STATE POLICE: NO CURRENT INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGED DYE FAMILY ABUSE

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AMY DYE

            KENTUCKY STATE POLICE SAY THERE HAVE BEEN NO ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATIONS OPENED IN THE CASE OF 9-YEAR OLD AMY DYE, WHO WAS MURDERED IN FEBRUARY.

            SPOKESMAN TROOPER STU RECKE SAYS THAT DOESN’T NECESSARILY MEAN THERE WON’T BE, AS STATE POLICE HAVE LEFT THEIR OPTIONS OPEN. HE SAYS THEY ARE CURRENTLY CONTINUING TO FOCUS THEIR EFFORTS ON THE HERE AND NOW AS CONFESSED MURDERER GARRETT DYE STANDS TO FACE FORMAL SENTENCING NOVEMBER 23RD IN TODD CIRCUIT COURT.

            DYE CONFESSED IN COURT TO USING A HYDRAULIC JACK HANDLE TO BEAT HIS 9-YEAR OLD ADOPTED SISTER AMY TO DEATH ON FEBRUARY 4TH OUTSIDE OF THEIR DOGWOOD ROAD HOME NEAR TRENTON, BUT INFORMATION RELEASED BY A FRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE MONDAY SHOWED A LIFETIME OF ABUSE SUFFERED BY THE YOUNG GIRL.

            A 19-PAGE RULING IN FAVOR OF THE TODD COUNTY STANDARD TO RELEASE CRUCIAL DOCUMENTS TO THE PUBLIC BY JUDGE PHILLIP SHEPHARD DETAILS ABUSE FROM THE VICTIM’S ADOPTED PARENTS, CHRIS AND KIMBERLY DYE AND AN OLDER BROTHER IN ADDITION TO GARRETT.

            THERE WERE AT LEAST EIGHT CONFIRMED OCCASSIONS WHEN SCHOOL OFFICIALS AND POSSIBLY OTHERS CALLED THE STATE FAMILY SERVICES CABINET REGIONAL OFFICE REGARDING POSSIBLE ABUSE AGAINST AMY, WITH SOME OF THOSE CLAIMS AGAINST THE PARENTS AND BROTHERS EVENTUALLY SUBSTANTIATED.

            NONE OF THEM EVER RESULTED IN HER REMOVAL FROM THE HOME.

MANY HAVE WONDERED IF THE DOCUMENTS WOULD RESULT IN AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PARENTS OR OLDER BROTHER, BUT THAT APPEARS TO HAVE NOT HAPPENED AT THIS POINT.

            TROOPER RECKE SAYS IF AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ALLEGED ABUSE AND NEGLECT WERE TO EVER BE OPENED; IT LIKELY WOULD ORIGINATE FROM STATE POLICE.

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11/11/2011/AM