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Published: 2010-09-23 13:32:49
Updated: 2010-09-23 13:32:49

Posted: September 23, 2010

Dudley man, 63, charged with raping child

Thomas Earl Gray

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Dudley, N.C. — A 63-year-old Dudley man has been charged with sexually abusing a young girl over the course of three years, according to the Wayne County Sheriff's Office.

Thomas Earl Gray, of 104 Lockmere Circle, was charged with first-degree rape of a child and first-degree sex offense with a child.

Capt. Tom Effler said that a complaint about child abuse was filed on Sept. 9, and the subsequent investigation determined that Gray had been abusing the girl since she was 6 years old. The girl is now nine.

Gray was placed in the Wayne County jail under a $500,000 secured bond.

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This SCUM should not even get a bond! A man, and I use the term loosely, in today's climate of heightened child abuses, he is this self absorbed cretin who feels the "right" to destroy the present and future life of a child's soul ongoing for over three years at his whims because he wanted to get a nut??????????????? Castration comes to mind. Inmates, u know what to do.
Click to view my profile DizzyDaphnee
September 24, 2010 11:53 a.m.
Pdeophiles need to be permanently removed from society. No second, third, or more chances.
Click to view my profile 2012notobama
September 23, 2010 6:14 p.m.
They need much stricter laws for this kind of crime. Personally I think automatic castration AND life in prison without possibility of parole would be letting them off easy.
cn38of50
September 23, 2010 5:47 p.m.
"Pedophiles CAN be cured. They don't need to be permanently removed from society."

I'm not willing to take that chance. Rapists, of a young child or adult, should be shot, period.
Click to view my profile umop apisdn
September 23, 2010 5:05 p.m.
Does he have a record of doing this kind of thing before?
wildcat
September 23, 2010 4:43 p.m.
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