FL - Sarah Lunde, 13, murdered, Ruskin, 9 April 2005

[packerdog]

JerseyGirl, Thanks for the links, you are really on the ball! This guy is even worse than I thought.

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

JerseyGirl, Thanks for the links, you are really on the ball! This guy is even worse than I thought.

You're welcome, packerdog.

I agree ... I thought he had one sexual assault behind him, (which is bad enough). Turns out he has this long history of very frightening behavior. I'm thinking that this list will be all that prosecutors need to seek the DP. Thank God this psychopath is finally off the streets. I only wish that Sarah didn't have to suffer before it happened.

 

[packerdog]

Yes JG, thank God he is finally locked up. I didn't realize that he lived so close to Sarah when he was married. He probably was stalking her and knew she was alone.

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

Yes JG, thank God he is finally locked up. I didn't realize that he lived so close to Sarah when he was married. He probably was stalking her and knew she was alone.

You might be right; I hadn't even thought of that.

It seems to be fact that the kids didn't like him. I wonder if Sarah gave him a hard time or was obnoxious towards him when the mother was dating him. In his sick mind, he could have been waiting for an opportunity to lash out at Sarah for not liking him. He obviously doesn't take rejection well.

Well, whatever his reasons, he's one sick b*stard. I find myself hoping he gets the DP more than I've ever hoped it for anyone.

 

[MistyGirl]

Maybe he showed up looking for mom and Sarah opened the door thinking it was her brother who had left earlier etc....next thing you know he is asking for her mom and she says she not hear and he gets up set and says where is she I want to talk to her and Sarah says she is gone wont be home until tomorrow and tells him he needs to leave and then the next thing you knwo he gets upset because this girl is telling him what to do then he attacks her.

So sad.......there is no doubt in my mind that he sexually assulated her.

 

[MistyGirl]

I just read this article here at this link http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/04/19/national/a053451D90.DTL

"Onstott had been convicted of a rape in 1995 and completed both his 5 1/2-year prison sentence and two years of community control. He was arrested in March for failing to register as a sex offender, and released on a $1,000 bond a day later."

HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN LET OUT IN THE 1ST PLACE AND THEN HE FAILS TO REGISTER AND IS RELEASED ON $1,000.......was this just in March of 2005???????

This part REALLY REALLY REALLY makes me ANGRY and SAD. This poor child did not have had to die this way. The system failed her.

 

[richandfamous]

I just read this article here at this link http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/04/19/national/a053451D90.DTL

"Onstott had been convicted of a rape in 1995 and completed both his 5 1/2-year prison sentence and two years of community control. He was arrested in March for failing to register as a sex offender, and released on a $1,000 bond a day later."

HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN LET OUT IN THE 1ST PLACE AND THEN HE FAILS TO REGISTER AND IS RELEASED ON $1,000.......was this just in March of 2005???????

This part REALLY REALLY REALLY makes me ANGRY and SAD. This poor child did not have had to die this way. The system failed her.

and he only had to come up with $100.00 of that to get out!

 

[joanofarc]

and he only had to come up with $100.00 of that to get out!

Hi R & F....can you elaborate please...only 10%...I don't understand:waitasec:

 

[mysteriew]

David Onstott, charged with the murder of 13-year-old Sarah Lunde, has a lengthy history of violence against women, broken marriages, failure to pay child support and, in one case, an alleged sexual attraction to a former wife's teenage daughter.

Public records in Florida and Michigan dating back to 1986, along with interviews with people involved, reveal a man troubled since his teenage days:

Now the 36-year-old Ruskin man faces his most serious charge: first-degree murder. Investigators say Onstott, who had dated Lunde's mother, Kelly May, confessed to choking Lunde to death and dumping her body in an abandoned fish pond near her home.

Officials have not said whether he sexually abused the girl. But they have hinted that Onstott likely will face the death penalty.

Even so, his arrest Sunday marks the latest in a string of criminal behavior that began during his days in Michigan and followed him to Florida.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/04/19/Tampabay/Murder_suspect_has_vi.shtml

 

[fran]

Hi R & F....can you elaborate please...only 10%...I don't understand:waitasec:

When you get bail through a bail bondsman, you only need to come up with 10% of the bail amount. You do need collateral for the balance, which he could have used his car. The bail bondsman puts up the entire $1,000. After all is said and done and IF the def goes through the system as he's supposed to and the bondsman gets his $1,000 back from the court, the def does not get his 10%, or in this case $100, as that's the 'fee' he has to pay to the bondsman. (the 10% is the bondsman's profit)

JMHO
fran

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

Tampa Bay's 10 News

... Grief counselors were at the school Monday to help the students cope with the tragedy. Some students also made cards for Sarah's family, other's made necklaces with Sarah's picture attached to them...

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

Tampa Bay's 10 News

... deputies ... noted there were 28 sex offenders in Ruskin.

Seven of these offenders, including David Onstott, were arrested in the last three years for failing to perform what would seem a simple task....they failed to register their addresses with the state...

The seven offenders in Ruskin who failed to register were treated differently...

John Fitzgibbons (defense attorney):
"The main goal behind this was to be able to keep track of these people ... And to some extent that clearly is not working at the present time."

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

CBS News | Florida Holds Child-Murder Suspect | April 18, 2005 21:00:07

But there's no easy solution to the abundance of state-registered sex offenders. Moreover, state legislation would be required before offenders could be monitored more closely.

"There's way too many sex offenders to realistically expect us to monitor them all carefully and closely," (University of Louisville criminologist Richard) Tewksberry told Acosta.

 

[fran]

CBS News | "There's way too many sex offenders to realistically expect us to monitor them all carefully and closely," (University of Louisville criminologist Richard) Tewksberry told Acosta.

Easy for lawmakers to say it would require too much $$ because they and their families are locked behind guarded gates. These predators are in our neighborhoods. IMO, if there's an instance the voters would vote to increase taxes, this is one, ........to protect our children from these predators.

JMHO
fran

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

IMO, if there's an instance the voters would vote to increase taxes, this is one, ........to protect our children from these predators.

You're absolutely right. And I don't recall the government on ANY level being shy about asking for increased taxes when there's something that they find important.

 

[Sheromom]

And does anyone besides me feel sickened when these people are considered a low risk to reoffend because the "ONLY" children they have molested have been in their own family?!

 

[kk's mom]

And does anyone besides me feel sickened when these people are considered a low risk to reoffend because the "ONLY" children they have molested have been in their own family?!

Oh absolutely. Anyone who harms a child is a piece of garbage. I was just reading about what the guy who murdered the 8 year old in So. Dakota did to her. I almost died. I've been crying @ my desk. It's on the Located Support Thread. I just can't fathom what these children have gone through. I just can't fathome. I absolutely don't think I can handle one more child being murdered. I don't think I can take it. And as far as what you are saying, who's the person who even determine who is or is not low risk? There shouldn't even be a category of "low risk to reoffend". Once you harm a child, that's it. Done deal. You're toast.

I get so tired of hearing about how many rights these offenders have. They never thought twice about their victim's rights.

 

[packerdog]

Take David Westerfield for example, he didn't just start and end with molesting and killing Danielle ,he put his fingers in his little nieces mouth many years before. I think they start with a little touch here and there and gradually get to the point where they molest and kill. Monsters

 

[Sheromom]

Are other states different? In Washington, they are considered a "low" risk to reoffend as long as they only ruined their own child's life. IMO, that is the WORST imaginable thing that could happen.

 

[joanofarc]

When you get bail through a bail bondsman, you only need to come up with 10% of the bail amount. You do need collateral for the balance, which he could have used his car. The bail bondsman puts up the entire $1,000. After all is said and done and IF the def goes through the system as he's supposed to and the bondsman gets his $1,000 back from the court, the def does not get his 10%, or in this case $100, as that's the 'fee' he has to pay to the bondsman. (the 10% is the bondsman's profit)

JMHO
fran

Thanks Fran

I really think I live under a rock sometimes....I did not know this...but IMO this seems wrong....I guess there are people everywhere who will try to monopolize a situation and "make money" by whatever means available. Having said that are these bail bondsman part (employed) by the court system?

I have never known anyone who has been in trouble and I don't personally have any experience with how "bail" procedures work ...plus I am Canadian...so I don't know if it works like this in Canada....probably....I think I need to check...lol