Rape suspect, shot by police, out of hospital

The Seattle Times ^ | Tuesday, November 15, 2005 | Sara Jean Green

[ValerieUSA]

A rape suspect who was shot by Federal Way police last week while fleeing an apartment where he allegedly assaulted two teenage sisters has been released from Seattle's Harborview Medical Center and booked into jail.

Though Anthony Casper Dias, 26, has been charged in King County with two counts of first-degree rape and three other felonies, he was booked into the Pierce County Jail on Saturday afternoon, said Maj. William Hayes, a spokesman for the King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention.

The decision was made because at least one of Dias' alleged victims is related to a King County corrections officer, Hayes said.

............Dias is being held in lieu of $5 million bail in connection with the rapes of two Federal Way girls, ages 13 and 15. He is accused of climbing through an open window late on Nov. 7, binding the girls' 45-year-old mother with a dog leash and duct tape, and repeatedly raping the girls. The victims and their mother escaped the apartment early the next morning when Dias fell asleep, police said. Dias was shot in the arm while trying to run from police.

He is now a person of interest in at least six other rape cases in King and Pierce counties. In all of the cases but one, the home's occupants were tied up by an armed intruder who demanded money, raped women and spent hours inside each residence...........

[ValerieUSA]

Anthony Casper Dias, 26

[Brilliant]

The decision was made because at least one of Dias' alleged victims is related to a King County corrections officer, Hayes said.

You need to have connections in Seattle in order to get justice?

[ValerieUSA]

The rapist is still alive - no one has had justice yet.

[samtheman]

The decision was made because at least one of Dias' alleged victims is related to a King County corrections officer, Hayes said.

Translation:

The decision to jail the suspect in a different county was made because at least one of Dias' alleged victims is related to a King County corrections officer, Hayes said.

I guess the reporter was busy studying Political Correctness in journalism school and missed any discussion (maybe there was none) of grammar and referents.

[Celtic Conservative]

You need to have connections in Seattle in order to get justice?

Um, no you don't want the victims relatives beating the living $*!t out of the "alleged" rapist. Additionally, the justice system is proactively attempting to reduce their liability in regards to this suspect. Even if nothing ever happened to the little S*!tball while in jail, What's to keep Him from hiring some scumball lawyer and claiming abuse while under the custody of the victims relative?. It's SOP in most jurisdictions to do this.

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