Cops Looking For Little Girl On Sex Tape
Second, Older, Girl Identified; Public's Help Sought In Finding 4-5-Year-Old
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"We've ensured that she is safe and that she is well. We've ensured that she did not suffer as a victim at the hands of that perpetrator, as did that little girl," Nye County sheriff's detective David Boruchowitz said on CBS News' The Early Show.
The younger girl still has not been found. The second girl is estimated to between 10 and 12 years old.
"We did confirm that she is a resident here, although, as far as we can tell, she has no ties to that little girl," Boruchowitz told co-anchor Harry Smith.
"It appears to be some kind of peep show" of the older girl, Boruchowitz said earlier.
Authorities are still searching for the younger girl and the man in the videotape.
"We have no idea where he's from, where she's from, and no idea who they are or where they are," Boruchowitz said earlier in the week.
The tape, a little longer than 30 minutes, clearly shows the adult man performing criminal sexual acts that Boruchowitz said included rape, "everything else, and then some."
"There is nothing in her eyes. It's like her soul has been taken, her spirit has been taken," Sheriff Tony DeMeo said. "We want to find this girl. I know everybody else out there wants to find this girl."
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Elizabeth Smart was found nine months later, and her kidnappers arrested. Smart hopes this little girl will be found, too.
"I know that somebody out there knows where she is or something about her and can help identify her," he told Smith. "And it's just critical that we find her."
The older girl did not appear to have been sexually abused on the tape and the footage appeared to have been shot from a different room, Boruchowitz said.
Investigators are also examining whether the two segments were filmed with the same video camera, he said.
A 26-year-old Pahrump man, Darren Tuck, surrendered the tape to Nye County sheriff's investigators Sept. 8, after another man reported seeing it, Boruchowitz said.
Tuck told detectives he found the videotape in the desert outside Pahrump more than five months ago, although Boruchowitz said the tape didn't appear to have been exposed to weather or elements.
Boruchowitz said investigators don't think Tuck made the tape. Tuck was arrested Sept. 19 on charges of promoting child pornography and possession of child pornography, felonies. The top charge carries a possible sentence of up to life in prison.
Tuck was released without bail, pending arraignment Nov. 26 in Pahrump Justice Court, a court official said.
"Right now, my understanding is he's cooperating with the district attorney's office," Boruchowitz said on The Early Show. "At the time of the investigation, he chose not to talk with us any further once he gave us his initial story."
Pahrump is a small town 60 miles west of Las Vegas.
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See all 200 CommentsMore like a gift from satan now given the overpopulation and all the problems resutling from it, people have over-run the entire planet destroying much of it in the process, babies are no longer a gift (as if they wever were) they are a BURDEN on the dying planet.
You need serious mental help if you think childrn are a burden. Sure some people (like yourself) should not have kids and do see them as burdens, but normal people (such as myself and a LARGE majority of parents) KNOW that children ARE a gift. I consider my 3 kids a gift from GOD, but not everyone believes in HIM, which is fine. None the less, like I said, MOST parents consider their kids gifts and a blessing. SHAME ON YOU!!! I hope they find this little girl.
Something I noticed though, as much media attention as this has received, no guardian, school, family or parent has come forward. Pahrump is home/close to several of Nevadas'' legal brothels. Heidi Fleiss even lives around that part of Nevada. I have to wonder if these were checked to see if any one of these ladies knows someone who has a little girl with this description, or has seen either the child or the suspect at some point, maybe knows someone who was turned down for a job at one of the brothels who may have resembled this little girl in adult version? Anything at all. I hope someone comes forward with information on this child. The press releases say she appears to have been a long time victim. This could be why no one has come forward yet.
I pray everyone does all they can/gives as much information as they can to find her.
I agree with the other poster... you need some mental help. You need to grow a heart. this a story about a poor little girl and you post how children are a burden. No people who think like you are a burden to this world... Kids are the greatest gift there is. Well this is not about you it is about a sweet little girl, who needs everyones help to find her and get her out of the hell she is now living in..
We''re just all sooooooo much better off as a country with folks like this looking out for us.
Pahrump is home/close to several of Nevadas'''' legal brothels. Heidi Fleiss even lives around that part of Nevada. I have to wonder if these were checked ...
Geez. How stupid. Pedophiles are not interested in adult women. lemm5 is injecting his or her personal bias against prostitution in a case involving child rape. I''m surprised homosexuality wasn''t included. Child rape and prostitution have no relationship to each other.
Regretfully, posting this poor child''s face all over the news is probably going to result in her death because the rapist will probably kill her to keep her from being discovered. At least she will have peace at the feet of God. Blessed are the children ...
this is not a man made crime, its an evil that holds total contempt for what is right
There are not enough words to describe how despicable these monsters are, they all need to be executed...
I''m sick, I can''t imagine the "HELL", this child went through, what is wrong with this "WORLD", where are the mothers, the real mothers, if this child''s mother knew of this and stood by and did nothing she should be executed right along with her worthless trash of excrement...
Was this child reported missing before this?
I hope the cops bust in there and kill him. Has any one come foward with any information about knowing this baby. I want to gut that guy so bad!
I am with you on this girl. I hope she is found.
Stay in contact with the police in Nye County and the adoption agencies. I will pray for you and her.
She is going to need someone special to help her get on with her life once she is found. Poor baby.
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