Cops: Nevada Girl From Sex Tape Found Safe

A young girl who was seen being sexually assaulted in a homemade videotape has been found and is safe with family members and sheriff's officials, an investigator said Friday.

"We found the victim. She's safe," Nye County sheriff's Detective David Boruchowitz told The Associated Press.

Widespread media accounts of the case led to the crucial tip that helped find the girl, Boruchowitz said. He did not provide details of her identity, where she lives or how she was located.

Earlier in the day, authorities put the name "Madison" to the haunting face of the young girl authorities believe was 4 or 5 years old when she was raped and sexually assaulted in the video.

Authorities upgraded fugitive Chester Arthur Stiles from a "person of interest" to a suspect in the sexual assault. Stiles, 37, whose last known address was Las Vegas, is also wanted on an unrelated state warrant on a charge of lewdness with a minor younger than 14 and a federal charge of being a fugitive, said Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo.

DeMeo says the girl was found safe today with her mother. He says authorities believe the mother had no knowledge of the abuse her daughter had endured. DeMeo says the mother recognized furniture in the video.

Sheriff's Detective David Boruchowitz says Stiles relationship to the girl's family is "on a several-tier friend connection." He would not elaborate.

The girl's now 7 years old. DeMeo says she seems like a happy, healthy child.

Investigators determined that the video of the attack was recorded over the video of an 11-year-old girl taped in October 2005 through a window of a Pahrump home, DeMeo said.

Officials identified that girl, now 13, after releasing photos taken from the video and matched to records of a "peeping Tom" report at her home. No one was found outside the girl's home when deputies arrived, and the girl wasn't assaulted, authorities said.

A 26-year-old Pahrump man, Darren Tuck, surrendered the tape to Nye County sheriff's investigators Sept. 8 after another man reported seeing it, Boruchowitz said.

Tuck was arrested on charges of promoting child pornography and possession of child pornography, both felonies, and released without bail pending an appearance Nov. 26 in Pahrump Justice Court. The top charge carries a possible sentence of up to life in prison.

Tuck told detectives he found the videotape in the desert outside Pahrump more than five months ago. Investigators don't think Tuck made the tape, Boruchowitz said.

Tuck's lawyer, Thomas Gibson of Pahrump, has characterized Tuck as an innocent middleman who should be credited for giving the tape to authorities.

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GetLoud1

What are you talking about? Who are you? I noticed your post somewhere else today. Stick to the subject; turn the page, please. We''re on a different tangent here!

[averjane]

Why didn''t her mother know that her little 4 or 5 year old daughter had been "messed with". Doesn''t she give her baths? Didn''t she notice when she toucher her? Wouldn''t she be very soar? This is a grown man. The damage would have been evident to such a small body. The sheriff described it as brutal. If the mother did recognize the furniture then she certainly knows something more about the situation that she may not be revealing yet. The detectives will find out. They always do. People have to constantly guard their precious little ones and many people still today do not. I was at a park just a few evenings ago with my 3 year old granddaughter swinging her and there was a little boy on the swing. He was being pushed by a couple who were there with their small daughter. The relative of this child was in another part of the park when I walked past her before I went to the swings. She only glanced to see where he was before returning to her friends on the ball field. They could have easily walked off with the child. He couldn''t even talk yet. There were woods near the swings as well. Finally, the relative did come down and I mentioned to her that you can''t take your eyes off children for a minute but she only justified her behavior by saying she checked on him. They just don''t get it. Just another irresponsible person who was either watching the child or a very stupid mother.

[dmhphils]

"Safe with the mother"....what a joke! I''m bettin mama knows this guy real well.

[gmk5]

Well, on second thought, maybe that was after she was told it was her child. Maybe the furniture issue was trying to identify where this took place. So, forget that last post.
And I realize, seperating this child from her mother would not be good at all. I just hope that the mother will be extra, extra protective now. Because at one point, my suspicion is that she was not.

[gmk5]

Another thing I find bizarre, is that it is quoted in many stories that the mother recognized the "furniture" in the video tape. What about the girl? Didn''t she recognize her own child?

[my2centss]

26-year-old Pahrump man, Darren Tuck released without bail? People caught with marijuanna get more than that, he is facing life. What is the judge thinking? Our priorities are in the wrong place.

[radiob-2009]

Declare all forms of child molestion, pornography as a terrorist act and the death penalty is the only penalty.

[johnny_chaos]

any of you that think politics are involved in child molesting should shut up. its as relevant as race. if you bang your pot and preach, act like a christian. god is not a memeber of any US or world political party if he was, adam would have told us so. also, i dont recall him blessing this or any other country, race, or ideology. so shut the hell up and kill this piece of sh*t.

[johnny_chaos]

i think he should be a forced participent in a donkey show on LSD.

[brianbwb-2009]

I find it incredulous that her parents didn''t know...