Idaho Suspect's Chilling Record
Man Held In Kidnapping Has Long History Of Sex Crimes
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Play CBS Video Video Idaho Suspect's Long Record Joseph Duncan, charged in the Idaho missing children case, is the latest shocking example of how a registered sex offender can keep offending again and again. John Blackstone reports.
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Video Blackstone At County Jail CBS News' John Blackstone reports from the county jail in Idaho where Duncan is being held.
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Video Groene's Dad: Protect Kids CBS News RAW: Steve Groene, the father of formerly abducted eight-year-old Shasta Groene, thanked the public for finding her daughter, but says new laws has to be enacted to protect children.
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Joseph Edward Duncan III at his court arraignment with a judge, inset lower right, Tuesday, July 5. (CBS)
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A security camera shows Shasta Groene entering a store with accused kidnapper Joseph Duncan. Photo courtesy of KREM. (AP)
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Steve Groene and his daughter reunited (AP/Kootenai County Sheriff Dept.)
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In a handwritten transcript an investigator gives details of interviews with Shasta.
The court document shows that Shasta told investigators she and her 9-year-old brother were taken to a remote campsite and repeatedly molested.
Although it is CBS News policy to not name victims of sexual assault, the Idaho children's names were widely disseminated before the new allegations.
"This little girl really went through more than any little girl should ever have to think about," Kootenai County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said Tuesday.
Shasta was recognized by a waitress who called police around 2 a.m. Saturday.
"Nobody in the family has ever seen this man before. Ever," said Shasta's grandmother, Darlene Torres, Wednesday on CBS News' The Early Show.
Shasta Groene's statements place Duncan inside the rural home near here where the girl's mother, older brother and mother's boyfriend were bound and bludgeoned to death. Their bodies were found on May 16.
The videotape of Shasta shows a child surviving an ordeal, says child trauma expert Lenore Terr.
"She was holding herself, she was not a regular child — she has been terribly hurt mentally," Terr told CBS News.
Investigators believe the campsite where Shasta and Dylan were held is in rugged country near St. Regis Montana. Human remains found at the campsite have not been positively identified but are believed to be Dylan.
The case was a mystery for almost seven weeks until Duncan for some reason returned to Coeur d'Alene and Shasta was recognized.
The intent of the crimes, court documents said, was to rape, seriously injure or commit a lewd and lascivious act on a child under 16 years old. Duncan has not been charged with anything other than the kidnapping counts, which can carry the death penalty or life in prison.
"Shasta and Dylan were repeatedly molested," Kootenai County Sheriff's Sgt. Brad Maskell wrote in a terse, handwritten affidavit released Tuesday. "Shasta saw Mr. Duncan molest Dylan."
Shasta was awakened at her home and watched as her mother Brenda Groene, 13-year-old brother Slade and Mark McKenzie, her mother's boyfriend, were tied up, the document said. She and Dylan were also bound and placed in the pickup truck. The children were later transferred to a stolen red Jeep and taken to the first of three campsites, she said.
The affidavit does not mention the beating deaths of the girl's family or whether she witnessed the killings. It also did not say if she witnessed what happened to Dylan.
Shasta told officers that Duncan did not have an accomplice. Despite her statement, investigators were still trying to determine if Duncan acted alone, Wolfinger said.
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