Police: Sex Offender Choked Girl
Man Who Once Dated Sarah Lunde's Mother Charged With Murder
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Play CBS Video Video Sex Offender Confessed David Onstott, a 36-year-old registered sex offender, confessed to killing 13-year-old Sarah Lunde. The Florida girl's body was found in an abandoned fish pond near her home. Dave Browde reports.
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Video Lunde Case Details Sheriff David Gee gives The Early Show details on the disappearance of 13-year-old Sarah Lunde near Tampa. Hundreds of volunteers have been helping with the search for the teen.
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David Onstott, shown in a booking photo, has confessed to choking 13-year-old Sarah Lunde to death, police say. (AP)
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Sarah Michelle Lunde (AP)
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Deputies on Thursday search a holding pond on private property about a mile south of where Sarah Lunde, 13, was reported missing in Ruskin, Fla. (AP)
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"It's sad that it takes something like this to bring a community together," Lunsford said. "America needs to wake up. The next child could be yours."
Church members said that on any other Sunday, Sarah would have spent the afternoon walking with other church members to nearby homes to hand out Bibles.
The church had become her refuge from troubles in her life, including times when she had run away from home.
"People asked me why did she come here, why did she spend her time here," said Matt Fontana, the youth minister at the church. "Because she found love here ... Now she's in heaven."
The small church normally draws only about 50 congregants for morning services, but its pews were filled with more than double that Sunday.
Sarah had started coming to the church three years ago on her own and no other members of her family attended with her, church leaders said. She often would call two or three families to arrange for a ride and they'd all show up to get her.
"Every Sunday we talked about who was going to pick up Sarah," Sherry Cook said. "I can't believe we're not picking her up this morning."
Onstott, 36, was being held after he was arrested Tuesday for allegedly threatening a man with a screwdriver at a bar.
Onstott, who is 6-feet tall, weighs 190 pounds, wears a gold tooth and has tattoos on his arm, stomach and back, was charged with sexual battery with a deadly weapon in 1995, the Miami Herald reports.
The charge was reduced to using physical force on a victim over 12 years of age, and he served 5 1/2 years of a nine-year sentence.
He was charged in 2002 with aggravated battery and intentional bodily harm with a deadly weapon, but acquitted.
In 2003, his probation was extended after he was convicted of violating it.
He was charged this year for failing to register as a sex offender and, last week, for the alleged assault at the bar.
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