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I know this is a local story, but click on the link and look at her picture. Makes me think of the song Deep.
I hope they get the sick fuck who did this.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091307dnmetgirl.c9e564ee.html
Sexual assault reported in Corsicana girl's hanging
06:28 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Associated Press
CORSICANA — A 6-year-old girl found hanged inside her family's garage had been sexually assaulted before she died, police said Wednesday.
Hannah Mack Authorities have made no arrests or named any suspects since Hannah Mack's body was discovered by her mother on Monday. They are saying little about their investigation.
"I will confirm that the hanging and sexual assault were part of this scenario," Navarro County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mike Cox said. Cox said several people have been interviewed and no one has been ruled out as a suspect.
"We don't want to do anything that would compromise a successful prosecution of this case," Cox said Wednesday before abruptly ending a brief news conference.
Neighbors in the rural lakeside community in east Texas are frustrated by the silence so far and are concerned that a child killer remains on the loose.
In a letter to the sheriff's department, Navarro County Judge Vicki Gray said an autopsy of the body showed "a multitude of events that together caused the death of this child." No other details were released.
The first-grader's body was found in a rust-covered garage behind the family's home in Navarro Mills Lake, about 65 miles south of Dallas.
Police say Dana Mack discovered her daughter missing from the secluded family home on Monday morning at a time she should have been awake and getting ready for school. Searching the property, the mother found the girl hanging in the garage.
Jean Langford, the girl's great-grandmother, said Dana Mack last saw the youngest of her three daughters sleeping on the couch around 1 a.m.
"(Dana) is just devastated. We all are," Langford said. "This is the worst thing that's ever happened to this family. Hannah was our pride and joy. She was our little sweetheart.
Langford said the family had hoped police would be further along in their investigation.
"What makes this so bad is that we still don't know who did this awful thing."
Those concerns are shared by neighbors. They say imaginations in town are starting to run wild.
"My kids sleep in the bed with me," said Pam Gray, who lives next door and whose children rode the school bus with Hannah. "They get off of school and they've heard all the rumors and wild things, and they're terrified."
Another neighbor, Harold Hocutt, 75, said he, too, worries that other children might be in danger.
"Little girls. Little boys. It's just something you don't forget. Every time I drive by (Hannah's house), I cry," Hocutt said.
Police asked state caseworkers to not say whether the girl's family had been investigated by child welfare officers, said Marissa Gonzales, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. She characterized the request as uncommon.
Jesse Akerman, who also lives nearby, said he often saw Hannah smiling as she played in her yard or rode her bike down the gravel side street at the end of his driveway.
"I don't think the people will ever move back in there," said Akerman, a retired truck driver. "If I found one of my children hanging, there's no way I could."
I hope they get the sick fuck who did this.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091307dnmetgirl.c9e564ee.html
Sexual assault reported in Corsicana girl's hanging
06:28 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Associated Press
CORSICANA — A 6-year-old girl found hanged inside her family's garage had been sexually assaulted before she died, police said Wednesday.
Hannah Mack Authorities have made no arrests or named any suspects since Hannah Mack's body was discovered by her mother on Monday. They are saying little about their investigation.
"I will confirm that the hanging and sexual assault were part of this scenario," Navarro County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mike Cox said. Cox said several people have been interviewed and no one has been ruled out as a suspect.
"We don't want to do anything that would compromise a successful prosecution of this case," Cox said Wednesday before abruptly ending a brief news conference.
Neighbors in the rural lakeside community in east Texas are frustrated by the silence so far and are concerned that a child killer remains on the loose.
In a letter to the sheriff's department, Navarro County Judge Vicki Gray said an autopsy of the body showed "a multitude of events that together caused the death of this child." No other details were released.
The first-grader's body was found in a rust-covered garage behind the family's home in Navarro Mills Lake, about 65 miles south of Dallas.
Police say Dana Mack discovered her daughter missing from the secluded family home on Monday morning at a time she should have been awake and getting ready for school. Searching the property, the mother found the girl hanging in the garage.
Jean Langford, the girl's great-grandmother, said Dana Mack last saw the youngest of her three daughters sleeping on the couch around 1 a.m.
"(Dana) is just devastated. We all are," Langford said. "This is the worst thing that's ever happened to this family. Hannah was our pride and joy. She was our little sweetheart.
Langford said the family had hoped police would be further along in their investigation.
"What makes this so bad is that we still don't know who did this awful thing."
Those concerns are shared by neighbors. They say imaginations in town are starting to run wild.
"My kids sleep in the bed with me," said Pam Gray, who lives next door and whose children rode the school bus with Hannah. "They get off of school and they've heard all the rumors and wild things, and they're terrified."
Another neighbor, Harold Hocutt, 75, said he, too, worries that other children might be in danger.
"Little girls. Little boys. It's just something you don't forget. Every time I drive by (Hannah's house), I cry," Hocutt said.
Police asked state caseworkers to not say whether the girl's family had been investigated by child welfare officers, said Marissa Gonzales, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. She characterized the request as uncommon.
Jesse Akerman, who also lives nearby, said he often saw Hannah smiling as she played in her yard or rode her bike down the gravel side street at the end of his driveway.
"I don't think the people will ever move back in there," said Akerman, a retired truck driver. "If I found one of my children hanging, there's no way I could."
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