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Jacob was last seen
on the evening of October 22, 1989. He was returning with his brother
and a friend from a convenience store. They were stopped by a masked
man with a gun about a half mile from his home in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
The other two boys were let go, but the masked man took Jacob. Neither
Jacob nor the man have been seen since.
The investigation
into Jacob's abduction has continued. In 2004, some new reports hit
the local press. A long-held belief that the abductor got away in a
car has now been thrown out. It was also revealed that another boy had
been in a similar incident nearby. Jared (then 12) was sexually
assaulted about ten miles away in Cold Spring, Minnesota earlier in 1989.
The Jacob
Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender
Registration Act (1994) prescribes a 10-year registration requirement for
offenders convicted of sexually violent offenses or criminal offenses
against a victim who is a minor. Sexually violent predators have
additional registration requirements.
More
information on Jacob
Wetterling can be found here on
www.Wikipedia.org. |
