NEWBERG, Ore., Oct. 8, 2009
Sex Crime Charges Shock Ore. Town
Man Accused of Rape, Sodomy, Group Sex with 14-Year-Old Girl
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Darrin Vaughn Daily, 44, of Newberg, Ore., is seen in an undated photo provided by the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office. Daily is accused of sex crimes involving two teenagers and a 4-year-old girl, and police say he used the Internet to line up people to have group sex with one of the victims. He is being held on $1 million bail in the Yamhill County Jail. (AP Photo)
Daily, 44, of Newberg, was accused of rape, sodomy and other sex-related crimes, including posting Craigslist ads to solicit others to join in group sex with a 14-year-old girl, authorities said. There also were allegations of adults showing up to have sex with the teen, as well as police seizing drugs, sex toys and computer images of victims.
The news shocked Newberg, a small town in the hills of Oregon's pinot noir country, as authorities pressed sex crime charges against Daily and four other adults.
"It's disgusting. It's beyond sick," said Kim McCabe, who lives a few blocks from Daily's place.
Sherry Donaldson, who lives in rented quarters adjoining Daily's, said she's glad that after she smelled the odor of marijuana seeping into her kitchen she told her children to stay within the fenced yard in front, and not go to the back where he lived with two young daughters and a small dog named Buddy.
Daily remained in jail Wednesday on $1 million bail.
Three men and a woman have been accused of abusing the 14-year-old, who is too young under Oregon law to consent to sex with adults.
Three men were accused of responding to the Craigslist ad: Patricio Moreno, 43, of Forest Grove; Robert D. Thompson, 34, of Portland; and David Garcia, 41, of McMinnville. All are charged with sex abuse and rape.
Alisa Nice, 31, of McMinnville, was charged Wednesday with sexual abuse, sodomy and using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct. Police said she knew Daily.
Lawyers for the suspects had little or no comment. "At this point innocent until proven guilty is all I have," said Thompson's attorney, Janmarie Dielschneider.
A police press release on Tuesday said that a 4-year-old girl whose image was in computer files seized at Daily's house had told of being abused and was in the care of a child abuse assessment center.
No charges relating to the child have been filed, said Lisl Miller, deputy district attorney for Yamhill County.
"I really can't talk about the factual background regarding the 4-year-old at this point," she said.
Police said a third victim, a 15-year-old girl, came forward in early September and told them that Daily had recently given her alcohol and marijuana before they had sex.
A week later, police said in affidavits, they arrested Daily. Searching his computer equipment, they said, they found images of the 14-year-old.
A few days later, the court documents said, the 14-year-old told police she'd had sex with Daily about every other weekend since February and described encounters involving bondage, multiple adults and a dog.
The 15-year-old told police she had met Daily at a swimming pool, and that Daily's daughter, who was with him, asked her to visit, according to court documents. When she visited she smoked marijuana with him and he provided alcohol, according to the documents. She said Daily "got too high," took her to a bedroom and they had sex.
Little information about Daily's background was available Wednesday.
He lived in a one-story addition to an older two-story house, and neighbors said they believed he had no job.
Ken Cudd said he'd lived across the street 22 years and seen rowdier tenants.
"He kept to himself and his friends," Cudd said.
He said Daily moved in early in the year and left only about twice a month after loading his black Jeep Cherokee with empty cans — "I mean, tons and tons of cans" — presumably to return for the deposits.
Donaldson said she moved into the two-story part of the rental unit in April along with her children, ages 13 and 9.
"He did have people over, but it wasn't crazy wild," she said. "It was odd."
Early on, she said, she warned Daily she would call the police if she smelled marijuana again. She said she gave the warning through the wall between her kitchen and Daily's unit: "I just said it extremely loud, so they could hear." She said she didn't smell the odor again.
Kimberly Zoutendijk, who organizes a neighborhood watch group, said she once tried to warn Daily about allowing his children to walk the dog along the streets alone, but he waved her off.
The allegations were a shock. "There was never any indication of anything like that," she said.
"If only I'd had some idea," she said. "I could have said something."
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- I was abducted, beaten and raped by a stranger. It wasn?t a neighbor, a coach, a relative, a family friend or teacher. It was a recidivist pedophile predator who spent time in prison for previous sex crimes; an animal hunting for victims in the quiet, bucolic, suburban neighborhoods of Lincoln, Rhode Island.
I was able to identify the guy and the car he was driving. Although he was arrested that night and indicted a few months later, he never went to trial. His trial never took place because he was brutally beaten to death in Providence before his court date. 34 years later, no one has ever been charged with the crime.
In the time between the night of my assault and the night he was murdered, I lived in fear. I was afraid he was still around town. Afraid he was looking for me. Afraid he would track me down and kill me. The fear didn?t go away when he was murdered. Although he was no longer a threat, the simple life and innocence of a 14-year-old boy was gone forever. Carefree childhood thoughts replaced with the unrelenting realization that my world wasn?t a safe place. My peace shattered by a horrific criminal act of sexual violence.
Over the past 34 years, I?ve been haunted by horrible, recurring memories of what he did to me. He visits me in my sleep. There have been dreams?nightmares actually?dozens of them, sweat inducing, yelling-in-my-sleep nightmares filled with images and emotions as real as they were when it actually happened. It doesn?t get easier over time. Long dead, he still visits me, silently sneaking up from out of nowhere when I least expect it. From the grave, he sits by my side on the couch every time the evening news reports a child abduction or sex crime. I don?t watch America?s Most Wanted or Law and Order SVU, because the stories are a catalyst, triggering long suppressed emotions, feelings, memories, fear and horror. Real life horror stories rip painful suppressed memories out from where they hide, from that recessed place in my brain that stores dark, dangerous, horrible memories. It happened when William Bonin confessed to abducting, raping and murdering 14 boys in California; when Jesse Timmendequas raped and murdered Megan Kanka in New Jersey; when Ben Ownby, missing for four days, and Shawn Hornbeck, missing for four years, were recovered in Missouri.
Despite what happened that night and the constant reminders that continue to haunt me years later, I wouldn?t change what happened. The animal that attacked me was a serial predator, a violent pedophile trolling my neighborhood in Lincoln, Rhode Island looking for young boys. He beat me, raped me, and I stayed alive. I lived to see him arrested, indicted and murdered. It might not have turned out this way if he had grabbed one of my friends or another kid from my neighborhood. Perhaps he?d still be alive. Perhaps there would be dozens of more victims and perhaps he would have progressed to the point of silencing his victims by murdering them.
Out of fear, shame and guilt, I?ve been silent for over three decades, sharing with very few people the story of what happened to me. No more. The silence has to end. The fear, the shame, the guilt have to go. It?s time to stop keeping this secret from the people closest to me, people I care about, people I love, my long-time friends and my family. It?s time to speak out to raise public awareness of male sexual assault, to let other victims know that they?re not alone and to help victims of rape and violent crime understand that the emotion, fear and memories that may still haunt them are not uncommon to those of us who have shared a similar experience.
For those who suffer in silence, I hope my story brings some comfort, peace and hope.
Men in My Town is the story of my abduction, beating and rape and the unsolved brutal murder of the man who attacked me.
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- charlie5887...I have to agree. We tend to look at sex crimes through they same very narrow looking glass, no matter what the situation is.
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- Wait. He made a home movie of superior quality. He gets the "artist" exemption for drugging and having sex sex with children. The Polanski loop hole it's called. Please tell me how this sick sob is different from Polanski? Drugs , underage, sex.
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- Girls and Boys are very vulnerable at that age (13 - 16). It's the time when parents ears should be perked up. My parents let me roam, and it is only luck that I didn't get into trouble. Sometimes stupid works out lucky. I'd take these scumbags for an airplane ride to 41,000 feet without oxygen.
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- Kill him, hit him with the paddles to bring him back and kill him again.
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- I have the bullets.
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- send him to georgia; we'll stick a needle in his arm next week
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- Shoot them all. Over and out. this is so hideous it doenst deserve a trial.
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