Court Hears Gruesome Details on Wife, Children Being Raped & Burned Alive
On October - 4 - 2010
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two Connecticut men charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 house invasion inflicted unimaginable terror on a model family that had enjoyed their final pleasant summer day together, prosecutors told a jury during closing arguments Friday.
Prosecutor Gary Nicholson said it was impossible to recreate the fear the two girls, 11-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley Petit, felt when the men tied them to their beds and poured gasoline on or around them before setting their Cheshire house on fire.
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---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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Nichole allen Says:
I just watched your tribune tv clip. It really got to me. I am a therapeutic foster parent and seen lots of things but that clip . Really made it real. I help by taking kids into my home . But want to help more. But not sure how I think about child abuse all day some times. If there’s a way I could help let me know
Posted on March 7th, 2011 at 6:29 pm