Breaking News in the Gaddis / Pond Cases in Oregon.
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Oregon girls, Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis. It is starting to look
like there is more to this story than the parents are letting people
know. Here are the articles.
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State sheltered Miranda Gaddis
Missing Oregon City girl was removed from mother’s home in ’99
BY JIM REDDEN
The Tribune
Miranda Gaddis, one of two Oregon City girls missing since earlier
this year, was removed from the custody of her mother three years ago
and placed under state care, according to sources and court documents.
Although state juvenile records are confidential, the Tribune has
learned that all four of Michelle Duffey’s children were placed under
state care in 1999. They were returned to Duffey about two years
before Miranda disappeared March 8.
Ashley Pond, a friend of Miranda’s and also a resident of the Newell
Creek Village apartments in Oregon City, vanished from the complex on
the morning of Jan. 9. Both girls were reported missing after they
left their homes to catch a school bus.
An FBI task force that includes the Oregon City Police Department is
treating the disappearances as kidnappings.
In January 1999, Brett Edward Mcenaney, a boyfriend who had been
living with Duffey and her children, was charged with 15 counts of sex
abuse and two counts of assault.
Mcenaney, 27, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree sex abuse
and one count of first-degree criminal mischief in November 1999. He
currently is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Duffey, 34, did not return phone calls to the Tribune for comment.
Sources who asked not to be identified said Duffey’s four children
were in custody of the state Office of Services to Family and Children
for about 18 months, beginning in early 1999.
Patricia Feeny, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Human
Resources, would not confirm or deny whether the children have ever
been in state care.
As a general policy, however, the state can remove children from a
home where they are in danger. Feeny said. The children can be
returned to the home once the danger passes.
Although investigators reportedly have received more than 2,500 tips
and interviewed more than 1,000 people, there are no suspects,
according to Beth Anne Steele, a public information specialist with
the Oregon FBI office.
“It is always a possibility they ran away, but the investigators are
as sure as they can be that they are not runaways,” Steele said.
Duffey previously told the Tribune that she thinks both girls were
taken by someone they know.
“The girls know a lot of the same people,” said Duffey, adding that
daughter Miranda, 13, has known Ashley, also 13, for approximately six
years.
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Too close for comfort?
Missing Oregon City girls Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis had dangerous
men in their lives
BY JIM REDDEN
The Tribune
As the investigation into the disappearance of two Oregon City girls
nears its sixth month, law enforcement officials remain baffled. One
fact has emerged during the investigation: Both girls lived around
violent men, including their fathers.
“Dangerous criminals were always hanging around,” said a law
enforcement official who asked not to be identified.
The disappearances of Ashley Pond in early January and Miranda Gaddis
two months later are being treated as kidnappings by a task force that
includes the FBI and the Oregon City Police Department.
Beth Anne Steele, a public affairs specialist for the Portland FBI
office, said the task force is following up on a number of leads but
has no suspects.
“There’s a pool of people, both known and unknown to the girls, that
we are looking at. As some are eliminated, they are moved out of the
pool. When new ones surface, they are moved in,” Steele said.
Although Steele would not release any information about the
investigations, public records show that both girls’ biological
fathers are sex offenders who targeted members of their extended
families. In addition, a man who recently was sentenced to life in
prison for murder was a close friend of the Miranda Gaddis’ family.
Michelle Duffey, Miranda’s mother, said in a recent interview that the
three men are not suspects. She said both fathers were questioned and
cleared by investigators. The murderer was in jail when both girls
disappeared, according to court records.
The FBI’s Steele would not comment on any of the men.
“We don’t talk about who we might be looking at,” she said.
Dangerous men
Court records and interviews revealed the following.
Ashley’s father, Wesley Joseph Roettger, was arrested and charged in
January 2001 with 41 sex abuse counts involving a young girl over a
period of many years, according to Clackamas County court records. As
part of a plea bargain agreement, he pleaded no contest last October
to one charge of attempted sexual molestation.
Court records say prosecutors allowed Roettger to plea bargain after
his attorney threatened to introduce evidence at the trial that would
have seriously weakened the state’s case.
Roettger, 35, was sentenced to 11 months’ probation, required to
register as a sex offender and prohibited from having any contact with
the Pond family. He was living in Clackamas County when Ashley
disappeared.
Lori Pond, Ashley’s mother, did not respond to mail and telephone
attempts by the Tribune to contact her for comment. The Tribune was
unable to reach Roettger.
Miranda’s father, Jason Richard Gaddis, was found guilty of sex crimes
against two young girls in February 1995. Clackamas County court
records show he was convicted of kidnapping and sexually abusing a
12-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl. Gaddis, 35, was sentenced to
six months in prison and 54 years of post-release supervision.
Michelle Duffey divorced Gaddis nine months after he was convicted.
She and the two victims took out restraining orders against him when
he was released from prison.
Jason Gaddis was living in Clackamas County when Ashley disappeared
and was in jail, where he remains, on a probation violation charge
when his own daughter vanished. The Tribune was unable to reach Gaddis
for comment.
Brian David Daniel, 27, a man Duffey describes as a longtime friend of
her family, was sentenced to life in prison May 23 for aggravated
murder and first-degree kidnapping for the April 2000 death of a
Portland man, Kazuhiro Jitsumiya. He pleaded guilty to the crimes in
January.
According to court records, Daniel was convicted of assault in 1998
and statutory rape in 1999. After being released from prison — where
authorities said he had become a white supremacist — Daniel moved to
the Oregon City area and met Michelle Duffey and her children.
“He was around all the time,” Duffey said of Daniel.
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Kris Baker
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>These two articles are copied from one of the sites about the missing
>Oregon girls, Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis. It is starting to look
>like there is more to this story than the parents are letting people
>know. Here are the articles.
>
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>State sheltered Miranda Gaddis
>Missing Oregon City girl was removed from mother’s home in ’99
>
>BY JIM REDDEN
>The Tribune
>
>Miranda Gaddis, one of two Oregon City girls missing since earlier
>this year, was removed from the custody of her mother three years ago
>and placed under state care, according to sources and court documents.
>
>Although state juvenile records are confidential, the Tribune has
>learned that all four of Michelle Duffey’s children were placed under
>state care in 1999. They were returned to Duffey about two years
>before Miranda disappeared March 8.
Thanks.
It's not surprising, though. The mothers of both Ashley and Miranda
had been involved with ex-cons, and that apartment complex was ....
uh... filled with not the most "savory" of characters.
I'm surprised there hasn't been another disappearance from that
precise area.
Kris
tiny dancer
"Kris Baker" <kris....@prodigyy.net> wrote in message
news:HdHP8.2138$bm.87...@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com...
Certainly gives one some 'food for thought' on these girls disappearance. I
can't imagine exposing my children to these kinds of men.
td
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RB
think that there is a VERY good possibility that however kidnapped
Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis may also have been responsible for the
kidnap-murders of three teenage girls from Spotsylvania, Virginia.
Just like Ashley and Miranda, the Virginia girls (Sofia Silva and
sisters Kristin and Kati Lisk) had brown hair, brown eyes and were
pretty. The events surrounding their kidnappings is also similiar to
Ashley and Miranda. The three Virginia girls were taken within a few
yards from their homes, but in their case it was right after getting
home from school. Go to http://www.angelfire.com/va2/kkscases for more
info.
Victorhntr
their children. I wonder if they were on welfare.
Threnody
> A couple of skanky single mothers shacking up with bums in the same
> home as their children. I wonder if they were on welfare.
Or, alternatively:
A couple of violent, good-for-nothing bums feeding off the
affections, money and good will of mothers and their families. I wonder
if the bums told the women about their criminal histories.
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