GUILTY OH - Esme Kenney, 13, Cincinnati, 7 March 2009

[ylime11]

Yikes, i've done volunteer work at over-the-rhine before. it's an awful area of cincinnati. But closing down facilities there will just put more potentially dangerous people back on the streets. Poor Esme, what a beautiful girl. I hope this man is put back in prison forever.

 

[SewingDeb]

I-Team: Is Kirkland A Serial Killer?

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/I-Team-Is-Kirkland-A-Serial-Killer/-SB7rAloQ0alaDZhWG0O2g.cspx

 

[SewingDeb]

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/I-Team-Is-Kirkland-A-Serial-Killer/-SB7rAloQ0alaDZhWG0O2g.cspx

another link regarding past crimes. furiousness! :furious: this man should still be in prison. he was, based on his past crimes, OBVIOUSLY a threat to society!

Sorry joga. I didn't realize you had already posted this link.

I found this and it may be posted as well.

Why was Kirkland free?

Anthony Kirkland, the 40-year-old convicted killer and sex offender now accused of killing 13-year-old Esme Kenney over the weekend, managed to slip through just about every crack in the system. We need to remember that such cracks don't happen by themselves. They are caused by the inattention and incompetence of those operating the system.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090310/EDIT01/903100323

 

[SewingDeb]

Father defends halfway house

The father of Esme Kenney said Wednesday that he does not want the city of Cincinnati to shut down the halfway house that freed his daughter's accused killer.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090312/NEWS0107/903120330

 

[SewingDeb]

Mina, I feel for you and I understand the frustration. Maybe this case will help bring truth to sentencing.

 

[joga]

Father defends halfway house

The father of Esme Kenney said Wednesday that he does not want the city of Cincinnati to shut down the halfway house that freed his daughter's accused killer.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090312/NEWS0107/903120330

i agree with the father on this. i believe that halfway houses do a lot of good for some people (although not sex offenders, i believe that they don't change). they are no nonsense, break the rules and you're out type of places. they did exactly what they were supposed to do. they felt he was a threat, notified police who picked him up and released him. i wonder why he wasn't arrested for the fight as a violation of his parole? i feel that people are misplacing their anger and want to take it out on the wrong place. the "system" is to blame for letting someone with such a violent background out anyway. JMO

 

[SewingDeb]

I agree Joga. Halfway houses are needed for some criminals. The worst need to stay in prison.

It was a little scary reading that this halfway house had 40 sex offenders using their address on the registry and that two of them have warrents out on them.

Basically, too many are let out of prison who should never see the light of day again.

 

[mysteriew]

Police said Wednesday that 40-year-old Anthony Kirkland is talking to officers about the slaying of a teenage girl and at least three other homicides in which he's suspected.

snip..."We're afraid we don't know how big this is," Streicher said. "We're looking at any homicide from when he's not in jail."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29643757/

And these weren't his first. He had a murder conviction in 1987 served time and was released on parole in 2003.

Had Ohio Parole Board members heeded a request from the office of Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters 12 years ago, Anthony Kirkland would still be behind bars and Esme Kenney might be alive.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090311/NEWS0107/303110037

Esme Kenney autopsy showed that she had had an attempted sexual assault and was strangled and burned. His previous victim had been sexually assaulted then strangled and burned. Other victims suspected of being connected to him, remains had been burned but the bodies were too decomposed to tell if they had been sexually assaulted or strangled.

And here is more of his history

City officials demanded the closure of a halfway house Tuesday after a former inmate was accused in the strangulation death of 13-year-old Esme Kenney.

snip...The convicted killer and sex offender was evicted Feb. 27 from Pogue Rehabilitation Center after he fought with another inmate there, and city officials said his parole officer was not notified until three days afterward.

snip....Kirkland served 16 years in prison on aggravated arson and voluntary manslaughter in the 1987 slaying of Leola Douglass, and police suspect him in at least two other similar crimes.

While on parole for that slaying, Kirkland was arrested in 2007 after police said he solicited sex from a 13-year-old girl and was then sent to the Pogue facility on West McMicken Avenue after serving less than a year in prison on convictions for two counts of unlawful restraint.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29620693/

 

[weasel]

I live in Northern KY, which is fairly close to where this happened. I am shocked and beyond appalled at what happened to this poor girl. This poor kid didn't have a chance. I am SO sicked and tired of these convicted murderers being turned loose on the public due to prison "over crowding". They just let them go, KNOWING full well they absolutely will reoffend. I don't give a rats butt if they're stacked on top of each other and living like animals in a pen. Now, someone really needs to explain to me exactly what this animal was doing on the streets anyway. All a sane person has to do is look at this guys record. Are they seriously going to tell the public this guy paid his dues to society and deserves to be released? I'm sorry for the rant, but this case just has me seriously heart broken. What a crushing waste of a beautiful, talented child. My heart goes out to her family.

 

[SuziQ]

I hope this poor girl's parents sue the heck out of everyone involved in releasing this loser, including the halfway house.

 

[mysteriew]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29687568/

Kirkland Not First To Leave Halfway House

News 5 has learned another man who walked away from the same facility as Anthony Kirkland did also accused of murder.

Kirkland is behind bars, accused of killing 13-year-old Esme Kenney on March 7.

Another man, Marion Lawson "Timmy" Parker III, is accused in the murder of Shawn Davis. Davis' body was found burning under a bridge in Cold Spring, Ky., in January.

There are also 4 sex offenders missing from the halfway house.

They are making a big deal about the fact that Kirkland had left the halfway house before he allegedly killed Esme. That is bad enough since his parole officer had not been informed. But I am wondering if Kirkland was living in the halfway house when some of the others that he is suspected of killing were actually killed. He was put into the halfway house in 2007 and some of the other murders are thought to have been committed in 2007. So those dates are going to be interesting.

 

[believe09]

http://www.wlwt.com/news/18926666/detail.html

"Brad Kenney had praise for the Cincinnati Police Department's conduct during the investigation and its efforts to recover her body. But he criticized the system that required a waiting period of hours after they reported Esme missing."

This puzzles me greatly-According to Federal law, the police are obligated to take the missing persons report and enter the information into the NCIC without a waiting period.


The National Child Search Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5779 (1990) prohibits all law enforcement agencies in the country from establishing waiting periods before accepting a missing child report without regard to the child’s custodial status, and requires immediate entry of each report into the state law enforcement system and the NCIC.

The Missing Children Act, 28 U.S.C. 534 (1982) authorizes the entry of descriptions of missing children into the National Crime Information Center computer and directs the FBI to make theses entries if local law enforcement fails to do so.

 

[Tonia]

Warrants give details of Esme hunt

The accused killer of 13-year-old Esme Kenney blurted out to police who came across him sleeping near where the teen disappeared Feb. 28 that he "found" the girl's purple watch and iPod.

Police took Anthony Kirkland into custody and called Esme's parents to confirm the items were their daughter's.

Two search warrants filed in court - one seeking DNA from Kirkland and one for a vacant home on the street near where Esme's body was found - revealed these details and others about the search for Esme and Kirkland's arrest.

The warrant seeking to search the empty Winton Ridge Lane home indicates that officers believed they might find body fluids, hair or clothing among other items needed in the investigation.

A search of the vacant home turned up a pink hair ribbon, a piece of paper, a pair of black shoes and a pair of blue shoes, according to the court records.

A search of his belongings turned up the watch and iPod in his front pocket, prompting his statement that he had found those items. Police brought Esme's parents to the scene where there they identified the items that belong to their daughter.

Kirkland was then brought to downtown police offices for questioning. Esme's body was found while he was being questioned.

Hamilton County Coroner Dr. O'dell Owens said this week there was an attempted sexual assault.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090314/NEWS01/903140339

 

[Brains & NoBull]

By all accounts, Esme was a very bright and caring girl. It is clear from reading her blog that she was, indeed, very special and full of potential. She certainly did love her family.

My heart breaks for Esme, her family, and her many friends. She really had a lot to offer this world.

 

[shadowraiths]

From the posted link.

City officials also asked Strickland to limit the number of non-resident sex offenders the city had to accept for rehabilitation​

Here is their first and deadly mistake: believing that SXOs can be rehabilitated when research indicates otherwise. Or perhaps they don't believe. In which case they should not have the—pardon the oxymoron—SXO rehabilitation program. Then again, no program, no money. Though... if it is the latter, I would say someone's priorities are askew.

 

[fran]

Anthony Kirkland Indicted For Killing Three

A Hamilton County grand jury returned a 12 count indictment against a suspected serial killer on charges he murdered three women and burned their bodies.

The Hamilton County Prosecutor announced Tuesday that his office will seek the death penalty against 40-year-old Anthony Kirkland.

Joe Deters says Kirkland, a convicted killer and registered sex offender, "deserves nothing less than execution."

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<full article at link>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/stor...ing-Three/drOaVhs6ok-D_2gNWzWnlg.cspx?rss=703

 

[fran]

Now this is scary.


fran


Why was Anthony Kirkland granted parole?

.........................snip.........................

There were 2,500 cases heard by the parole board. Of those cases, 1,400 got out as a result of the lawsuit. Kirkland was one of the criminals released.

Jail documents also say Kirkland obtained his GED and an Associate's Degree behind bars. But according to records, his behavior wasn't exemplary. In the nine months before his release in 2003, he was put in solitary confinement four different times for breaking a rule or fighting with another inmate.

And between 1998 and 2003, he was put in solitary confinement 21 separate times for what the department of corrections calls "disciplinary control."


http://www.wxix.com/Global/story.asp?S=10019133

 

[fran]

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Across town, Kirkland will be the subject of another Cincinnati City Council committee hearing. At 10 Tuesday morning, Council member Cecil Thomas will have his law committee look into how a sexual offender halfway house run by Volunteers of America handled releasing Kirkland after a fight with another offender.

On February 27, Kirkland got into a fight at the Pogue Rehabilitation Center in Over-the-Rhine and was released – not back to prison, but to the public.

Kenney's family says it wants to see the Ohio Adult Parole Authority tighten its monitoring of paroled sexual offenders, so they don't get released so easily without supervision.


http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/stor...h-Penalty/-a68iQNU1UaaGpeK7ragTw.cspx?rss=703

 

[fran]

Pogue Inmate Talks About Kirkland
Girl's Accused Killer Didn't Get Proper Rehab, Inmate Says

A man who once lived with the accused killer of Esme Kenney at a local halfway house said that Anthony Kirkland had a history of trouble in the facility.

The man, whose identity is not being released, said caseworkers at the Pogue Rehabilitation Center did little to get him on track. He said Kirkland told staffers that he didn't want to change and that they couldn't force him to.

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"He walked around through that program and nobody never knew any of this about him," the inmate said.

City Council members are asking the governor to shut the center down, after concerns about Kirkland's treatment and the case of another inmate accused in a homicide after leaving the facility in January.

"I'm not sure what we are getting for the tax dollars we're putting into the program," said Councilman Chris Bortz. "Are we getting a rehabilitated felon or is it just a warehousing facility, a stopover?"

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http://www.wlwt.com/news/18946237/detail.html

 

[fran]

Now this is scary.


fran


Why was Anthony Kirkland granted parole?

.........................snip.........................

There were 2,500 cases heard by the parole board. Of those cases, 1,400 got out as a result of the lawsuit. Kirkland was one of the criminals released.

Jail documents also say Kirkland obtained his GED and an Associate's Degree behind bars. But according to records, his behavior wasn't exemplary. In the nine months before his release in 2003, he was put in solitary confinement four different times for breaking a rule or fighting with another inmate.

And between 1998 and 2003, he was put in solitary confinement 21 separate times for what the department of corrections calls "disciplinary control."


http://www.wxix.com/Global/story.asp?S=10019133

Of those 1400 people the parole board released at the time they released this guy, how many are serial killers?

He was locked up in solitary confinement 21 times in 5 years. What part of that don't they understand? He was a murder waiting to happen.

JMHO
fran