COPS: Largo puppeteer wanted to “cook” and “eat” children

FLORIDA
WTSP

[with video]

Written by
Melanie Michael

Largo, Florida — The details in this case are so deviant and so diabolical the contents of the federal documents are creating a visceral reaction in people.

Those who read the material become sick to their stomachs.

A 57-year-old local puppeteer from Largo is accused of planning to kidnap children — specifically toddlers — torture them, rape them, murder them, then cook their body parts on a stove, according to federal documents.

Ronald Brown was busted by federal agents this week and is on a U.S. Marshal hold in the Pinellas County Jail. Brown lives in the Whispering Pines mobile home park in Largo off of 142nd Street. …

According to documents, Brown was targeting a little boy at a local church.

He told FBI agents, he wanted to “eat” the child. Brown also admitted in the documents that he wanted to strangle children, that he was in a group on Yahoo where he discussed his fantasies online.

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