Man charged with child rape and videotaping assault

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 | AP / News Tribune

[ValerieUSA]

TACOMA -- A man who was convicted of killing a teenager while in the military in the 1980s has been charged with raping a child and capturing the act on videotape.

Dean Eric Bagley, 47, of Yelm has undergone two mental health evaluations at Western State Hospital since he was arrested in October and faces a competency hearing this month, Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Grant Blinn said Tuesday.

Bagley is charged with first-degree child rape and possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He also is under investigation in reported sexual assaults on at least two other children, sheriff's detectives say.

All three, two girls and a boy, were younger than 12 at the time, sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said.

According to documents filed in Superior Court, a videotape shows Bagley setting up a hidden camera at his mobile home and then bringing the daughter of one of his friends into the room and sexually touching her.

The tape is among more than 400 found in two rented storage units, Troyer said.

At least 10 of the tapes show Bagley sexually assaulting two children and the others show children in unidentified public areas, according to court documents.

Bagley fatally stabbed a 16-year-old girl, a close friend of his teenage wife, while he was stationed in Germany with the military on Feb. 22, 1985. Bagley intended to kill his wife at the same time, but she escaped, according to court documents.

He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years in the U.S. Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., but was released after serving eight years.

In 1995, Bagley was charged in Pierce County with two counts of first-degree child rape and two counts of first-degree child molestation involving his daughter. He was acquitted of all the charges but was sent back to prison because of a parole violation.

He returned to Pierce County in April 1998.

[ValerieUSA]

Why bother building prisons if we won't keep convicted murderers and rapists behind bars?
Did his daughter take a big risk and testify against her own abusive father in court, only to see this pervert acquitted?

[Don Myers]

We need to go back to an eye-for-an-eye code of justice. What we have now is not working.

[lsee]

They still shoot mad dogs, don't they?

[Mo1]

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[demkicker]

No kidding! Geeze the revolving prison doors are bad enough, but I'm sick to learn that military justice is equally bad or worse. Helloooooo out there, once a pedophile ALWAYS a pedophile. These scum bags can't be "cured". Lock their @sses up and throw away the key!

[ValerieUSA]

You're right. A 20 year prison sentence was too light to begin with for murdering a 16 yr old girl and attempting to murder his wife, too. That should have got him the death penalty.

[Cicero]

Who decides when military prisoners are released? Eight years would make it 1993, a year into clinton's first term. But I can't imagine why he would be involved in this--except maybe through his miserable appointees.

[Darlin']

Serving only 8 years of a 40 year sentence is criminal in itself. The man is a repeat offender of the worse kind and a danger to society.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years in the U.S. Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., but was released after serving eight years.

That has to me the most disheartning thing I've seen in a while. So, roughly he was incarcirated for approximately one-half of the 16 years the poor murdered child was even *alive*?? The math does not add up, they way the courts figured it.
Now the way I figure it--

16 y/o child killed...40 years for felony murder...8 year served...A .357 mag thrown in will reduce the figures to zero in a flash.

[ValerieUSA]

Oops, I said 20 yr sentence in my post. He served 8 years out of 40. That sure taught him a lesson!

[Houmatt]

No kidding! Geeze the revolving prison doors are bad enough, but I'm sick to learn that military justice is equally bad or worse. Helloooooo out there, once a pedophile ALWAYS a pedophile. These scum bags can't be "cured". Lock their @sses up and throw away the key!

Uh, no. Take him out to a wooded area and make him dig his own grave before emptying a clip of hollow points in his bod.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I really wish we would stop wasting taxpayers' money on "mental health evaluations" for people like this. His mental health sucks, and it always will -- end of report! No he is not competent to defend himself, and who cares if he is competent enough "to stand trial"? Given the videotapes, combined with the previous convictions, no trial should be needed! He's guilty! The founding fathers didn't mean for due process to require automatically spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on procedural formalities in cases where the proper end result is simply not open to question.

[ValerieUSA]

I wonder if the state is picking up the bill for mental health therapy for the guy's daughter who was molested by him. His acquittal in that case must have been insult added to injury.