This story makes me want to pull my children from the public school system. A woman who was formerly a daycare worker was convicted last Friday of kidnapping a 5-year-old girl from her classroom and raping her for a total of nineteen hours. According to the source, the former daycare worker’s name is Christina Regusters, and she is only 21-years-old. She went through extremely measures to kidnap the 5-year-old girl by wearing a Muslim dress and veil to pretend to be the girl’s mother and take her from Bryant Elementary School in January of 2013. In order for her to kidnap the little girl successfully she has to pretend to be three different people to trick the blindfolded child. The little girl was found completely naked the next morning at an abandoned playground.
During a three-week trial, the defense questioned whether or not Regusters could have committed this gruesome crime by herself. According to prosecutors, Regusters loved watching child pornography and Japanese anime involving child sexual torture. They also discovered she tried to research how to get rid of DNA evidence. “All the evidence pointed to the existence of one abductor and assailant — Regusters,” said prosecutor Erin O’Brien, according to a tweet Friday from the district attorney’s office. Christina Regusters will be sentenced on the 15th of December, 2014, and she was convicted on numerous charges including indecent deviate sexual intercourse, kidnapping, and aggravated assault. She turned down a plea deal that would have put her in jail for forty to eighty years, according to her defense attorney. The little girl said she was blindfolded and hid underneath a bed for a short period of time. She told police she could hear a bird talking, which was a key detail that led police to a potential suspect. The defense argued that the three other people inside the home would have heard the little girl screaming while she was being raped. According to the Defense attorney Fred Harrison Jr., his client was assisted by an unnamed man.
Regusters’ DNA and a trace of semen was discovered on the little girl’s shirt before she was stripped completely naked. However, other important traces of evidence was never recovered including the little girl’s backpack, pants, and the outfit the kidnapper wore to the girl’s school. The sexual toy used during the attack was also never recovered by investigators. Regusters had just moved in with her aunt in Philadelphia, after her father was sent to jail in Maryland for raping her and her younger sister. She was working at a daycare program the little girl attended after school was over with, but was home suspended the day of the abduction. School officials didn’t even the realize the little girl was missing for six hours, until it was time to go home! The little girl’s family is suing the Philadelphia School District! I don’t blame them!
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