Rapist found dead

Convicted rapist Bryan E. Halstead was arrested after police say he attempted to lure a teenage girl into meeting him for sex.

Naperville police arrested Halstead on Tuesday afternoon, and he was taken to Stateville on Tuesday night for violating the terms of his parole. Police said Halstead had come to Naperville to meet a 16-year-old girl with whom he had been corresponding on MySpace.com.

Halstead was paroled from prison in December after serving roughly half of a 45-year prison sentence he received in 1986 for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl and for shooting her father. The shooting victim survived the attack.

Honestly, he should have never been free to begin with.

Halstead will not be facing any more prison time for this latest crime. Nor will he be released into the public. Instead of facing justice for his crimes, he opted to hang himself in his jail cell.

Illinois Department of Corrections spokesman Derek Schnapp said the body of Bryan E. Halstead, 44, of Chicago Heights was discovered Wednesday morning in a cell at Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet. The death is being investigated as a suicide, Schnapp said.

The Naked Sex Offender

It's normal to be naked in the shower. It is not normal however to be naked in the shower and then realise that outside of your shower curtain is another naked person who you didn't invite in- especially when it turns out that that naked person is a convicted sexual offender.

Police say the suspect, Christopher Eddy, a.k.a. "Crazy" Eddy, has a long criminal history with convictions for assault, harassment and child rape.

Last Tuesday, the woman, who KING 5 News is not identifying, was taking a shower in her Everett home. Her children were upstairs.

The shower curtain moved like someone had opened the door. When the woman looked, she saw a man standing there, naked from the waist down.

The situation could have goten even worse for the woman when the man forced her out of the bathroom and into another room of the house. Thankfully, she was able to grab her phone and call 911 before getting away from the pervert.

The victim made an excuse to go to another room. The suspect waited behind. When the victim told a 911 dispatcher what was happening, police came running.

"They tackled him in her living room and found his clothes sitting in the bushes," said Moore.

Eddy's last known address was in Marysville. Court records show that in 2004, he was convicted of raping a child, but when he got out of prison, he failed to register as a sex offender. Last January, he was convicted of failing to register and got 90 days in jail, but was let out a month early for good behavior.

"That really makes me scared of what kind of system Washington's running," said Moore.

Brian Anthony Reavis

Brian Anthony Reavis might just be one of the most 'deserving death penalty' creeps I've read about.

Police say that Reavis, 41 attacked a 95 year old woman while she was sitting on the front porch of her home. At first, he only pushed his way into her home and demanded money. But once inside, after the victim gave him $20 he decided to force her upstairs.

Then the man forced her upstairs to get her purse, raped her and beat her, severely injuring her eye.

Neighbors rallied to help the woman after the attack. They distributed hundreds of posters offering a money reward with a police sketch of the suspect.

95 years old, and should be enjoying life- but instead having to experience the acts of this deviant predator.

Signs I need a vacation...

I read the headline in COMPLETE shock. I mean, I'd just seen Seal and his lovely little wife on Oprah... and they were so happy, and so normal- well normal if you're a rich Hollywood superstar with the world laid at your feet. But still, Seal didn't come off seeming like someone who would be so so, low.


But there it was, the headline that said it all: "Sexual predator: Seal's sex attack on penguin". I was almost too disgusted to even click the link. I mean, I've read some pretty bad 'human to animal' sex crime cases... but SEAL? OMFG.

Thankfully, I managed to click the link, and that's when it hit me... perhaps I've been covering sex crimes for too damn long.

The Antarctic fur seal was observed by South African scientists attempting to have sex with the king penguin on Marion Island, in the sub-Antarctic region. The incident was recorded in the Journal of Ethology.

The effort lasted forty-five fruitless minutes, according to the BBC.

A seal. Not Seal. Not the Seal, the Seal who's a famous singer guy married to a woman with kids and a life. Not the human superstar Seal. But a seal. A mammal, a wild animal.

Geez. I need a vacation.

Cops and fetishes...

A former Munhall officer has been charged with hosting parties for teenage girls in which he bought them alcohol and on occasion let some of the illegally drive his car. Still employee police officers have alleged that Michael John Curtain was allowing middle and high school under aged girls openly drink at his home, the youngest of the girls was just 13.

And, while that's creepy and clearly in bad judgement- it keeps a little creepier as the story continues:

One girl told police Curtain admitted to having a foot fetish.

In a unanimous vote, Munhall Boro Council dismissed Curtain in February. It was a personal matter, and it's now in the criminal courts.

Curtain faces multiple criminal counts, including indecent assault, endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors and selling and furnishing alcohol to minors.

Reminds me of something... just can't figure out what... oh wait, I know- it's that wonderful piece of advice we give to kids in case they ever find themselves in a difficult situation in need of help 'find a police officer'. Let's just hope that those kids who end up needing to use that advice are able to find one of the many good ones, rather than a bad apple like Curtain.

Well, it's a lesson in stupidity

Dream Demon has a post up you just have to read. It starts with a teacher, Donna Sanders. She teaches special ed. I'm thinking she might be in more need of a 'special education' than her students are. As a parent, and a teacher- we just sort of expect that she'd have more brains than her actions proved she had.

And, while we're talking about people with the mentality of a primate- Women in Crime Inc has a case proving the need to keep sexual predators on the other side of the prison bars... for life.

Adding to the list of bad excuses

I've heard some insane excuses for why a man would beat a woman- so I've rarely taken back by just how stupid someone expects the rest of us to be when they ramble out some story that would make Baron Münchhausen look like an honest man. But, this one is worth mentioning- just for the fact that it's so- out of this world, or at least out of this life (and into the afterlife).

Willie Leon McCoy is 52. Last year, he was convicted of various charges including aggravated incest, sexual assault on child by someone in a position of trust, and sexual assault on a child, pattern of abuse; after it was alleged that he's sexually abused his 6 year old stepdaughter. McCoy says that as a result of these charges (which he denies) his mental condition spiraled downhill, leading him to drink... a lot. He was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison, which is to be expected of course. But- the interesting defense he gave didn't involve the sexual assault, it was his explanation of why he beat his wife with a baseball bat.

A 52-year-old man convicted of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter and beating his wife with a baseball bat because he thought she was a ghost was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison.

A ghost? Seriously? Do the rest of us look that damn stupid?

Teach of the Year... never

Timothy Allen Rhodes isn't likely to be getting the Teacher of the Year Award from his now former employee Pleasant Plains Elementary, especially since he was charged Thursday with sex abuse of a minor, second-degree child abuse, second-degree assault and third-degree sex offense.

The school system's policy is to place employees facing criminal charges on administrative leave, but Herndon said he could not confirm Rhodes' employment status because it is a personnel matter.

According to Baltimore County police, the girl and her mother contacted police on April 11, after the girl told her mother she'd been abused and indicated that she wanted to change schools. Citing student privacy concerns, Herndon declined to say whether the girl attends Pleasant Plains Elementary.

Rhodes' wife watched the girl before and after school to help the victim's mother, who was going to school, police said.

Police say the abuse occurred between 20 to 30 times, and also included Rhodes showing the girl porn, in order to "instruct her on sexual acts he desired".

Molester VS Dad

Stop the ACLU has a post up on a father who took on the sexual deviant he found in his daughters room.

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