Matthew Gray and Janelle Butler Arrested

This is very disturbing stuff and I'm assuming there may be significant Internet activity for these folks, given their abhorrent pimping of this young girl on line.

PHOENIX (AP) - A 15-year-old girl ran away from her El Mirage home in September, but her ordeal was just beginning.

She was held captive in a hollow bed frame for weeks by a couple and forced her to have sex for money with people they found on the Internet. She met the couple through a friend about three hours after she disappeared, police Sgt. Andy Hill said. They took her to a park, bound her and had her gang raped for hours, police said.

At a west Phoenix apartment, they imprisoned her in a dog kennel for about a week and threatened her with a gun, Hill said. They sold her for sex dozens of times on the Internet, he said, and forced her to hide in a hollowed-out bed frame covered with plywood.

"She was tortured. She had a gun pointed to her head. She was told that if she tried to escape or said anything she would be killed, her family would be killed," he said.

On Monday evening, while 18-year-old Matthew Gray and 19-year-old Janelle Butler were sleeping, the girl called her family and told them she was being held.

Comments

[Mike]

Those two should rot in jail and be gang raped just like she was...what suprises me is how young the suspects were??

[absynth_minded]

Amazing...

Well, good we got this budding Paul and Karla team off of the street...

[richard]

And some of you think it is IMPOSSIBLE that Joran van der Scum and his two sidekicks might have arranged something like this for Natalee, once they were done with her?

[angela]

No way! This couldn't have happened in the great US of A.

[TheAlamo]

Those two should rot in jail and be gang raped just like she was...what suprises me is how young the suspects were??

Posted by: Mike | Nov 9, 2005 2:58:03 PM

Jail? They ought bind and gag them and turn them over to the parents for 24 hours. Then, if there is anything left, fry 'em.

[westcoaster]

Amazing...
Well, good we got this budding Paul and Karla team off of the street...
Posted by: absynth_minded | Nov 9, 2005 3:00:08 PM

WTH is wrong with people living in this world today...and those other two were seriously sick in the mind...she, or It, is out of prison and now living in the Montreal area. Come to B.C. Karla, we'll take you skiing up the mountain, you'll never have to worry about finding your way down!!!

[justme]

Identifying and prosecuting the couple involved isn't enough. I want to see the identities, mug shots and convictions of EVERY Scumbag that participated in this - plastered on every TV. Let their co-workers, neighbors and family see who did this.

[Kayleigh]

you know what is crazy i went to school with janelle butler and we actually used to be good friends in elementary school but then lost contact after about 7th grade! i just can't believe she'd do something like that....it's just absolutly revolting! she is obviously not the same person i once knew long ago!

[Baby-Boy]

Look, Janelle is my best friend hell like a sister and it saddens me that she was involved in any of this. I know my friend and for her to do this there is more to it. She had got things back on track, but a wrong turn was taken. I send my condolences to the little gurl's family and to her. I wish this never happened, but there is nothing that can be changed about it. I just hope and pray that the courts, and God can forgive her for what she did.