He did not get a sex offender designation by ‘peeing outside’. The excerpt in the center of this article is directly from the courthouse. Those are SOME of the things he was charged with.
Some.

You don’t believe it? Go down to the courthouse yourself and look. Read. KNOW.
Who was most likely to lie to you?
The guy writing this article?
Or Duane?

Manipulation & lies. Yaten. That’s what these guys do. Mind games… sudden drama. Control issues… Always someone else’ fault… Sound familiar? These are symptoms of personality disorders, bad ones.

Stay with him and support him, if you choose. God knows that he is going to need somebody.

But if you do… Please make sure you are fully aware of what he has done, don’t just take his word on faith. Come to that conclusion fully armed with knowledge – not just feelings.

And finally, even if you are willing to support your friend, at this point you can’t defend him. Not these actions. Not these.

I think Yaten and Prometheus are not seeing that some of these comments are in reaction to what Duane did in 2000; people are judging based on his ADMITTED past actions – which are horrifying. He has proven he is capable of heinous, potentially life ending, crimes.

Unless you’re saying Duane was “set-up” in 2000 and coerced into his plea deal, you lose credibility when you’re trying to sell him now as “a good person.”

Throughout the world there are elements in all cultures that tacitly make women responsible for their own vicitimization while absolving men for responsibility over their own sexuality.

I am sorry this person was abused. I am, however not responsible for it. Neither were the victims. There are plently of people who have been abused, yet they do not take it out on innocent people. I hope that whoever abused him gets what they deserve, and I’d cheer – the way I and some others toasted Ted Bundy’s execution with a round of electric ice teas.

Many of the points you make in general regarding society and those dealing with mental illness, Mr./Ms. Prometheus, are true. We have written here before about that.
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Regarding this case and this defendant – please keep in mind that you also are making a judgment/assessment without all the facts.
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I don’t think anyone can have all the facts, even those of us whose business is uncovering and presenting facts. But having researched further in the days since these charges were filed, I have obtained the court documents in the 2000 case, documents and details of which were not available online. I filed a request for the case documents and for a total of $75, including an extra fee for expedited copying and delivery, got the paperwork in the mail from King County on Saturday.
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After reading the paper copies of various documents from the case file, I now know the summary of that case included in these new charging documents barely gets past the surface of what he pleaded guilty to doing – and was tied to via fingerprint evidence. (Fingerprint evidence also tied him to the harassing, threatening, obscene phone call afterward.)
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Aside from the aspects of the case that gave him the designation of sex offender – very graphic and elaborate, what he did before the fire – the key point, beyond that, is that he set a fire at the home of two people while they were asleep. According to the court documents, what he told investigators was “the fire was starting to get big, so he left.” LEFT. Did not, by any account, call 911 to report it. The documents point out that the fire could easily have become fatal. The residence was filled with smoke, the documents say. That can kill you even if flames never get close to you.
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Something else I wasn’t able to confirm until obtaining these documents: The 2000 crime happened in West Seattle, in the Admiral area, not far from where he lived and worked at the time. I have not yet found any archived evidence that media (citywide or neighborhood) covered it, which, as a veteran journalist, surprises me.
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And the documents confirm something we learned after our first report – there were two other cases pending against him preceding this in which prosecutors agreed not to file charges as part of the plea bargain preceding his guilty plea in this. I don’t have the specifics of those cases yet – they were mentioned only briefly on two pages of the dozens of pages we obtained, but those mentions included the SPD incident numbers, so the police reports should be available. – TR

On the surface, he seemed nice, like someone I would like, but on the inside, there was also a very harsh, abrasive side to him.

That said, I would not have his good name terrorized with comments about “rape culture,” and misogyny. Some of these claims come across as emotionally disturbed, and sexist themselves…

Duane, himself, seemed a friendly guy with a lot of turbulent emotional violence to work out, and as someone with mental health issues, also, I find myself in the position to state there is little to no help in society for the deranged and mentally ill.

It is a “fend-for-yourself,” type of system, where no one is cured, and everyone is blamed, then sensationalized in the mass media.

I would rather see Duane institutionalized than in jail, and though I am sorry for all those losses here, I feel even sorrier for those who judge others without even knowing them.

I will vouch for both Yaten and Duane being good people, though I could tell a lot was going on mentally with the latter, and, knowing Yaten personally, I would stand up for him with my life, and his son, if need be…

I cannot say what Duane has or hasn’t done, but knowing him briefly on a personal basis, the fellow seemed to need more mental health care than jailtime. However, my observations were that his loyalties were clear-cut when it came to his sincerity, his friends, and his commitments to others. Not the type to act out without a tragic reason.

As we all know, putting a violence person in a violent situation does not end tragedy, it perpetuates it… As in jail, prison, or worse. Jail creates more criminals than it condemns.

In fact, I think the cruelest and most unusual punishment may be to put a man in a cage, without remorse, for years, or to life.

Duane seemed very sincere, and a do-gooder, though with a lot of deep-seated emotional scarring.

I do not support his actions, but I do stand against those who speak without knowing, and cannot find it in my heart to support their “hate-speech” here on this forum, as they were not involved in the circumstances surrounding this affair, nor did any of them know Duane personally–even I cannot testify on his behalf. I can only state that it would do better to help the poor in judgment, than to put them in prison, thereby allowing the blind to lead the blind, and criminals to create more criminals.

I can relate to this, having come from an abusive home, and watching years flicker by with barely any help from the state for the emotional scars this wound left me with… and still no end in sight.

It is tragic we treat men as criminals, and would rather lock them up; judge them by their character without meeting them; and annotate their behavior behind closed doors; then hype it up in the mainstream media without actually meeting or helping them, showing someone who was treated heartlessly with an act of compassion, rather than adding trauma to those who, like Duane, are already post-traumatized. I am not here to judge the situation, but the amount of hate speech against a person on the basis of his actions, without actually meeting him, is intolerable, and inconsiderate of both the deed and whatever motivated him.

No amount of judgment is going to fix the mentally ill.

Only doctors can do that.

And in America, we have low-to-no access to medical care for the deranged, nor do we have help sometimes even from those in a clinical setting.

A magic pill cannot fix someone who has spent an entire lifetime being abused.

Nor can ten+ years of adulthood straighten out 20+ of a missing childhood.

Please note, this is only on two meetings, but I do not think our culture needs more judgmental people, as in those who go to wars over misdeed, but a more tolerant, gentler race of human beings who are kinder to those in need, and with or without mental issues, provide others with a helping hand.

After all, those who will not face their darkness will never find their light… :(

He was convicted as a sexual predator whether it was a one time error he made or???he is still a convicted sexual predator and he was just caught masterbating in public!
You need to really open your eyes!!!

@Guy THank you for saying something man.

WestSeaFoLia – but the accused WILL be defended – by a lawyer at least. It’s in the constitution.

Guy – I’ve chosen to use a pseudonym on many discussions because they aren’t topics that I necessarily would want to come up on a Google Search of my real name.