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Thread #68747 Message #1162550
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
15-Apr-04 - 01:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Civil liberties gone amuck? Or is California just more whacko that usual?
Thursday, April 15, 2004
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/169174_molester15.html
Serial child molester is set free
By VANESSA HO, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
In the spring of 1996, Blue Kartak was a baby-faced 16-year-old runaway in Seattle when he met a friendly man at a coffeehouse who promised to take him to Disneyland.
The man turned out to be a serial child molester who drugged and raped Kartak in a motel room in California.
His attacker, Edward Harvey Stokes, was convicted and given a life sentence for the crime. But last week, Stokes -- who's said he has attacked more than 200 victims -- walked out of a California jail as a free man and moved back to Washington state. The reason: A state appeals court ruled he never had a chance to confront his accuser -- Kartak -- who committed suicide before Stokes' trial.
the rest of this story is online