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12-Year-Old Brittany Mae Smith Found; Jeffrey Easley Arrested

December 13, 2010 at 8:03 am by Jaded

San Francisco, CA – I had every intention of updating this story over the weekend, but was slapped with a ragin’ case of the winter crud. Anyway, if you have been following the Brittany Mae Smith case, then you are already aware that she was found alive and unharmed on Friday – as was her alleged abductor, 32-year-old Jeffrey Easley. The two hadn’t been seen since December 3, when they were captured on surveillance video buying camping gear at a Walmart in Salem, Virginia. About a week later, an alert clerk spotted the pair outside of a Safeway grocery store and alerted authorities. Easley was taken into custody without incident and is currently being held in San Francisco pending his extradition to Roanoke County. He’s looking at a felony abduction charge in Roanoke County and felony counts of attempted credit card fraud and credit card larceny in the City of Roanoke. Brittany was taken into protective custody and will soon be reunited with her family. Authorities have stated that Brittany is being cooperative with investigators and is fully aware that her mother is dead. Whether she willingly left Virginia with Easley is still unknown at this point and authorities remain tight-lipped about the investigation into Tina Smith’s death.

Tags: Amber Alert, California, Kidnapping

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JGo555

*Place picture of Easley here*
And this is what a fuckwad looks like, ladies & gentlemen.
Miss Anthrope

I just have this strange gut feeling that Brittany was somehow involved in all of this – the death of her mother – the credit card theft and running away with her mother’s boyfriend. I really hope I am wrong about this but I do not think I am. They look too close in the pictures of them together and it is not uncommon for teenage girls to go through this weird dissociative fugue mental state when they want something (which is always) . . .
Manderkin

I unfortunately agree with Miss Anthrope. I have been following this since I first read about it here and I just have this feeling that Brittany knew more than the media wants to let on. If you followed the facebook page dedicated to finding Brittany, many of her friends and neighbors hinted at a relationship between herself and Easley, and they too thought that she was a willing participant…in all of it. That being said, she is only 12. At 12 yes, you know right from wrong… but at 12 you also don’t have a ton of common sense or a grasp on the long term consequences of your actions. I feel for her though because no matter what, her mom is gone and this whole ordeal is going to be something that will haunt her for the rest of her life. I am interested though in seeing what comes out now that they have been found.
comnsns

If Easley was intimately connected to the family he had plenty of time to abuse his position of authority and control. You can be sure that a pedophile/murderer would say any and everything to prey on an innocent child. Furthermore identifying with the perpetrator has been documented a countless number of times. It’s called the Stockholm syndrome. It’s a survival instinct. Let’s not forget who the victims are here, folks.