Documents Expose Huckabee's Role In Serial Rapist's Release

[romantico]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 2:39pm

You just knew Clinton had to come into this, right?


Little Rock, Ark -- As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again. The convict went on to rape and murder at least one other woman.

Confidential Arkansas state government records, including letters from these women, obtained by the Huffington Post and revealed publicly for the first time, directly contradict the version of events now being put forward by Huckabee.

While on the campaign trail, Huckabee has claimed that he supported the 1999 release of Wayne Dumond because, at the time, he had no good reason to believe that the man represented a further threat to the public. Thanks to Huckabee's intervention, conducted in concert with a right-wing tabloid campaign on Dumond's behalf, Dumond was let out of prison 25 years before his sentence would have ended.

"There's nothing any of us could ever do," Huckabee said Sunday on CNN when asked to reflect on the horrific outcome caused by the prisoner's release. "None of us could've predicted what [Dumond] could've done when he got out."

But the confidential files obtained by the Huffington Post show that Huckabee was provided letters from several women who had been sexually assaulted by Dumond and who indeed predicted that he would rape again - and perhaps murder - if released.

In a letter that has never before been made public, one of Dumond's victims warned: "I feel that if he is released it is only a matter of time before he commits another crime and fear that he will not leave a witness to testify against him the next time." Before Dumond was granted parole at Huckabee's urging, records show that Huckabee's office received a copy of this letter from Arkansas' parole board.

The woman later wrote directly to Huckabee about having been raped by Dumond. In a letter obtained by the Huffington Post, she said that Dumond had raped her while holding a butcher knife to her throat, and while her then-3-year-old daughter lay in bed next to her. Also included in the files sent to Huckabee's office was a police report in which Dumond confessed to the rape. Dumond was not charged in that particular case because he later refused to sign the confession and because the woman was afraid to press charges.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 2:44pm

See if MSNBC will run your scoop!!!!

The mere mention of scandals should "help" the Clintons.

[romantico]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 2:48pm

HD, why do you care? I thought you were supporting Old Man Thompson!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 4:01pm

HD--why did Huckabee want the murderer/rapist to rape and kill again?

Why do Republicans support rape?

[romantico]

Posted: 12/5/07 at 6:23pm

Why Does HD Hate America?