Brooke Bennett, 12 yrs. old Randolph, VT #9

[SuziQ]

Interesting quote here - from someone who claims to be MJ's former probation officer:

I was Michael Jacques Probation Officer for a number of years...His present situation was highly predictable, I’m sorry to say. I retired in 2002, and stil have bad dreams about him, aggravated of course by the current situation.

Good find! Interesting indeed if he is the same probation officer that agreed with Judge Davenport to give MJ early release. Either the media reported incorrectly, or the PO is full of it.

 

[twinkiesmom]

AR said the sexual contact with the uncle hadn't ocurred for one or two months.

Are you talking about Gagnon or Jacques? Because if you mean Jacques (e.g., Brooke's uncle, her stepdad), the abuse was clearly ongoing as seen from the messages from Raoul telling her to save some for dad.

 

[Vegas Bride]

It does sound like the uncle had concerns that his wife might end things with him, if he was no longer in the house with her that would certainly restrict any access hi might have with Brooke. I'm thinking he came up with the plan to attack her because he knew his days were numbered. We don't know everything that went on in that family and probably never will, he could have been looking at this as how to do the most damage to all of them including his wife and her sister, a way of them paying for being bitchy and giving him such a hard time.

VB

 

[RR0004]

Interesting. I never thought of that. I did wonder why she would willingly go upstairs with him. It really looked like she did not trust him (in the convenience store video). She had her arms crossed (like a self-protective mode); and she kind of stepped away from him.

What I don't understand is why AR never questioned why they had to lie to Brooke and deceive her about some boy and some party. Why didn't they use the "Breckenridge" scam on her??

Good question!! I think at this point AR knew what was about to happen...and it wasn't an indoctrination. I think the "gig' was up...so to speak. This was about silencing a potential threat IMO.

 

[RR0004]

Are you talking about Gagnon or Jacques? Because if you mean Jacques (e.g., Brooke's uncle, her stepdad), the abuse was clearly ongoing as seen from the messages from Raoul telling her to save some for dad.

I thought she had reported to LE it had stopped a couple of weeks earlier with MJ.

 

[RR0004]

Do we actually know if A.R. and the boyfriend where filmed? The only thing I have read is there were still photos of them in Gagnons safe.

I would have to go back and look at the dates in the emails, but A.R. said the abuse had stopped a few weeks ago yet in one of the emails she talks about getting some from dad and those emails were just a few days before Brooke was taken. So I do not think the abuse had stopped at all.

Something was going on during the 2 week break...remember in the affidavit they referenced carrying on the plan at an earlier time? It's been suggested that perhaps he was waiting for the "equipment", but something else we're not aware of could have been the reason for the delay.

 

[CarpeDiem]

One other thing really bothers me. Brooke left her cell phone at home. Why? Teenagers are glued to their cells. I know, I have five children and the four girls wouldn't leave their cell phone at home if they had to drive back 20 miles. It's in the affidavit that Brooke was being contacted by text messaging. That's another reason it doesn't make sense she left her phone at home.

Just some random thoughts.

JMHO
fran

I think that bothered all of us in the first day of this case, you know it stuck out to LE also, something none of us could get past. But, we don't know that she didn't have it at the convenience store, we don't see it, but that doesn't mean she didn't have it. She probably did not have it though which I always thought accounted for part of her pissed off appearance in the convenience store and why MJ asked the Clerk if she could call from their phone if her ride didn't arrive. That's also probably how they got her back to the house, when she saw them as they came back around and her ride hadn't arrived, they probably told her they would all go back to the house to look for the phone. I think sometime that morning she left it setting down as she was getting ready and MJ or AR took it. Either MJ (or an accomplice), forked up and didn't dispose of it, or he intended for it to be found, for LE to go through the texts and think Brooke was lying to everyone - saying to MJ she was going to visit a sick friends relative, when she really intended on going to a "party". I can imagine the surprise he feigned. :furious:

 

[SuziQ]

She knew her brother-in-law's history and still allowed access to Brooke.

And according to locals it was not only common knowledge that he was an RSO, it was common knowledge that him and his dad raped MJ's sister. There is no way you can convince me that Brooke's family didn't know those details.

 

[RR0004]

Maybe someone can make sense of this because it's not adding up to me.

I certainly don't want to think that AR had anything to do with this, but it's looking more and more like that.

In one of the emails in the affidavit, MJ (posing as C, I believe) tells AR that "dad" needs at least a few hours with Brooke, then he (C) asks AR if she wants some time with her too (did he mean sexually?)

I have a hard time believing that he would ask her if she wanted time with Brooke after she was tied up, and then when he brought Brooke upstairs at the house, AR says that MJ made her leave with her boyfriend....that doesn't compute to me.

We know that the emails are telling the truth...but don't know that AR is.

What do you guys think?

I'm thinking there's more involvement with both AR and the boyfriend, but will wait till LE confirms before I get comfortable with that thinking. There were a few inconsistencies with her statements to LE. I'm sure they'll be doing more talking with both. I just hope this girl was put in touch with a therapist immediately.

 

[RR0004]

Wow! I never thought of that...you think someone went back into the house and put her cell phone there after she died? They sure had plenty of time to do that, didn't they? Makes sense now...telling MJ to text her pretending to be "Sam" (I imagine that would have to appear as a forwarded text, no?) If that was the case, then there was no doubt that she was ever supposed to make it back alive...

 

[gigi2009]

Could somebody tell me exactly who first noticed Brooke missing? I looked everywhere and I can't seem to find it. I read that a family friend called it in? I'm just really lost as to how the whole thing initially went down considering Brooke spent the night at MJ's. Did her mother speak to her at all? Thanks.

 

[Ciara]

And according to locals it was not only common knowledge that he was an RSO, it was common knowledge that him and his dad raped MJ's sister. There is no way you can convince me that Brooke's family didn't know those details.

I totally agree with you....they are all to blame

 

[Busylady]

I totally agree!!

And according to locals it was not only common knowledge that he was an RSO, it was common knowledge that him and his dad raped MJ's sister. There is no way you can convince me that Brooke's family didn't know those details.

 

[dottierainbow]

So, MJ not only raped his sister but MJ's father did as well or am I confused?

I totally agree with you....they are all to blame

 

[gigi2009]

Oh wow, I just read a quote today from Brooke's bio dad stating " Brooke's father Jim Bennett and her stepmother Janet, said they knew of Jacques' history as a sex offender, he never saw any signs of trouble when Brooke and her uncle were together at family gatherings.

"That's not something you tell a little girl," Janet Bennett, Brooke's stepmother, told the Valley News of Lebanon, N.H.

Are they for real? This child was completely let down by EVERYONE. I was still holding hope that perhaps bio dad didn't know and couldn't warn her to stay away.

 

[philamena]

I think someone leaked that document to the media, probably at the courthouse. No one on the outside was probably suppossed to see that document without major parts blackened. There was probably a flurry of calls from LE to the Media to take it down and replace with the redacted copy.

Hi CD.:seeya:
I'd say your spot on.

 

[Ciara]

So, MJ not only raped his sister but MJ's father did as well or am I confused?

Seems this was the case.......pair of Degenerates I swear!!!!

 

[nanandjim]

...Are they for real? This child was completely let down by EVERYONE. I was still holding hope that perhaps bio dad didn't know and couldn't warn her to stay away.

This is what I have been saying all along. I just do not understand why her bio dad wouldn't seek custody because the bio mother was allowing his daughter exposure to the RSO.

 

[calidreamin]

Oh wow, I just read a quote today from Brooke's bio dad stating " Brooke's father Jim Bennett and her stepmother Janet, said they knew of Jacques' history as a sex offender, he never saw any signs of trouble when Brooke and her uncle were together at family gatherings.

"That's not something you tell a little girl," Janet Bennett, Brooke's stepmother, told the Valley News of Lebanon, N.H.

Are they for real? This child was completely let down by EVERYONE. I was still holding hope that perhaps bio dad didn't know and couldn't warn her to stay away.

I don't understand why her parents allowed her to be exposed to a sex offender. It just makes me furios to think how this was given exclusive access to these children.:furious::furious::furious:

 

[philamena]

I wonder if Brooke was drugged that morning. Did she drink coffee? Maybe they put something in her coffee. (That whole "throwing out the coffee" thing was weird to me.) Maybe that's why they were just watching tv for a little bit because they had to wait for the drugs to kick in. I guess we might find out when the autopsy reports are back.

Just random thoughts.

I'm not sure I want to know.
If anything close to what I imagine happened to this precious child, I hope she was heavily drugged.
Drugged enough to not be aware of anything.
Because that means she died and felt no pain.:shakehead::shakehead::frown: