Posted on 10/28/2003 9:52:35 AM PST by arjay
TROY | A 20-year-old man burglarizing an apartment pried open a tackle box and found nude photos of young girls, including his little sister.
The man turned himself and the pictures into police, who later arrested the apartment's tenant, a registered sex offender now facing a possible life sentence after being charged with rape of a child under the age of 13 and illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.
Police said the rape charge against Richard Yearsley, 51, involved sexual touching in March of a child who was just under 4.
The 20-year-old man told police he watched Yearsley, whom he knew, leave the apartment and broke in once he left. Police said he then became enraged when he saw his 4-year-old sister's picture among "numerous" Polaroid photos of nude or partially nude young girls inside the tackle box.
He showed some of the photos to the building maintenance man, who convinced him to go to the police.
Police then searched the apartment late Friday and found photos of other young children in various states of dress.
The man said he knew what he had done was wrong, but "he knew that Yearsley was involved in something much worse and had to be stopped," according to the police report.
Police said that Yearsley admitted to taking photos of four other children during the past couple of years, and sexually touching some of them.
Wayne Willcox, deputy Piqua police chief, said the 20-year-old's case was referred to the city prosecutor to determine what charges will be filed.
Yearsley was registered as a sexually oriented offender with the Miami County Sheriff's Office following a 1995 conviction in Miami County for felony gross sexual imposition and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles.
Bail for Yearsley was set at $150,000 at arraignment Monday in Miami County Municipal Court.
Yearsley's preliminary hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday .
The Dayton Daily News is not identifying the 20-year-old man in order to protect the identity of his sister.
Police said that Yearsley admitted to taking photos of four other children during the past couple of years, and sexually touching some of them.
THAT says it EXACTLY and that's what a judge will rule, unless the burglar is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!!!!!
I believe this man can be rehabilitated.
He's got some guts & his heart must be in the right place
While it would seem the burglar might have a conscience, I believe that had one of the pictures not been of his own sister, this story would be very different. I do not believe he should be praised for his actions. It would seem revenge is his motive and that is hardly a trait of any man of good character.
When it comes to child molesters, apparently there is a moral code of sorts among the prison population. It's open season on child molesters, to the extent that they are very likely to be killed if housed with the normal prison population.
(I don't know the statistics on how many convicts were molested as kids, but I seem to recall that the percentage is pretty high.)
The man didn't break in to steal anything, it sounds like he knew this guy was a pervert and went in to get evidence.
If he had ransacked the plance first and fished then it was a burglery.
In eather case the burgler stood up and did the legal thing. His little sister being a victim would have given him a walk if he had beeten the perv to death (no jury would convict).
No doubt he's a screw-up, if I was the judge I'd let him inlist.
Unless he has something besides his say-so to back it up, that's a non-starter. He can try, but unless it's more than bare assertion, it won't work.
Could have read like this a few years ago: "Police said the rape charge against BillyBob Clinton, 51, involved sexual touching in March of a child, Monica... "
OK I see so now the police can, not only hire informants, but also pay people to break into your home to collect evidence "Legally". Oh Brother!
No, if the police ask someone to break into your house, he becomes a government agent. The evidence is then illegal.
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