Taylor
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So sad that this has had to happen again:
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - Police were investigating whether a body found Friday is that of a 10-year-old girl who authorities said vanished with a registered sex offender.
Cedar Rapids police canceled an Amber Alert for Jetseta Marrie Gage after the body was found in rural Johnson County, but said a positive identification of the body had not been made. They did not say if it was the body of a child.
Roger Bentley, 37, a family acquaintance, was taken into custody in Johnson County for questioning early Friday, but has not been charged. He is accused of taking Jetseta from her mother’s house in nearby Cedar Rapids on Thursday night.
Telephone messages left Friday for officials with the Johnson County sheriff’s department were not immediately returned.
According to state’s Sex Offender Registry, Bentley was convicted in 1994 of lascivious acts with a child.
Police said he was working on the van of Jetseta’s mother, Trena Gage, Thursday night before disappearing with the child.
Gage, who was away at the time taking a college course, said her 7-year-old son saw Bentley leave in his pickup with Jetseta. The children’s grandmother also was at home.
“I’m distraught. I’m just praying,” she told The (Cedar Rapids) Gazette. “I just want her home.”
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