Abductions or Attempted Abductions Involving Schools

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A 26-year-old Austin school teacher was charged with sexual assault on two four-year-old girls, MyFoxAustin.com reported Tuesday.

Police called Gerald Laneaux a pedophile and a predator after he was accused of two separate attacks on young girls.

One attack allegedly took place at a Pflugerville preschool where Laneaux was working, and another was in his car.

The mother of the victim who was allegedly attacked in Laneaux's car said she was distraught because she had trusted the young teacher.

She said: "My daughter came to me and told me that she was hurting. I was shaking but was trying my best to keep it under control because she's four and I didn't want to scare her and I wanted her to tell me exactly what happened. When I was talking to her, I was very calm but inside I was shaking and my heart was racing."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/13/texas-teacher-charged-sexual-assault-year-old-gir

A 26-year-old Austin school teacher was charged with sexual assault on two four-year-old girls, MyFoxAustin.com reported Tuesday.

Police called Gerald Laneaux a pedophile and a predator after he was accused of two separate attacks on young girls.

One attack allegedly took place at a Pflugerville preschool where Laneaux was working, and another was in his car.

The mother of the victim who was allegedly attacked in Laneaux's car said she was distraught because she had trusted the young teacher.

She said: "My daughter came to me and told me that she was hurting. I was shaking but was trying my best to keep it under control because she's four and I didn't want to scare her and I wanted her to tell me exactly what happened. When I was talking to her, I was very calm but inside I was shaking and my heart was racing."

Texas Teacher Charged With Sexual Assault on 4-Year-Old Girls

Shocking story because I know this family. I remember Gerald Laneaux as a young boy going to church. His family was well-respected but very color-conscious. They were all lighter skinned blacks and thought they were better than the darker skinned blacks. He was not a nice person.

 

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Shocking story because I know this family. I remember Gerald Laneaux as a young boy going to church. His family was well-respected but very color-conscious. They were all lighter skinned blacks and thought they were better than the darker skinned blacks. He was not a nice person.

He received a 35 year sentence. Gerald Iii Laneaux | Beto Prison | Texas Inmates & Offenders

 

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On the morning of September 28, 1953, Heady posed as Bobby’s aunt claiming his mother had fallen gravely ill and needed him at the hospital. Trusting her story, the school staff allowed Heady to leave with the boy.

The kidnappers demanded $600,000 — just over $7 million in today’s dollars and the largest ransom in U.S. history at the time — but had no intention of sparing the boy, whom they killed shortly after taking him. More than half the ransom money later disappeared, adding to the crime’s infamy.

Read the rest of the story at KCHistory.org.

This Infamous Kidnapping and Murder in Kansas City Led to a Hunt for the Missing Ransom

KCQ looks at the 1953 abduction and murder of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease.

kclibrary.org

 

[LaMonadeLO]

Because we've talked so often about the possibility of someone other than TH abducting Kyron from school, or whether or not the school's arrangements and activities that day were conducive to someone snatching him, I thought I'd open a thread to look at other cases.

How many cases of children being snatched from school, or school grounds, buses, once they get off the bus at the bus stop, or walking to/from school in normally "safe" areas have happened? Will looking at them provide any insights into other potential crimes other than Kyron leaving w/TH?

Discuss! :smiliescale:

I have been a paraeducator for over 30 years of my life and one incident always stands out. I worked at a school in a small town for 18 years. At the beginning of every school year, there are new people working there and there is testing, testing, testing. Kids are coming and going from classrooms for so many reasons. Some are tagged as needing testing for speech therapy, or ESL or any number of other reasons. I worked with a wonderful AND experienced teacher, but one day a smartly dressed woman walked into the classroom and the teacher asked her who she needed. The woman ended up being the mother of a student not in attendance that day and was just stopping by to tell us. The teacher I worked with had a wakeup call and said to me, "I just realized how many people we send the children with, not even knowing who they are...". She was upset with herself realizing that the woman could have walked out the door with any child and that child would have gone willingly because they are accustomed to being called out of class for individual testing. This was before they asked people to check in at the office before coming on campus (but no one kept track), and even before staff wore identification. There were no cameras on campus in those days either.