James Riske wrote:
> Lets hope this boy molester is beaten to death while in prison for
> molesting that boy.
>
> http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1311626&secid=1
>
> October 27, 2005
> Molester, 71, caught on run from Idaho
>
> By DENNIS HUSPENI THE GAZETTE
>
> A 71-year-old sexual predator whose history of molesting children
> dates back more than 30 years was captured this week in Colorado
> Springs.
>
> Clark G. Gerwulf was arrested Tuesday by local FBI agents and Colorado
> Springs police officers outside the Red Cross shelter on a federal
> warrant alleging unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
>
> Agent Dan Bradley said investigators got a tip that Gerwulf might be
> in Colorado Springs, so on a hunch, they checked the downtown shelter,
> near South Sierra Madre and Rio Grande streets.
>
> Gerwulf was arrested without incident and was being held without bail
> Wednesday at the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center.
>
> Gerwulf had been on the run from Idaho, where he had lived since being
> released from prison and is suspected of sexually assaulting a
> 16-year-old boy. Officials in Nez Perce County, Idaho, are seeking his
> extradition from Colorado.
>
> Gerwulf has lengthy criminal histories in Colorado, Kansas and
> California. He was sentenced in 1978 to life in prison in California
> for molesting a child.
>
> He was released, however, and moved to Idaho about four years ago.
>
> "He kind of slipped in under the radar," said Detective Kevin Messelt
> of the Nez Perce County Sheriff's Office. "He presented himself as
> this grandfatherly type guy. . . . All the teenagers called him
> Gramps."
>
> Messelt said Gerwulf didn't have to register as a sex offender in
> Idaho because he was convicted before the passage of a 1993 law that
> required registration. He lived in a small town called Cul-de-Sac,
> southeast of Lewiston in the Idaho Panhandle.
>
> Messelt took the case personally because he lived in the same town and
> bought coffee from Gerwulf at the convenience store where Gerwulf
> worked.
>
> Nez Perce authorities issued a warrant for Gerwulf's arrest Aug. 28,
> the day after the 16-year-old boy came forward to report the
> allegations. Gerwulf befriended the family, groomed the boy and
> performed sex acts on him, according to the arrest affidavit.
>
> "He had known the family of the victim for years," Messelt said.
>
> Gerwulf's criminal history dates back to 1949, when he was convicted
> of armed robbery. In 1956, he was convicted of armed robbery in
> Colorado and sentenced to 15 to 25 years in prison, according to court
> records.
>
> From 1973 to 1978, he was arrested on numerous sex crimes - some while
> in prison - including lewd and lascivious behavior with a minor,
> enticing a child and sexual perversion, court records show.
>
> "He's been pretty much a professional inmate," Messelt said.
>
> After the warrant was issued, Gerwulf allegedly cashed a check at his
> store, then disappeared, Messelt said. A search warrant served on his
> house revealed evidence backing the boy's claim.
>
> "Honestly, my hope is that he confesses," Messelt said. "This has been
> really rough on the family."
>
>
> --HE COULD GO TO SINGAPOE TOO WHERE LOVING BOYS IS LEGAL IF THE BOY IS 16. IF IT IS SO BAD, WHY DID THE KID KEEP GOING BACK TO THIS MAN ?
>
> "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."--Edmund Burke
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