I’ve written several times about Gregory Haidl, the Orange County *cough* alleged *cough* rapist who videotaped himself anally penetrating an unconscious girl with a pool cue — but managed to get a mistrial through an astonishing web of lies and character assassination against the “slut” (his lawyer’s words) he raped. (More links to my past posts at that last link; some of the more astonishing stuff here.) He’s a bad, bad man.

Well, you’ll never guess what’s happened to dear ol’ Greg! Turns out he met a new underaged girl at a party thrown for him the night of the hung jury in the first rape case! Two weeks later, he was caught having sex with this 16-year-old girl, and how he’s facing statutory-rape charges on top of his rape-rape charges.

It gets weirder: The girl apparently doesn’t want to cooperate with police (the sex was apparently consensual this time). So she (and/or Haidl’s dad) hired an attorney to put up road blocks to the investigation. The attorney? A fellow named Adam Stull. Stull himself has a criminal record for…wait for it…having sex with an underaged girl!

Stull was convicted of six counts (including “penetration with a foreign object” — seems to be all the rage in California) in 1992, while he was a deputy district attorney helping teach a mock-trial class at a local high school. He ended up getting his law license suspended for 16 months. When asked by a reporter why he had sex with one of his high school students, he came up with this brilliant response: “You have to understand she looked 30. She was about 5’11”, about 130 pounds. Beautiful girl.”

Obviously a guy with a lot of credence in a statutory rape case.

Have I mentioned that Greg Haidl’s dad is the assistant sheriff of Orange County who made millions selling used government vehicles? (Or more accurately was until a couple weeks ago, when he finally resigned in disgrace.) Or that his ex-wife (the rapist’s mom) is suing the police for $15 million for daring to arrest their rapist son?

To hell with the bunch of them.

11 October 2004



Comments

16 October | 15:57  |  Jason

Zing!
js

17 October | 12:01  |  Chuck

Gee, how come we never see any of this on "The O.C."?



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