See below for the background, and previous stories.

The sickness continues as the details of what Shasta Groene endured some to light.

Not only did she see her brother killed (shot) but she had to listen to her kidnapper rapist talk about other killings.

In a motion to suppress evidence, the details emerge:

Shooting details revealed at Duncan hearing

Judge hears testimony on motion to suppress evidence

The night she was rescued from killer Joseph Duncan, young Shasta Groene gave such a vivid description of Duncan’s killing of her brother, Dylan, that it left little doubt that 9-year-old Dylan was dead.

Nevertheless, authorities anxiously hunted for Dylan out of fear he might still be alive. Kootenai County Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Brad Maskell said Duncan earlier had left both children chained to a tree in the forest and “our concern was that that situation still existed.”

Maskell was cross-examined Tuesday by defense attorney Thomas Monaghan in federal court in Boise. Duncan’s defense team is trying to suppress evidence gathered using search warrants issued shortly after Shasta’s rescue for a computer and other items in Duncan’s vehicle.

Monaghan told the courtroom Tuesday, “She (Shasta Groene) had reported that Mr. Duncan had killed D.G. (Dylan Groene) by shooting him two times. And the first shot was described by her as an accident.”

Maskell said that was correct.

“But the second shot, she talked about … how it struck the young man’s head and gave a very vivid description of what that did to him,” the attorney said, adding that he didn’t want to be too graphic.

I suppose at some point that sick bastard will claim it was a mercy killing for an accidental gunshot wound?

Duncan told Shasta he killed other children

Young Shasta Groene told authorities that killer Joseph Duncan, during the weeks he held her captive at a remote Montana campsite, described killing at least three other children – a tip that prompted authorities to investigate Duncan as a possible serial killer.

I blogged this back in 2005 (reposted below) as it was happening, and now 2 years later the end is drawing near, but even as it is, nothing is settled, and the closure seems impossible.  How can you move on from something so horrific?

Joseph Duncan, the guy who commiitted this indescribly horrible crime pled guilty in state court previously, and has now pled guilty in Federal court.

Duncan pleads guilty to all counts (emphasis mine)

 Joseph Duncan this morning pleaded guilty to all 10 counts in the federal indictiment against him for kidnapping and molesting two North Idaho children and killing one in 2005.

“I just wanted to say that since my arrest I have never attempted to deny responsibility,” Duncan told the court.

The convicted killer faces a possible death sentence for kidnapping Dylan and Shasta Groene in 2005 and for killing Dylan at a remote Montana camp site.

 Possible?  Good God, if ever there was a poster child for the death penalty, this is it.

The prosecution and defense had agreed on a “recitation” of the facts in the case, which federal prosecutor Traci Whelan read, along with the charges, in a courtroom that was chilled into silence despite being nearly full. The recitation included a lengthy description of Duncan’s actions, starting from April 2005 when he purchased video recording equipment and stole a car and a gun, all of which he then used in the crimes against members of the Groene family in North Idaho.

The recitation also graphically identified the nature of Duncan’s sexual abuse of the two children, and detailed how he videotaped his abuse of Dylan and then shot him to death. It also included the fact that after young Shasta, the sole survivor of the attack on her family, was rescued from Duncan at a Denney’s restaurant in Coeur d’Alene, lab testing identified Duncan as her abuser.

In a world where stupid parent tricks happen all the time, this one takes the cake.

It’s a pathetic thing when the kid has more bloody common sense then the parent.

Mom arrested for DUI after boy calls 911 from car

An 8-year-old boy riding in a car with his mom called 911 several times to report that she wasn’t “acting normal,” leading to her arrest for investigation of drunken driving and other charges, authorities said.

Paulette Lynn Spears, 33, was arrested Saturday after she drove to a fire station and said she had a medical problem.

Gross stupidity is not a medical problem, otherwise they would cure it.

Guided by her son’s description of what he could see from the car, as well as by global positioning technology to track the phone calls, deputies arrived at the station less than a minute later.

“He said ’I don’t know where we are, and Mom’s not acting normal,’” sheriff’s Sgt. Randon M. Walker said.

At one point, Spears took a cellular telephone from the boy, told the dispatcher not to worry and hung up, Walker said. The boy called back, and again his mother cut short the call, Walker said.

“The mother kept interrupting the 8-year-old,” he said. “It happened at least twice.”

At one point, Walker said, Spears apparently bit the boy’s hand to get the telephone away from him.

Just lovely.  Will CPS be called and this woman lose her parental rights?

Four minutes before the boy’s first call, dispatchers had received a report of car that matched the description of Spears’ car being driven erratically.

The boy and a 5-year-old child, who was also inn the car, were placed with an aunt. As of Monday, Spears remained in jail for investigation of drunken driving, two counts of reckless endangerment and assault of a child. It was not clear if she had a lawyer to speak for her because she had not appeared in court.

The call has been issued for Diane Sawyers resignation over a Primetime special that aired last Friday.  This is a case that illustrates the cold hearted callous disregard for people that the news sometimes exhibits in order to get a "good story."  And their actions have ensured a child abuser gets to go unpunished.

During the filming of a story on dysfunctional step families, ABC cameras caught a beating of a teenage girl by her father on video tape…and did nothing about it….for 4 years

Calls for Sawyer to Resign After Teen Beating Report

The shocking beating of a teenage girl by her father that aired during a Diane Sawyer report about dysfunctional stepfamilies has set off a firestorm.

State police officials in upstate Lake Placid say they are going over the tape of last Friday’s "Primetime" news magazine to determine if charges can be brought against the natural father, a Iraq War military reservist, and the teen’s stepmother.

The investigation — which includes the local Franklin County DAs office, police said — was only part of the fallout from the broadcast.

Outraged viewers have filled up the ABC News Web site’s message board with more that 1,400 messages in the first 36 hours after the broadcast — many calling for Sawyer and the program’s producers to be fired for not going to the authorities immediately.

The beating was caught on videotape recorders that the family — identified as Lynn and Joe Nelson — had allowed ABC News to install in their home for a program on the difficulties stepfamilies have getting along.

This is sickening.  They taped it, saw it and just decided not to do anything about it.  They could have called social services, or the police, but didn’t. 

Are your ratings so much more important then a child’s pain?  Was it worth it to the girl?  Did you pay perhaps her by the bruise?  Or were you secretly hoping for a broken bone maybe?  A little more screaming and blood perhaps?  "Grimace for the camera sweetheart, and make sure the fear looks real….and ACTION!"

I can’t even begin to say how this makes me feel.  I won’t say this has anything to do with Gay Marriage except in that the breaking of a traditional role was a factor.  That point I think needs to be considered.  But I hope no one tries to blame traditional marriage as a part of the problem that made a 4 year old not want to call a lesbian daddy.

In reality the issue is parental substitution.  The child had a daddy, and he didn’t want to replace that person in the name.  I have a blended family, and we avoided any insistence that my kids call her mommy, or hers call me daddy.  My ex-wife apparently did insist on that, and my son wasn’t happy with it.   

Had she been the boys step-father, the end result would have been the same, and no one would be screaming about gays in the story. 

And make no mistake, the fact it was a lesbian couple and the issue was the child calling one of them Daddy, that’s what made this news.

This is about stupid and sick people.  Period.

What I will say is that apparently Gay marriages/relationships are not immune from the gross stupidity that plague hetero marriages and relationships.

I might also mention that I believe that the hottest places in hell are reserved for people like this…

Slain because he refused to call his mother’s lesbian lover `Daddy’ 

Four-year-old Jandre Botha disobeyed an order to call his mother’s lesbian lover "Daddy”.

So the lover, Engeline de Nysschen (33), viciously assaulted Jandre while demanding that he must call her "Daddy".

Jandre died from his injuries, which trauma expert Professor Mohammed Dada said were similar to those of a person who had fallen from a double-storey building.

Yesterday Vereeniging Regional Court magistrate Rita Willemse found De Nysschen and the mother, Hanelie Botha (31) - who did nothing to protect her child - guilty of murder.

I am pissed, angry and enraged.

This started in May 2005 in Coeur d’Alene Idaho, where the bodies of three people were found bound and beaten to death, Brenda Kay Groene, 40, her son, Slade, 13, and her boyfriend, Mark Edward McKenzie, 37.

This is bad enough, but there were two children missing, Shasta Groene, age 8 and Dylan Groene, age 10, who were believed to have been home when the murders happened.

Amber alerts and manhunts, searches and tips turned up nothing.

Then, July 2nd, an alert waitress at a Denny’s in Coeur d’Alene saw a girl she believed to be Shasta. She notified authorities and delayed their order till the police arrived. It was her.

Her brother Dylan was not with them, and is presumed dead. Investigators have found remains they believe are his in Montana. DNA tests are pending.

She was with a man named Joseph Edward Duncan, 42, who has been charged with kidnapping, and is the only suspect in the murders. Duncan is a convicted, high risk sex offender.

In 1980, when he was 16, Duncan stole several handguns in a burglary. Later that same day, he abducted a 14-year-old boy who was walking to the grocery store. He raped him a couple of times, dry fired the gun at him, beat him with a stick and burned him with cigarettes.

Duncan pleaded guilty in adult court to first-degree rape and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. On the recommendations of a Pierce County probation officer, a judge suspended the sentence and ordered Duncan to enter the sexual offender program at Western State Hospital in Steilacoom, Wash.

In 1982 after he left the hospital grounds and peeped in the windows of nearby homes, a judge revoked his suspended sentence and Duncan began serving his time in a state penitentiary.