In what started as a routine traffic stop, police arrested Chester Arthur Stiles in connection with the videotaped rape of a girl under the age of three. The police began asking questions when they pulled over Stiles for not having license plates, and his driver's license photo didn't match his appearance. (In other words, even teenagers have better fake IDs.) Stiles confessed to being the guy police were seeking based on a videotape made four years ago of a toddler being sexually assaulted. The child in the video, now age seven, was identified last month after a nationwide search.
One of most horrible aspects of this case is the fact that the girl's mother did not know her daughter had been assaulted until she learned police were looking for her. I can't even begin to imagine what that must be like. It probably happened when the girl's mother was at work, and her roommate brought Stiles, her boyfriend, over to the apartment. The video was given to police by Darren Tuck, who said he found it in the desert and then held onto it for five months and showed it to people before turning it in.
Professionals evaluated the girl once she was located, and the mother's attorney says the child appears to be "'healthy and fine and happy.'"
Photo: AP/Las Vegas police
