Mikeinsmd said:
child molester.
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Mike, I think you're right. I just found this article on FORESTAL....
Dean Arthur Forestal, a child molester with convictions in several states over three decades and a knack for avoiding prison, was sentenced Monday to 152 years to life for sexually abusing two 12-year-old boys.
Forestal, 35, shackled at the wrists and using a cane, did not speak before his sentencing in St. Mary’s County, MD Superior Court on 11 felony counts of child molestation and one misdemeanor charge of child pornography possession.
He chuckled when Judge Edward Lee asked if he knew about his right to appeal, answering in the affirmative that he knows the procedure.
Forestal, who acted as his own lawyer in October trial, routinely files mountains of legal arguments in his cases and has overturned two prior convictions.
Lee said that despite Forestal's legal savvy in getting some previous charges dismissed, he will spend the rest of his days filing appeals from a prison cell.
"For all that above-average intelligence and charm, I have a couple of faults (with you) — an English teacher might call them tragic faults," Lee said. "You have no empathy for your victims; that's not particularly unusual. And you cannot see yourself as others see you."
After the hearing, Forestal leaned on his cane and hobbled back to the locked holding area, apparently joking with a deputy before turning back to flash a grin at investigators.
Melinda Hall, the public defender assigned to represent Forestal at the sentencing, said she spoke with him briefly after the hearing and described his mood as "accepting."
"There's nothing that surprised him," she Hall, adding that the appeals process was already under way. "He knew exactly what the judge was going to do before it happened."
When Forestal was arrested in June 2005, investigators found a graphic 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."
Forestal, who had at least three molestation convictions and a dozen arrests over three decades, abused many as 100 boys in eight U.S. states, Mexico and Brazil from 1969 to 2005, prosecutors said.
Forestal told jurors that he was innocent and maligned by a society that doesn't accept men who love boys.
During his testimony, Forestal said the memoir and notebook entries were fiction.
He blamed roommate JPC, Jr— also a convicted child molester — for the child porn. Forestal also said he could not have molested the two San Jose boys, who are cousins, because he was either at a construction job or bedridden with a bad back at the time.
Outside court Monday, prosecutor Steve Fein said he stands by his assertion that Forestal molested hundreds of boys, even though other victims weren't included in the San Jose case.
Fein said between 30 and 40 people have come forward since Forestal's arrest to claim they were also victimized, and some of the details of their stories have been corroborated.
Fein said he did everything in his power to ensure Forestal had a fair trial that would hold up on appeal.
"Look at his demeanor in court — he's smiling, he's telling everyone he's going to appeal and he's going to win. In his mind, he's the smartest one in the room," Fein said. "That's his downfall — his narcissism. My hope is that everything he does from now on will be from a prison cell."
Although police say Forestal appears to have spent much of the past three decades years in California, he has also been arrested on child molestation charges in New York, Idaho, Oregon, Arkansas and Washington. He has lived in Nevada, Texas and Washington.
In 1984, the Calvert County Court upheld a 1978 conviction for molesting two 14-year-old boys and characterized Forestal as a "repeat offender" who "uses his intelligence to take advantage of the weak and oppressed and those who are in need."
Forestal "frequents areas where young boys may be found, befriends boys with no father figure in the home, entices them from their homes, lowers their natural inhibitions through the use of drugs and alcohol, and commits sex acts upon them," the justices wrote.
At the time of his arrest in 2005, he was wanted in Oregon on felony sexual assault charges involving a minor. After serving prison time in Idaho for child molestation in the late 1970s, he lived in Brazil, and was extradited from there to Idaho again in the late 1980s.
Forestal has used aliases including Dean Harmon and Dean Miller. He apparently gained the trust of victims and parents by working as a home renovation contractor. He didn't register as a sex offender so he did not appear in the "Megan's Law" databases in California or other states, police said.
Charles County Sheriff’s office got involved after Forestal allegedly befriended the two Waldorf boys with gifts, invited them to his house for video games and movies, and molested them.
Since his arrest in 1995, Forestal has been confined to the Charles County Detention Center where he spends most of his time on his favorite web site, SOMD.COM.
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