Crime

Indiana: Woman Give Uncles ‘Thumbs Up’ After Setting Fire to Sex-Offender Dad

WXIN-TV:

A Wayne County woman is charged with murder after police say she burned her father alive.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, Nina Holbrook, 30, admitted to detectives, Friday, she “torched” 50 year old Carl Holbrook.

Officers were called to the Holbrook home on Chapel Road in Milton after getting a 911 call about a severely burned victim. When medics arrived at the scene, they found Carl lying on the back porch with burns over his entire body and the majority of his clothing burnt off.

Nina told police she poured gasoline into a small cup and lit a candle. Then she called for her dad to come into her bedroom. When he showed up, she threw the cup at his face and shoved the candle at his chest.”

Kyle Carpenter saw Nina right afterwards and asked her if she was alright. He told Fox 59, she showed no remorse.

“She smiled at me and she said ‘No sir, I’m fine. Thank you very much,’ and gave me a thumbs up.”

WANE-TV:

A woman accused of killing her father by setting him on fire in Indiana just got out of the Llano County Jail in Central Texas last month.

According to the Associated Press, Nina Holbrook, 30, was arrested in Milton, Indiana on arson and murder charges for the death of her father, 49-year-old Carl Holbrook. Holbrook told investigators she threw a flammable liquid into his face and ignited him with a candle on Friday.

Texas woman accused of Indiana murder: wane.com

Pal-Item.com:

Nina Holbrook told investigators she then climbed out her bedroom window and walked through a field and down the road, where she was spotted by her uncle, Harvey Holbrook.

The incident took place at the end of a lane on the south side of Chapel Road, between Clevenger and Hiser Station roads in Washington Township.

According to the affidavit, Harvey Holbrook told authorities when he stopped on the road to ask Nina what happened, she told him, “I torched him” and “I set him on fire.”

Comments (109)

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  • RoAdFiXeR
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:05am

    One less predator in the world….see there is an up side…a child molester/rapist is a cold calculating premeditated predator…anybody who tells you its an illness is a fool…

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:23am

      Yeh…… If his Psycho Daughter was telling the Truth?

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    • SgtB
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:30am

      Was he really a rapist? I don’t know, neither do you. What we BOTH know is that apparently this 30 year old woman was still living at home with her father. That to me screams that she was mentally unstable and unable to hold down a job. That is, unless she was caring for her ill father, which doesn’t seem like it is the case. So we know that she is a nutjob. Check. What is in question is whether or not her father was a rapist.?

      If he was raping her, he did deserve to die, but, would a grown a$ swoman live with her father if he was raping her? Seriously. I don’t know any sane person who would live with a person who rapes them. That just isn’t logical on any level. This leads me to believe that the father and his daughter were having an argument about something (probably about his lazy daughter still mooching off of him) and she thought that was grounds to burn him alive.

      Before you make any more posts, try to offer some insight into how you arrive at your opinions. I think you will find that your insights are hollow and not thought through.

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    • FlamingFartSyndrome
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:34am

      Some people do deserve to be burned to death.

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    • Patrick in AZ
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 2:39pm

      OK, I checked out all of the links and watched the videos – I see where she is obviously a dangerous nut, but where does the accusation of her father being a sex offender come in?

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    • jzs
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:02pm

      Patrick, I was just about to ask that same question.

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    • jzs
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:23pm

      I think this website is using Rupert Murdoch’s business model.

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 7:45am

      @FlamingFartSyndrome… “Some people do deserve to be burned to death.”

      This very same thing happened to me at 15 years old. A 6 ounce cup of flaming lighter fluid was thrown on my chest by a local pyro. It was the most painful and scary thing you can imagine. You cant really imagine it unless youve had it happen to you. Nobody deserves that and we dont even know if he WAS guilty of whatever she claims. Remember, your taking the word of a known murderer.

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  • ampatriot
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:36am

    thanks for the laugh bagginator….i was hoping it was going to progress on some whos on first whats on second with this cup thing…lmao

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    • The Bagginator
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:52am

      That it did. When dumbasses really, really want to misinterpret something they will be hell bent on doing so.

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    • john1417
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 2:06am

      @SgtB
      There are a lot of women that stay with there man and he beats them. I don’t know why any person would stay in those situations.

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  • The Bagginator
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:11am

    Who knows what will end up happening to this woman.

    Wayne County, Indiana seems to have a pretty liberal court system. I know someone who was arrested there and charged with a Class A felony, which carried an 8 year sentence. He plead down to a Class C felony and a 4 year sentence. He ended up spending 1 year in the state penn.

    I’d like to have seen him spend the entire 8 years locked up, but he’s back on the street being the model citizen he always was … until someone goes Medievil on his ass with a 9mm.

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  • chris p bacon
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 8:00am

    I look at the Blaze at least once a day, and usually there are good stories. But come on guys, the first thing that came to mind as I was reading this was how TERRIBLE this thing was written. Not that I am such a journalistic genius, but when you have the readers providing you with more information about the story, and information that makes much more sense then what you provided. I think it is time too fall back and regroup. I enjoy the Blaze, but GET WITH IT PEOPLE!!!

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 8:42am

      Appears to be a cut and paste from the links.

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    • 120pages
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 1:16pm

      I don’t think the writers of the Blaze headlines or the editors (it’s questionable if they use them) even know what correct punctuation and grammar are!! Almost every day there are headlines on the Blaze that make absolutely no sense.

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  • Stu D. Baker-Hawk
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:59am

    I think somebody at The Blaze is going to get fired for posting this piece of crap that passes for a story. The reporting is credited to Scott Baker; however, it was posted to The Blaze at 2:37 in the morning, an hour that I doubt Mr. Baker would be awake. Me thinkst some pimply faced intern used Scott’s name and posted this rag of a story without professional (i.e., adult) oversight. Yep, somebody’s getting fired today!

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  • Stu D. Baker-Hawk
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:41am

    This is a VERY poorly written, researched and edited story. Blaze, you REALLY need to pull this thing quick because you damage your journalistic credibility when you post crap like this. Just my two cents.

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  • piper60
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:38am

    I’d like somebody to do a follow-up so we can know if the father is a sex offender, and if he tried anything with his kid.

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    • RRFlyer
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:36am

      That’s right, Always blame the victim. It’s never the criminals fault

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    • Lee Butchee
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:24am

      Actually, Piper60 is right. The only place where it claims that the father is a sex offender is in the headline. No where in the story or in the video does it claim that the father was a sex offender. In fact, the only person mentioned as serving jail time is the daughter who set her father on fire. If I’m wrong, please correct me, but I’ve read through the story at least 3 times trying to find out why the headline claims he was a sex offender. ???

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:16am

    I like the Blaze but this is another of too many examples where the meat of the story does not match the headline. Not only is it misleading but it’s also just sloppy, lazy work.

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    • chazman
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:26am

      This story shows a lack of professional editing over a novice writer …

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    • Talmid of Yeshua
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:33am

      I concur with your statements. This article appears as if it had been edited by a junior high school student. The title of the article is misleading, taking a very small, and unimportant part of the story and exaggerating it. I’d expect something like this from the tabloids in the grocery store line, not on the Blaze.

      I like the Blaze, but if people are to take this site seriously, Glenn Beck needs to set up a little bit of professional journalism here.

      Report Post » Talmid of Yeshua  
    • HumbleCitizen
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:47am

      Sensational headlines to grab readers attention is a plague used by all media today (tv, radio, print, etc.) The only way to change this problem (at least here on “The Blaze”) is to email and complain.

      Report Post » HumbleCitizen  
    • Shasta
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:37pm

      Mr. Beck, I have been thinking for some time now that TheBlaze needs some serious changes. This story is a good example. I do not think this site is a good example of what you are telling me that Mercury and GBTV are supposed to be.

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  • G.E.R
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:55am

    I’m curious as to where in this article and the links supplied tell about the father being a sex offender. The only person that has a criminal past and a violent past at that is Nina Holbrook.The headline of this article is mis-leading and false.

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    • BrotherWill
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:42am

      Not int he article, but strangely on the sex offender registry (/sarcasm off).

      http://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/IN1275636/Carl-Dean-Holbrook.html

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    • G.E.R
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 8:35am

      @Brotherwill
      I didn’t realize questioning a headline or story was sarcasm. It was the journalists responsibility to include that information in the article. This is what he was convicted of in 1995 and it doesn’t involve children

      IC 35-42-4-2-Criminal deviate conduct
      Sec. 2. (a) A person who knowingly or intentionally causes another person to perform or submit to deviate sexual conduct when:
      (1) the other person is compelled by force or imminent threat of force;
      (2) the other person is unaware that the conduct is occurring; or
      (3) the other person is so mentally disabled or deficient that consent to the conduct cannot be given;
      commits criminal deviate conduct, a Class B felony.
      (b) An offense described in subsection (a) is a Class A felony if:
      (1) it is committed by using or threatening the use of deadly force;
      (2) it is committed while armed with a deadly weapon;
      (3) it results in serious bodily injury to any person other than a defendant; or
      (4) the commission of the offense is facilitated by furnishing the victim, without the victim’s knowledge, with a drug (as defined in IC 16-42-19-2(1)) or a controlled substance (as defined in IC 35-48-1-9) or knowing that the victim was furnished with the drug or controlled substance without the victim’s knowledge.
      As added by Acts 1976, P.L.148, SEC.2. Amended by Acts 1977, P.L.340, SEC.37; P.L.320-1983, SEC.24; P.L.183-1984, SEC.3; P.L.31-1998, SEC.

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  • the_ancient
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:38am

    Come on Blaze, you need to hire ISLESFORDIAN or atleast pay him/her for doing your work.

    If you going to put something in a headline at-least write a story that includes that angle, Personally I am tried of these lazy clips and subtexts from other sites, at least when real blogs do it they ADD commentary to it, not just copy and paste with a link.

    Did Glenn Beck cut your salaries or something?

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  • chdorb
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:21am

    Often there is justifiable homicide.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:36pm

      Such as in the case of a mentally unstable grown woman living with her father until she sets his gracious self on fire over an argument.

      This is of course, just my interpretation of the story and my foresight into the situation which may or may not be accurate. But it probably is and you are probably supporting a murderer just like the Anthony jury.

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  • LIBSALWAYSLIE
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:05am

    The Bagginator, they never said a styrofoam cup was used, the reporter just held one as a prop to tell the story. Liberals are so ignorant.

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    • The Bagginator
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 8:08am

      I see you are a complete dumbass, as well. I never said she said or anyone said it was a styrofoam cup. She held one up and I was asking who would be the first to point out that a styrofoam cup would melt from gasoline.

      Get you pointy little head out of your punk ass.

      You seem like the lib here.

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  • 0dysseus
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:55am

    Sexual abuse tampers with a victims very soul, especially when it involves the violation of the trust normally afforded to family members. Such intense evil begats more evil and festers infectiously over time. Healing only comes through forgiveness but the scars run deep. Dysfunctional and incestous families abide in evil and multiply evil in America as upon a rusting metal edifice. Our prisons abound with sexual perverts.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:10am

      That’s not necessarily true. I‘m a victim of incest and sexual abuse from a babysitter’s son. I’ve been a productive member of society, and am a veteran of the Navy. I didn’t torch my abusers. I did need therapy 30 years later for PTSD symptoms, so yes the scars run deep. But how you react to the abuse is your decision.

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  • ShamanWorld
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:15am

    This is only the TIP of the giant iceberg of the white mans madness unfolding. The Blaze usually only shows the black people acting up,but I can assure you that things like this(and worse) are going on everyday in white america. On tuesday here in NY,2 people jumped off the Tappan Zee bridge butt naked to their deaths. The country is falling apart at the seams.(which is the people) There must be at least 100 suicides daily across the USA

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    • nelbert
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:37am

      OK, let me see if I’ve got this right. This disturbed woman and two jumpers from the Tappan Zee are enough to qualify for a White Man’s Meltdown? I think you need to get out of the house more often.

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    • green_manalishi
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:37am

      Speaking of madness sham man, does your family prefer their crackers baked or fire grilled ?

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    • Marci
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:50am

      Rally Shaman? I think you need to step off of your race pulpit. You and your filthy ilk have not taken over nor will you ever. And by the way, I do not assume you are black. I am assuming you are a progressive, which is a horrible incurable disease.

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    • ShamanWorld
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:53am

      Whites’ are the majority of welfare recipients, SSI recipients etc. So what makes you think they aren’t the majority of criminals. If you read the Blaze you mostly are fed images of black criminals. I can assure you there is a motive to that method.

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    • ShamanWorld
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:58am

      I said it was only the”Tip of the iceberg that we are being shown nationally.” If any of the small-town Americans on here had the courage, I‘m sure they’d tell us some crazy(recent) story of somebody in their town going insane. It’s almost epidemic.

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    • LIBSALWAYSLIE
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:02am

      ShamanWorld, you are making a complete fool of yourself, its almost laughable. Whites
      are the majority of welfare recipients? Not even close. You live in bizzaro world.

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    • green_manalishi
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:05am

      Sham man is just mad because he was always the last kid picked to play crack dealer is his neighborhood

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  • String Bean
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:04am

    @ ISLESFORDIAN

    Your other nic here is RATIONALMAN, isn’t it?

    There simply CAN”T be two people who are equally as anal and obstinate as you are.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:10am

      I only have one identity. Rationalman is a rationalist, isn’t he, not a Christian?

      Do you consider concern for the truth obstinate and anal?

      Just wondering what you beef is.

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 4:07am

    There is only one report that he was a sex-offender:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015557/Nina-Holbrook-poured-lighter-fluid-sex-offender-dad-set-left-die.html

    The Daily Mail, form the UK, is obviosly not a local report. Strange how all the local news don’t mention the sex-offender angle at all. Even the Mail notes that he wasn’t a registered sex-offender, and they have no idea what crimes he was convicted of.

    Thanks for making us do your work for you Blaze. Good job.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 4:39am

      More reporting I found;

      http://www.truecrimereport.com/2011/07/nina_holbrook_gives_the_thumbs.php#more

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:34am

      More:
      http://www.whiotv.com/news/28512708/detail.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss

      http://www.in.gov/apps/indcorrection/ofs/ofs?lname=Holbrook&fname=Carl&search1.x=0&search1.y=0

      Apparently he committed what look like two separate acts of sexual offense in 1995 and 2007. He was schedualed to be released last week for the last offense but was actually relaesd last year. These are just the offenses for which he was convicted and sentenced to time in Indiana. He seems to have moved there from Texas just around 1995, so one has to wonder what might have transpired in Texas.

      There is no indication that his daughter lived with him in Indiana, as she is described as a Texas woman, so she must have lived in Texas as an adult, after her father was incarcerated in Indiana.

      All this took me a few minutes to gather. It’s amazing how lazy most reporting is these days.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:01am

      Even more info: From an online obituary to appears that two of his children live in Florida. I found elsewhere that Nina was arrested in Florida in 2009.

      One possible scenarios are that he and his familiy moved to Indiana in 1995. After his fisrt conviction and imprisonment his wife left him and took the kids to Florida where they remained until Nina came back to Indiana for…some reason.

      Another possibility is that he lost his family before he left Texas and moved up to Indiana to live with his brother, who is the only family member to live there. I put my money on this one, as his conviction in 1995 is for criminal confinement and criminal deviate conduct. The confinement charge doesn’t make much sense if it was his daughter, so it makes more sense that this involved a non-relative and that any molestation of his daughter happened earlier, in Texas. If his family dumped him because he did something to Nina, it makes sense for him to get out of town and move to Indiana. There he eventually continued his activity, but with strangers.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:44am

      A real case of trash taking out the trash…

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:07am

      Correction:

      It appears from IDOC records that his 2007 incarceration was for violation of parole. No new sex crime was involved. So all we know about is the 1995 conviction, for which he served 13 of a 20 year sentence. Other facts and his daughters behavior make it likely that something else happened.

      Report Post » Islesfordian  
    • Charles
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:16am

      The story is indeed complete. At least THEBLAZE usually just has tons of grammatical errors. So; winning! = )
      They should hire you as remote staff support!

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  • olddog
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:56am

    I love this site, a young woman is molested by her father, she murders the father and you folks are talking about a cup… Sad

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 4:11am

      We have no idea the woman was molested by her father. There is no report alleging that. The Blaze is allowing us to infer by really sloppy reporting.

      Report Post » Islesfordian  
    • The Bagginator
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 4:21am

      The cup issue is about inaccuracies that are stated or implied in the story.

      Now, if you want to speak to the more serious issues here, you should question where you get your inferrence that the man molested his daughter.

      The only mention of him being a sex-offender is in the Blaze headline. It is not mentioned in the narrative of the article, either of the two videos, nor in any of the links provided to other websites.

      You make the inferrence and accuse a dead man of something that he may not be quilty of. He may well be, but you don‘t have anything to support the conclusion you’ve drawn.

      The woman is obviously (from reading other websites) mentally unstable and maybe doen’t know why she acted as she did.

      SAD !!!

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  • Tirith
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:54am

    “oh anybody who hurts a child is gonna burn until it’s done” – Ray Wylie Hubbard

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:50am

    Can someone point to me where there is any reporting that the father was a sex-offender. I see it in the Blaze’s headline but nowhere in any of the reports in the story. This woman has a violent history according to the police reports.

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    • G.E.R
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:46am

      I was wondering the same thing. There’s no mention of that or any crimes the father may have comitted in any of news articles.

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  • clingingtogodandguns
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:34am

    hang her by her nips.Then lips, then neck.

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  • Blkcatwm
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:20am

    He got what he deserved. All pedofiles, rapists and murderers should just be extinguished. They can’t be helped, they can’t change, they ruin people’s lives….they take up space……if we were to get rid of the vermin then the jails wouldn‘t be so crowded and we wouldn’t need to build new ones…..crime might even go down!:)

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    • spikebu
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:47am

      I am missing part of this story. I read and heard nothing about her motives.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:51am

      Where did you see in the story that he was a pedophile? I‘ve been reading and rereading and can’t find that anywhere.

      Report Post » Islesfordian  
  • CrackersSmurf
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:10am

    molestation is a serious crime that causes very serious mental deficiencies and angst towards the perpetrator, he deserved it. Don‘t abuse your children they won’t catch you on fire.

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:09am

    Sick Sad Situation saturating society Saturday
    Someone should supposedly say something super smart

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:36am

      How about this, if there’s justice in the world, she just got it!

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  • The Bagginator
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:00am

    Ok, who‘s going to be the first to point out that gasoline would have melted a styrofoam cup before she’s have a chance to throw it on him?

    Huh? Huh? Huh?

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    • Midwest Blonde
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:06am

      Um, where in the article did it mention Styrofoam? I saw CUP, not Styrofoam cup…..

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    • The Bagginator
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:19am

      Um, it didn’t say anywhere that it was a styrofoam cup.

      Um, you have to look at the first video of the reporter holding up what is obviously a STYROFOAM cup as she talked about this woman throwing a cup of gasoline on the man.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:45am

      The reporter just used that as a prop. She didn’t say THAT was the actual cup used. The actual cup would be police evidence, obviously.

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    • The Bagginator
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:52am

      I understand that and that’s why I was asking who was going to be the first to point out that it would not have been a styrofoam cup. as the reporter was holding up.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 4:09am

      The reporter didn’t SAY it was a styrofoam cup. She just held up a cup as a prop.

      Report Post » Islesfordian  
    • The Bagginator
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 4:31am

      Good Lord. I give up. lol

      After so much it only becomes wasted energy.

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  • Exrepublisheep
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 2:45am

    She’ll go free soon.

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