Missing Girl Found Buried Alive

CNN) -- Police found an 8-year-old Florida girl buried alive in an abandoned landfill Sunday morning, hours after she was reported abducted, according to officials in Lake Worth.

Searchers found the girl inside a yellow recycling bin which was inside a 30-foot dumpster.

"There was a yellow recycling bin and the lid was flipped open," said Lake Worth Police Sgt. Mike Hall. "And inside the dumpster was a pile of rocks, boulders. And you could see a hand in there."

The girl had minor injuries and was taken to a hospital, Police Chief William Smith said.

Smith said authorities had a suspect in custody whom the girl identified as her attacker.

The 17-year-old suspect, Smith said, called in a false abduction report before 4 a.m. ET, describing the girl's alleged abductors and the car they supposedly drove.

"That is bogus," Smith said. "It did not occur."

"We believe it was a sexual assault and possible attempted murder," FBI Special Agent Mike Driscoll said.

Because investigators saw inconsistencies in the 17-year-old's story, they kept him close at hand.

Smith said it was clear from where the girl was found -- and how -- that whoever put her there did not expect her to survive.

"The suspect began as a person of interest, and now he is being charged with this crime," Driscoll added. "He intended to leave her there, and she wasn't going to get out of the situation."

Lake Worth is about 60 miles north of Miami.

I wish somebody would hire me as a criminal beater. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] I hate reading about this, i hate hearing about it, i hope that boy has fun in prison. They love young child molesters to death.

One reason i could never be a prison guard, i would end up dead.

17 years old....juvey...not the big house

what is the scenario if the court pushes the trial back til the boy turns 18? you can't send him to juvy then.

Guarantee they wil ltry him as an adult...so he will be going to the big house

Anymore these idiots in the judicial system just give them a few days or years and then they are right back out doing it all over again and sometimes even worse than the first time...Anyone who harms a child should have to face their parents or if it is the parents lets someone who has had their child harmed ahold of them for a few hours...If they kill them just think of the money it saves us taxpayers.

i dont think they will even get to prosectue the "attempted murder" angle...don't know what the next step down is (maybe battery??...along with the sexual offense of course) but i really dont think dude winds up being tried as an adult, prob cut a deal and be sent to juvey

According to CNN he will be tried as an adult.

Girl found alive in landfill...Accuser to be tried as adult

You have got to be kidding me? Attempted murder and sexual battery. Thats going to get him tried as an adult.

They would try a 15-year old as an adult in the same situation.
No prosecutor would attempt anything less - they like having jobs.

Speaking of buried alive, anyone else watch the CSI season finale last Thursday? Awesome epidsode!

There is no way they wouldn't try him as an adult, for most points and purposes he is already....

CSI was the BOMB last week, phone was off, internet was off, it had my total attention....

It was great. Tarantino should direct more CSI episodes. I saw him on Conan promoting the episode. It's his favorite show.