Missing and Murdered Children

Update: May 4, 2008:

First of all I want to say that initially police thought Charles Ray Norris, III was the male involved in the abduction of the two Herrera children. Later they changed the suspect involved to Raymond Richard Bowen.

The suspects were located at about 2 p.m. this afternoon and the children were located unharmed. CPS returned the children to their temporary foster home.

There was a little more information give regarding the history of this case. Apparently Jennifer Simmons is the mother to 5 children with the last name of Herrera. Also, she had not been caring for the children for at least the past year - the grandparents and other neighbors had been caring for the children. Recently the grandparents abandoned the children according to the temporary foster parent, Andrea Smith.

Smith has been working with CPS to obtain custody of the 5 children. The children were recently removed from their mother’s care.

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This blog is about missing and murdered children and I believe my blog gives a voice to the victims. Why anyone would think it is OK to leave a comment defending a person who has been accused of or convicted of murdering a child is beyond my comprehension.

People who believe it is important enough to leave a comment defending their friend or loved one is also deserving of having their comment answered by me in a blog entry.

Below is the comment left on my blog regarding the Brenda Nguyen murder. I call her death a murder. The prosecutor and defense attorneys called it child abuse, manslaughter and abuse of a corpse.

In case you are not familiar with the case - Brenda was a 13-year-old runaway from the Phoenix, AZ area. She and a friend met up with Ana Hernandez, Clayton Koepke, Ana’s 19-year-old-son and Ana’s 39-year-old boyfriend. Ana allowed Brenda and her friend to stay in her apartment. In other words, she was harboring two runaways. During the evening the two young men decided, according to court documents, to get Brenda drunk so Clayton could have sex with her. Brenda consumed a fifth of Vodka within 30 minutes and immediately went into seizures.

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