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New Twist in Stephen Brodie Case; Deaf Man Was Wrongly Imprisoned for 10 Years

By "eAdvocate"

10-16-2010 Texas: DALLAS (CBS/AP) Police on Wednesday arrested a convicted child molester whose fingerprint was found at the scene of a 1990 sexual assault on a 5-year-old girl - a crime for which a deaf man, Stephen Brodie, was wrongly convicted. Brodie was exonerated last month after spending 10 years behind bars. Police and investigators from the Dallas County District Attorney's office took Robert Warterfield into custody as a suspect in a different, 1989, sexual assault on a child. The DA's office said in a statement that its forensics lab confirmed a DNA match between Warterfield and evidence left at the scene of the unsolved 1989 assault on a 9-year-old Dallas girl. When Brodie, who is deaf, was arrested and convicted for the 1990 child sex assault, police knew that a fingerprint, found on a window at the crime scene, did not match Brodie or anyone living there...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on October 16, 2010 (boomark / email).