Anthony Kirkland, Ohio Serial Killer, Sentenced To Death

[Ricks2524]

The man accused of killing 13-year-old Esme Kenney while she was jogging in her Winton Hills neighborhood Saturday has killed before.

 In addition, Anthony Kirkland, 40, was expelled last month from a sex offender program where he was serving a parole term on a separate sex crime, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

Cincinnati Enquire News Story Here

I hope this is in the correct forum

[Michael]

I think so Ricks, but the question is why they release a man with such a history?

Michael

[Hutchsmash]

What I am wondering is this, if he was in a sex offender program as part of his parole program, why was his parole not revoked when he was kicked from the program?  If it would have been that poor girl would still be alive today. 

[Granny B]

People who should have known what was going on, fell down on their jobs.

That's why Brandon is dead too!  Child Welfare did not do their job.  Just like the people over the sex offender program that kicked him out, probably failed to report him to probation, or probation got the report and just did not go pick his ass up to go back to jail.  Take your pick!  6 of 1 or a half dozen of the other.

[Michael]

Sometimes I have the feeling that the people who work as parole officers are not serious enough and innocents have to pay the price.

Michael

[Granny B]

Sometimes I have the feeling that the people who work as parole officers are not serious enough and innocents have to pay the price.

Michael

It's not all the parole officers either Michael.  Sometimes they re-arrest them for violations of their parole and soft liberal judge will refuse to remand them back to prison.  A few tears from these conning jerks and a false promise to follow probationary rules can get them back out the door of the courthouse pretty quickly sometimes.

These guys are good at conning people.  It is how they live.  They work at making people TRUST THEM.  Like Dr. Tanner said in his lecture.  "How do you know if a sex offender is lying?" Answer. "His lips are moving."

[Ricks2524]

Only in Cincinnati where they voted to pay for a football stadum of a team that couldn't win a game if they were spotted 21 pts, and vote down the need for more jails and law enforcement. But the future is bright, they're mayor (Mallery) wants to spend millions on a cable car system that tours the most crime ridden part of town.

[vikkiw47]

RICK NOW THAT IS MESSED UP!! WHEN HE WAS KICKED OUT OF THE PROGRAM HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ARESESTED RIGHT THERE ON THE SPOT IN MY OPINION. IT ALSO SOUNDS AS IF HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER GOTTEN OUT TO BEGIN WITH .VERY VERY SAD THAT THIS POOR CHILD HAD TO PAY THE PRICE FOR SOMEONES ELSE STUPIDITY

[Michael]

@ GoB - thanks for this information. A judge/parole officer should be responsible if he made a wrong decision, maybe they´ll be a bit more careful during they consider a case. In my eyes there´s no discussion if a rule is broken - rule is rule. It´s  like you´re caught during speeding, 10 miles to fast is 10 miles to fast, no discussion.

@Ricks
Unfortunately it seems to be a tradition that politicans want they´re place in history books. It´s easier to get this place if you build something than making good politics.

Michael

[Granny B]

@ GoB - thanks for this information. A judge/parole officer should be responsible if he made a wrong decision, maybe they´ll be a bit more careful during they consider a case. In my eyes there´s no discussion if a rule is broken - rule is rule. It´s  like you´re caught during speeding, 10 miles to fast is 10 miles to fast, no discussion.

@Ricks
Unfortunately it seems to be a tradition that politicans want they´re place in history books. It´s easier to get this place if you build something than making good politics.

Michael

Michael, we are not allowed to sue a judge for his decision in court, whether it turns out he was right or wrong.  It is just not allowed by law.  We just have to hope the judge has ours, and the public's best interests at heart.  I have one judge here who is a softy on domestic violence abusers.  I have gottten so angry with him that I quit going to court.  I was afraid I was going to stand up and say something to him during court, because I personally disagree with his stance and his stupidity in being obviously conned by abusers.   With my luck he would send me to jail, though he almost always refuses to send the damned abusers to jail and sets very low bail on them no matter how dangerous they are to the victims.

I don't know if a Parole Officer can be sued for their job either.  I have one who is a friend.  I will ask her.

[Hutchsmash]

I believe if the party that initiates the suit can prove that the parole officer was negligent in the completion of his/her duties, and that this negligence lead to the death/rape/ or whatever instance the lawsuit is over then yeah the officer can be held accountable.  I remember a few years back in Colorado a social worker was sued by a parent who's child died in foster care.  The social worker was falsifying records of visits to the home and this was the basis for a successful lawsuit.  I'll try and find the specific case.

[Ricks2524]

Now hes a possible suspect in 3 more killing of young girls

Cincinnati Enquire Story

This one I'll be looking foward to

[Michael]

Oh no... these parole officer make such an important job, they must be careful. The main target must be to save the public and no to defend the criminal.

Michael

[JeffB]

Now hes a possible suspect in 3 more killing of young girls

See?  Another child murdering, pedophile freak from Ohio...     Perhaps if one visits that State, he/she shouldn't drink the water...   

[Ricks2524]

More info on this scum.

May 20, 1987 - Anthony Kirkland, then 18, chokes and beats Leola Douglas, 28, after an argument in his Walnut Hills home. He then douses her with lighter fluid and sets her on fire, killing her. He is convicted of voluntary manslaughter and serves 16 years in prison.
 
Sept. 3, 2003 - Released from prison.
Oct. 25, 2004 - Released from parole.

Jan. 25, 2005 - Accused of raping a female neighbor in Evanston at knifepoint. A jury acquits him in October 2005.

May 11, 2006 - The burned body of 14-year-old Casonya "Sharee" Crawford is found off Blair Avenue in Avondale. Kirkland now is a suspect in that homicide.

June 16, 2006 - The burned body of Mary Jo Newton, 45, is found behind a vacant building in the 700 block of Wehrman Avenue in Avondale. Kirkland now is a suspect in that homicide.

May 14, 2007 - Kirkland threatens to kill his 18-month-old son during a SWAT standoff at Kirkland's house at 860 Ridgeway Ave. He is convicted three months later of two counts of unlawful restraint and sentenced to 115 days in jail.

Sept. 17, 2007 - The Rev. Walter Bledsoe seeks a restraining order against Kirkland on behalf of members of the Bledsoe family. Court records do not say why he sought the order, but a judge granted it in December 2007, ordering Kirkland to stay away from the Bledsoes.

Sept. 26, 2007 - Kirkland solicits sex from his girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter. He is convicted in March 2008 of importuning and sentenced to one year in prison. The judge designates him a sex offender, requiring him to register his address with the sheriff's office.

Oct. 20, 2008 - He is released from prison for the importuning case and ordered to spend five years on parole. He enters the Pogue Rehabilitation Center, a halfway house in Over-the-Rhine run by Volunteers of America.

Feb. 27, 2009 - Kirkland fights with another halfway house resident at 11:30 p.m. Police are called, but Kirkland is not arrested because the other man refuses to press charges. Halfway house managers throw Kirkland out for breaking the rules by fighting, but they do not notify his parole officer for two days. Kirkland does not immediately register a new address with the sheriff as required by law.

March 1, 2009 - Kirkland is accused of breaking into 860 Ridgeway Ave., hiding in the bathroom and attacking Frederick Hughes with scissors. Hughes suffers at least 10 stab wounds but survives. Kirkland flees. A warrant is issued for his arrest on charges of aggravated burglary and felonious assault.

March 2, 2009 - Kirkland's parole officer is notified of his release from the halfway house and begins looking for him.

March 4, 2009 - A second warrant is issued for Kirkland's arrest because he failed to register his address with the sheriff after his release from the halfway house.

March 5, 2009 - Kirkland is accused of threatening Roberta Baldwin, the mother of his child, with a knife. He flees and another warrant is filed against him on charges of domestic violence, aggravated menacing and violation of a protection order.

March 8, 2009:

3:45 p.m. - Esme Kenney, 13, goes for a jog near her house in Winton Hills.

4:15 p.m. - Esme's parents call police when their daughter is late returning home. Police begin looking for her.

11:30 p.m. - Police find Kirkland sleeping against a tree in the woods near Esme's house. Her watch and iPod are in his pocket, police say.

March 9, 2009 - Police find Esme's body in the woods at 3:10 a.m., about 100 yards from where they found Kirkland sleeping. She was strangled and the lower part of her body burned. Authorities say her attacker attempted to sexually assault her. Police arrest Kirkland and charge him with murder.