Nine Year Old Murdered and Dismembered

Here is another case of a mother falsely trusting a family friend with the care of her children with deadly results.  This mother, probably a victim herself, being the daughter of a known sex offender, likely had no sense of how to protect her children. Often previous victims of childhood sexual abuse have no protective boundaries, and often believe they’re just being paranoid, when they have every reason to suspect the childhood sexual abuse of their own children.  Mothers, pay attention.  Your children are not safe with anyone but you.  Don’t let them spend the night with anyone of the opposite sex!  Family members, friends of the family, fathers of friends, etc. can all be child abusers.  You never know who will turn out to be one.  There’s no telling what this young child went through before she died.  God help us!

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Michael Plumadore, 39, has been accused of bludgeoning and dismembering a 9-year-old girl whose mother had the flu and had entrusted her and her six year old sisters to his care. 15 registered sex offenders lived in the trailer park where both Aliahna and Plumadore lived, which had about two dozen mobile homes, though Plumadore is not on Indiana’s registered sex offenders list himself. Plumadore does have a criminal record in Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions for trespassing and assault, and an Indiana conviction for forgery. He has also previously been to court for stalking a 13 year old girl and sending her nude photos. Plumadore was accused in November 2010 of making inappropriate phone calls and sending explicit sexual text messages and photographs to a 13-year-old girl while he was living with that girl’s father in Moravia, Iowa.

The Dec. 22 killing of Aliahna Maroney-Lemmon was shocking to family, friends, and neighbors. Relatives say they had considered Plumadore a trusted family friend. He had been caring for Aliahna and her 6-year-old sisters because their mother was sick and Aliahna’s stepfather works at night and sleeps during the day.The girl had been dead for more than 24 hours before she was reported missing two days before Christmas. Aliahna was the previous victim of a January 2010 sexual assault in which a 19-year-old man fondled her. That man later pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent contact with a child.

According to police investigations, Plumadore said that he repeatedly hit Aliahna in the head with a brick, cut up her body with a saw, hid her head, hands and feet in the trailer where he lived and dumped the rest of her remains nearby. He told authorities he stored Aliahna’s body in garbage bags in a freezer at his home until that night, when he allegedly dismembered it with a hacksaw. He was charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and removing a dead body from the scene.

The standard prison sentence for a murder conviction in Indiana is 45 years to 65 years. The other charges each carry maximum sentences of three years in prison.  Allen County Prosecutor Robyn Niedzwiecki refused to comment on the status of the investigation, or when a decision will be made on whether to seek the death penalty. Authorities have said they are still investigating the murder and awaiting autopsy results.

Sexual abuse of a child is a crime that must be reported by law.  If you know or even suspect that a child is being abused, you must report it.  Our children are depending on us.  The National Child Abuse Hotline # is 1-800-252-2873, 1-800-25ABUSE

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