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Mo truck driver pleads guilty to rape
(From KRCG.com, via the AP, 3/21/2008)
MOBILE, ALA (AP) -- A southwest Missouri truck driver pleads guilty to federal kidnapping charges accusing him of abducting and repeatedly raping an Alabama woman. Roy Scott Stillwell of Hartville was arrested December 11 along I-10 after the woman was rescued. She was found nude, bound and beaten in his parked 18-wheeler. With the plea yesterday, Stillwell avoids an additional charge related to the woman's injuries. Prosecutors said Stillwell faces up to 14 years in prison for kidnapping. Investigators still are trying to determine if Stillwell was involved in similar crimes in other states. [color=brown]The woman was rescued by two female truck drivers who heard a horn blowing from a semi parked at a truck stop.[/color] They found a woman screaming inside the cab and saw that she was tied and naked. After her abduction in Montgomery, prosecutors said the woman was bound and repeatedly raped during a multistate drive across the Southeast that lasted several days.
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Only 14 years for this guy? Sounds kinda low.
I assume this is just part of the picture
[QUOTE=Rosco2]Mo truck driver pleads guilty to rape
(From KRCG.com, via the AP, 3/21/2008)
MOBILE, ALA (AP) -- A southwest Missouri truck driver pleads guilty to federal kidnapping charges accusing him of abducting and repeatedly raping an Alabama woman. Roy Scott Stillwell of Hartville was arrested December 11 along I-10 after the woman was rescued. She was found nude, bound and beaten in his parked 18-wheeler. With the plea yesterday, Stillwell avoids an additional charge related to the woman's injuries. Prosecutors said Stillwell faces up to 14 years in prison for kidnapping. Investigators still are trying to determine if Stillwell was involved in similar crimes in other states. [color=brown]The woman was rescued by two female truck drivers who heard a horn blowing from a semi parked at a truck stop.[/color] They found a woman screaming inside the cab and saw that she was tied and naked. After her abduction in Montgomery, prosecutors said the woman was bound and repeatedly raped during a multistate drive across the Southeast that lasted several days.
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Only 14 years for this guy? Sounds kinda low.[/QUOTE]Because there's only a federal kidnapping charge, which comes from carrying the woman across state lines. That might be the only federal crime in this instance.
Rape would be a state charge and would be prosecuted in any jurisdiction in which they can prove the crime happened. So I imagine this is only part of the punishment for Mr. Stillwell, as it should be.
EJ