"Seeking tips on missing girl, police say: Don’t judge parents" ~ FOLKS, Why was that CHILD in that HOME? Where did the system breakdown? Was it Whatcom County?

Don't JUDGE the Parents? I wish I could NOT. Yes it is none of our business as a society, as outsiders, and yes it is their family business.

Don't Judge often turns into look the other way while bad things happen to other people.

Does Don't JUDGE mean to shut up, remain silent, and let boys be boys and families do their own thing?

When child RAPE and molestation is involved, I say go ahead and NOT only JUDGE but do something about it. Change the Social Police, change laws, make a stand, protect the children and STOP condoning rape and molestation with plea bargains, improper investigations, flat out denial, and not believing VICTIMS because they are kids.

However, at what point do we step in, do we say, HEY it is ok to not only JUDGE but to stand up for children who are ignored, neglected, living with molesters and those children who are molested.

Which, I personally believe, that it will turn up at some point that James Wright was not only guilty in 1999 of child molestation but that has many more victims who will step forward. That is just my personal belief. Remember any and all attacks on me personally I will post at my discresion.

This is a massively important issue to me and I have been to a hearing in Port Townsend, WA and watched a Judge let a 17 year old be around 2 children he had previously sexually abused, and put these children in harms way. I have heard of the prosecutor saying that Jury's don't believe children. I have in my life seen men falsely accused of child molestation. I have known men in my family who have molested generations over decades and nothing seemed to be able to be done.

I have many family members and have interviewed countless people over 7 years who are victims of sexual attacks as children, and mostly by those they trusted, family and not strangers.

It is TIME to Make a POWERFUL Stand for the Rights of children who are victims of sexual assualt.

ENOUGH is ENOUGH ~ NO MORE.

It is our Watch Now People.

I SAY NOT ON MY WATCH

Here is the Article about NOT Judging the Parents

"BREMERTON — As another day of searching failed to turn up any sign of 6-year-old Jenise Wright, authorities Wednesday urged the public to suspend passing judgment on the missing girl’s family and focus on her safe return.

“We would ask people to set aside issues about criminal history and parenting choices right now,” Kitsap County sheriff’s spokesman Scott Wilson said. “Let’s find Jenise first and sort the rest later.”

Wilson sought to tamp down growing criticism of Jenise’s parents, who allowed the little girl to wander freely in the family’s East Bremerton-area mobile-home park, and concern that her father’s criminal record may have some bearing on the girl’s disappearance.

Instead, investigators are seeking help from the public in distributing fliers and walking their property lines to seek possible clues to Jenise’s whereabouts. He urged area residents to lift tarps and look in boats, hot tubs and under bushes.

“We can’t be everywhere,” Wilson said at a news briefing.

Jenise was last seen at about 10 p.m. Saturday, when she went to bed in her home in the Steele Creek Mobile Home Park, a community of freshly painted and well-tended manufactured homes in unincorporated Kitsap County.

Her parents told sheriff’s deputies they noticed she was gone on Sunday morning, but were not initially alarmed because Jenise often left the house to wander the neighborhood and find playmates, Wilson said.

When she failed to appear by 8:30 p.m. Sunday, however, her parents began going door-to-door looking for her, according to Wilson. Police were called about an hour and a half later.

Wilson acknowledged that it sounded strange initially to learn Jenise was missing a full day before police were called. “You have to understand, it’s a different mentality, almost like a tribal community, here,” he said.

“She was, literally, a child of the park and everyone knew her. Because she was so friendly, she would have breakfast with some neighbors here and lunch with others over there.”

Wilson also said that investigators are fully aware of the girl’s father’s criminal history, but do not believe it is connected with the girl’s disappearance.

James Wright was charged with first-degree child molestation in February 2000 for allegedly molesting an 8-year-old girl after a New Year’s Eve celebration, according to court records. The girl told a detective and social worker that he inappropriately touched her, the records say.

More than a year later, in June 2001, the charges were amended to include third-degree child molestation after a 15-year-old girl who was baby-sitting the first girl during New Year’s Eve 2000 said that Wright touched her breasts and put his hands down her pants, according to court documents.

Wright pleaded guilty in December 2001 

to a misdemeanor assault charge related to the older girl. 

It was not immediately clear why the molestation charges were dropped. Wright was sentenced to a year in jail, but a judge suspended the entire jail time provided he followed certain conditions.

Prosecutors in Whatcom County and the Bellingham defense attorney who represented Wright could not be reached for comment.

Wilson said Jenise’s parents, and all of the residents in the 103-unit park, have been cooperative. Investigators completed a “deep canvass” in the complex, searching every home, vehicle, outbuilding and dumpster without having to obtain a single search warrant, he said.

Jenise’s parents took lie-detector tests Monday, but investigators are not disclosing the results. The family’s home also was searched twice, Wilson said.

He said thus far no suspects had been identified, no people had been cleared and no possible outcomes had been eliminated.

“We cannot rule out anything yet,” Wilson said.

Frank Montoya Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI’s Seattle office, said investigators are following up on tips and hoping people will continue to call the FBI phone line at 1-800-CALL-FBI with any information they may have related to the girl’s disappearance.

He said the FBI was working to have billboards with Jenise’s picture and information put up in Washington and Oregon.

Susan Murphy, who works at a Burger King near the girl’s home, said Wednesday FBI agents had recently been in the restaurant.

“They had an unconfirmed tip that she was seen in here on Saturday night with another little girl,” Murphy said.

However, she said, the woman who was working the shift told the FBI she would have noticed any unattended little girls and she did not see Jenise that night.

Murphy said she lives nearby and has a daughter just a few years older than Jenise. 

On Monday night she talked to her daughter about Jenise and explained that her disappearance is why she won’t let her daughter ride her bike alone.

“People say don’t judge, but I am judging,” she said. “It’s unfathomable to me that you can go 24 hours without knowing where your child is. It’s pretty bizarre and crazy — and scary.”

Information from Seattle Times archives and The Associated Press is included in this story.Christine Clarridge: cclarridge@seattletimes.com

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"A 17-year-old neighbor on Monday was ordered held on $1 million bail in the slaying and rape of 6-year-old Jenise Wright of Bremerton."

"The 17-year-old neighbor of Jenise Wright wasn’t arrested until Aug. 9, but he had caught the attention of investigators several days before, according to court documents filed in Kitsap Superior Court.

A Kitsap Superior Court judge on Monday ordered Gabriel Z. Gaeta held for investigation of first-degree murder, felony murder and first-degree rape of a child. Bail for the teen, an acclaimed wrestler for Olympic High School with no criminal history, was set at $1 million.

The teen, wearing an orange jumpsuit and with a jacket over his face, was led into court where his mother and stepfather, and Jenise Wright’s parents, were seated. The judge granted a defense request that his face not be photographed until charges are formally filed.

Kitsap County Prosecutor Russ Hauge said Gaeta will be charged as an adult because of the seriousness of the crimes he is alleged to have committed, but he will be kept at the county’s juvenile-detention center until he turns 18 in December.

In an interview Monday, the slain girl’s father said the suspect was a “close friend of the family.”

James Wright said the teen had been to his family’s house “many, many times” and was a friend of their older children.

He had taken the teen under his wing and taught him how to chop firewood to make extra money, he said.

Wright said he and his wife know they will ultimately have to forgive Gaeta in order to heal, but it’s hard.

“It’s devastating. It almost would have been easier if it was a stranger,” he said.

Jenise Wright, 6, was last seen around bedtime Saturday, Aug. 2. She was gone Sunday morning, but her father and her mother, Denise Wright,were not immediately alarmed because she was allowed free range of the mobile-home park. They called 911 when she had not returned by Sunday night, the Sheriff’s Office said.

On Monday, Aug. 4, while the public was still being urged to help “bring Jenise home” and hundreds of law-enforcement agents were converging on the park and its surrounds, searchers discovered child’s clothing, according to the certificate of probable cause outlining the state’s case against the defendant.

It was identified as Jenise’s by her mother, and a field test on the clothing revealed it was stained by blood, court documents say.

That same day, as part of a door-to-door canvas of the neighborhood, FBI special agents Matt Yeager and Mike Baldino went to Gaeta’s house, which is near the heavily wooded perimeter of the park where the clothing was found, court documents say.

The teen was there, but his stepfather and mother said he was “too upset to really speak with” or to give a voluntary DNA sample. They confirmed the boy had been home all weekend, and asked the agents to return later, court documents say.

It is not noted in court documents, but the agents found the teen’s behavior odd and believed he was “someone to keep an eye on,” according to a source familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A forensic examination of the clothing on Aug. 6 by the Washington State Crime Lab determined the blood on it belonged to a female biological child of James and Denise Wright. It also extracted male DNA from the clothing, police and prosecutors say.

On Aug. 7, the girl’s body was found15 to 20 feet from where the clothing was discovered in a 3- to 4-foot-deep muddy bog on a heavily wooded and overgrown slope, police said.

The body was submerged in mud and covered with a wooden pallet, the court documents say.

An autopsy on Friday determined the girl had been raped, struck in the head and strangled, court documents allege.

That same day, an FBI agent returned to Gaeta’s home and obtained a voluntary DNA sample from the teen, prosecutors said. The agent noted that “he was leaning against the wall, barely able to get out of bed and emotionally upset,” court documents say.

On Saturday, the state crime lab matched Gaeta’s DNA to that found in Jenise’s clothing and he was arrested, court documents say.

Prosecutors said he became upset when asked by investigators about the girl’s disappearance.

He was “crying and had tears streaming down his face, his nose was running and he focused on a spot in the room and did not divert his gaze,” according to the court document.

The teen continued in that manner until they left the room, at which point, he got up, stretched, yawned and wiped his nose, court documents say.

Eventually, the teen is alleged to have nodded his head “yes” when investigators asked him if he was the only one involved in Jenise’s death, prosecutors said.

Police found bloodstained clothing and a blood- and mud-covered towel when they searched his room after the arrest, according to the court documents.

Troy Reynolds, who was Gaeta’s wrestling coach at Olympic High School, told the Kitsap Sun last year that the young man was shy in many ways but was a fierce competitor on the mat.

“He’s the gentle-giant type of kid,” Reynolds told the Sun. “He’s not super aggressive in practice, but in competition, he’s a different animal. He’s freakishly strong. The mat is kind of his canvas.”

On Monday, James and Denise Wright appeared at a child-custody hearing in the Kitsap County Youth Services Center hoping to regain custody of three of their five other children.

The eldest children are adults and live in the Bellingham area, the family said. The third-eldest was staying with his older siblings the weekend that Jenise disappeared. The other two, who are 8 and 12, were removed from the home by Child Protective Services on Aug. 4.

They were also placed with the two adult siblings, James Wright said.

At the hearing, representatives of the Nooksack Indian Tribe, of which Denise Wright is a member, indicated it wanted to be involved in the custody matter and would be bringing the parents up to Bellingham so the family and the community could grieve together.

After the hearing, James Wright vowed to fight for his children and thanked the community for their prayers. He said he and his wife were able to feel the love and concern of every one of them.

He also invited the public to attend a memorial service for Jenise at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 9256 Nels Nelson Road N.W. in Bremerton.

Seattle Times reporter Andrew Mannix and researcher Gene Balk contributed and to this report.Christine Clarridge: cclarridge@seattletimes.com or 206-464-8983."

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