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Terry Dusseault Jr.: Amber Alert Issued for Boy On the Run With His Sex Offender Father

By Pete Kotz in Sex crimes, missing persons
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 10:35 am
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UPDATE: Terry Dusseault Sr. was arrested at a New Jersey drug store yesterday after a motorist recognized his car from the Amber Alert and called police. Terry Jr. was also found safe. Terry Sr. is now charged with molesting three boys over and 18-month period. See update after the jump...

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Terry Dusseault Sr. disappeared from his New Jersey home just as police were about to arrest him for abusing three boys
Terry Dusseault Sr. is not a good man. He's registered as a sex offender in North Carolina for possession of child porn. Police in Burlington County, New Jersey were about to arrest him again yesterday for molesting three boys over the last 18 months.

But by the time they arrived, Dusseault had disappeared from the Lumberton home where he lives with his brother. And he'd taken his 8-year-old son, Terry Jr., with him.

Dusseault's brother says he's worried about Terry's mental state. Though he isn't suspected of abusing his son, he's surely aware that a second conviction for pedophilia will send him to prison for a long time. And he won't be treated well by his new roommates.

Dusseault's believed to be driving his girlfriend's 2001 Hyundai Santa Fe with New Jersey plates LXB-61U. He's wanted for aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. It's unclear how he new the three juveniles he's accused of molesting. Terry Jr.'s biological mother is dead.

UPDATE: Terry Sr. has been captured, and Terry Jr. has been found safe.

A motorist recognized the 2001 black Hyundai Santa Fe, which led police to pull Dusseualt over in a drug store parking lot. Both father and son were uninjured, but it's unknown what new charges Terry Sr. might face for his flight.

According to his neighbor, Amy White, Dusseualt borrowed her car to get Terry Jr. a haircut, but never came back. He called White as police were searching his home Tuesday, and said he would be right back. But he never returned. White had no idea he was wanted for molesting kids, or that he'd been convicted of sex crimes in North Carolina.

Dusseualt, who had sole custody of Terry Jr. since his wife died of kidney failure in 2002, had moved to New Jersey following his conviction in North Carolina. But even his relatives didn't know he was a sex offender. The kitchen worker simply told them that an ex-girlfriend was causing him problems, and that the North Carolina charges had been dismissed long ago.

See our last episode of missing children: Norma Lopez Missing: Police Believe She Was Abducted on Her Way Home From School.

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