i feel terrible for the family, and this poor girl who never had a chance. i dont really believe in an afterlife, but, for her sake, i hope she's in a better place, where things like this don't happen.
Smith has been arrested at least 13 times in Florida since 1993, according to state records, and convicted of drug possession and other charges. He was arrested in 1997 in Manatee County on a false imprisonment charge but was acquitted a year later.
In the 1997 false imprisonment case, a 20-year-old woman in Bradenton said a man grabbed her as she walked by and tried to pull her away, according to records released by the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
"He got on top of me and told me to shut up or he would cut me," she told authorities. After a struggle, she said, she managed to run into the street, and passengers in an approaching van stopped and rescued her.
Smith, found hiding behind a house by a police tracking dog, was acquitted by jurors after telling them he was trying to keep the woman from running into the street and she misunderstood.i read this story earlier today, and this really pissed me off. i'm not saying that anyone who's ever had a brush with the law should be branded for life, but come on... when someone has been in that much trouble, and was accused of kidnapping someone.. ugh. i'm not sure what i'm proposing be done, but it's just not right that someone who was clearly a danger is out there, able to hurt people. and anyone who hurts a kid is just that much worse.
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