Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Jackie:
Here is one for your nature vs nurture research. :(
Sue
Brother of Megan's Killer Charged
> NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- The brother of the man who
> murdered 7-year-old Megan Kanka, leading to the creation
> of ``Megan's laws'' to warn communities about sex
> offenders in their midst, was arrested on charges he
> sexually assaulted two girls.
>
> Paul Timmendequas, 34, was arrested Wednesday and
> scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of aggravated
> sexual assault, aggravated sexual contact and
> endangering the welfare of a minor.
>
> He is the younger brother of Jesse Timmendequas, who was
> sentenced to death last May for luring little Megan into
> his home and raping and killing her in 1994. Paul
> Timmendequas has said that both he and Jesse were
> sexually abused by their father.
>
> Megan's parents, Maureen and Richard Kanka, had been
> unaware a convicted sex offender was living nearby, and
> her death led them to campaign for what came to be known
> as Megan's laws. The laws, enacted in New Jersey and
> across the country, require community notification when
> a released sex offender deemed to be still dangerous
> moves to a neighborhood.
>
> Paul Timmendequas was accused of assaulting two girls
> before dawn Monday in separate incidents at an East
> Brunswick home, Prosecutor Robert Corbin said.
>
> Corbin said one of the alleged victims was between 10
> and 12, while the other was between 13 and 15.
> Investigators were still trying to determine the
> connection between the two girls, and between the girls
> and Timmendequas.
>
> The Star-Ledger of Newark today quoted the stepfather of
> one of the girls as saying confronted Paul Timmendequas
> on Monday morning. Timmendequas had been staying with
> the man since January.
>
> ``I had a baseball bat nearby, waiting to hit him,''
> said the man, who was not identified. But the stepfather
> said he changed his mind when Timmendequas burst into
> tears. He said he and the girls did not want him to be
> prosecuted.
>
> ``The kids don't want him to go to jail,'' he said.
> ``They want him to get help.''
>
> Megan's parents issued a statement Wednesday expressing
> ``deepest sorrow to the victims and their families, and
> hope they seek the help they desperately need to get
> them through this terrible time.''
>
> During his brother's trial, Paul Timmendequas tearfully
> testified that his father repeatedly sexually abused him
> and Jesse beginning when they were young boys.
>
> Paul Timmendequas was being held at the Middlesex County
> Correction Center in North Brunswick on $200,000 bail.
> He faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted.
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