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Officials in western Michigan have ruled that a 16-year-old girl found dead in Kalamazoo in late January was strangled to death after being kidnapped on her way to school.

Mujey Dumbuya's cause of death was listed as 'asphyxia, including strangulation' on her death certificate.

Dumbuya's partially-clothed body was found January 28 in Kalamazoo, about 50 miles from her Grand Rapids home.

Her family last saw her alive on January 24 as she headed off to school.

Quinn James, 42, currently faces trial in Kent County Circuit Court on criminal sexual conduct charges. James is accused of sexually assaulting Dumbuya last summer.

He was arrested in November 2017 but a judge allowed him to be released on bond.

Authorities picked him up on February 1 on an unrelated 2014 sexual assault charge also involving a teenage girl.

MLive.com says Dumbuya was scheduled to testify against James at his rape trial set for April. He is considered a person of interest but has not been charged in the girl's death.

Two months before she disappeared, Dumbuya told police James raped her in a parking lot near Ridge Park Charter Academy.

There is something about you. I could stop, but I just can't,' Dumbuya said he told her before the attack.

Court records show James admitted he had sex with the teenage girl inside his parked car outside the school, where his finacee's nephew, who is Dumbuya's boyfriend, was a student.

James told investigators his sexual encounters with Dumbuya were consensual, according to WWMT.

But Dumbuya said James, who despite his criminal history was employed as a groundskeeper by the Kentwood Public School District, forced her to have sex numerous times in various places starting from when she was 15, according to court documents.

He was charged with four counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor as was facing a mandatory 25-year sentence as prosecutors charged him as a habitual offender.

He was also ordered to stay away from Dumbuya.

James was hired to work on the school district's grounds and maintenance crew in 2011.

He was a convicted felon at the time, with a criminal history that included convictions for armed robbery and possessing a weapon in prison.

The Kent County Sheriff's Office had tried to charge him with the 2014 rape, but prosecutors declined to pursue it at the time.

Superintendent Michael Zoerhoff said Dumbuya and her family informed school district officials about the alleged assault in mid-November, Buzzfeed News reports.

He said officials weren't aware of James' criminal history, but he had 'very little contact with students and none as part of his responsibilities.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-shows-teen-died-asphyxia-strangulation.html
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forced her to have sex numerous times in various places starting from when she was 15, according to court documents.

he had sex with the teenage girl inside his parked car outside the school, where his finacee's nephew, who is Dumbuya's boyfriend, was a student.

Oh wow ...

He said officials weren't aware of James' criminal history, but he had 'very little contact with students and none as part of his responsibilities.'

I think he had a lot of contact with the students ... really close contact.
 
Do they even DO background checks or just give zero fucks all the way around?
This girls last months were a sincere Hell on Earth and the frigging adults tasked with keeping students safe made it happen.
Michigan really is an academic cesspool and it is clear seeing why.

No point in charging or jailing him now.
Not like he can do any more harm to her right guys?
:sarcasm:
 
What a disgusting asshole.
Just becos she is dead doesn't mean you are magically absolved of guilt. If anything you look worse becos whoelse had motive?
No one. That's who. Unless his fiance was willing to do life to protect her man.
Which honestly wouldn't surprise me cos some women will.
I hope he is put on lock 23/7 cos he doesn't deserve anything but to live alone with his crimes.
 
A school groundskeeper accused of raping a 16-year-old girl has now been charged with murdering her while free on a $100,000 cash bond to prevent her from testifying at his trial.

Quinn James, 42, of Wyoming, is suspected of kidnapping Mujey Dumbuya, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, while she was on her way to school before strangling her and dumping the body in woodland.

The habitual criminal was charged on Wednesday with first-degree murder while his alleged accomplice, Gerald Bennett, 58, faces a charge of conspiracy to commit murder.

James was accused of raping the then 15-year-old in a school parking lot last summer while a groundskeeper for East Kentwood Public Schools, where she was a student


Dumbuya, who was due to testify at James' trial in April, went missing on January 24 after she failed to catch the school bus.

Her partially clothed body was found four days later in Kalamazoo woods, about 50 miles from where she lived in Grand Rapids, and the cause of death listed as 'asphyxia, including strangulation'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5604185/Man-accused-raping-Michigan-girl-charged-death.html
 
I learned that a lot of stalkers feel like their obsessions with their victims won't and unless they murder them. Id have to refund where I learned this and its obviously more complex, but being aware of this and reading this story is fucking revolting.
I'm sure he did kill her to prevent her from testifying but I'm sure he probably also had other disgusting reasons. Gross
 
A 43-year-old Michigan man accused of raping a teen and killing her after he was released on bond was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for the sexual assaults on Monday.

Quinn James, convicted earlier this year of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, declined to address the Kent County courtroom. He still faces trial for the murder of 16-year-old Mujey Dumbuya.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...n-still-faces-trial-for-her-murder/ar-BBQOz5Q
 
Do they even DO background checks or just give zero fucks all the way around?
This girls last months were a sincere Hell on Earth and the frigging adults tasked with keeping students safe made it happen.
Michigan really is an academic cesspool and it is clear seeing why.

No point in charging or jailing him now.
Not like he can do any more harm to her right guys?
:sarcasm:
My ex had felony drug charges and got hired on as grounds keeper at school district because of little or no interaction with students.. stfu with that bullshit!
 
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A man awaiting trial for kidnapping and strangling to death a 16-year-old Michigan girl in an attempt to stop her from testifying against her accused rapist has died from cancer, officials said.
Gerald Bennett, 63, of Detroit, was admitted to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing on Nov. 7 for oncological treatment, US Attorney Mark Totten said Tuesday.

Bennett, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, was placed on a ventilator the next day after his “health declined substantially.”

He succumbed to medical complications Monday, the US Attorney’s Office announced.
Bennett’s death came just 3 months before jury selection was set to begin in his federal trial stemming from the 2018 abduction and murder of 16-year-old Mujey Dumbuya.
In 2017, Dumbuya had accused Quinn James — a maintenance worker at her high school — of sexually assaulting her when she was 15.

She had been scheduled to testify at his trial in April 2018.
But in January 2018 – four months before she was set to take the witness stand — Dumbaya was snatched from a bus stop, and her semi-nude body was found days later dumped in the woods in Kalamazoo, about 50 miles southeast of her Grand Rapids home.

The girl had been strangled.

Totten said James hired Bennett to help him kidnap and kill Dumbuya, and the two men were charged in state court with murder.

James, 48, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced in April 2019 to life in prison without the possibility of parole — but Bennett was ruled unfit to stand trial, and charges against him were dropped in March 2022.
The case then was referred to the FBI and federal prosecutors, and a federal grand jury indicted Bennett in August of last year on charges of conspiracy to commit murder for hire resulting in death; kidnapping resulting in death; kidnapping a minor victim, and solicitation to commit a crime of violence.
A forensic psychologist concluded that Bennett had faked incompetency.

“While Bennett was in custody awaiting his competency hearing, he allegedly solicited another murder for hire in an effort to silence a key witness,” the US attorney’s office said. “Bennett also allegedly admitted to inmates in the jail that he was faking his incompetency.”
A judge ruled last April that Bennett was competent to stand trial on Feb. 26.

In the wake of his death, the federal case against Bennett has been dismissed.
 
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