New evidence in kidnapping case

Prosecutors use school records against teen accused of false imprisonment.

Teen at press conference

Today the prosecutors referred to 18 separate disciplinary incidents form the teenager’s two schools.

According to News 27 this afternoon, prosecutors said they had not made the decision to file charges against the 14-year-old African American boy, who is only being identified as Edwin.

The boy was not at the hearing in Orange County when the prosecutor, Terry Mills said that “Three of (the incidents were) of a sexual nature.”

The teen’s defense attorney Anita Shorter disputed the amount of sexual nature charges held within the school system.

What has happened?

The judge lifted a home confinement punishment that was ordered when the teen attended court for the first time.

Edwin was arrested on the June 10 at the Burlington Coat Factory on West Colonial Drive.

He is accused of trying to abduct a 3-year-old girl. The stores surveillance video shows the teen talking with the girl, walking her out of the store and returning with her hand in hand. He is met by her mother and store security.

The mother decided to press charges and Edwin was placed under house arrest. The teen and his lawyer continue to claim he is innocent.

The NAACP are closely monitoring the ongoing investigation.

Tiger’s battle continues

Tiger Woods’ alleged mistress Devon James filed a paternity action this afternoon.

According to Fox 35, TMZ claim the woman wants to prove that her nine-year-old son is fathered by the golf star.

James filed legal documents in Florida under her birth name, Melinda Jannette, stating she wanted a judge to determine the paternity of her son Austin Brinling.

Testing one, two, three…

Austin is currently in the custody of his grandmother, who claims a previous DNA test from 2002 proved another man was the father.

Regardless, James is certain her mother has no physical evidence and wants a judge to force Woods to submit his DNA.

Fox 35 reported, James legal documents want to “establish paternity, parental responsibility, time-sharing, and/or child support of a minor child or children.”

James is one of more than a dozen women claiming they had affairs with Woods, this has resulted in a separation from is wife Elin Nordegren and their two children Sam, two, and son Charlie, one.

Teen accused of kidnapping

The teen was charged this evening with the false imprisonment of a child.

Shopping trolly

A 14-year-old Lake County boy is facing charges after the police say he attempted to kidnap toddler in an Orange County store.

Security footage from the Burlington Coat Factory store shows the suspect and the little girl inside together.

The girl, who wondered away from her mother, is seen talking with the boy and then following him out of the store.

Stranger Danger?

According to WFTV News, the security tape is the only evidence of this strange crime but the store investigators who interviewed the teen say they do not have any evidence to suggest he was trying to harm her.

“If there had been some other intent, then he would have been arrested for a kidnapping charge,” said Jeff Williamson from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office stated on this evening’s news.

Because the two children left the store, the false imprisonment charge was added. The video shows, the boy taking the girl by the hand and leading her away. This is why he was charged.

Mothers Actions

Two minutes elapse before the little girls mother leaves the store to look for her. She returns with her child followed by the young boy and his mother.

According to WFTV News, the boy was subjected to six hours of interviews before being charged with a second-degree felony. This means he could face between two and twenty years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.

“We went through the evidence over and over again just to make sure we were making the right decision, because this is a very young man’s life,” said Williamson to reports outside the crime scene.

Police who refuse to comment on why he acted this way is currently holding the boy’s statement. However, a spokesman for the boy’s family contacted WFTV News and said the boy was trying to help the girl find her family.