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November 07, 2005
Child molester opts to remain jailed
A man with several convictions for molesting teenage boys says he'll continue to do so, and possibly will kill someone, if he's not locked up for good.
Last week Richard D. Frye, 47, agreed with Jennifer Karol, a state assistant attorney general who recommended that he be held indefinitely as a "sexually violent predator."
Spokane County Superior Court Judge Sam Cozza complied.
"He demanded it," Tim Trageser, Frye's court-appointed attorney, told The Spokesman-Review for a story in Sunday editions. "I have to respect his position when he says, 'I don't want to offend again.' He was really sincere. He said, 'I don't want to hurt any more kids.'"
Frye, who in April completed an 8-year prison term for a molestation conviction, chose to remain in custody while state officials moved to have him committed to the Department of Social and Health Services' treatment program for sexual predators.
He told corrections officials that if he remained free he feared he might become another John Wayne Gacy, according to court documents. Gacy raped and murdered 33 men and boys in the 1970s and buried 28 of them in the basement of his Chicago home.
In arguing for Frye's commitment, Karol presented a 30-page report by Dr. Amy Phenix, a Cambria, Calif., psychologist who found, among other things, that Frye is a pedophile.
The report described how Frye was physically and sexually abused beginning at age 8; Frye claimed to have had sex with male relatives, friends and neighbors.
Phenix's report also notes that Frye has contradicted himself at times, like claiming to want treatment while refusing to participate. He's also said he wants to stop offending while contending there is no harm in men having sex with teenage boys.
Frye displayed troublesome behavior early on, according to the report.
He acted out by placing dead mice in his dresser drawers, smearing feces on the walls of his home and torturing animals.
At 15, he stole a car and was sent to the J-Bar-D Boy's Ranch near Newport, Wash., where he said he had sex with three or four boys between the ages of 14 and 16.
In 1979, Frye was 20 when he pleaded guilty to simple assault for molesting a 14-year-old Spokane boy.
That same year, after a brief marriage ended in an annulment, Frye joined the Navy. A court-martial convicted him in 1982 of sodomy and attempted sodomy for raping a 19-year-old sailor at knifepoint in the Philippines.
Frye returned to Spokane in 1983 and remarried. But it wasn't long before he was again accused of trying to rape a 16-year-old boy he'd lured to a park and threatened with a pellet gun. He pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and was required to seek treatment at Eastern State Hospital after serving three months in jail.
In December 1983, Frye told a probation officer he feared he might become like Gacy. He also told state psychologists he'd fantasized about sexually assaulting women as well as boys, but his ideal partner would be a 15- to 16-year-old boy who was "looking for a father figure in his life."
Frye's probation was revoked when he failed to complete sex-offender treatment at Eastern State Hospital, and he was sent to prison until 1993. His second wife left him before he was released.
In July 1997, Frye pleaded no contest to first-degree child rape after an incident involving an 11-year-old boy who was staying overnight at a Spokane home he shared with his girlfriend. He completed an eight-year sentence for that crime in April.
http://www.krem.com/news/local/stories/110605ccjrkremmolester.35cd7d3a.html?hp
Posted by Nealus at November 7, 2005 10:24 AM
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