[StBernard] Man booked with rape after bringing 15-year-old girl from Missouri to St. Bernard

[Westley Annis]

Man booked with rape after bringing 15-year-old girl from Missouri to St.
Bernard Parish
by The Times-Picayune 
Monday November 17, 2008, 2:15 PM

A Missouri man living in Violet has been booked with the rape of a
15-year-old girl he had brought to St. Bernard Parish from Missouri,
authorities said. 

Neil Scott Kramer, 39, has also been booked with carnal knowledge of a
juvenile, possession of the drug ecstasy and contributing to the delinquency
of a juvenile, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said Monday. 

Although Kramer and girl had been exchanging text messages for several
months, they had not met each other until Nov. 10 when Kramer went to the
girl's hometown to get her, the girl told investigators. 

The girl told investigators she had made arrangements via text message for
Kramer to pick her up from a convenience store in her hometown, which the
Sheriff's Office did not name. Shortly after they began driving toward St.
Bernard Parish, the girl told investigators, Kramer stopped at a hotel where
he gave her a tablet of ecstasy and had sex with her. The girl said she and
Kramer had sex several more times after arriving at his home on 2605
Packenham Road in Violet, including another instance where he provided her
with ecstasy. 

The Sheriff's Office said Kramer brought the girl to a local bar Friday
night, but that she could not get in because she could not provide
identification. They were able to get into another local bar, where Kramer
gave her more ecstasy and three alcoholic drinks, the Sheriff's Office said.


At that bar, the girl texted her mother from the bathroom and told her
mother where she was. The girl's mother contacted the Sheriff's Office to
alert them that her daughter had been kidnapped in Missouri and was in a bar
in the Violet area. 

Deputies found the girl there but she told them Kramer had left the bar with
another man. Deputies searched the area and found Kramer and another man at
a nearby cafe. Two tablets of ecstasy were found in Kramer's pocket. 

Kramer, from Buffalo, Mo., was in the area doing contracting work, the
Sheriff's Office said. He remained in St. Bernard Parish Prison Monday in
lieu of $250,000 bond. 

The girl was put on a plane and sent home to her parents