Posted on 08/18/2005 1:01:18 PM PDT by SmithL
A Sevier County man accused of raping four teenage girls and faking his death is under arrest in South Carolina.
Kevin Allen Gentry, 34, has been on the run for more than a year with a Sevier County girl who is now 16 years old.
Investigators say Gentry faked his death on the coast of North Carolina in Nags Head back in April. He left a taped suicide message in his car.
The U.S. Marshal's Office helped arrest him Tuesday afternoon in Bennettsville, South Carolina.
Investigators approached Gentry as he was going into a convenience store. They say he was using a British accent and went by the name Alex Sebastian Hendrix.
The girl was sitting in a nearby RV that the couple was living in. She told police she is two months pregnant.
The Department of Children's Services says she ran away from a Morristown home, after being in state custody for a week in May of 2004.
Investigators say Gentry was a friend of her mother's.
Gentry is fighting extradition and being held on $500,000 bond. He also underwent a mental evaluation Wednesday.
He faces three counts of statutory rape and one count of rape of a child in Sevier County. A grand jury indicted him on charges of having sex with four girls between May 2003 and 2004. The girls who ranged in age from 13 to 15.
Oh....ewwwwwwww....
I'm sorry, but that's only in a court of law. Usually, that means the man on the street is welcome to make up his own mind, since he's not sitting on the jury.
Sounds like your sheep is a very messed up individual, Reverend. I could see why you would feel it's necessary to defend him, but I would hope you are praying for him, too. From the sounds of it, he's going to need it...he dug a pretty big hole for himself.
Faking one's death is a pretty good indication of having something to hide.
That was her admission, how do you explain him faking his death?
Oh you changed your tag line...cute!
Minister? Why on the world would you bother to post here? This doesn't pass the sniff test... But then again, it's been awhile since I smelled ozone in the afternoon.
Oh and Robin, it is Robin isn't it, why would you want to defend this guy?
Is that you, Cindy Sheehan? LOL!!!
Okay...you can't believe everything you read like what would possess you(indeed is any "thing" possessing you?) to come on here at 5 in the afternoon and start razzing us, as a first time poster too?
Okay...you can't believe everything you read like what would possess you(indeed is any "thing" possessing you?) to come on here at 5 in the afternoon and start razzing us, as a first time poster too?
I am not razzing anyone, I would just like for things to stop being said about Mr. Gentry since no one here knows him or anything about this case.
If it was one girls story I might be inclined to agree with you but there is four girls saying this. BTW, are you Robin Carr?
Maybe, maybe, maybe. Give him the benefit of the doubt? I could, but I'm sorry, going to the extreme of faking his own death because he was "afraid he couldn't get a fair trial" doesn't pass the smell test, frankly.
And I am free to make up my mind, as are most folks posting here, I would presume, since we aren't in a location to be in a potential jury pool.
I understand and recognize that this must be difficult for his loved ones, but the blame for that must rest on his shoulders, due to his questionable actions.
I'm sorry, again, but this, to me, is looking really bad for your friend.
If it was one girls story I might be inclined to agree with you but there is four girls saying this. BTW, are you Robin Carr?
No I am not Robin Carr, and it is not 4 girls, only 3 and you have never heard of friends getting together to do things? No one could ever make up things like this and get their friends to go along with it, right.? Like I said you cant believe everything you read. The news reporters like BIG HEADLINES!!
There's a problem with that. You can ask all you like, but this IS news, and the purpose of this site is to discuss the NEWS. Speculation, etc is part of that. Throwing yourself in front of this particular train won't help.
Blame the victims, hmmm? Yeah, great idea.
Four minus the one in his RV, so she likes him, even got pregnant by him. Where there is smoke there is fire, where there are flames there is a blaze, where there is a blaze you have an inferno.
He didnt fake his death, he did try to kill his self. Someone found him and turned him in. see all the info hasnt been put out there....And to make up ones mind before all the facts are out is just not fair or right. Anyone can say you done something to them and get you put in jail , but they have to prove it before it is true, it isnt true just because that person said it. Right?
Buddy you are talking to the devils advocate here with me. If you ever did any research over the last five years of my post you would understand my position. I have always thought that bad accusations could frame a man. But, you have four teenage girls saying this, why would a 30 YO man put himself in that situation? Care to answer that?
From what seminary did you graduate?
I want to know, so I can ask them where they put their academic standards.
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