Word: samanthas
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...Samantha Aezen, a New Yorker who served as a Red Cross volunteer assisting with the relief efforts following the attacks, said she came down to Ground Zero with a group of friends, some of whom had lost loved ones on Sept...
...been charged with anything at this point,” said Samantha Martin, another spokesperson for the office...
From the very start, the investigation into Samantha's kidnapping had a sense of urgency--and not just because she was scooped up in broad daylight with her grandmother inside the apartment nearby and a playmate by her side. Her nude body was found in a wooded region only 50 miles from her home. The corpse was unburied and posed in such a horrific way that the man who came upon it begged the police dispatcher he reached to let him flee the scene. "Please hurry. I'm scared, and I want to get out of here," he said...
...Indianapolis, Ind., that manufactures pacemakers, defibrillators and other medical supplies. Disturbingly, he has a history of molestation charges: the daughter of his ex-girlfriend Beth Veglahn, along with another girl, accused him two years ago. The Veglahn girl lived with her father in the same condominium complex as Samantha, Veglahn's foster brother Lewis Davis told TIME. A jury acquitted Avila on all those counts in 2001, however, and Avila's mother says the case was an attempt by the ex-girlfriend to seek revenge for the failed relationship. Says Avila's mother Adelina: "He bears a certain resemblance...
...experts can tell us that a child's being snatched by a stranger is rare and that these kinds of kidnappings are not on the increase. But every time it happens--and it happened again last week when Samantha Runnion, 5, playing just outside her apartment, was taken, screaming, and murdered--it strikes at our primal fear that we cannot protect our children against the incidental malice of the universe. But experts say parents can teach some basic safety lessons and reinforce them regularly...