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Man fit for trial in rape of girl, 2

Summit County judge rules Knapp competent after viewing evaluation

By Ed Meyer
Beacon Journal staff writer

An Akron man charged with raping a 2-year-old girl has been found mentally competent to stand trial later this year.

The attorney for Jason B. Knapp, 33, had filed a motion in April seeking a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.

After reviewing a written evaluation by the Summit County Psycho-Diagnostic Clinic, Common Pleas Judge Elinore Marsh Stormer ruled at a hearing Wednesday that Knapp was not suffering from any major psychological problems at the time of the alleged offenses.

In addition to rape, Knapp is accused of felony child endangering, gross sexual imposition and various specifications alleging that he committed felonious assault with sexual motivation and that he is a sexually violent predator.

Court officials who reviewed the clinic's 16-page report said they were appalled by its contents.

The full report is confidential at this stage of the case, but Assistant Summit County Prosecutor Jennie Shuki emphasized in remarks to the judge that its basic finding was that Knapp ''was not suffering from any major mental illness at the time of the act.''

Defense lawyer Jonathan T. Sinn said he reviewed the report with a clinic official and was told that Knapp was ''sane but psychotic.''

Sinn disagreed with the report's conclusion that Knapp was sane.

''My client has a history of mental health disorders, has a history of hurting animals, hurting people and hurting himself. He
has been very self-destructive over the course of his life, and in this particular [report],'' Sinn told the judge, ''it even went so far as to recommend that while he is in jail he be monitored so he can't hurt himself.''

Knapp, who appeared at the hearing but said little, is being held at the county jail in lieu of $100,000 bond.

Stormer scheduled Knapp's trial to begin Sept. 17, with a final pretrial hearing Sept. 9.

Under Ohio law, a finding that a defendant is competent to stand trial means he is capable of understanding the charges and of assisting his attorney with a defense.

In a hearing before Stormer on June 3, sketchy facts about the case emerged in open court during a defense effort to suppress evidence Akron police had gathered.

Knapp was living at the home of the victim's family when the alleged incident occurred late last year.

The child came into Knapp's room crying, so he changed her diaper and put her back into bed.

Later, the child's mother alerted police from a hospital that something had happened to her daughter.

Patrol officer Janet Hottinger, who interviewed Knapp at the family's home, testified that Knapp told her the family had accused him of fondling the child.

Sinn argued that Knapp had asked for a lawyer earlier in a brief discussion with an Akron detective and, therefore, any statements to police should not be admitted as evidence.

Stormer reviewed the accounts of the patrol officer and the detective and ruled Knapp's statements are admissible.

Detective Rex Lott, who also testified at the June 3 hearing, said he recorded a 20-minute interview with Knapp, and that Knapp talked freely and ''made admissions about what he did to the little girl.''


Ed Meyer can be reached at 330-996-3784 or emeyer@thebeaconjournal.com.

An Akron man charged with raping a 2-year-old girl has been found mentally competent to stand trial later this year.

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Gerard
Akron, OH

Posted 02:54 AM, 07/02/2009

Yes - as our rights state, everyone is supposed to get a fair trial. Then . . . there are people that don't deserve a trial no matter what - here is a prime example of sadistic idiot who deserves to be tortured in lieu of a trial.

Guantanamo had a purpose.

Quit wasting the taxpayers money, place this tool in a pasture, have a "lottery" to see who gets to shoot him first - donate the money to the family(s) he hurt - problem solved.

I'll buy the first ticket.


A Voice
Akron, , OH

Posted 06:38 AM, 07/02/2009

Looks like a perverse character to me!
Need some more tax dollars ????


sweetums
Akron, Oh

Posted 07:10 AM, 07/02/2009

Just a suggestion, put him in with Manson. They both have the same stare.


UseCommonSense
Akron, Oh

Posted 07:52 AM, 07/02/2009

''it even went so far as to recommend that while he is in jail he be monitored so he can't hurt himself.''

Why??
I think I'd throw a few knives in with him. Maybe even a machine gun, some rope, razor blades, and etc. This man shouldn't live another day.


Just lil ole me
akron, oh

Posted 07:59 AM, 07/02/2009

Sounds like another Jeffrey Dahmer.


Wingar
Barberton, Oh

Posted 08:01 AM, 07/02/2009

I don't even like reading stories like this. Once he's found guilty. You take him from the court house, straight to the death house. Them kill him. And it's not because of the tax $$$. It's because of what he did.


dds18
Akron, OH

Posted 08:02 AM, 07/02/2009

I'd just toss him a bar of soap, and let his new "roommate" take care of him.


ARFWOOF
Waponi , Wu

Posted 08:02 AM, 07/02/2009

Man, that is one scary looking dude. I wouldn't even open the door for the guy, let alone let him move in with a kid in the house. Mom must have rocks in her head.


ARFWOOF
Waponi , Wu

Posted 08:03 AM, 07/02/2009

However, I do like the shirt!


Snake Eyes
my city, Oh

Posted 08:09 AM, 07/02/2009

I think I went to school with this sicko. Does anyone know if this kid grew up on Ellet/Goodyear Hts school system. This would be the third freak like this. Ronald Philips, Jeffrey Smathers and this sicko.


pauliechop
, OH

Posted 08:09 AM, 07/02/2009

Dude looks crazy to me! At least now he'll have time to work on his manifesto.


stacie
Akron, OH

Posted 08:09 AM, 07/02/2009

MORE WHITE TRASH


yankeescot
Da ghetto of Fairlawn, OH

Posted 08:13 AM, 07/02/2009

Surely this family he was staying with had to know he wasn’t quite right-I would be interested to hear why he was invited into their home in the first place. Does anyone know why this freak was allowed in the home in the first place?


racy
akron, oh

Posted 08:18 AM, 07/02/2009

now looking at the photo to say he isnt nuts is well nuts .thats all racy says


Spirit of Reagan
Richfield, OH

Posted 08:34 AM, 07/02/2009

The rape of a young child should be punishable by death.


jcustunner
Mansfield, OH

Posted 08:35 AM, 07/02/2009

@yankee - He won a staring contest.


Cricket67
Cuyahoga Falls, OH

Posted 08:37 AM, 07/02/2009

how could anyone hurt a child or animal like they are disposable? reading this story makes me ill and ee gads i feel nauseous. i hope the "death penalty" is enacted quickly. i still believe people should put to death the way they killed or victimized their 'objects'. a special team? it will never happen i know. i can dream.


DrivinInCircles
NE, Oh

Posted 08:50 AM, 07/02/2009

This guy is a FREAK...needs to be removed from human existence...what he did is unspeakable. His 'history of hurting animals, people...' is enough evidence to start filling the vials, ramping up the volts, knotting the noose, whichever! And so what if he HURTS himself, hopefully he'll go far enough where we don't have to pay for his sorry A%! in prision or psych ward.


Logic

Posted 08:54 AM, 07/02/2009

ITS TIME TO BRING BACK THE MENTAL INSTITUTIONS!!! FORGET THE SMOKING BAN, CAN'T BELIEVE OFFICIALS PUT SO MUCH TIME, MONEY, THOUGHTS INTO BANNING SMOKING, WHEN JERKS LIKE THIS ARE ON THE STREETS AND OTHER JERKS ARE DRIVING DRUNK. OUR SYSTEM AND PRIORITIES ARE SCREWED UP IN AMERICA. TIME FOR US TO WAKE UP.


DrivinInCircles
NE, Oh

Posted 08:59 AM, 07/02/2009

Man! that guy is a FREAK! What he did is unspeakable. He needs to GO. Let him take himself out so our dollars don't have to support his sick existence and that little girl and family can move on...OMG what a freak!


DrivinInCircles
NE, Oh

Posted 09:17 AM, 07/02/2009

WHAT A FREAK! omg, I can't stand to look at him, like from The Hills Have EYES - freak! Hope he takes himself out so that little girl & family can move on and WE don't have to pay for his existence in the system...


Suz
Uniontown, Oh

Posted 09:21 AM, 07/02/2009

Oh my I cannot even look at that picture of him! It gives me the willies. I feel SO sorry for that poor little girl. Why in the hell is he even put in the position of changing her diaper. If the Phd says he is faking it then put him to death and STOP wasting tax dollars!


brownsugar
barberton, oh

Posted 09:23 AM, 07/02/2009

All I can say is that they should kill him. He makes me sick!


dds18
Akron, OH

Posted 09:24 AM, 07/02/2009

gotta love the matching handcuffs..get this creep out of here


Wolf
Akron, Oh

Posted 09:29 AM, 07/02/2009

ABJ..
its just my comment: why do you think this guy should
be given any more air to breath??


DrivinInCircles
NE, Oh

Posted 09:31 AM, 07/02/2009

My apologies posters...it didnt appear any of my coments loaded so i re-submitted 2xs because this one wasn't getting away.


pauliechop
, OH

Posted 09:34 AM, 07/02/2009

Wow! That dude creeps me out!

Sincerely,

Charles Manson


pissed
barberton, oh

Posted 09:50 AM, 07/02/2009

he dont need any more air he needs 2 die die die


Just my opinion
AKRON, OH

Posted 09:53 AM, 07/02/2009

Gerard, I'm with you on this one.


Reality
Akron, oh

Posted 09:57 AM, 07/02/2009

our system is flawed.

This guy should have been incinerated by now.

The picture means nothing to me.

The picture is a guy trying to look crazy so he can get off on an insanity defense.

He's sane.

He's evil

He should be destroyed.

The fact that we can't just have him dig a hole and lay in it is one of the more clear examples of the incredibly high cost of freedom. As it stands he has rights. The Constitution is a double edged sword in more ways than one.

I think we need to add an "evil" clause to the Constitution that allows us to go 1950's Stalinist Russia on folks when we identify them as the more evil among us.


DrivinInCircles
NE, Oh

Posted 10:08 AM, 07/02/2009

really ugly...pearheaded mutant freak....


Betamax
Akron, OH

Posted 10:12 AM, 07/02/2009

Though I agree with many of the above comments, one should wonder about the system we have for our mentally ill folks, that allows folks like this to remain in the mix of society, instead of in a hospital where he belonged.

We read case after case of mentally ill folks who do harm.

I guess the closure of the hospitals isn't workin'.


peebs02
Canal Fulton, Oh

Posted 10:15 AM, 07/02/2009

We need to set stronger laws against jerks like this who hurt children.I,too,hate reading stories like this.Sad.If you hurt a child,and I dont care how but if its that intent.you deserve to die.Make that a law and start killing these jerks off.If they know they will get death maybe it will stop.We have to start protecting our children.Why people let other people they hardly know into their houses,to watch their children or whatever,need to be looked at also.


Slovensko
Canton, OH

Posted 10:16 AM, 07/02/2009

He looks like a good dude. . .Wearin' a Jan & Dean Type shirt. . .


pauliechop
, OH

Posted 10:28 AM, 07/02/2009

He looks like a psycho version of that Wooly Willy toy I used to have as a kid. You know the one where you used a magnetic stylus to arrange black metal filings as hair and and a beard on this image of a bald guy?


peebs02
Canal Fulton, Oh

Posted 10:36 AM, 07/02/2009

lol


peebs02
Canal Fulton, Oh

Posted 10:36 AM, 07/02/2009

The more I think about it..Mom should be in custody too.


DrivinInCircles
NE, Oh

Posted 10:36 AM, 07/02/2009

i dont know how any attorney could defend him must be court appt'd or desperate.


kari

Posted 10:38 AM, 07/02/2009

Your a sick fckin pig and exactly why in the hyll was he living in this person's house with a 2 year old girl, COME ON OPEN YOUR EYE'S im so tired of hearing of these poor innocent children getting abused and hurt because the people in charge are in a coma and not protecting these children like they should be! Doesnt make any sense to me they commit these crimes and put right back on the street or next door to u to do it again. WATCH YOUR CHILDREN! if u cant do that right and protect these babies then dont have them..Some people will do anything to have a man! I totally agree with u (peebs02)


Vanilla Thunder
Akron, OH

Posted 10:42 AM, 07/02/2009

Wow, I think I'll steal this pic and use it for facebook and myspace. Haha.

Okay, enough levity... In a perfect world...

Bullet, meet Knapps brain. Knapps brain, bullet.


irene
akron, oh

Posted 10:43 AM, 07/02/2009

im the little girls grandmother. the news makes it sound like she was at her own home, but she wasnt she was staying at a aunts house when this happened. i wish i could have just one hour with this s.o.b. she is doing ok .she has alot of loving family arround her.shes a sweet little girl.so please dont look bad on her family because it didnt happen at her own home. thank u all


pimpomatic
leon, wv

Posted 10:44 AM, 07/02/2009

sg


The Nittany Lion
Akron, OH

Posted 10:44 AM, 07/02/2009

Look at that face... that's a mug only a mother could love, and even that's debatable.

As far as I'm concerned... any sicko that commits any lude act such as this to any child under the age of like... 10... should get the chair.


GoldenDucky
Akron, OH

Posted 10:46 AM, 07/02/2009

He LOOKS like a nutter, but glad they found him competent.


pauliechop
, OH

Posted 10:52 AM, 07/02/2009

The guy needs therapy alright. How about 2400 volts of elctroshock therapy???


bertboop13@sbcglobal.net
cuyahoga falls, oh

Posted 10:56 AM, 07/02/2009

That child deserves justice. Sane or insane this man has a problem and needs to be dealt with the sooner the better.


peebs02
Canal Fulton, Oh

Posted 10:58 AM, 07/02/2009

@Kari,thank you ...I agree with you also..couldnt of said it better myself.This guy is scum.He dont deserve to sleep,eat ,nothing!!I swear if I hear he had a bad childhood IM going to go ballistic!!!!!!!!!


kari

Posted 10:59 AM, 07/02/2009

My heart goes out to u irene and that poor little girl im sick by this and i hope she is ok-..PLEASE TAKE CARE OF HER AND LET GOD TAKE CARE OF THAT FOOL, BECAUSE GOD HATES UGLY


jaydasun
Akron, Oh

Posted 11:00 AM, 07/02/2009

The adult that was resposible to keep this child safe ( Aunt?) Should be held accountable. If she knew this guy had issues she should have never had the little girl over! She is also to blame! And we all know what happens to child predators in jail. Hope he feels the same pain and shame he put on this innocent child!


peebs02
Canal Fulton, Oh

Posted 11:08 AM, 07/02/2009

I dont know how people can do what they do to innocent children..If the Aunt knew he had that colored of a past why did she have the little girl over?? Your right jayda she needs to be accountable also.so sorry Irene,im glad shes with Grammie..she needs lots of positive attention given to her now and if she was mine Id take her to therapy,so she can have somewhat of a normal childhood.


Kara4633
Akron, OH

Posted 11:09 AM, 07/02/2009

I don't care if he is insane or not. He does not deserve to have a roof over his head and three meals a day in prison. I believe in KARMA. May not be soon enough, but he will get his.


2cents
tallmadge, oh

Posted 11:30 AM, 07/02/2009

I have to agree with a few of you - who cares if this loser decides to end his own life? Give him some rope and let him end his life. I'm so tired of criminals crying about their own rights. Where was that concern when they were violating the rights of victims?
Irene - I am so sorry for your family. I sure hope he gets his.


DrivinInCircles
NE, Oh

Posted 11:33 AM, 07/02/2009

@Irene, prayers to your grandaughter, you & family. Personally, I don't care what the circumstance was, it's a baby that was violated, innocent and defenseless...this dirtbag must be eliminated from our existence.


RittmanInsider
Rittman, Oh

Posted 11:47 AM, 07/02/2009

"its basic finding was that Knapp ''was not suffering from any major mental illness at the time of the act."

I think the guy should fry, but can someone really say this with a straight face? How could a guy do this, and NOT be mentally ill?


stleo
akron, oh

Posted 11:49 AM, 07/02/2009

Rape this jerk in prison AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE!


JustMeinB
Barberton, OH

Posted 12:02 PM, 07/02/2009

What a creepy looking monster he is.


nottheusual1
Tallmadge, OHIO

Posted 12:06 PM, 07/02/2009

@Rittman Insider said:"How could a guy do this, and NOT be mentally ill?"

Bravo - well put.


Vanilla Thunder
Akron, OH

Posted 12:16 PM, 07/02/2009

Not the usual & Rittman... evil doesn't equate to mental illness.


debbinana
akron, oh

Posted 12:17 PM, 07/02/2009

Our prayers are with the little girl. I hope this monster gets what he deserves and quickly!

People need to hold their children close, watch them every minute, keep them as safe as we possibly can...because there are monsters like this lurking around.


whackamole

Posted 12:22 PM, 07/02/2009

stare wildly and talk about suicide... we will go for crazy with the judge!


bbolerrn

Posted 12:54 PM, 07/02/2009

Just give him to me and it will be ok.

Or even better, our military needs some help over in our conflicts lets strap him to a bomb with an additional stick of tnt up his ring piece and drop him on some insergents.


bbolerrn

Posted 12:55 PM, 07/02/2009

what happened to the good old days where guys who did this were beaten and killed by the community.


bbolerrn

Posted 01:07 PM, 07/02/2009

mrsrob1, capital idea show it on prime time tv


13107
akron, oh

Posted 01:33 PM, 07/02/2009

This p o s doesn't deserve a trial! I have a 2 1/2 year old girl and this makes me physically sick.


Vanilla Thunder
Akron, OH

Posted 02:06 PM, 07/02/2009

It'll be interesting what type of defense they'll attempt now, since they've all but admitted his guilt via saying he was "crazy" during the crime.


nottheusual1
Tallmadge, OHIO

Posted 02:27 PM, 07/02/2009

@Vanilla Thunder said:"evil doesn't equate to mental illness."

Name somebody who is "evil" that isn't a nut job.


yankeescot
Da ghetto of Fairlawn, OH

Posted 02:37 PM, 07/02/2009

@ Irene

I'm very sorry about what happened to your grand daughter. I hope she never remembers this awful incident.

I say we let the family wack off his manhood with a dull, rusty cleaver for starters. Then hold a lottery for people to have a go at this piece of human debris.


Vanilla Thunder
Akron, OH

Posted 02:43 PM, 07/02/2009

It depends how you define "nut job." This story pertains to the legal definition of insanity. Nevertheless, Hitler, Stalin and other sociopaths were "evil" but not outwardly "nut jobs." They were highly intelligent, but killed millions and millions, yet in total control of their mental faculties. This is how I define "evil." Furthermore, there are many that are "nut jobs" that don't commit evil deeds.


nottheusual1
Tallmadge, OHIO

Posted 02:50 PM, 07/02/2009

@ vanilla thunder said:"Hitler, Stalin and other sociopaths were "evil" but not outwardly "nut jobs."

Oh - and what wasn't insane about these two examples?

Intelligence and insanity aren't mutually exclusive.

Better examples would be their minions that got trapped into the cult of personality that was them.



ANDYMAN
MANSFIELD, OH

Posted 02:56 PM, 07/02/2009

not only would I buy tickets to shoot at him, I would also bring my own gun.


Vanilla Thunder
Akron, OH

Posted 03:06 PM, 07/02/2009

I just explained how I decipher 'tween the two. Read it again, maybe you'll get it the second go around. Or, perchance you did get it, but didn't like the fact that someone doesn't share your opinion.

They weren't legally "insane." As I said, it's how you define insanity. Besides being murderers and paranoid (a personality disorder, not "insane") what was nut job-ish about them?

Haha @ minions. Akin to the minions who voted for obama.

Oh yeah, don't try to contort this, and behave as if I'm defending them. In case you missed this too: I called them evil.


Reality
Akron, oh

Posted 04:56 PM, 07/02/2009

mrsrob1- which stripclub...do tell

and criminal mastermind? I do not think that word means what you think it means.

nottheusual1- Hitler nor Stalin were insane. They had many issues but clinical mental illness was not one of them. You will be hard pressed to find a credible psychologist who will say otherwise.

I am in no way spiritual but I have no doubt as to the existence of simple, pure evil...no doubt.

this guy fits

as did I believe Stalin and Hitler but to lesser extents. As I do not believe either of those men actually physically killed a single person. Though they are directly responsible for millions of deaths.

abnormal psychology is a fascinating subject.

This guy is evil and needs destroyed and I bet you will find he agrees as well.


tm53chev
lorain, oh

Posted 05:58 PM, 07/02/2009

Sexual deviants are all around us. At church, in school work and your neighbor. These people hide out in the open till caiught then they claim mental deficiency. They just can't control their impulses. Man, woman or child rapist should be imprisoned for life with their own kind.


Kara4633
Akron, OH

Posted 06:01 PM, 07/02/2009

We get it gildee.....whites are different that blacks. IT WILL ALWAYS BE LIKE THAT thanks to people like you who SEGREGATE every flippin article on this dang website.


Reality
Akron, oh

Posted 06:05 PM, 07/02/2009

gildee- no one is on here saying this guy is anything other than a monster that needs destroyed you ignorant POS.

"This is the kinda crime that whites always try and justify by being mad, com'on, at least he was there to change the diaper, he just saw something he liked and went for it!"

you are also a sick POS.

You want me to put up the federal data base FACTS on rapes and which race committed more last year? I will give you a hint you won't like the factual data provided.

basically you need to get a better grasp on reading comprehension as no one hear defended this guy as YOUR community does everytime one of YOUR nubian princes steps on his d@ick and ends up in the paper.

Don Baker was a scumbag POS drugdealer that got what in a perfect world all POS drugdealers deserve and I would shake the man's hand that pulled the trigger on Don Baker right before I pulled mine on him.

No one is posting anything because he's black. It is because he was trash.

The only person in the ABJ comments section that does anything just because someone is black is you with your blind defense.

wake up Nero, ghetto rome is burning......

You may wanna wiki Nero as I am sure your limited education and lack of desire for continuous knowledge will have drawn a blank at that reference..


Vanilla Thunder
Akron, OH

Posted 06:08 PM, 07/02/2009

Don't mind her Kara. She just wants everyone to be unhappy like her. Misery loves company.


peebs02
Canal Fulton, Oh

Posted 06:33 PM, 07/02/2009

Mrsrob1,,
thank you for the additional info..I appreciate it.
@gildee..wow ,you must have a permanent scowl on your face


Vanilla Thunder
Akron, OH

Posted 06:45 PM, 07/02/2009

Scowldee... bwahahaha. Rut roh, WAIT. She meant to anger me, not make me laugh so hard. Oh well, I'm sure failure isn't a foreign to scowlicious. *still laughin' as I hit submit*


nottheusual1
Tallmadge, OHIO

Posted 06:46 PM, 07/02/2009

@Vanilla Thunder:

You split hairs to be on the "right" side of the argument.

The "legal" definition of insane is re-written every time sanity comes into question by a judge and jury, it's so murky.

And nobody has exterminated a single human in the name of Obama or some perceived cult of personality surrounding him, so that's just a The Party Regressive Strawman and intellectually dishonest.

However, there seems to be a rash of evil, amorality and just plain old immorality in the name of The Party and Its Minions lately.

You should expound on that for us all.


Vanilla Thunder
Akron, OH

Posted 07:00 PM, 07/02/2009

Assuming I'm right wing because I don't support obama. How predictable; weak. I never said anything about someone being "exterminated." I stated "voted" for him. Because of his cult of personality and celeb status. One little obama comment caused you to get upset and spew invectiveness. Don't personalize it so much, it's just a message board. Relax ^__^

As for the legal definition of insanity... most of what I said was opining. And I read your view. Get over it already and stop dwelling on the stale.


starrman
akron, Oh

Posted 07:41 PM, 07/02/2009

Put him to sleep. Doesn't matter if he is sane or not. He is going on trial to talk about his abusive childhood and all of the traumatic abuse he suffered, this will be his defense. They will find him guilty, he will get out in 20 yrs. I guarantee in 20 yrs the article will read "Convicted child molester arrested again." We will then be arguing about how he slipped through the cracks and did it again. Save the taxpayers money and headaches, put him to sleep.


sheila
akron, oh

Posted 07:49 PM, 07/02/2009

Good job Judge Stormer for seeing through the B.S. this guy and Jonathan Sinn are trying to sell. If everything Sinn said is true, he should have been executed long ago. Ang gildee: you are the biggest racist on these posts. Now go lay down with a Roper or Shropshire.


peebs02
Canal Fulton, Oh

Posted 08:40 PM, 07/02/2009

LOL @ scowlicious!!!!!!!!!!! that just made my night


debbie
barberton, oh

Posted 08:58 PM, 07/02/2009

Thanks grandma for the info,Im glad she is doing good,I would love some time with this guy too,he scares me just to look at him,his mother needs smacked


Sally

Posted 09:08 PM, 07/02/2009

No starrman, unfortunately he won't get 20 years. This guy "Mark Sparko" that lives at the end of my street has been three times convicted of Gross Sexual Imposition on 3 and 4 year old little girls. He is ALWAYS back out at the same house, in the same neighborhood in 2 to 4 years. He just loves this "family" neighborhood and according to Conti, the councilman at the time of my protest said to my complaint "Everyone has a right to live somewhere and he has paid his debt to society"


Sally

Posted 09:10 PM, 07/02/2009

In fact he wears that same stupid look on his face


No Tolerance
Akron, Oh

Posted 10:33 PM, 07/02/2009

He looks fairly normal to me! He is obviously just misunderstood.


suebabie21
akron, oh

Posted 10:55 PM, 07/02/2009

you know when u place blam on some one you need to place blam on the ones that are truley responable.how can anyone place blame on anyone when they werent there.if you dont know what happeen the night that that babie was hurt you dont need to past judgment on any one.i am very sur that if the aunt can take back what happen she would in a heart beet.the parents of this babie wasent there eather so they are to blame just like knapp


starrman
akron, Oh

Posted 12:13 AM, 07/03/2009

@suebabie Are you serious? The child molester is the victim, and the two yrd old is the criminal. Because i know how two yr old children go around and tell people they were inappropriately touched when they weren't. I bet you read all of this in the same class that taught you how to spell. I bet you're either his boyfriend or close relative, i'm going with the latter of the two. I can tell that this guy is a genius and with your highly developed cognitive skills, I'm willing to bet you belong to the same inbred gene pool.


quikey
akron, oh

Posted 12:37 AM, 07/03/2009

They all have this look...the big beady eyes and the glassy stare like they're possessed. Sometimes they look like they're on LSD and other times they look like they're on downers...Why are these zombies out there in public ??


Sally

Posted 01:03 AM, 07/03/2009

@No Tolerance He's misunderstood alright - The only thing that would normalize him would be chemical castration and a lobotomy.


d

Posted 01:35 AM, 07/03/2009

No child deserves to be violated by such an animal. Had the animal been locked away where he obviously belonged, this tragedy would not have happened...It doesnt matter that the parents werent there, or what their occupations are, an innocent child was used by a grown man, for his deviate, vile, pleasures... I hope when he gets to prison, they rape him every way but loose, every single day he lives. Had it been my child he wouldn't be in custody, he'd be where he belongs!!! IN HELL !!! I'm sure had the parents felt this was an unsafe environment, the child wouldnt have been there... She was an innocent child, he was an ignorant grown idiot, to do this to her...Life happens you could be the best parent in the world, and sometimes tragedies still occur...Anyone with a child knows this, you hope to protect your children every minute of every day, but in the real world that doesn't always happen...Prayers be with you baby girl...and your family too. "People need to realize life is the real world! And in the real world bad things can happen to innocent, good people, because not all people are Good people."


Thug Spanker
Akron, Oh

Posted 04:48 AM, 07/03/2009

Life in the land of the iron sausage. He so ugly he has to sneak up on a 2 year old to molest her.


goldman
green, oh

Posted 06:17 AM, 07/03/2009

He can be put to death, there is a law in the books that states that if you are convicted of a rape of a child under the age of 12 the prosecutors can ask for the death penalty which has never been done before but it is on the books and should be USED ESPECIALLY IN THIS CASE.


goldman
green, oh

Posted 06:19 AM, 07/03/2009

He can be put to death, there is a law in the books that states that if you are convicted of a rape of a child under the age of 12 the prosecutors can ask for the death penalty which has never been done before but it is on the books and should be USED ESPECIALLY IN THIS CASE.


peebs02
Canal Fulton, Oh

Posted 10:07 AM, 07/03/2009

I always told my kids when they were growing up,to look at peoples faces and if they had eyes like the idiot above to steer clear of them,no matter who they are.If you look at almost every nasty jerk molester ,all their eyes look like that.


Bear fan
akron, oh

Posted 10:35 AM, 07/03/2009

Did you notice how he looks like charles manson and that his handcuffs match his stripes?


LouLouLa
Akron, Oh

Posted 10:56 AM, 07/03/2009

I know this is totally off this subject but it has been bothering me. Does anyone no why there was a very low flying plane yesterday going to Akron Canton airport over Springfield Lake? The landing gear was down and it passed 4 times so low and slow he barely cleared the trees. I have looked everwhere in the news no answers.


peebs02
Canal Fulton, Oh

Posted 11:15 AM, 07/03/2009

@Bear Fan,,wow your right!! Im glad to see he has good fashion sense,cause I know some of the boys will appreciate that where hes going!!
LouLou,sorry no I havent heard about that one either.probably circling til it was safe to land the plane maybe?


suebabie21
akron, oh

Posted 11:20 AM, 07/03/2009

YOU DONT KNOW ME''.you dont know what part of this i am in.what happeen to that babie was un beliveable.i wasent blaming that babie.that child is scared for life.


krystal
wadsworth, oh

Posted 11:34 AM, 07/03/2009

Gildee, go back to school and learn proper grammar. As I read your postings I feel as if my brain cells are popping and i'm being brought down to your level.


realist
akron, oh

Posted 12:17 PM, 07/03/2009

@Gildee:
This guy needs to meet his maker, irregardless of his color, creed, or socioeconomic status. So does the guy who shot Don Baker. You need to check your self, because your open and professed countercultural racism is more blatant than most.

Remember- in God's frying pan, the oil is hot and for every 1 big, worthless grain of salt, there are 100 peppers just as bad. The Lord will get you, no matter what. Eye for an eye.


I smell a rat
Akron, Oh

Posted 12:44 PM, 07/03/2009

@gildee... Yes, it was me that clicked on the "report abuse" link, you racist piece of ignorant trash.


Vanilla Thunder
Akron, OH

Posted 12:57 PM, 07/03/2009

Rat, you too? lol


CarolB
Akron, Oh

Posted 01:06 PM, 07/03/2009

THANK YOU Judge Stormer and APD Detective Rex Lott

Thanks APD for doing a good job of policing and reporting the crimes that freaks like Knapp commit against innocent babies and people of our community. Thanks to you, the job of attorney Jon Sinn of Callahan Greven Rilley and Sinn will be a little harder to get Knapp off for what he is accused of.


Kara4633
Akron, OH

Posted 01:07 PM, 07/03/2009

@ I smell a rat...

DITTO!


Sally

Posted 01:28 PM, 07/03/2009

feeds.bignewsnetwork.com

Man caught raping his daughter burnt alive
IANS Friday 3rd July, 2009

A man who raped his nine-year-old daughter was lynched and burnt alive by a mob in the Guatemalan town of San Juan Sacatepequez, the police said.

Some 200 people responded to a call for help from the girl's younger brother while Samuel Cotzajay Cubule, 52, was sexually abusing her, the police said.

The mob went to Cotzajay's house, catching him in the act. He tried to run away but was caught, tied up, beaten, doused with petrol and burned alive.

Firefighters took the girl to Guatemala City's Roosevelt Hospital.

That's one way to eliminate the problem -


trust me
akron, oh

Posted 02:57 PM, 07/03/2009

This guy is NOT going to get 20 years. Believe me. At the very least he will get life without parole. There is no lesser option WHEN he is convicted. He is only going to trial because the prosecutor's office rejected ANY plea deal. He has nothing to lose so he is going to trial. With a jury, it only takes one.


vv_dragonbyt3_vv
Tallmadge, OH

Posted 05:44 PM, 07/03/2009

I second that motion sally...the worst possible death is nowhere near good enough to punish this pos!

BUT AT LEAST IT WORKS!

and to gildee...you look well under the same light...a racist, sexist, pos...and yea, I too "abused" you...you need to seriously consider an education not derived from reading the backs of cereal boxes, or tracks from a rap cd!

next time you open your mouth, you should use toilet paper to catch all the "run-off"...or just give your self a swirly...same thing really.


grandma t
parma, oh

Posted 07:31 PM, 07/03/2009

i am the outher grandmother to this beautiful little girl and i got to say i read all these commits and it brought tears to my eyes. no one knew that this sob had any thing against him about child raping or anything relative to it. but ill tell you what i would love 1o minutes alone with this sob what i would do to him would make all men run for thur lifes lol lol :0)


Reality
Akron, oh

Posted 08:49 PM, 07/03/2009

only cause I am an Equal Opportunity a(ss)hole.......

"i am the outher grandmother to this beautiful little girl and i got to say i read all these commits and it brought tears to my eyes. no one knew that this sob had any thing against him about child raping or anything relative to it. but ill tell you what i would love 1o minutes alone with this sob what i would do to him would make all men run for thur lifes lol lol :0)"


I have a huge problem with that post. Anybody wanna take a stab at what it is?


I smell a rat
Akron, Oh

Posted 11:12 PM, 07/03/2009

That it is gildee trying to post under a different login?


I smell a rat
Akron, Oh

Posted 11:15 PM, 07/03/2009

The kid doesn't stand a chance w/ that gene pool?


starrman
akron, Oh

Posted 11:25 PM, 07/03/2009

@reality I would hope the main problems you would have with the post is that, the grammatical errors are those of a fifth grade child. the second would be those pointless fragmented sentences that make no definitive sense. That or that a fact that a grandmother is that sad that she is even posting a comment about her granddaughter being raped. All this shows is that she is as liable as the idiot who did this, and she deflects her own responsibility by blaming others for talking about it. She is using this as coping mechanism, to help her feel less guilt.


mag
Akron, OH

Posted 11:26 PM, 07/03/2009

@Reality-I know I have a few problems with that post. First of all, a caring parent would never leave their child with anybody except someone they knew very well, well enough to know their background and someone they trusted. Also if the one previous post is true about the parents of the little girl, then they can't be given much credit by the two grandmothers for even having tried to make sure the girl was safe. They sound pretty incompetent to even care for her themselves.

I'll be praying for this little girl. And I hope she has people in her family that will protect her and keep her safe.

Regarding the questions about the low-flying plane in Canton yesterday, I heard on the news that it was Ernest Angley's plane. His pilot was practicing and the plane hadn't been taken on a trip in a while so they were keeping it in shape by taking it out.


d

Posted 11:37 PM, 07/03/2009

1. only cause I am an Equal Opportunity a(ss)hole.......

"i am the outher grandmother to this beautiful little girl and i got to say i read all these commits and it brought tears to my eyes. no one knew that this sob had any thing against him about child raping or anything relative to it. but ill tell you what i would love 1o minutes alone with this sob what i would do to him would make all men run for thur lifes lol lol :0)"


I have a huge problem with that post. Anybody wanna take a stab at what it is?

2. The kid doesn't stand a chance w/ that gene pool?




WHAT JERKS U PEOPLE ARE, A CHILD LOST HER INNOCENSE AT THE HANDS OF A MANIAC, and You want to criticise the familys' gene pool. May God be watching you too, because I truly believe what goes around comes around.

God bless the Family and the Precious Baby and give them strength to get her through it. Hopefully she's young enough to forget......


I smell a rat
Akron, Oh

Posted 12:02 AM, 07/04/2009

@d, I was just guessing.


I smell a rat
Akron, Oh

Posted 12:06 AM, 07/04/2009

But truly, if a grandmother from one side of the family has the grammar of a 1st grader, and the aunt takes in a KNOWN criminal. Then yes, there are truly some stupid people in that family.

I feel sorry for the kid. This is my way of showing compassion.

Oh, and I think your stupid too.


d

Posted 12:43 AM, 07/04/2009




But truly, if a grandmother from one side of the family has the grammar of a 1st grader, and the aunt takes in a KNOWN criminal. Then yes, there are truly some stupid people in that family.

I feel sorry for the kid. This is my way of showing compassion.

Oh, and I think your stupid too.

Your name says it all----You are the RAT
People like you dont deserve a comment, you are just disgusting...




Posted 12:50 AM, 07/04/2009

The mentallity of the posters on here who know nothing about what really happened or who was involved, DISGUSTS Me, get some intelligence and some compassion and you may have a chance...oops sorry too far gone. When your comments come back to bite your own familys' butts, God be with you all.




Posted 12:54 AM, 07/04/2009

But truly, if a grandmother from one side of the family has the grammar of a 1st grader, and the aunt takes in a KNOWN criminal. Then yes, there are truly some stupid people in that family.

I feel sorry for the kid. This is my way of showing compassion.

Oh, and I think your stupid too.

I smell the biggest RAT and that would be YOU


old man
akron, oh

Posted 07:22 AM, 07/04/2009

my post is this // the family that took in this creep has to be bkidly stupid, and let this f'ing goofball around her , what he needs is skinned and his hang lo cut off in small slices while he watches , do it real slow make him scream with pain and laugh at him all the while , let him slowly bleed to death knowing he's getting what he deserves , the question is how did he live this long?


I smell a rat
Akron, Oh

Posted 10:18 AM, 07/04/2009

@d, been called stupid a lot?

Did I hit a button?


Reality
Akron, oh

Posted 11:08 AM, 07/04/2009

Good guesses kids all of them.

But my issue was simple. I don't think if some child related to me in anyway, let alone grand daughter, were molested I would be on the internet posting anything ending in "lol lol :0)"

Something just doesn't seem right about that.

I don't even know the kid and see nothing to laugh about in this story.

I suspect that person is not truly related to this poor child.


"d" lighten up Francis.


mag
Akron, OH

Posted 05:58 PM, 07/04/2009

@Reality-Yeah, the lol in the grandmother's post was another thing that bothered me. I pictured the grandmother laughing when I read that and that didn't seem right. You would think the grandmother or any relative would be too angry and disgusted to write something like lol.


grandma t
parma, oh

Posted 07:05 AM, 07/05/2009

the lol at the end of my comment was a very evil lol. you have no idea how bad i would like to make that sob pay for what he has done.


VGoebel
Akron, Oh

Posted 10:05 AM, 07/07/2009

Sick, Sick, Sick ! Fry the freak !


MusicStudent1988
Akron , Ohio

Posted 09:32 PM, 07/07/2009

Bring back the firing squad for this guy

I'm glad he got behind bars before he touched my kid.
If that happened he wouldun't have made it to jail.

What drives a grown man to fantasize and desire small children.

Justice should be swift for this specimen....It won't be because of all the appeal, legal red tape s*** but we can only wish.

Im just glad he is in custody. Keep the girl in your prayers


ls45152

Posted 01:45 AM, 07/08/2009

All i can say is I hope he is taken out! And also; I found waldo.














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