Brooke Bennett

Post Page Rank With the sad and frightening disappearance of Brooke Bennett, a twelve year old Vermont girl, online communities are once again forced to face public criticism. Public scrutiny is always needed. Criticism however is usually misplaced though. The public, especially uninformed parents likes to blame the online services every time something happens to a child. While there have been a few cases where some small companies have failed to act on information that is rarely the...Read Full Story

You are here: Home » People » Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Brad in People | Twitter: @bradhart | You may or may not remember back to July and the disappearance of Brooke Bennett.  If it hadn’t been for me going through my own archives I would have thought about the case at all.  To make a long story short she disappeared and everyone blamed it on her internet activities.  Then the case quickly went away, I blogged about it on July 1, 2008 . In the end we found out she was not killed...Read Full Story

Police say that Brooke Bennett's uncle, Michael Jacques, posted the following on the now deceased 12-year-old's MySpace account in order too trick them into believing that she was abducted by a MySpace predator. Jacques reportedly posted it the night before she died: "I know i promised never 2 post u on this page but i know u read both of mine all the time. I don't care use my other one at my cousins because my aunt and uncle gotta know my passwords and stuff and get freaked. Nobody but u and...Read Full Story

You may or may not remember back to July and the disappearance of Brooke Bennett.  If it hadn’t been for me going through my own archives I would have thought about the case at all.  To make a long story short she disappeared and everyone blamed it on her internet activities.  Then the case quickly went away, I blogged about it on July 1, 2008 . In the end we found out she was not killed or kidnapped by an internet stranger, but a family member as is too often the case.  No details have...Read Full Story

An affidavit released by Orange County District Court in Vermont contains testimony from a 14-year-old girl who says deceased 12-year-old Brooke Bennett was being trained to be used for sexual acts. The unidentified witness state's that Bennett's uncle, Michael Jacques, 42 , and stepfather, Ray Gagnon, 40, were forcing the girl into something they called the "Breckenridge Program." Bennett and the witness were reportedly two of the three girls being prepared by the men to be used sexually...Read Full Story

Post Page Rank With the sad and frightening disappearance of Brooke Bennett, a twelve year old Vermont girl, online communities are once again forced to face public criticism. Public scrutiny is always needed. Criticism however is usually misplaced though. The public, especially uninformed parents likes to blame the online services every time something happens to a child. While there have been a few cases where some small companies have failed to act on information that is rarely the...Read Full Story

(July 2, 2008) Brooke Bennett, who was last seen alive June 25, 2008, was found dead today by Vermont State Police. This is the latest chapter in a story that grows more bizzarre as it unfolds. It began when the 12-year-old girl went missing, sparking a search for the pretty young girl with green eyes. It wasn't long before Bennett's uncle, Michael Jacques, was arrested for an unrelated sexual assault case. The girl's stepfather was then arrested Tuesday, July 1 for sexually assaulting...Read Full Story

(from BayNews9.com) – Brooke Bennett, a native of Tampa Bay and one of America’s sports superstars, having earned Olympic gold medals in both the ‘96 Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, will become a full time reporter/anchor for Bright House Sports Network on January 1. Bennett will cover an array of high school sports for Bright House Sports Network including volleyball, football, basketball, baseball and of course swimming as both a field reporter and a studio anchor. She...Read Full Story

June 29, 2008 - Afternoon For Immediate Release: June 29, 2008 The Vermont State Police and the FBI continue to investigate the disappearance of Brooke Bennett, age 12 of Braintree, Vermont.  As a result of forensic work that was conducted over the weekend, leads have generated and are being pursued.  The FBI has supplemented their resources as well as [...]Read Full Story

Date of Press Conference: June 30, 2008 at 4:00 PM Statement of Colonel James Baker, Director of the Vermont State Police: Good Afternoon.  Thank you all for coming.  For those of you that don’t already know me, I’m Colonel James Baker, Director of the Vermont State Police. I would first like to start out by thanking the media [...]Read Full Story