Ebony Dorsey, 14 [Murdered - Suspect in custody] from Philadelphia Since Dec. 6, 2007

[Grande]

Massive Search For Missing Teen

Last Edited: Saturday, 08 Dec 2007, 10:50 PM EST
Created: Saturday, 08 Dec 2007, 9:50 PM EST

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“I just want my daughter back," says Evan Dorsey.

For right now, there is no consoling this father whose only child disappeared three days ago. "She’s the most important person in my life."

Evan Dorsey’s daughter, 14-year-old Ebony, was last seen Thursday night around 10:30pm at her house. There’s been no sign of her since.

“It’s very suspicious," says Chief Mark Smith.

Police believe Ebony was last seen that night by her mother's boyfriend, 48-year-old Mark O' Donnell.

The 14-year-old was allegedly watching his young daughter at her and her mother's home. Later on that night, cops say O'Donnell asked Ebony to come to his house to continue watching the little girl.

But Friday morning, the honor roll student and aspiring model didn’t show up for class at Wissahickon High School.

“It doesn’t sound right at all. I fear that his purpose for requesting her to go to his apartment could have been for more sorted means,” says Ebony's father.

Detectives also believe something just isn’t right, which is why O'Donnell has been labeled “a person of interest in this case" and his car was been taken in for processing. “We don’t know if she got there or not. That’s the last time anyone has seen her.”

So as police process for clues, this father is left processing his baby girl’s mysterious disappearance and is left praying that she’ll come home. "I’m putting my faith in God to intervene in the hopes that my daughter will be returned alive and well."

Police say the teen was last seen wearing a pink top, white pajama pants, and a tan jacket. If you have any information about her whereabouts, please call police.

By Nefertiti Jaquez

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5164248&version=4&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

[Kaylynn]

Hey Grande! I was kind of wondering where you went:happy0207:

WHITPAIN TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS 3) ― Police in Montgomery County are looking for a teenager who has been missing for two days. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance are still unclear but the search to find her is underway.

14-year-old Ebony Nicole Dorsey was last seen around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 6th.

On Saturday Ebony's family prayed for her safe return, holding out hope as the hours pass.

"As her father I have to cling to some type of hope. I don't want to quit on my daughter," said her father Evan Dorsey.

The ninth grade honor student was last seen getting into a gold Toyota Camry Thursday night with 48-year-old Mark O'Donnell and his four-year-old daughter. Ebony was supposed to be babysitting at O'Donnell's Plymouth Township Apartment.

When police questioned O'Donnell early Saturday morning he told them that he dropped Ebony at her home on Maple Avenue in Whitpain at 6 a.m. Friday.

"She didn't reach school. She didn't meet at the bus stop, very uncharacteristic of her," Uncle Matthew DelConte said.

Now police cannot locate O'Donnell either who is considered a person of interest in the case.

"His whereabouts right now are unknown. We did speak with him briefly a couple of times," Whitpain Township Police Chief Mark Smith said.

Authorities hauled off a plastic trash bag from the family's home Saturday night hoping that they may find some clues to the disappearance.

Ebony's father said she would call him faithfully on her cell phone but said the last time he heard her voicemail Thursday afternoon.

Meanwhile, Ebony's family and police continue to search for the missing teen hoping for her safe return. Anyone with information is urged to call Witpain Township Police.
Link includes video:
http://cbs3.com/topstories/Ebony.Nicole.Dorsey.2.606974.html

[Grande]

Kaylynn! YES, you made it.

Glad to see you and thanks for the update. Now you know where to find me... :happy0158:

[Grande]

Authorities say body may be that of missing 14-year-old girl

(AP)
Radio and television reports say Montgomery County authorities are questioning a person in connection with the search for a missing ninth-grade honors student.

First Assistant District Attorney Risa Ferman says authorities searching for 14-year-old Ebony Dorsey found a body Sunday that may be that of the missing Ambler girl.

Ferman says clothing on the body found in a plastic container outside a Whitpain Township home is consistent with what the ninth-grader was wearing.

The Wissahickon High School freshman was last seen by her mother at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, when the girl left to baby-sit for a man who was a friend of the family. Police have been looking for him.

An autopsy was being done Sunday night and a news conference is expected Monday.

http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=275646

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[Kaylynn]

I think I heard that there is a news conference scheduled for this afternoon regarding her..does anyone know what time?

[gibbrishclown]

Oh no :(

[hinman]

I hate to hear this. Another innocent child hurt for mo reason.

[Grande]

:mad:

Pa. man accused of killing girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter
Associated Press

Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 at 12:06 pm
BLUE BELL, Pa. – A Plymouth Meeting man has been charged with homicide in the death of a missing ninth-grade honors student.

Prosecutors are accusing 48-year-old Mark O'Donnell of beating and strangling Ebony Dorsey (:1222423:). O'Donnell was dating Dorsey's mother.

Dorsey's body was found Sunday in a plastic container outside a Whitpain Township home. Authorities say she was raped and killed early Friday morning.

The Wissahickon High School freshman was last seen by her mother at 10:30 p.m. Thursday.

O'Donnell is in custody and awaiting arraignment on a homicide charge.

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071210/NEWS/71210030/-1/frontpage

[Grande]

Police: Man killed mistress' teen daughter after smoking crack

Last Update: 2:26 pm

BLUE BELL, Pa. (AP) - A Montgomery County man is now charged with homicide in the death and sexual assault of a missing ninth-grade honors student.

Prosecutors say 48-year-old Mark O'Donnell of Plymouth Meeting beat and strangled 14-year-old Ebony Dorsey after the teenager baby-sat for his own 4-year-old daughter on Thursday evening.

The Wissahickon High School freshman was last seen by her mother at 10:30 p.m. Thursday.

O'Donnell was dating Dorsey's mother and had spent the night at her home smoking crack.

Dorsey's body was found Sunday in a plastic container outside the Whitpain Township home of a relative of O'Donnell's. Officials say the teenager was raped and strangled early Friday morning.

O'Donnell is in custody and awaiting arraignment on charges of murder, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse and abuse of a corpse, among other counts.

http://www.whptv.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=174cd8e7-9949-4ac2-ba24-cfa1ade9f6db

[Sumanadevii]

I don't even have words for this....:mad:


http://www.myfoxphilly.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5169938&version=13&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

[gibbrishclown]

He did it in front of his daughter too... I just can't fathom- don't want to though, it's so horrific.




Is it a crime to just make bunk and toxic crack and say... leave it lie around for some fiends to happen upon?

[slaphappy]

What a bright spot Ebony was. Amidst the chaos and crack that surrounded her short life, she was an honor student. Imagine if this young lady hadn't been murdered. My goodness what she could have accomplished.

What a huge void this murderer has left in this world.

[Kaylynn]

:1222423: For Ebony, her family, and her friends who loved her so much.
:(

[4thekids]

Police: Man killed mistress' teen daughter after smoking crack

Last Update: 2:26 pm

BLUE BELL, Pa. (AP) - A Montgomery County man is now charged with homicide in the death and sexual assault of a missing ninth-grade honors student.

Prosecutors say 48-year-old Mark O'Donnell of Plymouth Meeting beat and strangled 14-year-old Ebony Dorsey after the teenager baby-sat for his own 4-year-old daughter on Thursday evening.

The Wissahickon High School freshman was last seen by her mother at 10:30 p.m. Thursday.

O'Donnell was dating Dorsey's mother and had spent the night at her home smoking crack.

Dorsey's body was found Sunday in a plastic container outside the Whitpain Township home of a relative of O'Donnell's. Officials say the teenager was raped and strangled early Friday morning.

O'Donnell is in custody and awaiting arraignment on charges of murder, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse and abuse of a corpse, among other counts.

http://www.whptv.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=174cd8e7-9949-4ac2-ba24-cfa1ade9f6db

How awful Grande. IMO some women nowadays allow their bfs too much involvement with their children. They have no fear until it's too late.

I raised mine on my own (after divorcing) and never allowed a SO that type of freedom.

[Grande]

Teen's Accused Killer Goes On Trial
UPDATED: 4:21 pm EDT May 27, 2008

The trial began Tuesday for the man accused of killing a 14-year-old girl in Montgomery County last December.

Mark O'Donnell allegedly raped and strangled Ebony Dorsey, his girlfriend's daughter, at his Plymouth Meeting apartment while she was baby-sitting his young daughter.

According to court documents, O'Donnell was smoking crack at Dorsey's mother's home before returning to his apartment and slaying Dorsey in a drug-induced rage.

Dorsey's body was later found stuffed in a plastic storage container on one of his relative's properties.

"I'm sorry because she knows I loved her," O'Donnell said in front of news cameras when he was arrested at the end of 2007.

Danielle Cattie, Dorsey's mother, took the stand Tuesday to talk about the couple's drug use.

O'Donnell could have more trouble ahead.

A search warrant unsealed earlier this week named O'Donnell as a suspect in the killings of three people in Philadelphia who were shot to death two years ago.

Police are now comparing O'Donnell's DNA with a sample found at that scene.

http://www.nbc10.com/news/16401280/detail.html

[Grande]

O'Donnell admits to killing Dorsey girl
By Margaret Gibbons, For the Colonial
05/28/2008

Plymouth resident Mark Patrick O'Donnell, accused of sexually assaulting and murdering his now-ex-lover's 14-year-old daughter last December, admits he killed the Wissahickon High School freshman, according to his attorney.

But his client is not a cold-blooded murderer that prosecutors maintain he is, according to defense attorney Thomas C. Egan III.

"He just lost it," said Egan, noting that his client was high on cocaine that he shared with Ebony Dorsey's mother, Danielle Cattie, just prior to the slaying.
And O'Donnell never had sex with the young honors student, Egan said.
Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Samantha L. R. Cauffman, who is prosecuting the case with First Assistant District Attorney Kevin R. Steele, said there is a darker side to O'Donnell.

O'Donnell "thrived on sex, drugs and pornography" and these are what led to Dorsey's beating-strangulation death, Cauffman said.

The comments came Tuesday during the first day of O'Donnell's trial before Judge William J. Furber. The judge, at O'Donnell's request, is hearing the case without a jury.

Forty-eight-year-old O'Donnell, a former nurse by profession, is charged with first-, second- and third-degree murder, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and other sex- and drug-related charges.

If the judge convicts O'Donnell of first-degree murder, the prosecution will seek the death penalty against him.

One of the first witnesses against O'Donnell was Cattie, whom Cauffman admitted "is not the poster child for the world's greatest mother."
Cattie said she had considered O'Donnell, who was estranged from his wife, as her "boyfriend" for about two and a half years until the killing of her daughter last Dec. 7.

Cattie, who showed little emotion during her approximate 90 minutes of testimony, described her relationship with O'Donnell as primarily sexual in nature and often fueled by the use of drugs.

During her testimony, the 35-year-old Cattie gave graphic details of her own sex life with O'Donnell. This included viewing pornographic movies and using sex toys that both of them bought.

She testified that while, on occasion they would have regular sex or oral sex, O'Donnell preferred to have anal sex with her. When she balked at having anal sex, "he would force me," according to Cattie.

The prosecution has contended that the autopsy will show that Dorsey was a victim of forcible anal sex when she was killed.

Asked why she stayed with him when he forced her to have anal sex, Cattie responded, "Because I loved him."

"I did drugs because I felt it was a way I could stay closer to Mark, not because I needed them," Cattie responded to another of the prosecution's questions.

However, Egan pointed out that Cattie had a prior drug conviction in the late 1990s.

Also under questioning by Egan, Cattie admitted that the first time she had sex with O'Donnell was in a van where, in front of his friends, she performed oral sex on him.

Asked why, Cattie responded, "Because I wanted to."

No one disputes the fact that O'Donnell took Dorsey back to his apartment on the night of last Dec. 6 to baby-sit his 4-year-old daughter. O'Donnell then returned to Cattie's house in the 300 block of Maple Street in the Ambler section of Whitpain.

O'Donnell and Cattie used cocaine and played backgammon until about 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 7 when O'Donnell returned to his apartment to pick up Dorsey and bring her home while Cattie fell asleep at her house.

It is when O'Donnell went back to his apartment that he sexually assaulted and killed Dorsey, according to authorities.

Cattie told police that O'Donnell was "wired" when he left her. During her testimony, she said that she used the term "wired" to explain that he had been using cocaine. However, Cattie said, he had finished his drugs at about 3:30 a.m. and showed none of the paranoia that he often displayed when high on cocaine. Under cross-examination by Egan, Cattie testified O'Donnell did hold a knife in his hand while they played backgammon.

Asked why she did not go and pick her daughter up at O'Donnell's apartment, Cattie said, "I didn't want her to see me high."

The trial was continued Wednesday.

http://www.montgomerynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19728245&BRD=1306&PAG=461&dept_id=187819&rfi=6

[Grande]

Posted on Thu, May. 29, 2008
Porn play a role in Ebony killing?
By STEPHANIE FARR
Philadelphia Daily News
farrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225

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Mark O'Donnell bombarded himself with hundreds of images of online pornography within minutes of murdering 14-year-old Ebony Dorsey, prosecutors in his Montgomery County murder trial tried to prove yesterday.
But perhaps the most disturbing mouse click he made in those early morning hours on Dec. 7 took him to a pornography Web site called "Ebony Internal," a site that shared a name with his alleged victim, according to court testimony.

O'Donnell, 48, of Plymouth Meeting, faces the possibility of the death penalty if he is convicted of first-degree murder.

His fate rests in the hands of Montgomery County Judge William Furber, who is presiding over the nonjury trial.

O'Donnell has admitted killing Ebony after smoking crack all night at the Ambler home of Danielle Cattie, Ebony's mother and O'Donnell's girlfriend.

Ebony had been taken to O'Donnell's estranged wife's apartment in Plymouth Township to baby-sit his 4-year-old daughter. O'Donnell's estranged wife, Tameika, was out of town on business at the time.

After the crack binge with Cattie, O'Donnell said he went back to the apartment, found Ebony changing his daughter's diapers and thought she was molesting the girl, a claim which police said was unfounded.

In his drug-fueled rage, O'Donnell strangled and beat Ebony to death, then stuffed her body in a 20-gallon plastic storage bin and hid it outside his nephew's house in Blue Bell, where it was found two days later.

Montgomery County Detective Greg Kuter, who works in the computer unit of the major-crimes division, testified that he examined a computer at O'Donnell's apartment, where Ebony was killed.

He said that from 10 p.m. Dec. 6 to about 2 a.m. Dec. 7, the activity on the computer was typical for a teenager - visits to MySpace and photographs of famous musicians.

The electronic activity stopped about 1:50 a.m. About 5:40 a.m., about the time O'Donnell is alleged to have returned to the apartment, the computer was activated again. In a 10-minute period, 432 images of pornography were viewed on the computer, Kuter said.

Defense attorney Thomas C. Egan III said that the retrieved photos included every image on every site visited and that the numbers don't necessarily correlate to the number of pictures that were viewed individually.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Ian Hood testified that exterior rips and interior bruising on Ebony's anal and vaginal regions suggested she had been raped and sodomized before her death. The wounds, one of which was five inches deep, "slightly favor" that she had been violated with an inanimate object more so than a penis, Hood said. No traces of DNA were uncovered during the autopsy.

Hood also testified that Ebony most likely remained alive for up to two minutes while she was being strangled with her own pajama pants and was forcibly gripped by a human hand.

Because of evidence of an impact on the right side of Ebony's head, the cause of her death was ruled as both blunt trauma and asphyxiation. *

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20080529_Porn_play_a_role_in_Ebony_killing_.html

[Grande]

21-page confession read a trial in 14-year-old's killing
By STEPHANIE FARR
Philadelphia Daily News
farrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225

When Mark O'Donnell was captured two days after killing 14-year-old Ebony Dorsey, he provided police with a murder confession that spanned four hours and 21 hand-written pages.
At the end of his confession, O'Donnell expressed awe that in light of his horrific acts, police still treated him like a human being.

" 'I can't believe anyone would talk to me,' " detectives quoted O'Donnell as saying at the end of his police interview.

The full transcript of O'Donnell's confession was read aloud yesterday during the third day of his capital murder trial in Montgomery County Court.

O'Donnell's lawyer, Thomas C. Egan III, hypothesized that his client "wanted to get it off his chest" by the time police found him at the home of a relative two days after Ebony's Dec. 7 murder.

During his confession interview, conducted with Montgomery County Detective James McGowan, O'Donnell was neither cuffed nor shackled. But it was hard to miss the cuts to his wrists or the rope burns around his neck, marks indicative of someone trying to kill himself, McGowan said.

The defense is not disputing that O'Donnell killed Ebony. The major points of contention in the trial are allegations of rape and sodomy.A forensic pathologist testified Wednesday that Dorsey had been raped - possibly by an inanimate object. A forensic biologist testified yesterday O'Donnell's DNA was not found in Dorsey's body.

According to McGowan, O'Donnell brought up allegations of sexual assault before his police interview got underway and before police revealed to him that they believed Ebony had been raped.

" 'I just want the people down in Ambler to know it was nothing sexual,' " McGowan quoted O'Donnell as saying.

The "people in Ambler" included Ebony's mother, Danielle Cattie, who was O'Donnell's girlfriend at the time.

O'Donnell spent the night and morning leading up to the slaying smoking crack with Cattie at her house while Ebony babysat his 4-year-old daughter, Kyra, at his estranged wife's apartment in Plymouth Township.

In his confession, O'Donnell told police that he arrived back to the apartment sometime after 5:30 a.m. and saw Kyra asleep on the sofa with her nightgown pulled up and her diaper pulled off. He said he thought Ebony was being inappropriate with his daughter.

" 'I got really angry and I lost it,' " he told police.

When Ebony stood up, he slapped her in the face and the two struggled into his daughter's room.

He told police he pinned her on the floor, face up, with his knees on her shoulders.

" 'The next I realized I had her pants wrapped around her neck,' " and was pulling the ends tighter, McGowan said, quoting O'Donnell.

When he realized Ebony was dead, O'Donnell told police he put his daughter in the bathtub and dumped out a 20-gallon plastic bin in which he stuffed the teenagers's body.

O'Donnell then committed one final insult against Ebony and his own daughter when he lied to the child about the bin, its contents and its destination.

"'I told Kyra I had to take some trash outside,'" O'Donnell told McGowan.

With his daughter in the car, O'Donnell drove the tub with Ebony's body to his nephew's home in Blue Bell, where it was eventually found.

Egan questioned McGowan's notes and memory in light of the detective's having worked the case for at least 24 hours with little sleep by the time he interviewed O'Donnell.

"You often get second winds, especially after getting a confession from a man who murdered a 14-year-old girl," McGowan said. *

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20080530_21-page_confession_read_a_trial_in_14-year-old_s_killing.html

[Grande]

Posted on Tue, Jun. 3, 2008
Verdict in Montco murder trial expected Thursday
By Kathleen Brady Shea
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

The fate of a Plymouth Township man accused of raping and murdering his girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter now rests with a Montgomery County Court judge.

Judge William J. Furber heard closing arguments today in the nonjury trial of Mark Patrick O'Donnell, 48. The judge said he planned to review the evidence, including more than 100 exhibits, and announce his verdict Thursday morning.

Many facts are undisputed.

O'Donnell admits strangling Ebony Dorsey on Dec. 7. She had been baby-sitting O'Donnell's daughter so he could spend the night doing drugs with the victim's mother, Danielle Cattie, 34, of Whitpain Township.

He concedes that he used cocaine and that he abused the corpse, stuffing it into a 20-gallon storage container, which he hid on a relative's property. But he denies sexually assaulting the Wissahickon High honors student.

Defense attorney Thomas C. Egan III said his client's "obviously aberrant, horrific, violent behavior" would not have occurred absent the drug abuse. O'Donnell did not take the stand.

"But for the cocaine usage, Ebony Dorsey would have gone to school that day," said Egan. "In this case we have a completely normal human being when he's not under the influence of any illegal substance."

Egan said cocaine forced O'Donnell to "snap," rendering him too impaired to form the specific intent to kill required for a first-degree murder conviction.

First Assistant District Attorney Kevin R. Steele strongly disagreed, arguing that O'Donnell's deliberate actions before, during and after the crimes proved otherwise.

"Just at the point that he's killing her, that's when the faculties are gone?" asked Steele.

He suggested that the teen's asphyxiation, which the medical examiner testified could have taken up to six minutes, required O'Donnell to take off the girl's pajama pants, knot them twice, wrap them around her neck, and pull them tight.

"Based on that alone, you have the specific intent," he said.

Michael O'Donnell, one of O'Donnell's five siblings, traveled from Florida to attend the trial daily with his mother and sister. He said such behavior is totally out of character for his brother. Another brother was unable to join them because he was subpoenaed as a defense witness.

Similarly, Cattie, a prosecution witness, was barred from viewing the proceeding until closing arguments.

"I just want justice to be done," she said.

O'Donnell is also a "possible suspect" in the May 2006 triple slaying of a Philadelphia family at their Port Richmond home, where O'Donnell had been assigned as a private-duty nurse.

Lt. Frank Vanore, a Philadelphia police spokesman, said that the case is still under investigation and that a grand jury prevented the department from commenting.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080603_Closing_arguments_today_in_Montco_murder_ trial.html

[Grande]

Man Found Guilty Of Killing, Raping Girl Gets Life In Prison
Man Told Judge He Wanted To Die
UPDATED: 7:43 pm EDT June 5, 2008


NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- The man found guilty of first-degree murder and rape of an honor student was sentenced to life in prison by a judge Thursday.

Mark O'Donnell, then-boyfriend of the victim's mother, confessed on camera in December, saying that Ebony Dorsey "died at my hands."

Convicted on all but one, lesser charge O'Donnell, 48, was sentenced to life in prison. He could have seen the death penalty.

O'Donnell's lawyer brought family and friends to testify O'Donnell shouldn't be put to death.

But on the stand O'Donnell himself told the judge he should die and he wouldn't be able to look himself in the mirror.

He also told all the families involved that he was sorry.

O'Donnell's defense attorney said he was surprised to hear O'Donnell wanted to die.

"I'm very, very happy. I'm very happy that there was justice done for Ebony," Danielle Cattie, Ebony Dorsey's mother, said Thursday outside of court.

The same judge who found O'Donnell guilty of the first-degree murder of 14-year-old Dorsey decided O'Donnell's sentence.

"A man this evil will at the minimum spend his life behind bars," Montgomery County First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele said.

O'Donnell was convicted of raping and murdering the teen the morning after she babysat his daughter in a Plymouth Township apartment on Dec. 7.

According to court testimony, O'Donnell and Cattie spent the night getting high in Cattie's Ambler home.

Prosecutors said when O'Donnell returned home he surfed the Internet on pornographic Web sites and testimony revealed that Dorsey died in the same way a woman was depicted on one of those Web sites.

"The state correctional institute isn't going to take kindly to a man who has sexually assaulted and killed a 14-year-old girl," Steele said.

O'Donnell allegedly went into a drug-induced rage over his daughter's diaper before raping and strangling the Wissahickon student, authorities said.

Investigators found her body stuffed in a plastic storage container hidden in trees on a Blue Bell property owned by one of O'Donnell's relatives.

O'Donnell defense was that his drug induced haze prevented him from controlling himself but it was an argument the judge didn't buy.

A judge said despite his intoxication by crack cocaine O'Donnell knew what exactly he was doing when he killed Dorsey.

"Relief, unbelievable relief. I'm just grateful for the court system to have worked the way it did," Cattie said.

Cattie pleaded guilty to endangerment charges before the trial began.

Dorsey's father testified that he worried about O'Donnell harming his daughter and even questioned her asking if he tried anything with her two days before the she was killed.

Philadelphia police said they also consider O'Donnell a suspect in the slaying of a quadriplegic and the patient's parents two years ago. O'Donnell was a home health nurse at the family's Port Richmond home and cared for the patient there.

http://www.nbc10.com/news/16508199/detail.html

[Grande]

Life without parole in O'Donnell trial
Thursday, June 05, 2008 | 7:23 PM

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - June 5, 2008 -- A Montgomery County man was sentenced this evening to life in prison in the slaying of his girlfriend's teenage daughter.

Forty-eight-year-old Mark O'Donnell was convicted earlier Thursday of first-degree murder and sexual assault. Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele had sought the death penalty.

Authorities say O'Donnell spent the hours before the December murder smoking crack with the mother of 14-year-old Ebony Dorsey.

The honor student was baby-sitting his 4-year-old child. Prosecutors say he then viewed pornography and sexually assaulted Dorsey.

Defense attorney Thomas Egan argued at the judge-only trial that O'Donnell was too intoxicated to form the intent required for first-degree murder. But, Judge William J. Furber sided with prosecutors after weighing five days of evidence and more than 100 exhibits.

The girl's mother, 34-year-old Danielle Cattie, pleaded guilty in May to drug and child endangerment charges. She is scheduled to be sentenced in October.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=6188336

[annalyzer]

Shouldn't this thread be moved?