"I didn't do it"
Dean Schwartzmiller, most likely Americas most infamous child molester known for the amount of young boys he is suspected of molesting over his life span- reports go as far as to say 36,000- has had his day in court. Sort of. He pleaded not guilty Monday to charges stemming from the alleged assaults of two South San Jose boys. Why am I not surprised?
But lets look at this case. Here is a man with a criminal record dating back into the 70's for child sexual abuse crimes. Every case since the first has had a reoccurring theme- he befriends young boys. Normal activities such as video games, bike riding, sports became a means for him to meet and get to know his victims. After a period of "grooming" them he lured them into elicit sexual relationships- many of which he wrote of in his notorious "sexual journals". From Alaska to Idaho he has sprung victims everywhere. Each one telling a tale of similar behaviors. Each time, he avoided tougher punishment. At times, one place would dismiss charges or defer prosecution, sending him to another jurisdiction, where he was able to get out of jail. Each time, police and prosecutors weren't able to connect the dots. He has continuously manipulated the system to avoid a full course of punishment. He has fled, argued that charges to dropped arguing "vague" legal definitions of illegal sexual acts. This is a prime example of a pedophile and their inability to change. They learn to hide, avoid, and argue their way out of stiff convictions. And they continue their victimization of children.
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Serial Child Molester Pleads Not Guilty
POSTED: 10:06 am PDT September 26, 2005
SAN JOSE -- Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller, the serial child molester who allegedly kept meticulous notes about the molestations of thousands of boys, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges stemming from the alleged assaults of two South San Jose boys.
Schwartzmiller, 63, appeared in a Santa Clara County Superior Court Monday morning. He is charged with seven felonies for allegedly molesting two South San Jose boys he met in December 2002. If convicted, Schwartzmiller faces a maximum of 105 years to life in prison.
A preliminary hearing was scheduled to begin Nov. 16.
Prosecutor Steve Fein said the preliminary hearing would probably not contain a lot of evidence about the journals Schwartzmiller allegedly kept detailing thousands of molestation stretching back to the 1970s.
"It's going to focus mainly on the San Jose cases," Fein said.
Schwartzmiller has been arrested at least nine times and spent 12 years in prison. But police think that in his years on the outside, he may have become one of the nation's most prolific child molesters in history.
A search of his home in San Jose turned up computers and notebooks with lists of more than 36,000 entries that include children's names and codes that appear to indicate how he abused them.
Swartzmiller's criminal record appears to date back to 1970 when he was convicted in Alaska of lewd and lascivious conduct with three teen boys, two of whom he allegedly brought with him from Kentucky.
He was sentenced to two years' probation, then indicted again two years later for molesting another boy, but he apparently fled the state before he could be tried.
It was 1974 when Schwartzmiller was arrested for molesting two 13-year-old boys. He paid his bail, then fled to Brazil. Interpol tracked him down the next year and brought him to New York, where he was locked up for nine months before he was extradited back to Idaho.
He only spent about two years in prison before getting arrested again in Idaho. Then he fled again -- this time to Oregon, where he was arrested again, accused of bringing a boy from Little Rock, Ark. to San Francisco in June 1980. Authorities said Schwartzmiller had forced the boy into prostitution.
But the U.S. Attorney's office deferred prosecution to Idaho authorities, where he served six years in prison for molesting boys.
But he successfully appealed his conviction to the Idaho Supreme Court in 1976 and won. So, he tried again in 1983, arguing "vague" legal definitions of illegal sexual acts. He lost this time, but the justices recommended that the Legislature should clarify the law.
After he was released from the Idaho State Penitentiary in 1987, Schwartzmiller was arrested at least four more times for abusing children.
He served three more years in Oregon, got out, was repeatedly arrested for violating parole and allegedly abusing other children, won an acquittal in Washington state, and fled rather than face arrest on another warrant in Oregon.
Each time, he avoided stiffer punishment. At times, one jurisdiction would dismiss charges or defer prosecution, sending him to another jurisdiction, where he was able to get out of jail. Each time, police and prosecutors weren't able to connect the dots.
Joan Cavagnaro, the deputy prosecutor who tried the Washington case, said she had no doubt about Schwartzmiller's guilt. "Certainly, I would not have taken it into court if I had not believed those boys. And I believed them," she said.
San Jose police got involved after a family came to the department with a computer disk containing images of child pornography they said Schwartzmiller had given to their boys.
Then, searching the house, they discovered seven multicolored, spiral-bound notebooks in all, with lists of entries covering 1,360 pages, in categories such as "Blond Boys," "Cute Boys" and "Boys who say no," San Jose Police Lt. Scott Cornfield said.
"If one-tenth of these numbers are accurate, we're looking at hundreds of victims," he said.
In San Jose, Schwartzmiller worked with his roommate and friend from prison, another convicted child molester named Frederick Everts, to lure young boys to their house, according to court records.
In late May, records show officers arrested Everts for failing to register as a sex offender in Oregon. Schwartzmiller, meanwhile, fled back home to Snohomish County, Wash. He was arrested May 23 as he hid in a backyard, and is now being held in a Santa Clara County Jail on seven charges of felony child molestation.
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