Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller
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Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller (born July 7, 1941 in Snohomish, Washington) is a convicted child molester. He was arrested in Everett, Washington in 2005 while attempting to molest two 12-year old boys, who are believed to be illegal immigrants. He was convicted of 11 counts of child molestation in 2006 and, on January 29, 2007 he was sentenced to 152 years in prison.[1]
When he was arrested in June 2005, investigators found in his home a 456-page memoir describing sexual abuse, binders full of child pornography and 1,500 notebook pages with headings including "blond boys," "no, but yes boys," and "best of the best, 13 and under."[2]
Schwartzmiller's diary contained at least 36,000 entries, mostly describing boys he had either molested or desired. At trial, he claimed that the memoir was a work of fiction[1], and blamed his roommate, also a convicted child molester, for the child pornography.[3]
Schwartzmiller had been repeatedly arrested for molestation-related charges for decades. He had even been apprehended by Interpol operatives in Brazil in the 1980s without charges. He had fled to Brazil to avoid changes in Idaho. In Brazil he learned Portuguese in less than a year.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b U.S. child molester gets 152 years, BBC.com, January 29, 2007
- ^ Schwartzmiller sentenced to 150 years for child molestation Follow-on AP story on meted sentence
- ^ "Prolific child molester gets 150 years", AP story on CNN
- ^ Dean Schwartzmiller case - How molester beat system, By Dan Reed and Andrea Chang, The Mercury News, July 17, 2005
[edit] Resources
- Major events from Schwartzmiller's reported criminal history of child sexual abuse AP story from the San Francisco Chronicle
- Police: Convicted molester kept log of 36,000 children's names and abuse acts news article from Court TV.
- "The worst predator", a Dateline NBC report from 2006
