Here is today’s front-page story in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News regarding serial pedophile Steven Sitler. Kudos to Shanon Quinn for her excellent report:
* * *
State releases ‘special progress report’ on sex offender
Sitler reports seeking woman in a bikini on his lunch break
By Shanon Quinn, Daily News staff writer
Convicted sex offender Steven Sitler was the subject of a special progress report from the Idaho Department of Corrections to Latah County 2nd Judicial District Court Judge John Stegner Wednesday.
According to the report, Sitler contacted an Idaho Department of Corrections parole and probation office Sept. 6 and reported an experience he claimed to have had about three weeks before. If Sitler’s timeline is correct, that would have been the week of Aug. 17, when Latah County 2nd Judicial District Court Judge John Stegner ruled Sitler would still not be permitted to live with his wife and young son.
According to the report, written by senior probation and parole officer Daniel J. Pollick, Sitler reported driving through a residential area on his lunch hour at the University of Idaho, where he works as a graduate assistant at the College of Engineering, and caught sight of a woman in a bikini in front of one of the homes.
“He said this female caught his attention, and he could not stop thinking about her,” Pollick wrote. “He told me after purchasing his lunch, he returned to the area he had seen the female, however she was no longer visible, he parked there and ate his lunch and continued thinking about her and hoped to meet her.”
According to the report, when Sitler finished his lunch he drove by the Hamilton Lowe Aquatic Center, “did not see anything that interested him, did not stop and continued on his way.”
The Daily News was unable to ascertain Monday what, if anything would happen in the legal arena as a result of the report.
The Idaho Repository lists the special progress report under Sitler’s case file, which goes back to charges filed Sept. 1, 2003 for lewd conduct with a child under 16.
Sitler was sentenced September 2006 to life in prison with retained jurisdiction after he pleaded guilty to the charges under a Rule 11 plea agreement with the state of Idaho.
After serving one year of the life sentence with the Idaho Department of Corrections, and less than a year at Latah County Jail, Sitler was released from custody with a life term of probation.
One of the terms of that probation is having no contact with anyone under 18.
Sitler married in 2011 and the couple had a son in 2015.
Sitler was ordered to leave the family home last September after admitting during a polygraph test that contact with his infant son resulted in sexual stimulation.
He has been residing in a motel since that hearing.
According to documents from Valley Treatment Specialties, where Sitler receives treatment, there are 12 stipulations in a safety plan that must be in place before Sitler may return to the home.
These include Sitler never being left alone with, bathing or diapering the child, Katie Sitler maintaining line-of-sight of either her husband or child at all times, and both may take part in polygraph examinations if possible violations of the plan or other questions are raised.
Shanon Quinn can be reached at (208) 883-4636, or by email to squinn at dnews.com.
* * *
I am thankful that the Daily News has taken the lead in protecting our community by providing timely and accurate reporting on the status of Steven Sitler. I believe the only way he can be prevented from harming others is to immediately begin serving his life sentence. Ten years of therapy from both a psychologist and intensive sexual offender “treatment” program has failed and will continue to fail — he is a fixated pedophile. Apparently his ever enabling parents have willingly thrown tens of thousands of dollars into the pockets of the “therapeutic” providers who allowed three weeks to go by before insisting Siter contact his probation officer about this recent craziness. His wife appears to operate under her pathetic, overarching need to deny who and what she is married to — an untrustworthy, repugnant, high risk to re-offend sexual pervert. (Please note: the fact that he has not been caught (or turned in) for re-offending is meaningless. The three word phrase ‘not been caught” is all that matters in this discussion.) He is a constant danger to the most vulnerable among us — and why their safety — not his freedom — fails to be the highest priority for the court is inconceivable to me.
Rose Huskey
………“he returned to the area he had seen the female, however she was no longer visible, he parked there and ate his lunch and continued thinking about her and hoped to meet her.” Personally I think the “woman in a bikini” never existed, and was part of a tortured fabrication to explain his presence at a swimming pool teeming with half naked children. But hypothetically speaking, if this bikini clad woman was real, I would think that “hoping to meet her” would not, under normal marital circumstances, be a good thing for a wife to hear in a typical marriage. But then this (arranged) marriage is anything but “typical”. Wilson World is a very bizarre place.
This thought occurred to me, too: “He’s attracted to adult women?!” Perhaps some pedophiles are, but I would have thought ‘fixated pedophile’ would mean only an attraction to children.
“If Sitler’s timeline is correct, that would have been the week of Aug. 17, when Latah County 2nd Judicial District Court Judge John Stegner ruled Sitler would still not be permitted to live with his wife and young son.”
I guess it’s all the mean old judge’s fault for not letting Sitler move back in with his baby boy . . . er, I mean his WIFE.
“He told me after purchasing his lunch, he returned to the area he had seen the female, however she was no longer visible, he parked there and ate his lunch and continued thinking about her and hoped to meet her.”
I’d like to think something like this would finally wake Katie up. My fear is, that only something horrific like him being caught molesting their son or somebody else’s kid would finally motivate her to take the steps she needs to take.
As horrific as that would be to most anybody, there are plenty of cases where women know it is happening, see it happening, enable it happening and do nothing about it. I’m sure somebody with more psychological or sociological knowledge would be able to explain why. Unfortunately, it seems to me that his parents at least, and I fear maybe even his wife, would not be shocked or outraged if he did such a thing, and would continue to enable him.
If he gets caught doing something terrible, DW & co. will make sure she thinks it’s somehow her fault for not loving, respecting, trusting, and submitting to Sitler well enough. They are truly masters in the field of abuse, which includes the sub-discipline of manipulation of their victims to the point of even commandeering them to become fellow-abusers. Say Katie reads this post and confronts Sitler along the our suspicions, now what happens is that she’s become so half-hearted and bitter that she can take good judgments and has taken on a conspiratorial mindset. If you pay any attention to the writing out of Moscow or even most of the Knox presbytery pastors, watch for language that frames victims as uncharitable and suspiciously-minded. This is language intended to bully people into silence or so marginalize them that no one else in the “in group” will give them any credence. I’m not giving Katie a free pass, but I am saying that they have made, and will make, it very hard for her to trust her better instincts. The only way to keep Steven Sitler’s child safe from his own father’s predations will be to lock Steve Sitler up for good.
Katie Sitler is still a victim in all of this, as culpable as she may be. She reminds me of Patti Hearst.
Sorry my last post is full of typos. I was on my phone. ?