Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Sue
Thanks for the article. I think I will try to use it for a discussion
on Monday. Wonder if they would be ready for something like this.
jackief
Sue Hartigan wrote:
> 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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