I'm sorry- I hate to keep posting to my own thread but this story just keeps getting worse. This guy should never have been walking the streets. Someone, his family-someone knew that he was dangerous and wanted and they stood by and did nothing. They could have saved this little girl. They did nothing.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090309/NEWS0107/303090007
Prisons records show Kirkland was sentenced in 1987 to spend seven to 25 years in prison on charges of voluntary manslaughter and aggravated arson.
Kirkland, who was 18 at the time, was charged with murder and arson for assaulting Leola Douglas, dousing her with lighter fluid and setting fire to her.
Douglas apparently was alive when Kirkland set the fire and her severely burned body was found at the top of some stairs leading into Kirklands house in Walnut Hills.
Police said Kirkland confessed to the 1987 crime shortly after his arrest. His lawyer at the time said Kirkland and Douglas argued after she threatened to expose an affair Kirkland was having with a married woman.
He served 16 years and was released on parole Sept. 3, 2003.
The following October he was released from probation, having committed no new crimes.
Three months later he was accused of breaking into a womans home and raping her. He was acquitted of that charge.
Most recently, he was on parole for soliciting a 13-year-old girl for sex in 2007, and ordered to live at Volunteers of America. He was ordered to leave that facility on Feb. 27, after he was caught fighting with an inmate, a prison spokeswoman said.
When his parole officer was notified the following Monday, parole officers began looking for Kirkland, who is required to register his address every year or if he moves with the sheriffs office in the county where he lives, the spokeswoman said.
The search lasted through the week, with the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team joining the search on Thursday.
By then, he had already begun a string of crimes, court records show.
Kirkland is accused of breaking into a mans home and repeatedly stabbing him with scissors on March 1, before the hunt began. Then five days later, he is accused of threatening the mother of his child with a knife, a violation of a protection order put in place in 2007.
Kirkland also was convicted of two counts of unlawful restraint in 2007. Since 2005, he has been charged with but acquitted of public indecency, inducing panic, endangering children, rape and aggravated burglary.
