Chester Arthur Stiles' court-appointed lawyer told reporters a couple days ago that Chet is "a little down in the mouth." Luckily, he's also a little down in solitary confinement for his own safety.
You might recall that Chester the Accused Molester was the prey in a nationwide manhunt after Nevada deputies showed images from a videotape allegedly showing a man -- identified as Stiles -- raping a 2-year-old girl named Madison. (Early on, Madison was believed to be 3 years old in the tape, but it's since been determined she was even younger.)
"He's caught a lot of heat in the media, and guys in the jail watch television just like a lot of folks,"
public defender Jeff Banks said. "It's a very prejudicial charge, so of course I'm concerned about his safety."
Duh. Maybe our hope that convicts take perverse liberties with baby-rapers is a little overblown, but it's a comforting thought, isn't it?
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The mother of one of Chester Arthur Stiles' alleged molestation/rape victims was disappointed that the accused pedophile was arrested peacefully Monday night, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports this morning. Instead, ex-girlfriend Tina Allen was hoping for a much more painful police shootout.
Allen also told the R-J that police should get a restraining order against her because she desperately wants to hurt Stiles. Asked what she might say to Stiles if she had a chance, she simply said, "I'd scratch his eyes out."
Police also report that shortly after the alleged survivalist Stiles -- whom they feared would never be taken alive -- surrendered during a routine traffic stop, he barfed in the parking lot where he was stopped.
Stiles was jailed and the car he was driving was left overnight in the parking lot of a Subway restaurant. Looky-loos peeked into the vehicle and wondered aloud about the cardboard box in the front seat and trash strewn on the floor. The word "sorry" was smeared on the dusty driver-side window.
They figure Stiles wrote it.
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Accused child-rapist Chester Arthur Stiles will stand before a Las Vegas judge on Friday. It won't be a momentous legal occasion -- the judge will merely set his arraignment date -- but it will be the first time the general public will lay eyes on a man accused of videotaping his rape of a little girl named Madison. Do you think cameras will be there?
Almost since Madison was first identified from the video, she was said to be 3 years old at the time of the rape. Sadly, her mom's attorney now says Madison was even younger at the time.
Can't you just hear the mothers of America sharpening their blades?
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STUPID: A child rapist videotapes his crime against a 3-year-old girl. STUPIDER: "Losing" that tape.
STUPIDEST: Prime suspect in child rape driving a car without license plates, carrying somebody else's driver's license, in the same town where his crime was committed ... and not shaving his trademark Thin-Man mustache.
Yep, Chester Arthur Stiles, accused in the videotaped rape of a 3-year-old named Madison, was busted during a routine traffic stop in Las Vegas last night. When the cop noticed that he bore no resemblance to the person on the driver's license, he 'fessed up. "Hey, I'm Chester Stiles," he said. "I'm the guy you're looking for. I'm sick of running."
Stiles now faces 21 possible felony charges and a wrathful community. In Vegas, you can bet they're taking odds on the outcome.
In the end, though, it turns out that Chet wasn't the knife-wielding survivalist he painted himself to be. Instead, he was a victim of his own stupidity -- again. Never take him alive? Ha.
If he proves to be Madison's rapist -- and his homemade videotape will be his most damning witness -- may prison life prove to be a life lesson for Chet about what it feels like to be powerless and exploited.
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UPDATE on "Where's Chester?"
While cops still hunt for Chester Arthur Stiles (left), the mother of his alleged rape victim -- a little 7-year-old girl named Madison -- is hardly cutting a sympathetic figure.
It turns out the videotaped rape of her 3-year-old daughter was committed while Madison was left with a babysitter -- possibly the unmolested older girl seen on the video or an adult friend who clearly were not as responsible as a typical mother might like. Mom is believed to have been working her two jobs 6 days a week and living in a friend's apartment when the video was made, but her own lawyer admitted Tuesday that the abuse had likely been going on even before the tape was made. But Mom has no inkling?
While America had been seeing Madison's face on the news for a couple days as cops tried desperately to identify her, Mom was oblivious. Does she notice anything at all?
And when her lawyer was asked if Madison's mother was at least grateful for the news media circulating photos that helped break this case, he replied: "Not really ... there's some things maybe you don't want to know." She would have preferred not to know of the trauma against her daughter? She would have rather just let it pass?
Say what you will about women's intuition, but she apparently had no hint that her child had been raped by a stranger in their midst. Then her distraction from the world around her allows crucial days to pass before police can get Madison's identity, a pivotal development in identifying her rapist.
My heart aches for little Madison, and every day that her rapist roams free my anger grows. But I'm beginning to get a picture of her mother as a disconnected, distracted and desperate woman whose own dysfunctions -- whatever they might be -- put her baby girl in the hands of exploiters.
The rapist must take all the blame -- and I hope there's plenty to be meted out -- for his crime against Madison. But the scant peripheral evidence is suggesting to me that Madison's oblivious mother unwittingly put her at risk, a pathetically common scenario in many molestation cases where predators focus like a laser beam on children whose parents have left them vulnerable to abuse.
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Chester Arthur Stiles' court-appointed lawyer told reporters a couple days ago that Chet is "a little down in the mouth." Luckily, he's also a little down in solitary confinement for his own safety.
