Fugitive accused of raping a 3-year-old girl on videotape finally arrested

[Emit]

Glad they caught this guy. Heard about it on our local news last night:

Police arrest man in girl's videotaped rape
KEN RITTER ([email protected])

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
October 16, 2007

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A fugitive accused of raping a 3-year-old girl on videotape was arrested quietly during a traffic stop, telling the officer, “I’m tired of running,” police said.

Chester “Chet” Arthur Stiles, 37, was scheduled for a warrant hearing Wednesday in a Las Vegas court after being pulled over late Monday in Henderson for not having a license plate. He admitted his identity after police said his license looked suspicious.

“He said, ’I’m Chester Stiles, the guy you’re looking for,’” Henderson police Officer Mike Dye said. “He said, ’I’m tired of running.’”

Las Vegas police Capt. Vincent Cannito said Stiles has been wanted since Oct. 5 on warrants issued for 21 felony charges in connection with the acts seen on the videotape. The charges include lewdness with a minor, sexual assault and attempted sexual assault.

The videotape, found in the rural Nevada town of Pahrump last month, had prompted an equally intense search for the young girl who appeared in it. Police with little to go on had encouraged news organizations to broadcast the haunting image of the 3-year-old. When the now-7-year-old was found on Sept. 28, authorities shifted their resources to finding Stiles.

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071016/NEWS18/71016002&oaso=news.rgj.com/breakingnews

[poverlay]

1. This is why I have a hard time outlawing the death penalty completely. I don't care what

mitigating circumstances are. Anyone who commits such horror should be ended as quickly as possible.

[redqueen]

3. Best to use a life sentence...

always a possibility they may be innocent.

[Warpy]

4. I'd prefer he get relieved of the offending appendages.

but a life sentence will do nicely.

[poverlay]

7. ALL the appendages are offending and I don't think a life sentence will even come close. It is this

poor child who has the "life sentence".

[Emit]

6. On that subject, they just halted an execution here in NV last night

the inmate wasn't contesting:

Inmate 'disappointed' execution stopped

Death row inmate William Castillo was “very disappointed” tonight that the Nevada Supreme Court canceled his execution about 90 minutes before he was scheduled to have a lethal injection.
“He asked if it was possible to get more medication to calm him,” Nevada Department of Corrections Director Howard Skolnik said of Castillo’s reaction. “He wanted something to take the edge off.”
The court convened at
4 p.m. today to hear arguments and about 7 p.m. stayed the execution and gave the American Civil Liberties Union and the state attorney general 20 days to file briefs regarding the ACLU’s last-minute request that the execution method is unconstitutional because the drugs masks the inmate’s reaction, denying news media the First Amendment right to report the actual effects of the injection.
~snip~

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071015/NEWS18/71015041&oaso=news.rgj.com/breakingnews

[Forkboy]

8. As tempting as people like this make it, I still won't give in to that feeling for revenge.

And make no mistake, that's all it is.And while the emotion is certainly understandable I refuse to give in to it.Too dark a road for who I want to be, and a feeling that I suspect would be easier and easier to acquiesce to afterwards.

[poverlay]

12. And it would be unjust to execute all child-rapers how? I'm not really a proponet of the DP, but

3 YEARS OLD???!!! Doesn't that make you want revenge, or at least make you willing to go to any length(death) to ensure it never happens again?
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[Forkboy]

16. It does make me want revenge, which is why it scares me.

I've dealt in violence personally all too often in the past...it's the wrong path, in all forms, including this one.Like I say, I understand the feeling all too well...and that's why I steer clear of it now.It's as destructive to us as it is to the person we're taking that revenge on.

Please understand that I'm not trying to defend this bastard...but I'm not going to take part in the the type of violent actions that would make us his near equal.

Life in prison without parole also ensures it never happens again (and prison sucks...a lifetime there would be hell, whereas death can be a welcomed thing), and it does so without us sinking to the level of murder for the sake of making us feel better in the name of safety.

[MrCoffee]

18. that is one hell of an enlightened response

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[Forkboy]

19. Thanks.That's the first time "enlightened" and I have ever been associated with one another.

:D

[poverlay]

20. It scares me too. It just doesn't scare me as much as letting this crime go unanswered(enough), and

I can't summon the empathy to allow life-imprisonment to be an adequate answer.

You're right in that it brings out all my worst impulses. I guess I'm just not enlightened enough to allow the rape of a 3 yo without torturing and possibly killing those responsible...
I can't even find it in me to wish I could.
Does that make me a lesser person? Is that level of forgiveness, empathy, caution, heck I don't know what you call it, learnable?

Did you support the DP in the past?
If so, what brought you to disavow it if I may ask?

[Forkboy]

21. First and foremost it doesn't make you a lesser person.

I feel exactly what you feel.At times I'd bet even more so.It's a daily struggle not to give in to such feelings for me.I don't know if it's learnable for everyone because I fight it daily.

But let me ask, how much punishment does it take before you feel it's enough? Is it really a matter of punishment or do you need that blood to spill? For me it's matter of who I am.I don't want to be that person who gives into that violent instinct anymore.

Yes, I used to support the death penalty, and at times would have administered it myself.Those days are hopefully behind me, though cases like this still stir those feelings.I don't know what exactly made me against it.A combination of things I guess, from realizing that it was just a matter of satisfying my own personal bloodlust to a serious discomfort with the concept of the State deciding who should be dead and who shouldn't.There was no one thing I can point to, just a building of ideas and thoughts over the years.

Let me make something clear: I don't think any less of you for feeling what you feel.Shit like this boils my brain as well, and even with my views this man is lucky the police found him before I did.But knowing that very feeling is inside me scares me, and my fear is that if I give in to it once more, I will again, and it'll get easier and easier with each instance.I've spent twenty plus years avoiding going further down that path, and no matter how someone like this makes me feel it's crucial to who I am to not give into that urge.

It's not about him...it's about me.And I don't know if I'm right or not.

[poverlay]

24. Thank you. I will think long on what you have said. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

22. Thank you for this post.

Part of my opposition to the death penalty is because of harm it does to us, as a society and as individuals, to mimic the behavior of those we condemn most.

[Forkboy]

23. That's a big part of it for me as well.

As I said to the other poster, it comes down to me and who I am (or hope to be, more accurately) more than what this person did.We can never claim to be civilized if we engage in revenge killings, no matter how deserved we may feel they are.

I'd LOVE to see this man dead.

I'd HATE to see it decided by us.

[redqueen]

2. They really need to start locking these people up for life

on the first offense.

This kind of crime is just not treated seriously.

[riderinthestorm]

5. Anyone want to take bets on how long this guy lasts in the prison population?

I hear that justice is swift for child rapists - and the girl was only 3 years old. I don't think he's gonna last for a "life sentence", even if he somehow gets one.

Not that I am shedding any tears for this shithead. He's recorded on videotape for christ's sake! I only hope his end is brutal, painful and takes a long time. That little girl will never recover. :cry:

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Maybe we should put him on the rack and disembowel him?

You know, handing your torture desires over to convicts doesn't make you any less a torture proponent.

Medieval and sick, rider. Pre-Enlightenment and unAmerican shite.

[riderinthestorm]

10. Nice ASSumption that I am talking about torture.

Where the fuck do you read that into it? Would it make you feel better if I phrased it as wishing this sick fuck rotted in hell (where presumably his ending will be brutal, long and painful)? Or is that going to earn me another self-righteous scold?

Can the judgement and quit reading shite into other peoples' posts that isn't there.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. Oh please

You just got called on your medieval and despicable beliefs, and now you're trying to hide behind "assumptions." Like it takes some sort of literary critic to read torture into your post! Hilarious.

1) He will not live a long time (because the other prisoners will get him)
2) His end should be BRUTAL, PAINFUL, and take a long time.

Yeah! What a wacky reading I did! Holy cow! How did I ever get THAT idea?

Don't be a coward. Own your ruthless nonsense.

[riderinthestorm]

17. I guess you got that into your head cause you ASSume posters on DU

are somehow for torture?

I dunno, you got me, I guess I don't understand a literary critic such as yourself.

Too bad you weren't up for a discussion instead of simply flinging accusations, it's just so, so much braver that way. I can't and won't banter about rapists, especially child rapists. Have you seen the results of what they do? Daily? For decades? Without even seeking to clarify what I may or may not have meant, your immediate thought is to believe everyone is talking about some kind of physical torture.

Rape victims live the rest of their lives in FEAR, and ANGER, and too many other emotions to reel off cavalierly on an anonymous message board. Their lives are brutal, painful and however long their lives last, it is sometimes too long for them. I can wish that Chester Stiles suffers the same fate as his victims without believing he should be physically tortured and if you knew even ONE rape victim, you would perhaps have even a tiny bit of an inkling of what I am saying. Chester Stiles will be killed rapily in prison, that isn't ruthless nonsense. It is a fact. He doesn't deserve to be let out of his pain though - not that fast, not that easily. I can hope that he spends his time in fear, looking over his shoulder, waiting to be attacked, and that his existence is racked with the brutality of living with that kind of emotional pain for a very long time. And THAT doesn't make me some kind of proponent of torture.

Own the fact that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about when you want to spew self-righteous and self-aggrandizing shit about rape, rapists, victims and REAL punishment. I mean, cause gee whizzo, it's just so medieval and despicable to believe Chester Stiles should suffer any consequences, right?

[Beelzebud]

11. Good. That was a very disturbing story, and I hope this sick fuck gets put away forever.

[MrCoffee]

13. when convicted, it deserves a life sentence, without a shred of hope for parole

[aikoaiko]

14. This is a good candidate for death penalty -- if ...

one is sure its a 3 year old and one is sure its him on the tape.