Chester… The child molester is convicted in Las Vegas

Chester… The child molester is convicted in Las Vegas

After all this time I thought that was just an old saying, Chester the child molester…

Not the case with this conviction.










Chester Arthur Stiles was convicted on 22 felonies which included sexual assault. Chester now faces multiple life prison terms and has to wait until May 8 for sentencing.

Now you ask how rack up so many charges. The answer is simple. Chester in his ultimate wisdom made a video.

19 of his charges stemmed from a videotape that Chester made of himself with a 2 year old girl.

Now once again as I have talked about here before, what do you do with the video tapes of criminal activities?

I would think they would be hidden or destroyed after the content sold or what ever he was doing with the content, but not Chester.

Chester hid the video in a desert lot about 60 miles west of Las Vegas. Apparently Chester did not do a very good job of hiding the tape since it was found, which in turn caused yet another man to be arrested in this case.

The man that found the tape finally gave the tape to the police in 2007, 5 months after he found it.

The police ended up charging him for conspiracy to obstruct a public officer for the delay in turning in the tape. That man later pleaded guilty to his charge.
Now this brings up an interesting point, what would you do if you were the one that found the tape?

If you watched it and seen what was on the tape, would you have turned it over to the police immediately? Or just destroyed the tape?

As much as I think the right thing to do would be to turn it over to the police immediately, I would still fear prosecution of being in possession of child porn.
With the police as they are now, I don’t know if I could turn it in or not. Granted its awesome this tape was turned in and this man was arrested and now taken off the streets for the rest of his life, but one would really have to consider the serious consequences that could happen with turning the tape over.

Now in this case, there was no information released as to way the man kept the tape for 5 months. If he kept it to watch it, he needed to be charged.

The judge even allowed the jury to watch the tape. The judge cleared the courtroom of all the public, except for 5 reporters and they all watched the tape in court.
The judge said the recording was clearly child pornography in its most graphic form.
When police initially received the tape they were not sure who the victim or abuser was so they turned to the public for help. There was images released from the video of the victim and abuser and finally someone was able to identify the man.
Once Chester was identified it was learned that he was a fugitive in a case involving a 6 year old girl that he molested in 2003.

The 2 year old girl’s mother denies knowing anything about this incident, and If I were here I would deny everything as well.

The mother said she was living with a friend and her family and at the time her friend was dating Chester.

This is an interesting case as far as the video tape was concerned.

Obviously there was no DNA, there was no testimony from the 2 year old and the tape was a copy. So they didn’t even know if the tape had been altered.

But Chester sat there through the trial and never said a word and never took the stand.

Chester also faces federal charges of producing child pornography, which could carry a sentence of 15 to 30 years in federal prison. That trial is set for April 6 in Las Vegas.