Prosecutor Seeks to Try Abduction Case First
A prosecutor said that Nevada has the strongest case and should get first crack at trying a former Baptist school principal from Indiana on charges he kidnapped and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old Indiana girl.
“This is an extremely heinous and extremely troubling case,” said Clark County Deputy Dist. Atty. Doug Herndon after reviewing the girl’s 50-page account of her 11-state trip with William A. Beith, 28.
The prosecutor spoke after an initial Las Vegas Justice Court hearing was postponed for 24 hours because of a “jurisdictional custody issue” with federal authorities.
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