SOMER RENEE THOMPSON - 7 yo (2009) - Clay County FL

Thus comes to an end this horrific tale of the "Monster in the Neighborhood". They are out there, caregivers. They lurk, creep and fantasize. Some, like this asshat, follow through on their fantasies.

Sadly this nightmare will never be OVER for Somer's family. They will ache for a child's life snuffed out way too long before she had a chance to do so many things.

We can only hope that this perp will be so tortured by his fellow inmates that his demise will come swiftly either by his own hand, or theirs.

Diena Thompson's and the rest of her family's words to the court were heart wrenching.

Diena Thompson would not acquiesce to the plea until the POS agreed to not appeal his sentence. A wise woman.

Her behavior and the way she handled this whole ordeal are polar opposites to the Ant Farm's behavior.

A class act in the face of an adversity incomprehensible to most of us.

JMO.

I cried listening to the family members, especially the precious little twin boy.

I just can't comprehend the evil in so many people.

Diena Thompson: Life will never be the same

Jarred Harrell pleaded guilty to killing 7-year-old to avoid death penalty


Published On: Feb 10 2012 12:57:49 PM EST
Updated On: Feb 10 2012 06:35:00 PM EST

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -
For the first time since Jarred Harrell pleaded
guilty to killing 7-year-old Somer Thompson, Diena Thompson talks about
her agonizing decision to agree to a sentence that would allow "the
monster" to avoid the death penalty so she can stay strong for her other
children.
One week ago, Harrell pleaded guilty to charges he
kidnapped, raped and murdered Somer, and to unrelated charges of sexual
assault and child pornography, and he agreed to be sentenced to six life
terms plus 35 years. The plea agreement spared Harrell the death
penalty.
Thompson said Friday that while she feels Harrell is evil
and deserves to die, she signed off on the deal prosecutors made with
Harrell because the agreement stipulated that he would not appeal any of
his convictions.


"I really had to take into account my other children and
what this could mean for them," Thompson said. "I wanted to fight him
tooth-and-nail -- Somer's mommy, Diena, does. But my other kids' mom
says we need to protect them. Somer, I can't do anything else -- he took
her from us. I can still help the other ones."
Thompson said Somer's twin, Samuel, made his own decision to address in court the man he calls "the monster."
"When
he saw everyone up there he said, 'Mommy, I want to get up there.' And I
said, 'You get up there and tell him what you want to tell him, and he
just made me so proud."
Somer was a first-grader living in Orange
Park when she disappeared while walking home from school on Oct. 19,
2009. She was with her older sister, twin brother and some friends, but
ran ahead of them after they had a spat.
It was a route she had
taken many times before, and she often stopped at a home to pet a white
dog. Usually, no one came outside. On the day Somer disappeared,
authorities said Harrell lured her into the home.
UNCUT: Diena Thompson's news conference | SPECIAL SECTION: Justice For Somer
Clay
County Sheriff Rick Beseler said Harrell had raped and asphyxiated
Somer and dumped her body in a commercial trash bin in Fleming Island by
the time her mother flagged down a deputy to report her missing.

Harrell wasn't arrested for months, and then only on child
pornography charges. He wasn't indicted for Somer Thompson's murder
until five months after her death, then waived his appearance in court
for the next 18 months when he agreed to plead guilty and accept
sentencing.
Asked how she has remains strong during those two
years, Thompson said: "I don't have any other choice. It's either stand
up and fight or lay down and die. This is my world right now and this
is what I have to live with."
Thompson said she was given some
insight into the investigation along the way -- including that they were
investigating a child pornographer whose computer was seized two months
before Somer was killed -- she is hoping more of her questions about
the case will be answered when evidence in the case is released, which
could happen as early as next week.
"I would like to know how did
he get her in the house. What did he say to her? There are so many
unanswered questions," Thompson said.
Thompson said she plans to
continue working with police to get child pornographers off the street,
and use her influence to help convince lawmakers to adequately fund
those efforts.
"Child pornography is one of the worst pandemics in
this country, and we know that these pornographers are going to hurt
other children," Thompson said. "So if we don't start going after them,
they're going to pluck off our children one by one."
http://www.news4jax.com/news/Diena-Thompson-Life-will-never-be-the-same/-/475880/8627126/-/rtea2i/-/

Jarred Harrell tells a harrowing, changing tale of killing and attempting to rape 7-year-old Somer Thompson in video released by authorities Thursday among thousands of pages of records in the 2009 slaying.

Harrell, then 24, initially told Clay County detectives he blocked memories from the day he killed the girl. But more than 90 minutes after the start of questioning, Harrell admits he tried to sexually assault the child after she was dead. He gave details about the sex attack after detectives told him they found DNA on her body.

“Something happened that we haven’t talked about yet,” a detective says. “Maybe it was something that you’ve put out of your mind and put in a box and put away. But right now, while we’re talking and we can do something to explain it, we need to get it out of the box and look at it and figure out what it is.”

Moments later, Harrell admitted to removing the clothes from Somer’s lifeless body.

“Honestly, I didn’t remember this until now,” Harrell says.

Read: Court documents released Feb. 3, 2012

Harrell, appearing mild-mannered when talking with detectives about the slaying, wept with his mother, who spent about 15 minutes alone with him in the middle of the interview. He rubbed his face periodically and slumped on a sofa in the small interview room. In one of the stranger moments, Harrell, while alone, snapped his wrists with handcuffs that had previously been removed.

Harrell is serving life in prison after being convicted Feb. 3 of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery and lewd and lascivious conduct.

Harrell initially told detectives he was in his mother’s Gano Avenue home on Oct. 19, 2009, when Somer somehow appeared in a doorway of his home looking for his dog. She started getting nervous and began screaming.

Harrell said he smothered Somer by holding one hand over her mouth and the other behind her head, which he demonstrated for detectives Ken West and Stephen Coyne. He said it occurred in the kitchen.

“She kind of went limp,” he told them in a small room at the Clay County Sheriff’s Office. “So I started to panic.”

He tells detectives how he put Somer in a large plastic box and drove her body to the rear of Fleming Island’s Beauty and the Beef restaurant, where he used to work and left her in a Dumpster. The garbage was hauled away the next day.

Harrell doesn’t initially talk about attempting to rape Somer. But about 40 minutes into the interview, he begins to add more to the story.

“Is it possible you moved her clothes to be able to see some stuff before you put her in the box?” one detective asked.

“I didn’t do it purposely and if it’s something more than that, I’ve blocked that out,” Harrell said.

He said he later returned home after a massive search had begun. He remembered seeing people with flashlights and inquired about the activity as if he didn’t know what had happened.

“I had asked them what all the commotion was and they said a little girl went missing,” Harrell said.

The interview in the video was done in February 2010 after detectives returned to Clay County with Harrell, who was arrested in Mississippi on unrelated child-pornography charges.

When he was arrested in a CVS drugstore parking lot in Meridian, detectives talked with Harrell about links they had between him and Somer and asked how he would rate himself on a scale of one to 10 with 10 equating a monster.

“I am going to be a 10,” he told them.

In his confession, Harrell wondered if he could get help with his child-pornography fixation.

“I want to get help, but I don’t know if I can do it under the guise of Somer,” he said.

DNA swabs taken from Somer’s body matched samples of Harrell’s DNA profile while eliminating 89 percent of the remaining population, new state attorney records show. Eleven other people investigators thought could be connected to the case were eliminated by the DNA findings.

Following Somer’s disappearance, friends of Harrell said he began acting strangely. He lost weight, became reclusive and began growing facial hair, they told investigators.

Harrell also was prone to off-color sex-laced jokes about children and was known to say “I am not afraid to steal a child,” when he saw one, the documents said.

In another he asks and answers: “What is worse than finding 10 babies in one trash bin? One baby in 10 trash bins.”

Somer disappeared on the way home from Grove Park Elementary School in Orange Park after running off from her siblings. Among tips detailed in the documents was that Somer often stopped by the Gano home on her way home from school to pet a large white dog. Harrell said his family did own such a dog, which was taken to their new home when they moved to Callahan two days before Somer went missing.

Harrell tells the detectives Somer simply appeared in his home asking about his dog, and it’s not something he planned.

Near the end of his confession, Harrell asks one of the detectives if they are going to talk with Somer’s mother, Diena Thompson. The detective told him they would.

“Can you just tell her that I really am sorry. It’s not a regretful thing, it’s a remorseful thing. I really am sorry that it happened. I know I’m going through some rough times, but I can’t imagine what she was going through. I never had a kid, so I don’t know what that kind of bond is like.”

Clay investigators met with Thompson this week before releasing the records. She could not be reached for comment Thursday.

The detective and Harrell talk a little more about mothers and kids and then his partner walks into the room to help take Harrell away.

“We’re just talking life,” Harrell said.

http://m.jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012-03-01/story/jarred-harrells-story-police-about-how-he-killed-somer-thompson-changed

Low life necrophiliac pedophile.