Pint-Sized Predator: 9yo Charged w Rape & Attempted Murder of 5yo Girl Taken into State Custody| Crime Alert 7PM 11.17.2025

A 9yo boy appears in court charged w the rape & attempted murder of a 5yo girl with Autism. He's then hauled into state custody...while his 10yo female accomplice is on house arrest.

A fugitive sex offender's death hoax comes to a close as he's finally placed in cuffs, in another state...after almost 2-decades in hiding. Plus, a fight over a holiday bird, ends in bullets & the brass. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.
A chilling case of juvenile horror unleashed a courtroom firestorm
in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where a nine year old boy
accused of the brutal rape and attempted murder of a
defenseless five year old girl was hauled into emergency state custody.

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This was no child's play. The appalling assault on September
thirteenth in a Cleveland suburb has been described by prosecutors
as a shocking act of sadism usually reserved for adult predators.
The nonverbal victim, who has autism, was left for dead.
The victim's mom, and Tavia Kennebrew, delivered a searing plea

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in court.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
These kids did something horrible. They changed my daughter's life.
They stole her innocence, and it's time for them to
start facing the consequences of their actions.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
The dramatic hearing before Judge Kristen Sweeny saw the boy's
fragile freedom evaporate. The suspect, charged along with the ten
year old girl, watched as his attorney, Edward Borkowski, waived
his physical appearance and denied the nine felony charges, which
include attempted murder, four counts of rape, two felonious assaults, kidnapping,

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and strangulation. His fate was sealed when no legal guardian
materialized to claim him. Assistant prosecutor Anthony Bery detailed the
boy's turbulent life, marked by his father's death, a string
of evictions and safety threats, forcing the family to constantly move.
His mother was bedridden and hospitalized, and was a nose show.

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The horror show traces back to a desolate colin Wood
Field off East one hundred and forty eighth Street. Prosecutors
alleged the two suspects sweet talked the five year old
from her door step, leading her to a four hour
health The assault included stripping her naked, repeated rapes, brutal

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fist and object beatings, strangulation to blackout, and a urine
soaked degradation that also saw hair ripped out of her
scalp dumped like trash behind the Collinwood Athletic Complex. The
girl was found hours later by her mom and Tavia Cannabrew,
bloody and unresponsive, requiring an airlift and days of recovery

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in the icu Here's kennabrew again in court.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
I do not believe that these kids should be able
to return home. Their behavior that caused them to do
something so evil obviously started at home. These kids being
at home doesn't give them a chance to think about
the damage they have done to my daughter.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Judge Sweeney acted swiftly, suspending the boys previously ordered home
detention and slamming him into a locked down therapeutic residential facility,
with the judge also demanding an immediate probe by the
Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services. The ten
year old co defendant remains on house arrest with a

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GPS shackle. Both pint size defendants now face psychological evaluations
to determine if the two kids are competent to understand
the legal proceedings. They are due back in court in January.
More crime and justice news after this, a convicted Florida

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sex offender who staged his own suicide nearly two decades
ago to avoid a lifetime on the registry, was finally
dragged out of hiding, making a chilling admission to US
marshals as he was cuffed on his Indiana porch. Gary
Wayne Howard, now seventy four, was arrested in Indianapolis, ending

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a desperate sixteen year run from justice that spanned multiple states.
The fugitive Purp was originally found guilty in two thousand
and seven of twenty two counts of child pornography possession
in Panellas County, Florida. To evade his fate as a
lifetime sex offender, Howard violated his probation in twenty ten

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and just vanished. Marshalls say he orchestrated a meticulous suicide hoax,
abandoning a rental car near Mousey Lake in Morganfield, Kentucky,
to make it appear he had killed himself. Officials described
it as a deliberate attempt by Howard to stage his
own death. Despite the elaborate scheme, and arrest warrant was

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issued from Pinellas County in March of twenty eleven after
he failed to register as a sex offender. Detectives finally
tracked the fugitive to the Hoosier State after learning he
had a significant number of relatives in the area he
was relying on this stay off the grid. Surveillance led
Marshalls to a house in the Irvington neighborhood of Indianapolis.

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The moment the sex offender creep stepped out on the
front porch, agents swarmed in and hauled him in. As
he was being taken into custody, Howard reportedly offered a stark,
haunting confession to agents, stating quote, I had hoped to
be dead before you caught up with me, end quote.
Howard was booked into the Vanderberg County Jail in Indiana

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and is set for extradition back to Florida. He now
faces jail time for violating his probation and a staggering
thirty two charges of failure to register as a sex offender. Additionally,
Indiana officials planned to pursue an Adam Walsh prosecution case
against him, a federal offense for failing to register that

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protects children from sexual exploitation. And finally, the grocery aisle
turned into a gun aisle. A routine food lion run
and high Point, North Carolina, exploded into a shocking brawl
over a discount turkey, of all things, and it was
all caught on viral social media video listen. High Point

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police confirmed the turkey tussle began when customer, Mark Foy
argued with an employee about the thirty five dollars discount gobbler.
When Antonio Johnson intervened, fists flew and the battle spilled
into the parking lot, where things really got heated. Listen
to nine one one calls I'm telling them, We're telling

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it now. The clip shows Foy brandishing a gun inside,
but outside is where the foul behavior escalated. Both men
allegedly drew weapons and bullets started flying, leaving Johnson with
a non life threatening shot to the arm. Cops wasted
no time, charging both Boy and Johnson with going armed
to the terror of the public. Forget the oven, these

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two just proved that sometimes trying to bag a cheap
bird means you get stuffed in jail instead. For the
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I'm Jennifer Gould.