I'm going to rant here for a bit.
For NC folks, you may remember a 30 year old woman being murdered in her apartment earlier this year in Raleigh. Her daughter, a child, woke to find her mother dead, and ran out to get help from some construction workers. One week later, the police had tracked down and arrested 3 total strangers and charged them with murder.
In the case of McKenzie's murder, she was killed in her "home" (I say that in quotes, as I question what kind of "home" it could have been). Since it is highly unlikely that a stranger crept in, assaulted and killed her, then "law enforcement" (putting that in quotes, too!) has a discrete number of people to consider - the people who were there that night. Their "pool of candidates" has been defined for them, no detective work required.
So what is the flippin' holdup?? Don't they know how to interview, do forensics, gather evidence? Did they run out of handcuffs and they're waiting for a shipment to arrive before they do any more arresting down there in Salemburg? WTH!
This poor child. As someone else posted earlier, did she ever feel safe and loved? Did she even have a bedroom or was she relegated to a sofa all her short life? This weekend I read about more tragedy involving children: the child chained to a porch by his foster parents, and the 4 year old who shot herself with daddy's gun. I'm sure there were more I missed.
Parents are supposed to protect and care for their children, not allow them to be exposed to danger, much less harm them themselves. If you can't be a responsible parent, then *news flash* - there's something called birth control, use it!
Anyway, come on Sampson county, get your act together! Some child killer and sexual assaulter is walking the streets.
End of rant. Grrrr