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    Body of Missing Missouri Girl Found

    By Tammy Lee Morris | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Wed, Aug 17, 2011
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    Authorities in Senath, Missouri, announced late Tuesday that searchers had recovered the body of 3-year-old Breeann Rodriguez. The Daily Dunklin Democrat reports the girl's remains were discovered in a floodway ditch near Hornersville, about eight miles southeast of her home in Senath.

    The remains were found by an officer with the Missouri State Highway Patrol Water Patrol as he searched the ditch by boat. Breeann was last seen Aug. 6 as she rode her bicycle in front of her home in Senath. She was with her 5-year-old brother but disappeared during a short time when the sibling went inside to get a drink.

    Authorities and community members searched the area for some sign of the little girl but it wasn't until a few days later -- when training wheels believed to have been on her bike were discovered -- that investigators had any leads to her disappearance. Authorities interviewed and later arrested a neighbor Friday who lived near the Rodriguez family, charging him with the little girl's murder. Shawn Morgan, 43, of Senath -- a father of three who lived on the same street as the girl's family -- was charged with first degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and armed criminal action.

    Morgan gave statements to authorities admitting to grabbing the little girl when he saw her standing on the ladder to the pool in his yard, carrying her into his home then suffocating her with a plastic trash bag. He then admitted to putting her body in the bag, then driving to a floodway ditch on Highway 164 where he threw the bag containing her body into the water. Afterward, he went back home, dismantled her bicycle then drove back and threw the pieces into the water.

    After several days of searching, the child's body has been found and even though the outcome of the case is horrifying, her parents can at least receive comfort from being able to bury her properly.

    As for Morgan, he is currently being held without bond in the Dunklin County Justice Center. His first appearance before a judge was on Tuesday when he was arraigned. The next court date was set for Aug. 30 to give Morgan time to acquire legal representation.

     
    • Viona
      Viona  •  Monroe, Louisiana  •  4 mths ago
      i feel for family of that litte girl dont seemright they should put in trash bag throw in river
    • Laura
      Laura  •  East Moline, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Why would someone do that? Just send her home & talk to her parents...obviously he's a sick man....only horrible people would do that to a child...prayers for her family! Hope he spends the rest of his life in prison...too bad someone can't do to him what he's done to this precious child!
    • makebae
      makebae  •  St. Louis, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Oh yeah, burying their little girl is really going to give them comfort. It's stories like this that make you want to curl up in bed in the fetal position and order everything you need to survive online.
    • kathy
      kathy  •  Belmont, United States  •  5 mths ago
      sick S.O.B someone should do the same thing to him
    • jim
      jim  •  Burbank, United States  •  6 mths ago
      we as a country have no common sense. like any respectable mother bear would do, this guy should be killed on the spot, RIGHT NOW!!!!!
    • Edwin
      Edwin  •  Troy, United States  •  5 mths ago
      I don't believe in the death penalty simply because it's the easy way out. Why should he get the easy way out when this little girl suffered such a horrible death. I think he should spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement.
    • Donna
      Donna  •  Maysville, United States  •  6 mths ago
      This sort of thing has become way to common in our world. Whats wrong with everyone?!
    • Holly
      Holly  •  6 mths ago
      What distrubs me the most is that the "monsters" who do this are regular people living in out neghborhoods. This man was someones father, someones husband. Yet you can bet his family is in disbelief that he could do something like this. We now have to always assume that ANYONE is capable of harming us!...
      • Tinacat
        Tinacat 6 mths ago
        The very reason I stay to myself anymore...hanging on to dear friends and family and very weary of anyone new...it is a shame and very sad but the reality is that the world has been saturated in evil and there is no telling where it will strike next...sad way to live.
      • MichiganLady
        MichiganLady 6 mths ago
        Hope he never gets to ever see his own children again.
      • Anarchycoming
        Anarchycoming 6 mths ago
        This murderers family are victims now too...Pray for us all...
    • Sabrina
      Sabrina  •  Oklahoma City, United States  •  5 mths ago
      this guy should be idk u couldnt even do enough to him for the pain he has givin these parents and has he ever did this b4 come on of course.PEOPLE OR SO F' ED UP IN THE WORLD TODAY!!!!!!!!!!
    • bethhannahdjmommy
      bethhannahdjmommy  •  6 mths ago
      There is a special place in hell for monsters like this! My prayers are with the family! God Bless You Always!
    • m yeager
      m yeager  •  6 mths ago
      what the hell!? Why did he have to kill her?
      • Maria
        Maria 6 mths ago
        It wasn't his to begin with, people like that should be shot like they do to sick animals.
      • It is what it is...
        It is what it is... 6 mths ago
        ...because who ever did this is a sick #$%$
      • MichiganLady
        MichiganLady 6 mths ago
        Was he enraged just because she was on the pool ladder? What kind of excuse is that?!
    • john
      john  •  6 mths ago
      i would gladly be the one to pull the trigger or switch on anyone who would do this to a child
    • Angela
      Angela  •  Manhattan, United States  •  6 mths ago
      May this baby rest in peace...
    • Ashley
      Ashley  •  Martinsburg, United States  •  6 mths ago
      i dont know how many articles i've read this week about innocent little babies being killed viciously with no reason what so ever..i cant stand reading things like this..it always brings tears to my eyes..these children didnt/couldn't do anything to deserve something like this..i'll never understand how someone could be so coldhearted..how could you look a child, a baby in the eye and hurt them like this? i'm a proud mother of 2 beautiful little girls and i cant imagine what the parents of these children go through when something like this happens...it's horrible..and then theirs parents who torture their children and murder them too..i wouldn't call them parents tho..children are blessings from the lord and parents are supposed to love and cherish the wonderful gift of being a mother/father..my opinion is the people that do these types of horrific crimes should get the same punishment they give these poor babies..if not worse..they dont deserve anything less.they get to continue their lives like nothing even happend..so they go to jail for a few years..that's 3 meals a day,a bed to sleep on,a roof over their head,people to talk to and they get to sit around watchin tv and playin games everyday...what type of punishment is that?? while these children dont get to see another birthday,chistmas,or have any type of life at all..theirs get taken from them while the criminals get to keep theirs and just have to wait a few years to get a new life..i'm sorry if i'm writting too long for some people but i needed to say these things and speak on the behalf of the children that cant..R.I.P beautiful children!!
      • Ashley
        Ashley 6 mths ago
        i meant to say..and then *there are* parents...typo..
      • Kelly
        Kelly 6 mths ago
        Ashley , i feel the exact same way !! brings tears to my eyes also and hurts to bad to imagine the last minutes of these helpless babies / childrens lives ...RIP
      • Klaritydawn
        Klaritydawn 6 mths ago
        Amen!! What is going on in this world! I totally agree with Every Word you said! The monster does these things and even if he Never does get out (which they usually do) they get to continue to LIVE! They get 3 square meals, exercise, TV, Games to play...What??? Are we serious? I understand exactly what you said...I even went further and said something I probably should NOT have said but I mean it! I said I pray he doesn't get to live long enough to be sorry and ask for forgiveness..how bad was that!
    • It is what it is...
      It is what it is...  •  Miami, United States  •  6 mths ago
      First there was an epidemic of pedophile priests, next was the epidemic of school kids shooting their classmates and teachers, now it's baby killers. This world is seriously getting more and more sick.
    • evie
      evie  •  6 mths ago
      They should do to him what he did to that innocent child.
    • Chris
      Chris  •  New York, United States  •  6 mths ago
      One more time... These "people" are not sick which implies illness which is the LACK of choice. These are EVIL, which is ALWAYS a choice. Do not give them an "out" or an excuse by thinking they are ill. They are not sick- they are WICKED. There is NO EXCUSE. None. They should be immediately hung and dumped in an un
      marked grave.
      1. Identify
      2. Locate
      3. Eradicate
    • Dan
      Dan  •  Buffalo, United States  •  6 mths ago
      May he be put to death in a manner worse than what was done to this little girl. My prayers are with the family.
    • Marie
      Marie  •  Grafton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      sick B*&^%$#@...,may he rot in hell
    • Ann
      Ann  •  Stockton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      My thoughts and prayers are with Breeann's family. For a father of 3 to do this to anohter child, makes you think what he may have done to his own children while they were growing up!! Sick, sick individual! I agree with Donna, this sort of thing is beoming way to common in today's society! What is wrong with people, where they think they need to harm an innocent child??
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