Hey, Can A Woman "Ask To Get Raped"?

Can you imagine being the victim of a rape by him and listening to him say those things in court?

From model recovering offender to alleged rapist
By Erin Alberty
The Salt Lake Tribune
Published Sep 10, 2010

After his previous child sex abuse charge, Richard Randall seemed to do everything right.

“He falls into the small number of men who come to our agency … hungry for treatment and the support needed in changing their lives,” Randall’s therapist wrote in 1999, before he was sentenced for asking a 9-year-old girl to touch his genitals.

Now Randall is accused of abducting and raping a 4-year-old girl in a Sandy Deseret Industries store.

“For whatever reason, a switch flipped,” said Sgt. Jon Arnold, who is heading the investigation into Tuesday’s rape allegation. “I wish I knew what made these guys tick ... why he chose to be that brazen.”

In jail booking documents, police wrote that the 4-year-old asked to go look at the toys in the store at 727 E. 9400 South, while her mother shopped. Her mother let the girl go to the toy aisle and went to check on her “within a few minutes,” police wrote.

The girl was not there.

After searching the store, asking staff for help and paging the child, the mother knocked on the door of the men’s bathroom and called out the girl’s name.

“Mom! Mom!” the girl yelled from inside the locked bathroom, police wrote.

The mother told the girl to open the door, but the girl replied, “I can’t.” The girl later told police that Randall was on top of her, investigators wrote.

The mother continued pounding on the door until Randall opened it. The mother tried to grab Randall, but he struggled and escaped, running out of the store.

Three men in the store chased Randall and tackled him in the parking lot of a nearby Taco Time, police wrote. He was booked into jail on suspicion of rape of a child, aggravated sexual abuse of a child and aggravated kidnapping.

Randall, 41, of Midvale, has not been charged with a sex crime since he pleaded guilty in 1999 to attempted sexual abuse of the 9-year-old, a 3rd-degree felony that was reduced from his initial charge of 2nd-degree felony sexual abuse of a child.

Court documents indicate he was reported then to be a model recovering offender.

“I was impressed with his apparent honesty, self understanding and motivation for treatment,” Randall’s therapist wrote before his sentencing. “He takes full responsibility not only for his offense, but for the sexual obsession that led to his offense. He is aware of his attraction to children but is ... committed to making the changes that he needs to ... refocus his sexuality upon his adult interests.”

Randall avoided his suspended 5-year prison sentence by serving 90 days in jail without incident, meeting every term of his 3-year probation and completing classes in victim empathy, assault cycle, interpersonal relationships, sex education, “thinking errors” and anger management and assertiveness, his attorney, Mark Moffat wrote.

Randall holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and an associate’s degree in business management, Moffat wrote in a 2003 request to reduce Randall’s conviction to a misdemeanor because the felony was deterring employers — a request that prosecutors stipulated and a judge granted.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50247545-76/randall-store-girl-wrote.html.csp

Pitt Student Says She Woke Up To Rapist In Room
Woman Says She Was Assaulted, Threatened
September 12, 2010

PITTSBURGH -- A University of Pittsburgh student reported to police that she was sexually assaulted at her home in Oakland on Sunday morning.

The 20-year-old woman said that she woke up around 5 a.m. to the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs of her home in the 3300 block of Parkview Avenue.

Police said her three roommates were in separate rooms when an unknown black man entered the victim’s bedroom.

According to reports, the man closed and locked the door behind him and told the victim not to yell or he would kill her.

The victim reported to police that one of her roommates heard noises and called out to her to see if she was OK. The victim said that the man had her constrained and made her tell her roommate she was fine.

The woman said the man sexually assaulted her and left the home around 7 a.m., the same time that one of her roommates reported hearing the front door slam shut.

The victim called police who set a perimeter to try and catch the man but came up with negative results.

After further investigation, detectives discovered a broken lock on a lower front window and believe that is how the man got inside.

Neighbors told Channel 4 Action News reporter Keith Jones that they can’t believe something like this happened.

"It makes me kind of mad that that happened right next door because I was awake when it happened too, it makes me feel like I could have done something,” said Aaron Guy.

The man was described as black with a dark complexion, approximately 5 feet 7 inches tall and with a muscular build. He was wearing a bandana or skull cap and what appeared to be some sort of webbing over his face.

The victim took herself to UPMC Presbyterian to get checked out and was released.

Pittsburgh’s SAFC Unit was conducting the investigation.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/r/24979932/detail.html

Providence officer gets 40-year term for rape
Woman assaulted in a substation
By Eric Tucker, Associated Press
September 9, 2010

PROVIDENCE — A suspended Providence police officer who raped a woman inside an empty police substation, then responded to her family’s 911 call, was sentenced yesterday to 40 years in prison by a judge who called his actions “something out of a horror movie.’’

Marcus Huffman, 40, was convicted of first-degree sexual assault for the March 2007 rape of a woman he picked up outside a Providence nightclub while on duty. Prosecutors say that the woman was drunk at the time and physically helpless and that Huffman offered her a ride home but drove her to a substation, raped her, and left her on the bathroom floor.

The woman walked to her aunt’s house, and after her family called 911 to report the attack, Huffman was among the officers who responded. Prosecutors say he never mentioned he had encountered her earlier.

“That is something out of a horror movie,’’ contended Superior Court Judge Netti Vogel, who said Huffman had tarnished the Police Department and described him as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.’’

Huffman, who joined the force in 1994 and has been suspended without pay, tearfully apologized in court to the woman, his family, and to the Police Department for what he described as a lapse in judgment.

But he and his lawyer have maintained that no rape occurred and that the woman instead invited him into the substation bathroom and engaged in a consensual sex act with him.

The woman testified at trial that she is a lesbian, is not physically attracted to men, and never consented to sex with Huffman.

The Associated Press generally does not identify victims of sex crimes.

Huffman met the woman outside a Providence nightclub three years ago after she was turned away for being too drunk. Tests revealed she had a blood-alcohol level three times above the legal limit for driving. Huffman was on duty and in a marked cruiser when he invited the woman into the car and told her he would take her home.

“The defendant used his authority as a police officer to lure his victim, a physically helpless woman, into a police cruiser with the pretense of taking her home,’’ Vogel said.

“He never intended to take her home. The substation was the perfect place to commit the perfect crime.’’

Huffman’s lawyer, Robert Caron, said the sentence was excessive and he would appeal.

Police Chief Dean Esserman called the sentence appropriate.

“He does not represent what the Providence Police Department and our officers stand for,’’ Esserman said in a statement.

Besides his prison term, Huffman also faces a 20-year suspended sentence and 20 years of probation. He was ordered to undergo sex offender counseling and to register as a sex offender after he’s released from prison.

Prosecutor Maureen Keough said the woman was too traumatized to appear in court to address Huffman. She said the rape had left the woman, who was 19 at the time, afraid of police.

“What he’s done in injecting this level of mistrust and fear of police officers is devastating,’’ Keough said.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2010/09/09/providence_officer_gets_40_year_term_for_rape/

"Sicko" sentenced to prison for threatening women
Many of his victims were local TV reporters
By Dana Littlefield, UNION-TRIBUNE
Friday, September 10, 2010 at 6:49 p.m.

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego man who called himself a “dangerous sicko” when he wrote threatening letters and placed harassing phone calls to several women, many of them local television reporters, was sentenced Friday to seven years and eight months in prison.

Christopher Hass, 58, pleaded guilty last month to felony and misdemeanor charges, including stalking and making criminal threats, linked to nine victims. Authorities said the crimes were carried out over nearly three years beginning around May 2007.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Charles Gill sentenced Hass to the maximum term available and ordered him to register as a sex offender for life, noting that Hass remains a danger to the public.

Defense lawyer Gregory Turner objected to the sex registration, stating that Hass never touched any of the victims. The attorney also said any risk Hass may pose would be lessened by ongoing therapy.

“I’m not prepared to take that risk,” the judge responded.

According to testimony from previous hearings, Hass contacted the victims either by phone or mail, identified himself as a “dangerous sicko” and ordered them to say or do things such as wear open-toed shoes or hoop earrings while on-air. He threatened to rape or strangle them with pantyhose if they didn’t comply.

Hass was linked to the crimes through DNA evidence obtained from some his letters. Authorities searched his car and found paperwork containing the names and personal information of dozens of women, including seven of the nine women named in this case.

There was no evidence he ever carried out any of the threats, authorities said.

Deputy District Attorney Wendy Patrick argued Friday that Hass deserved the prison sentence and sex-offender registration because of the sophistication of his crimes, the explicit and specific nature of his threats, and the emotional trauma he inflicted on the victims.

She said some of the women — local TV personalities, and at least one teacher and one real estate agent — starting changing their behavior out of fear. Some bought alarm systems or changed their clothes before leaving work. One woman began sleeping with pepper spray next to her bed.

“It was so personal,” Patrick said, adding that Hass apparently knew where they lived, where they worked and what they did for a living.

Hass’ lawyer argued that his client’s life was falling apart at the time he committed his crimes. Turner said Hass had “a breakdown” brought on by his gambling problem, his inability to find work as a substitute teacher and the imminent foreclosure of his home.

He said Hass was deeply remorseful.

“This isn’t who he is,” Turner said in court as Hass began to cry. “He feels terrible for what he’s put these women through and their families.”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/sep/10/sicko-gets-prison-threatening-women/

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