Aliahna Lemmon's Killer Was Wanted In Florida

This is amazing. Just before Christmas, an Indiana girl, nine year old Aliahna Lemmon, was brutally murdered by one of her mother's male "friends". "Mommy" had the flu, and sent her three daughters over to Michael Plumadore's trailer for a week. A week. Let me digress for a moment to say that yours truly once took an IV out of her arm at the hospital during a blood transfusion because one of her children needed her. The transfusion got rescheduled because my child came first. End of story. My hemoglobin was 6.5, too, but my daughter was more important to me. How could a flu become a reason to ignore one's children during a holiday week? That, alone, is sickening. But here's something even worse: this Michael Plumadore, in whose trailer Aliahna was sent to die, has a criminal record, is a convicted felon, and was wanted for violation of probation in Florida!

How the hell does one get to know another person well enough to babysit one's children for a whole week without knowing about the pastimes had by the chosen "babysitter" that occasionally end up in arrest records, attorney fees, and court dates? (not necessarily in that order!) Another interesting bit of data here is that Plumadore has a Facebook page, which became invisible last night.......either he gets computer access in jail, or one of his trailer park buddies deleted it for him.......that would have told authorities in Florida exactly where to find his sorry ass if they were really looking for him! But, apparently, they weren't. His criminal record in Florida, by the way, was for assualting a police officer. Anyway, back to my original point, the people who knew this creep well enough to call him a "friend" probably were well aware of his criminal record, and of the fact that he was a fugitive from justice in Florida! Something else I find interesting and equally disgusting is that Aliahna's grandmother still defends this trailer trash creep! According to the Daily Mail, UK, she had this to say:

"Despite the confession, the little girl's grandmother, Amber Story, stood by Plumadore.

'I don't care what anybody says. Mike did nothing to her. He loves those girls,' she told the News-Sentinel."

If that isn't denial, then it's definately choosing the friendship of a known criminal over the love of a grandchild. The only reason I can think of for a grandmother or a mother to make a choice like that is the event of said grandmother or mother having a criminal background of her own that she does not want discussed with law enforcement. Nauseating. If Grandma had turned Creepo in to the police, instead of covering for him, he would have been behind bars in Florida, serving the rest of his sentence for assualting a police officer, and not in Indiana, murdering a nine year old child!

This brings me to something that has occured to me as a possible motive for the killing. The first statements I noticed from the media quoting Aliahna's family were quite disparaging to Aliahna. Comments about her ADHD, vision and hearing loss, ecetera. I think Aliahna was a lot more savvy than the entire trailer park wanted anyone to think she was. In fact, I think Aliahna was not on board with the "cover for our criminal friends" mentality at all, and these people, Mommy and Grandma included, depended on the rest of the world NOT taking her seriously, or believing a word she said while she was alive, because more than one person in Trailerparkland, Indiana, was wanted by police for something or other, and her testimony could easily put people in jail. Yes, indeed. I think keeping guilty people out of jail was more important to Grandma than Aliahna, and I think it still is. Someone also accused Aliahna of having Oppositional Defiant Disorder! I guess to people who want to lead lives of crime, a child who wants to fly right and be productive WOULD appear defiant!

The other thing that could have saved Aliahna's life, but didn't, was the judicial system in Florida. Plumadore was clearly a fugitive from justice, and he was clearly on Facebook, along with enough personal information for authorities in Florida to find him. Does anyone remember the Jaycee Dugard case? Phillip Garrido was on probation the entire eighteen years he held Jaycee captive. Proper supervision in his case would have given Jaycee back her childhood. Proper supervision of Michael Plumadore would have given Aliahna Lemmon back her life. Shame on Florida.

Aliahna Lemmon's mom, on the right, and her Grandmother, on the left. That's the same face from which the words defending the murderer with a known criminal record for violent crimes came. Below is the creep, himself, lying to police and sending searchers in all the wrong directions, before he confessed. Should anyone who knew Michael Plumadore's history in Florida, and that he was wanted for violation of probation, get a free pass here?

 

Unresolved Questions

In the wake of the Casey Anthony trial, and the ongoing search for Kyron Horman, I am not surprised to hear about Kyron's Law, concerning the reporting of children who are absent from school without written excuses, and Caylee's Law, about reporting missing children. Then I read and hear what Jaycee Dugard has to tell all of us about her situation. There were sixty logged visits from probations officers to the Garrido residence, where Jaycee was hidden in the backyard and various buildings on the property, and no one could see three young ladies who did not belong there. And........there were clearly laws against Mr. Garrido having any children in his home. What is it going to take for all of us to start opening our eyes and using common sense?

Among the mistakes by state parole agents who supervised Garrido from 1999 until his latest arrest in August was a failure to investigate why there was a 12-year-old girl inside the home of a registered sex offender, why "clearly visible utility lines" were running from Garrido's home to a concealed compound where he allegedly kept Dugard and why agents took no action when they received information "clearly showing Garrido had violated his parole terms."

That was a quote from the above linked article, and it seems like a no-brainer. Especially the part about utility lines running from the home to a concealed compound. We didn't need psychics with crystal balls; we needed eyes, ears, and common sense!

Kyron's Law is excellent wisdom. I sincerely hope it helps in the future; but, if I had been teaching his class that day, and noticed his backpack and other personal effects in the classroom when I started to teach, I would have insisted that he be in the classroom with them! I would have notified the office and had someone call his parents. Of course, in the event that this was planned by his stepmother, she would probably not have helped, but at least some notice would have been taken before six or seven hours had elasped. Along with Kyron, I fervently pray that common sense is found very soon.

And I cannot forget about Adam Herrman, although his adoptive parents probably would have, had they not been convicted of theft of monies intended for him and forced to pay a small fraction of it back to the state of Kansas. Caylee Anthony was not reported missing for thirtyone days; Adam Herrman was missing for ten years before anyone reported him missing. His case has not generated all of the outcry that Caylee's has. No one has even charged Doug and Valerie Herrman of a crime in connection to Adam's disappearance. It's almost as if it were legal to lose a child in Kansas. As a parent, I would normally not think that there would need to be a law about reporting missing children in a timely manner, but ten years is a long time. I had no idea that people like Doug and Valerie Herrman even existed outside of horror movies or very isolated true stories until I heard about Adam Herrman. Yet..........here in Kansas.......they abound and thrive, taking advantage of every taxpayor funded resource they can get their hands on, with social service's blessing. Yes; I guess we need some federal laws to protect children.

Here are Doug and Valerie Herrman, the two people who thought Adam Herrman, their ADOPTED son did not matter to anyone. After never looking for their son, not even once, after he went missing, they go to work every day, unharrased, and no one incessently demands that they disclose Adam's whereabouts. They even reportedly got nasty on the phone with Adam's biological sister, telling her not to ever call back or ask about Adam again! That's how firm they are about their God-given right to "lose", or dispose of, a child, here in Kansas. Below is Adam, how he looked before he disappeared, and how he might look now if he is still alive. There is more than enough testimony from eyewitnesses and former victims of their abuses to children in the past for our judicial system to look a little harder at this. I do not agree with the citizens here in Kansas who are simply letting Doug and Valerie slide in this one. I do not agree with Kansas that Adam is not important. He is to me, just because he was a little boy who deserved love, and certainly deserved  better than Doug and Valerie Herrman. I really want Kansas to try harder to find him, and try harder to bring Doug and Valerie to justice. This probably won't happen as long as everyone feels that the situation is just "ok". It's not "ok" with me.

Here is one more unresolved question, for the road: where is Kyron Horman? Here's his picture, one more time.