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A correction.

Attempted abduction thwarted; Spotsylvania
                 boy, 3, lured by candy 

                 Sister, 10, prevents apparent
                 abduction attempt of her 3-year-old brother.

                 By KEITH EPPS

                 The Free Lance-Star

                 Date published: Tue, 10/09/2001 

                 Spotsylvania County authorities say a 3-year-old county boy might
                 have been abducted Sunday had his older sister not shown up when
                 she did. 

                 Capt. Mike Timm of the Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office said the boy was
                 on his front porch in the 9500 block of Hickory Hill Drive when a black,
                 four-door sedan pulled into the driveway about 5:30 p.m.

                 The driver leaned across his passenger and told the boy that his name
                 was "Chris." He then asked the child if he wanted some candy, Timm
                 said.

                 The child was approaching the strangers' vehicle when his 10-year-old
                 sister rounded the corner of the house and screamed at him to get
                 away from the car, Timm said.

                 The driver then backed down the driveway, drove north on Hickory Hill
                 Drive and was last seen turning onto Overview Drive.

                 An adult neighbor described the car as a 1990s model Nissan Sentra
                 with a spoiler. The neighbor saw the car pull into the driveway and
                 leave, Timm said.

                 "We're looking at this as an attempted abduction," Timm said. "Why
                 else would someone pull up and offer candy to a 3-year-old?"

                 Timm said both occupants of the suspect vehicle are white males, but
                 police don't have an age estimate.

                 The driver had short black hair and possibly hazel eyes, Timm said,
                 while the passenger had long, blond hair.

                 Sunday's incident was at least the sixth time since school started that
                 possible abduction attempts have been reported in the Fredericksburg
                 area.

                 On Sept. 4, a 12-year-old Spotsylvania County girl reported that she
                 was sitting on her front porch when a man drove up and asked if she
                 wanted to get in the car. She declined, and the man left.

                 The man had dark skin and straight, black hair covering his ears,
                 according to Spotsylvania authorities.

                 The Stafford Sheriff's Office is still investigating four incidents last
                 month in which motorists tried to lure children into vehicles. Three
                 incidents occurred in Hampton Oaks subdivision in North Stafford.

                 Descriptions of the suspects have been varied.

                 Abduction attempts involving children are an especially sensitive
                 subject in Spotsylvania, where the serial killer slayings of three county
                 girls--Sofia Silva and Kristen and Kati Lisk--remain unsolved after five
                 years.

                 Hickory Hill Drive is off Massaponax Church Road (State Route 608).
                 Timm said his office has notified other law enforcement agencies about
                 the Sunday incident and are actively seeking information about the
                 suspects.

                 Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at
                 582-7115 or 582-5822.

                 "This is a very serious incident," Timm said. "It's most unfortunate that
                 a 3-year-old can't stand on his own front porch and not be the victim
                 of an attempted abduction."

"Kill them wherever you come upon them. Expel them from where
they expelled you; sedition is more grievous than slaying. Fight them
not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there;
then, if they fight you, kill them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers"
(The Cow 2:191). 

"Take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of God;
then if they turn away seize them and kill them wherever you find them
and take no friend nor helper from among them" (Women 4:89). 

"Fight them, till there is no persecution, and the religion
is Allah's entirely" (Spoils 8:39). "When the sacred months are
drawn away, slay the idolators wherever you find them, and take
them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush"
(Repentance 9:5).

Stop All the Crooks
With sincere apologies to W.H. Auden


Stop all the crooks, use an uzi to cut them off at their knees
Prevent the thugs from doing just as they please
Silence the murderers with a baseball bat
Bring out their coffins, we'll show them where it's at

Let the balloons float in victory overhead
Showing us all in the sky those miserable creeps are dead
Put yellow ribbons around every lamp pole
For now it's time to heal our collective soul

The victims were our families and innocent at best
When justice is done we can let them rest
They were everything to us, our warmth, our light
We find solace knowing they did not give up without a fight

Brighter now are the stars and the moon
Though the war still rages, not to be over soon
As daunting the task is, it is surely a start
To fight evil every day is the path to God's heart.

"I loved you once, I love you still, I always have and I ALWAYS will!"

"The rain washed all our footprints away
The footprints we made together that day
And as I watched the wind fly by
The pain grows deeper when each footprint dies
I watched all day long to see them go
In the wind and rain which was damp and cold
Today the sadness is deeper still
The rain drizzled down all day long
Thinking what else in my life could go wrong
All the memories are still there
Maybe they'll leave like the footprints and wear
And as I stood on the bridge all wet in the rain
All our footprints were gone with my pain
The sadness is there but not deeper still."

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