Austin, TX – He kidnapped the 9-year-old girl as she walked to her school bus stop the morning of September 24th. He threatened her with a knife and forced her into his truck, threatening to cut her if she didn’t stop screaming. When he got the child back to his apartment, he tied her hands with dish rags and stuffed her in a closet. He fed her toast with jelly and some ravioli. After holding the child for most of the day, registered sex offender Charles Butcher let the child go, relatively unharmed and untouched, after she told him, “It’s time for me to go home.” At about the same time the child’s mother was calling police to report her daughter missing, Butcher was releasing the girl. It’s not every day we get a story like this one on the Dreamin’ Demon…

Officers spotted the child about 30 minutes after her mother called 911. According to police affidavits, the child told officers that she had seen Butcher pass her by that morning and return a short time later. He approached her from behind, covered her mouth, lifted her from the ground, and forced her into his truck. She tried to call for help on her cell phone, but Butcher took it and destroyed it. She was able to give a detailed description of her abductor, his vehicle, and his home. According to the arrest affidavit, detectives from the sex offender and registration unit linked Butcher to the kidnapping, but exactly how they made the connection is unclear.

Turns out, Butcher is up to old tricks. Back in ’91, he was convicted for the aggravated sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl in Korea, where he was stationed in the military. In ’95, he was convicted of abduction with a weapon in Ohio (Based on a translation of Ohio state law, the offense in Texas would have been solicitation of a minor). Butcher made parole in ’04 with special conditions that he not be around children. After the ’91 conviction, Butcher was required to register as a sex offender for life – which he has failed to do. Once this story hit the media, his neighbors started to talk. “He knew every girl’s name in this immediate area,” neighbor Don Rogers said. “He didn’t know any men, but knew every girl and every dog’s name of those girls. It was strange.” Yes Don, that is strange! Strange enough that Don is fixin’ to move now. “When it happens right in your back pocket, it’s something you’re not going to forget for a very long time, a very long time,” he said. Amy Denny occupied the apartment directly under Butcher. “I told my friends when I moved in the first month that if anything happens, check the guy upstairs because he gives me a weird vibe,” she said. Hindsight, and all that…

Authorities also believe Butcher is a peeper. Austin police said that they had received two previous reports that Butcher was peeping through neighbors’ windows – a resident reported a man looking through her windows in August, but police Lt. Mark Spangler said that may not have constituted a crime. Spangler went on to say that while Butcher may have been peeping through windows, it’s not clear whether he was doing it for sexual gratification, which is required for criminal charges under state law. Well, I’m sure he wasn’t doing it because he wanted to check out her interior design skills.

Charles Eugene Butler, 42, was arrested Friday on several traffic violations and is being held on charges of aggravated kidnapping and failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements. His bail has been set at $600,000. What do ya say you keep the skeevy bastard in there this time, eh?

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