So why was this pervert given any visitation rights, especially with children this young and defenseless? We keep getting told that there are all these poor daddies being persecuted and kept from their kids. It seems to me that there are quite a few dads who NEED to be kept from their kids.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091204/NEWS/912040361/-1/NEWS
Accused father showed no emotion, investigator testifies
Times Herald-Record/MICHELE HASKELL
By Victor Whitman
Times Herald-Record
Posted: December 04, 2009 - 2:00 AM
MONTICELLO — The father accused of sexually abusing then leaving his 7-month-old daughter to die in the woods near Walmart on July 4 made incriminating comments to police even as they were still searching for his child, an investigator said Wednesday in court.
State police Investigator Brian Webster said that Cory Clarke showed no emotion while police were frantically searching for his baby and during a six-hour interview that night. He refused to submit a DNA sample and allow investigators to search his Mill Street home in Monticello. Police had to get a court order.
And Webster said when he informed Clarke that his baby had been found alive, Clarke flatly said, "Oh, that's good."
Clarke, 27, who appeared for a pretrial hearing, is charged with second-degree attempted murder, first-degree criminal sexual act, first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree incest and second-degree assault, among other charges.
Police say he sexually abused the child, then left her in the woods on Lanahan Road about a 150 yards from Walmart. She was reported missing around 12:30 p.m. and found five hours later face down in the mud in tall grass near an abandoned bungalow, wearing only a top.
Webster said that Clarke's story was consistent throughout the day. He reported that his baby was snatched from a double stroller. She was strapped in the back seat, and her brother was in the front seat. Clarke claimed he stopped in front of the McDonald's in the store and gave his daughter a bottle and then closed the visor. He said he stopped to purchase a teething ring and went to the bathroom, where he noticed she was missing.
Webster said the store's surveillance tape revealed that Clarke never stopped to give a bottle. He did purchase a teething ring and then went to the bathroom. The surveillance tape could not determine if the girl was in the stroller when he entered the Walmart because the visor was down, Webster said.
Officers were immediately suspicious because Clarke said the stroller was never out of his arm's length and he claimed that the girl was buckled in the entire time, making an abduction nearly impossible.
"He agreed it would be very difficult to accomplish," Webster said. "He said, 'maybe she didn't make it to Walmart.' I said, 'where is she?' He said, 'I don't know.'"
