Four charged in plot to kidnap, rape and kill a child

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Michigan State Police said Friday they uncovered evidence of the plan to find a child at a local county fair or in a parking lot of a Walmart or Meijer store. The group intended to torture and sexually assault the child until the child was dead and then dispose of the body, according to the Office of Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.

The charges stem from evidence state police collected from an investigation involving alleged sexual assault and manufacture of pornography by the four suspects. "They committed acts on their own children and were making sexually abusive material," Yott said Friday afternoon. "They were all sharing and exploiting their own children and other children."

Schutte's office has charged the four with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The suspects are Matthew Toole, 32, of Battle Creek and his girlfriend, Talia Furman, 32, of Springfield, Jayme LaPointe, 19, of Athens and David Bailey, 37, of Coldwater. Bailey is formerly of Kalamazoo.

The charges all carry maximum sentences of life in prison.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/09/22/plot-kidnap-rape-kill-child-leads-charges-michigan/1398636002/