Suspect in Ind. girl's death cared for her grandpa

But was the reason Plumadore ever had contact with the children.

And I believe plenty of people care when I child is murdered

What do you mean who cares? Just because her grandfather didn't do it doesn't make it any less horrible and tragic. Death is too easy for a person like Plumadore he deserves a living hell!

this gruesome reality is hard for me to comprehend: an adult child puts her children in jeopardy in order to provide care for her elderly, ailing sex-offender status father [why did she believe her father when he said that his grand daughters would be OK?]

now, the mother and remaining daughters need immediate mental health care and I wonder if they will be able to get it under Indiana's reduced state services

From the article:

She knew it could be dangerous. The park of about two dozen homes was teeming with convicted sex offenders, with one living at nearly every address.

Parents who sacrifice the welfare of their kids for, well, anything at all, deserve whatever pain they feel after their kids end up getting hurt from their actions.

This poor mother is being slaughtered in the quest for sensationalist crap journalism. The grandfather didn't kill the girl. The murderer was not a sex offender. With lines like 'lungs rotting away' the writers of this garbage need some serious moral compass checks.

RIP Angel girl. Love and compassion to Mom from someone who knows the special horror of losing a child. I am so sorry. You did not deserve this, no one does.

This is a horrific story of a child that was not protected by AMERICA. Quit the #@#%&#@ blame game here! We need to protect the next innocent child at risk for the same fate. No partisan BS accepted!

That's why we need government intervention. These children should have never been exposed to such a horrible environment. The media shy away from rural places like this because it reveals a blight that make inner city projects look inviting. The subhuman who committed this horrific crime should be executed without any legal wranglings holding up the process. Another child's life deprived of existence. RIP Little One!!!

The murderer was not a sex offender.

though Plumadore is not on Indiana's registered sex offenders list. He has a criminal record in Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions for trespassing and assault.

Gee, that makes me feel better.

Look, this is a horrific tragedy and I feel bad for the family. Unfortunately the mother made really, really bad choices to move into a nest of sexual predators including her father. She then chose to move her three girls in with the perp when she was ill. She may not have the capacity to make legitimate, day to day choices. Sad.

The grandfather angle is just another way to humanize sex offenders.What,she deserved it because someone who was related to her was also a sex offender?

That's one of the more bizarre things I've ever read. Do you actually believe that was the point and purpose of the article?

First of all, sex offenders are human beings. So are murderers, muggers, purse snatchers, arsonists, and so forth. They don't need to be "humanized," as you put it. You can say that they're scumbags, perverts, or whatever other colorful name you like -- and I'd probably agree with you.

But they're still human, nonetheless -- no matter how reviled and hated they may be.

The reason I point out the obvious is because it helps to explain why Tarah made her decision to move her and her daughters there. Having a registered sex offender in her family, she saw the other side of the issue -- that sex offenders actually are human beings, some of whom are more dangerous than others. Her own father was one of them. So perhaps she was a little less afraid to be around them than she might otherwise be.

Tarah did take some precautions, however, one of which was asking her father about some of the men living there. "They're doing everything they're supposed to do," he is reported to have said. What that means, I don't know. I imagine it means they were going to therapy or doing whatever else they were required to do as conditions of their parole.

But Tarah's intuition was better than Shorty's. Tarah sensed something wrong about Plumadore that Shorty missed. Although Plumadore was apparently one of the few men at the trailer park who wasn't a sex offender, something about him bothered Tarah. Tragically, her instincts were right.

At least 30 percent of sex offenders are guilty without a shadow of a dought.Lets start with those and kill them all!

Let's take a look at the idea of capital punishment for sex offenders. Sounds like a good idea to you, huh? The desire for retribution, revenge, and all that are natural human emotions, after all, so why not indulge them?

Well, because it's an idiotic idea that would get children killed.

Think about it. If the penalty for molesting a child were the same as the penalty for molesting and murdering that child (they can't kill you twice, after all), wouldn't it make more sense for a molester to kill his victim to reduce the chances of getting caught?

Yes, yes, I know, the majority of pedophiles don't physically hurt their victims. But some do. Would you be willing to roll the dice if your child's life hung in the balance? Would you be willing to bet your child's life on the kindness, good will, and conscience of a pervert?

Lets grow up and stop bringing hitler up as if wanting to protect children makes you a nazi.

No one said you were a Nazi, and I'm all for protecting children. But at this point, any talk of sex offenders is really irrelevant to the case, when you think about it.

Beyond possibly explaining why Tarah was willing to move there, the fact that Shorty was a sex offender is irrelevant to the whole case. In fact, the fact that there were 15 other sex offenders there is also irrelevant to the case.

Shorty Lemmon didn't murder Aliahna.

Sex Offender Greg Shumaker didn't murder Aliahna.

None of the other registered sex offenders living at the park murdered Aliahna.

Michael Plumadore, who was not a sex offender, but about whom Tarah had concerns when she first met him, is the man who killed Aliahna.

Ironically, although none of the sex offenders were involved in Aliahna's death, the sex offender registry in itself may have played a part. Consider this: When Tarah asked Shorty about Plumadore, Shorty must have told her something along the lines of, "Mike's not even a sex offender."

It's pretty reasonable to assume that one of the biggest reasons why Tarah allowed Plumadore to take care of her daughters is because Plumadore was one of the very few adult males in the park -- maybe the only one, for all we know -- who wasn't a registered sex offender. That gave him instant credibility: "In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king."

Or to put it more simply, being surrounded by perverts, the fact that Plumadore wasn't one of them (or at least, wasn't on the list) probably gave Tarah a false sense of security, which is another concern I have about the idea of the sex offender registry in general. According to my state's sex offender registry, the majority of new sex offenses are committed by people who have no prior record. To me, that means the fact that someone's not on the list actually means little or nothing in terms of your child's safety.

The time to wake up and make some changes is now!

Okay, I'm open to suggestions. What ideas do you have in mind, aside from capital punishment, which probably would only get more children killed?

Clearly, what we're doing now isn't working too well. On that, you and I agree.

This brutal murder cries for the death penalty!

Couldn't have worded it better myself.

"we always lock the barn doors after the horse is stolen"

due to political correctness we dont even lock the doors. We simply hang a sign that says, Dr. Mr. Horse Aquirer. Please do not aquire the horses in this barn. Thank you. P.S. There are horses next door.

Do you really believe public executions in the "old days" really helped prevent montsrous crimes? If you do, you should study history.

Well if you feel like paying taxes for these creeps to stay in jail and watch TV and eat and smoke and enjoy thier lives until the end then there is a problem with people. There has to be an end for these child rapists, molesters and killers there is no justice in the system, they all get paid at the end of the day and don't care what happens that's why lawyers have big mansions and yachts because our tax money is making them very wealthy and the killers just sit in jail and spend the rest of thier lives enjoying what they have left. so yes execution is a detterent and an answer to crime like this.

Well if you feel like paying taxes for these creeps to stay in jail and watch TV and eat and smoke and enjoy thier lives until the end then there is a problem with people.

Unfortunately the sad reality is that it costs less to jail them for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them.

But it would be the families of the victims, all the state would have to do is hand them over and have a witness from a state agency watch and declare the death and in a controlled environment.

leefi

We should administer an intelligence test and a psychological profile of all perceptive parents. Just think leefi if this was the case you never would have been born. This article has nothing in it regarding gay marriage. It is about a woman that made bad choices. At the time they seemed reasonable to her but in the end they were fatal.

My eldest daughter at 12 was raped by a trusted family friend. I knew this man well for five years. I would trust him to act in my best interest if the need ever arose. I trusted him with money and he even cared for my elderly parents when I needed some time off. He lured my daughter to a motel room and had forcible oral sex with her(Her face and mouth were covered in bruises as a result of his animalism), he raped her, and I was surprised that he did not kill her. He ended up with a sentence of twenty five years. Five years in his incrassation he had a massive stroke. He is now a vegetable in a nursing home. His sentence has been executed fully to my way of accounting.

After years of counseling and a lot of soul searching with the whole family involved my daughter is coping and has become a beautiful woman inside and out. Child molesters especially repeat offenders should jailed for life. Execution is unwarranted. The crime must fit the punishment (cruel and unusual punishment) and rape does not constitute or warrant the death penalty. I believe that child molesters should be jailed until they die. To find a young girl sexually attractive is a character disorder. These types of people feel the law does not apply to them or the law is hindering their desires. A great reason to keep them locked away for life.

I think leefi was just being sarcastic...No matter the tragedies we suffer in life never let them bring us down. If we do then for what reason are we live if we are living at all....This comes from a survivor of many tragedies...

Leefi: I know you were making a joke.

I agree that all pedophiles need to be locked up forever. You cannot rehab people like this, especially with someone this brutal.

I remember the Dodd case. He was a serial pedophile and was finally caught. He was released and went back to victimizing children, but killing them. Dodd begged the state to put him to death because he stated that if he were ever allowed out he would go back to doing the same thing again and he was finally executed.

I have taken care of a few sex offenders while working in psychiatry. One man who was released from prison after 22 years who was not able to cope on the outside after his release but could not be sent back to prison because he had served his time. He wanted to go back to prison. Because even though he was in his late 60's when released, he was having a very hard time resisting the urge to reoffend. In prison, there was no temptation. In the outside would there was plenty.

She should have her other children taken from her. She clearly has no normal thought process, common sense or natural instinct to protect her young.

You know, normally I would agree with this but I am reserving judgement about the mother until I know more. We don't know what her alternatives were, what type of hold her father had over her. People can be so abused and beaten down that they cannot make good decisions. I have seen this over and over working in the ER and in psychiatry. There is a lot more to this story i fear and it won't be nice.

That's right. Make rash judgments against a woman who has just had a child murdered in a most brutal and heinous manner, and do so without knowing diddly squat about the full story. Is this really the America we now live in?

If you read the full story, you know she moved into the trailer park with her three girls knowing full well the place was populated by sexual predators!

So, what? None of the people labeled as a sex predator had anything to do with this precious child's death.

If you read the full story, you know she moved into the trailer park with her three girls knowing full well the place was populated by sexual predators!

The whole world is populated by sex offenders. They live everywhere we do, ride the same buses and trains, eat at the same fast-food joints, but their clothes at the same Wal-Marts, and so forth. So what's your point?

Michael Plumadore has admitted to Aliahna's murder. There is no need to try to blame it on Tarah, Shorty, or any of the sex offenders living in the trailer park. Michael Plumadore was the murderer.

The obsession with sex offenders throughout this story, both here and in the new media, is getting almost creepy. It's almost as if people are hoping for one of the sex offenders to be implicated, for whatever bizarre reason.

That's right. Make rash judgments against a woman who has just had a child murdered

Ok, I will. Especially when the mother moved into that place to take care of her sexual predator father, in a trailer park known for housing sexual predator criminals. This is a no-brainer. The mother is clueless and most likely abused her whole life and that doesn't remove blame one iota. If she experienced it, she should be doubly understanding and smart about the dangers.

AND wow! Look at the comments here supporting the mother for this horrible decision and justifying sexual predators in our communities. Looks like the pedophile/sexual deviant club is on this thread supporting one another.

You believe in an eye for an eye? Is this a Biblical view? If so, you are ignoring the fact that Jesus clearly did not believe in an eye for an eye. Since Jesus is God manifest in the flesh, what He says goes.

This man should be charged with capital murder. Not because of the rape but because he killed his victim. Had he not killed her death penalty is not appropriate. His crimes ended with murder so the state should seek the death penalty.
Had he left her alive, capital punishment would be cruel and unusual punishment. My daughter's rapists committed forcible oral sex and the he raped her. After he completed his crimes and before I called the police I went to his house with my 357 Colt python and my K-Bar. My plan was to shoot him then decapitate him. When I looked him in the eyes I realized this piece of trash was not worth me going to prison. So I left him alive. I contacted the police and went through the channels to have him prosecuted. This was one of the best decisions I have ever made. We prosecuted him he got 25 years without parole. One his fifth year of incarceration he had a massive stroke and now he is a vegetable in a nursing home. His brains are permanently scrabbled and by the way I figure it his debt to my daughter, her friends, our family, and society are paid in full. I am an atheist so I do not believe in heaven or hell but he is suffering and in some twisted way he IS suffering beyond what the judge ruled. I enjoy the thought of the way he is serving his sentence.

This man should be charged with capital murder. Not because of the rape but because he killed his victim. Had he not killed her death penalty is not appropriate. His crimes ended with murder so the state should seek the death penalty.

What rape?

Yeah I kind of thought this might get less sensational, not more.

I would bet the daughter was a victim of sexual abuse by her father.

" There but by the Grace of God goes you."

The Good Lord didn't make me a genius. He did bless me with the insight that moving my cute little daughters into a community where the vast majority of the population are sex offenders might be a bad idea. I also did not condemn the mother for her choices. Depending on her father's crimes his judgement could seem reasonable to the daughter. Dad child molesting the 17 year old is different then the 7 year old. If dad never molested her she might of thought he was innocent.

Okay, I'll allow the innocent people to ride out of town in a Mini Cooper with the back seat empty before it is burned.

I'll bet you will be the first ones to show up at some ones Church on Sunday mourning. The Devil loves the way you think. (sad).

I'm not a devout guy. I sin many a week by not going to Mass. I concern myself more with the physical world. What God and the Devil wish is beyond my ability. Best I can reckon, the Devil enjoys a 9 year old being beaten to death with a brick and chopped up by one of the more respected members of this community.

I wouldn't really give them the napalm. I think these type of communities are a good thing. Better these folk are in one place then scattered unknown in our world. The community also has to be reasonable with their judgement call on who lives in Molesterville.

Sex offender is very wide ranging. From two college kids having sex in the park, the high schooler Sexting, the 20, 30, 40 year old man having sex with the girl 6 months underage. A man doing that with a boy. A teacher having sex with her students; high school, middle school, elementary school, nursery school. The public jerkoff clown, the flasher, the dirty caller/texter. The rapist and the pimp.

They're all sex offenders. Some should live in Pervertville others not.

As a matter of fact, Greyfox, there DID go I and my family as I was raised in a household where my father repeatedly sexually molested three of my four sisters. Moreover, my brother was molested by a Catholic priest, a personal friend of my father. However, my siblings and I had the sense not to intentionally put the next generation through what we had gone through. When I recognized the signs of sexual abuse in two of my nieces at ages 6 and 7, I promptly told my sister (who was working two jobs and had not spotted the signs in her "house" husband), she called the police, got him removed from the house and then divorced. Fortunately, he was forced to get counseling where he not only admitted the sexual abuse but that he himself had been sexually abused. On my previous job at an institute for teaching kids, I was able to get a teacher fired (unfortunately not jailed) when other teachers reported to me that he constantly bragged about having sex with under-aged girls. He admitted this "off the record," but I reported it to his boss who quickly fired him. I understand the problem well enough to reserve my compassion for the killed little girl and her sisters. When you've been in the snake den, you'd be a fool to return, and vile to bring a child there.

What story are you reading? There is nothing in this story to indicate that the alleged perpetrator (yes, he is still legally "alleged" to have committed the crime, even if he has admitted to it, until found guilty in a court of law) is a sex offender, nor that he committed a sex crime in the commission of this heinous killing of a precious child.

@RNDiane

Did you even bother reading the article?

I'm sorry, but almost everything you said contradicts what the article stated. For example:

The news first reported that the man who has admitted to killing this child was not a sex offender. So it has apparently turned out that he was.

Really? Where has this been reported? The police say that he wasn't. Read the article.

I feel very badly for the mother of this child for a number of reasons. It sounds like she did not have a support system for herself and when she became ill, there may have been no one else to care for the children but perhaps we will learn more later. There may be more to that story.

Plumadore was a trusted neighbor and friend who frequently babysat for the children. They had known each other for years. Read the article.

It appears this is a low income area and I would suspect it may be one of only a few locations that is willing to accept a sex offender to live there. That may be why that is such a large concentration of offenders in that area.

"Willing to accept?" You're kidding, right? The large concentration of sex offenders was the result of laws governing where they're allowed to live. They were given maps by the Department of Corrections. Read the article.

In this little upscale community where we live, just outside Seattle, there are at least 10 sex offenders in the neighborhood.

I guess that means you were "willing to accept" them. Mighty open-minded of you.

I wonder how many people check this type of thing before the purchase a home in a community? I bet that most don't and the information is readily accessible on line.

Or maybe they're grown-up enough to understand that there's no such place as Utopia, so they are "willing to accept" that released sex offenders have to live somewhere.

This is a very extreme crime for a first murder.

Is there such a thing as a murder that's not extreme? I mean, there's no such thing as being only moderately dead.

Makes me wonder if he has done this kind of thing before and just did not get caught. I guess we will have to wait and see.

I hope you're not a psych nurse...

Makes me wonder if he has done this kind of thing before and just did not get caught.

My guess is that he killed the kid because she was annoying and misbehaving. If it was a sex crime it would of been though out better. It seems a crime of anger and less a cover up type of crime from what I have read in the media.

My guess is bad tempered dude killing the annoying kid more then psycho molester raping and killing.

Is there such a thing as a murder that's not extreme?

Yes. There is a big difference between taking a brick and bashing the head in of the guy that owes you money or the wife that you caught in bed with another man and doing the Exact same thing to the 9 year old girl that you are babysitting.