The State - News from Feb. 13, 1985
Sacramento County Jail inmates beat an accused child molester while he was being taken to court, his attorney said. Arthur Gary Dill, 33, one of five men being held on molestation charges while investigators try to determine whether they made a snuff film in which children were killed on camera, suffered two broken teeth, a cut nose, bruised lips and a chin wound, attorney Ernest Winters said. A sheriff’s spokesman said the attack occurred as Dill and about 10 other prisoners were being taken by van from the jail to the courthouse.
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