven’t been looking either.