Protective Order Expired

[Sumanadevii]

Not that I think the Protective Order was doing anything to protect Maria but at least it was a piece of paper that said someone cared. It had expired on September 24th. It was signed on June 26th. I just feel that the military failed this little one..and I think her family did, too. She must have felt so very alone in it all.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/15/missing.marine/index.html

[Roamer]

That's very interesting. I kept hearing about an Order of Protection, but never that it had expired.

[Sumanadevii]

This article states that the police did not know Laurean's name until January 7th. HELLO WHERE WAS HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS??? Your friend/daughter has been raped is missing and you don't supply the name of her rapist to the police????????? And why did the military not share the information they had??????

Brown reacted strongly Monday to accusations police did not actively pursue Laurean as a suspect in Lauterbach's disappearance despite the rape allegation and a military protection order she took out against him in May.

A military report on the alleged rape, which Lauterbach said happened in April, did not include Laurean's name, Brown said. On Saturday, Brown said the military protection order, which expired in September, was not shared with civilian law enforcement.

"We had no reason to be on his trail," Brown said of Laurean. "This has nothing to do with the civilian world. Nothing about this had anything to do with the civilian world."

Brown said police learned Laurean's name January 7.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/14/missing.marine/index.html

[Roamer]

I don't understand how charges could have been filed if they didn't include his name?

I think civilian LE did what they were supposed to. Not at all sure about the military in this case.