GUILTY TX - Teketria Buggs, 12, Orchard, 2 December 2005

[NewMom2003]

God Bless your soul little Teeky Bugg. :angel: Rest in peace little angel. :angel:

I hope the monster (imo, the stepfather) that did this is punished severely for this. :furious:

 

[newtv]

somehow i think she is in a better place than her young life has shown her to date..but its not ok - just think that the silver lining for this kid is to be away from the people raising her-what future horrors would she be subjected to..I hunch she was being sexually abused by her sf and the mother was being beat up-and god knows what else was going on with drugs etc.

 

[CrimeHater]

I agree newtv- I can almost guarentee something like that was going on. Would also match her being 12 yet inmature for her age, that and the fact that she was still in 3rd grade. I think that should have been caught by someone in the school district. Why is she in 3rd grade and this age??? Thats Houston ISD for you!God Bless her sweet soul.

 

[aussiegran]

somehow i think she is in a better place than her young life has shown her to date..but its not ok - just think that the silver lining for this kid is to be away from the people raising her-what future horrors would she be subjected to..I hunch she was being sexually abused by her sf and the mother was being beat up-and god knows what else was going on with drugs etc.

my thoughts too newt I wonder what the other kids in this family could tell about this .:banghead:

 

[dragonfly]

http://www.texasequusearch.org/missing_persons/CoreyBrooks.htm

Details of Disappearance: Brooks was last seen at his family reunion on June 19, 1998. He played basketball with relatives, then borrowed his mother's house keys so he could take a shower at her home. He has never been heard from again. Brooks kept in regular touch with his family members and they became worried and reported him missing after several weeks passed without contact.
Brooks's case was reopened in 2003; investigators and Brooks's mother have received several anonymous tips about his alleged murder. The caller(s), who had not been identified, claim Brooks was shot to death during a fight over a girlfriend and his body was either thrown into the Brazos River or buried in Orchard, Texas. The witnesses stated Brooks was killed by one person, but several people helped dispose of his remains. These reports have not been confirmed, but Brooks's mother believes he was in fact murdered.

Brooks's cousin, Steven Carrington, is considered a suspect in his disappearance. The two men were living together in a rural home on Johnson Road in Orchard at the time Brooks vanished. Curiously, Carrington's twelve-year-old stepdaughter, Teketria Buggs, disappeared from that same residence during the night of December 2, 2005. Buggs has not been located, but authorities believe she is deceased and Carrington is a suspect in her disappearance also. He was arrested on unrelated domestic violence charges after Buggs's disappearance, but has not been charged in connection with her case or Brooks's.

 

[Bobbisangel]

If it's him first we will have to listen about how hard a life he had and how it's not his fault. The suspects always have tons of rights while the victim(s) and their families have very few.

Maybe this will convince a few people to donate (time or money) to their local domestic violence shelter. I agree with you that women have to have somewhere to go when they find himself with one of these creeps.

I agree criminals have many more rights then victims and their families do. I'll never understand that. One thing that I really hate during a trial is when the Prosecutor can't bring in past crimes. I think a jury should hear every little thing so that they have all of the facts about the criminal.

When a abused woman does go to a shelter they can only stay 30 days. Sometimes the length of time is stretched out a little longer but it isn't a long term thing. When it is time to leave the shelter they have nowhere safe to go. I don't know what the answer is because they can't stay hidden forever but for many of the women their very lives are in danger.

 

[mysteriew]

http://www.texasequusearch.org/missing_persons/CoreyBrooks.htm

Brooks's cousin, Steven Carrington, is considered a suspect in his disappearance. The two men were living together in a rural home on Johnson Road in Orchard at the time Brooks vanished.

This article says that Carrington and Brooks were cousins and sharing a home. Other articles I have seen have called Carrington an aquaintance.

 

[newtv]

I agree newtv- I can almost guarentee something like that was going on. Would also match her being 12 yet inmature for her age, that and the fact that she was still in 3rd grade. I think that should have been caught by someone in the school district. Why is she in 3rd grade and this age??? Thats Houston ISD for you!God Bless her sweet soul.

glad i was understood cuz sure dont mean it is right what happened-but she is being spared a hellish life cuz mother will only repeat this imo-she has been with this guy 9 years and u cant tell me it wasnt hell- I just dont believe she will change her pattern and i am not degrading her-its just that those of us with every advantage have a hard time changing never mind a woman now left devastated-he will pply go to jail and she obviously loved her daughter very much-no way her tears were fake on NG..but i doubt she can turn this around and start leading a normal life with good men.
I bet the remaining kids are in trouble too (psychologically)
Bless her soul-at least she is at peace.
added- i dont believe the mother is involved at all do any of u?
she just seemed so believable and I am jaded when it comes to this sort of thing-u dont fool me easily and i thot she was the real deal.
compare her to that idiot who likely killed his wife and left her in an abandoned house only to stage suicide..his tears were just so fake i thot i would puke.

 

[newtv]

my thoughts too newt I wonder what the other kids in this family could tell about this .:banghead:

i am right with u on that-u have to wonder what happened that night
he pply raped her and killed her either by accident or because she stood up to him

he should get the DP.imo
and
it should be automatic if u kill a child - he isnt her father
he is in the same category as a stranger imo
he should not get any slack for being her mothers bf
they are not even married

 

[newtv]

i cant believe he never told the mother (teekies mom) if he did this..and if she did know i can tell u its negligence to live with him and expose him to your children (how could she not know)
again not degrading her-denial is a huge thing but come on?? Its one thing that he beats her up but would she not think him capable of murder after seeing him in action.
I tell u its bad enuf when its the father of your children but a bf who brings domestic violence to the home should be kicked to the curb
i am thinking out loud- I dont blame her really-she did not seem like the brightest bulb in th epack to me either.

 

[newtv]

This article says that Carrington and Brooks were cousins and sharing a home. Other articles I have seen have called Carrington an aquaintance.

thx- always good when folks post info..i miss it when we stop coming to a site either because the person is found or there is just nothing going on- i always think I am in the wrong place and that the thread has moved..lol

 

[KatherineQ]

This story makes me so angry, and so sad. What would Teeky have become, had she had ANY responsible adults in her life? For that matter, what greatness could she achieve all by herself, on her own, had some jackass not murdered her?

God rest her soul, she was glad to live close to the school so she could get herself there to do well. Which apparently all the adults refused to do all her life. Except her loving godparents, it's sad they couldn't have had custody of her.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3531271.html

 

[KatherineQ]

This story just makes me madder and madder and madder. Why do we have CPS, if not to help a girl like this? Why was she allowed to be truant for at least 3 years, and no one moved to remove her from her home? What a total sham. She slept on a couch with two other kids, she never managed to make it to school except this year when she could get herself there all by herself, and her mother is living with a felon. I had such empathy for her mother in the beginning, and now I hope to God all of the rest of her kids are removed from her custody so they have a prayer of a normal life. Or even a life at all.

 

[2luvmy]

He remembers the nicer gifts she cherished the most — certain clothes or a special doll — that she insisted on leaving at their house "so they would be safe and she would always have them."

That made me sad.

 

[mysteriew]

She sounds like such a sweet little girl. And I don't know if it is the fact that they are speaking after knowing for sure she is dead or what- but the little girl they describe is certainly different than the way her mother described her. Mother described her as being young for her age. Yet her principal describes her as a "natural leader".

 

[strach304]

This breaks my heart, she was just a cute little girl! It's possible since she was classmates with so many younger children and had younger siblings as well that she looked out for that is the explanation of what her mother meant about her acting younger than her age. Just the opposite of children who have older siblings they are close to and older children they hang out with tend to act older, stop playing with dolls at a very young age, etc.

 

[Norma]

http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/500/missing-girls-stepfather-confesses-to-1998-killing

Stepfather Of Missing Girl Confesses He Killed Corey Brooks

Steven Carrington, stepfather of a 12-year-old Orchard girl whose body was recovered last week, has confessed to the 1998 killing of Corey Brooks, sources confirmed Sunday.
Steven Carrington

Brooks, 21 at the time of his death, lived on Johnson Road just east of Orchard – the same property where Teketria Buggs lived, and from which she was reported missing Dec. 3. Brooks was last seen at a family reunion, some seven years ago.

Fort Bend County investigators arrested Carrington Dec. 5, while the search for his missing stepdaughter, Teketria, got under way, on unrelated charges of failure to appear in court. He has been in the county jail since.

The sources said Carrington has not confessed to the death of Teketria Buggs, also known as Teeky.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

she's been found

 

[ketel0ne]

Stepfather Of Missing Girl Confesses He Killed Corey Brooks

 

[petra]

Suspect confesses to killing boy who vanished 7 years ago


Boy's disappearance in 1998 was unsolved

By Laura Whitley

(12/17/05 - KTRK/ORCHARD, TX) - There's new information about a seven year old missing persons case in Fort Bend County. Investigators say Steven Carrington has confessed to killing Corey Brooks, missing since 1998. Carrington is the stepfather of Teketria Buggs, whose body was found earlier this week.

Also on ABC13.com:
Send us a news tip | RSS feeds | ABC13 E-lert | Info mentioned on airNot only is Carrington under investigation for Brooks' death, investigators are also questioning him about Buggs' death, too.

Corey's mother Caroline Brooks said, "I know I have some closure now, but I don't feel it because I didn't get no body."

Caroline says her son Corey and Steven Carrington were cousins living together in Orchard when Corey disappeared. At first she never suspected Carrington, saying he helped in the desperate search for her son.

She said, "He rode with us in the car to put up flyers for my son. And then I got an anonymous call saying the flyers we were putting up, he was pulling down."

Caroline says she passed that information on to investigators, but no charges were ever brought against Carrington back in 1998.

Corey Brooks was last seen in the Fort Bend County town of Orchard -- as was 12-year-old Teketria Buggs, Carrington's stepdaughter, who was last seen a few weeks ago. On Thursday searchers found her body in the Brazos River. Now detectives say Carrington, a suspect in the young girl's death, has confessed to killing Brooks. "There was always hope, even if -- what a dream -- that maybe (Corey) would


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http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=3735888

Prayers for Corey's mom and family.