Convicted child molester to serve 10 years for two Springfield attacks.Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard A predatory child molester Noun 1. child molester - a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner paederast, pederast degenerate, deviant, deviate, pervert - a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior - caught in California after police here pieced together his identity from mall and bus security cameras - was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for attacks on two Springfield girls. Jason Seth Albion O'Connell, 35, is accused or convicted of crimes against children in three states. He will be returned to California, where he faces charges that carry a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life in prison for a burglary and attempted molestation molestation n. the crime of sexual acts with children up to the age of 18, including touching of private parts, exposure of genitalia, taking of pornographic pictures, rape, inducement of sexual acts with the molester or with other children, and variations of these of a 3-year-old girl in Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, city, United States Santa Cruz (săn`tə kr  z), city (1990 pop. 49,040), seat of Santa Cruz co., W Calif., on the north shore of Monterey Bay; inc. 1866. in 1998, Deputy District Attorney Erik
Hasselman said.
O'Connell was convicted in Clark County Clark County is the name of twelve counties in the United States of America:
tr.v. mo·lest·ed, mo·lest·ing, mo·lests 1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy. 2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity. a young girl, Hasselman said. In the California case, police found O'Connell's fingerprints after the 3-year-old's parents heard her crying, entered her bedroom and saw a man fleeing the apartment, court records show. If not for the pending California case, Hasselman said he would have sought a longer sentence for O'Connell in Oregon. Instead, O'Connell pleaded guilty to kidnapping, sexual abuse, identity theft and giving false information to police. Under the deal, he must serve every day of the 10-year term, which he'll serve before any California time. Charges from an earlier attack on a third Springfield girl were dropped in the deal. The Aug. 27 attacks happened about 30 minutes apart in the Harlow Road area. The first was interrupted by a person who saw a man trying to undress a 7-year-old girl in a secluded area outside an apartment complex. The second ended when a girl began screaming after a man grabbed and forced her 5-year-old friend to the ground. In both cases, the man used candy to entice the girls to approach him, Hasselman said. The suspect was seen fleeing toward the Gateway Mall Gateway Mall may refer to:
The suspect was using a Beaverton man's identity, but fingerprint and other records showed that the suspect was O'Connell, Hasselman said. O'Connell fled before police found him. However, an officer in Redding Redding, city (1990 pop. 66,462), seat of Shasta co., N central Calif., on the Sacramento River; inc. 1872. A principal tourist center for a mountain and lake region, it also has lumbering, food-processing, and diverse manufacturing. , Calif., recognized O'Connell as a resident of a shelter in that city after receiving a flier circulated by Springfield police, the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, non-profit organization established in the United States in 1984 under United States government mandate. . Lane County Circuit Judge Jack Billings commended Springfield police for stopping O'Connell's attacks. "Mr. O'Connell would still be the roving pedophile pedophile Forensic psychiatry A person with pedophilia; there are an estimated 500,000 pedophiles in the world. See Child prostitution, Megan's law, Pedophilia. he is but for the hard work of these officers," Billings said in court. Turning to O'Connell, Billings said he has no doubt that O'Connell will offend again if he is ever released. "I don't care if you're 80 years old, I wouldn't trust you out on the street," Billings told him. |
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