European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 b the stars and stripes monday March 2, 1992 jury selection in . Beating set Simi Valley Calif. A a year after the videotaped beating of Black Motorist Rodney King four White a it olice officers will relive in court the night that changed their lives and turned the spotlight on police brutality. Court officials hoped to seat a jury today and allow the trial to proceed As scheduled wednesday. On March 3, 1991, King was clubbed kicked beaten and struck with a stun gun in front of a crowd of officers who converged after chasing his car several Miles. An Amateur cameraman peering out his apartment window saw flashing lights and flailing arms and turned on his new video recorder. The tape played repeatedly on National television electrified the nation. The los Angeles police department was con Mother caught in . After taking girl in 88 Rochester . A a California woman was captured four years after she kidnapped her daughter and became a fugitive when a judge rejected claims that the father sexually abused the child the Fri said. April Robyn Curtis 30, was arrested Friday at the Home she shared with her two children and new husband Christopher Meyer said Fri agent Dale Anderson. Meyer who married the woman last year was not charged. Curtis evaded authorities by travelling and using false names with help from an underground Railroad of people dedicated to helping parents who make such abuse claims against former spouses Anderson said. Agents also arrested Kenneth Moore Brewster 43, an alleged accomplice. Both were held without bail on Federal fugitive warrants. Curtis took her daughter Amanda in 1988 after losing a child custody Battle with the girls father Brian Otter of Yucaipa Calif. The girl now 8, was under county care until she could be returned to Otter. A a it a been four years a Otter told a local newspaper. A a in a so relieved that they be found them and that my daughter is Safe. Its going to be a Happy reunion for California authorities said Curtis with Brewster a help fled san Bernardino county with Amanda to avoid returning the girl after a visit. The Fri said they travelled across the nation sleeping in cars and staying with Clandestine groups that give shelter and new identities to parents who believe their children were molested by former spouses. Curtis who was living under the name Karen Ann Meyer had appeared on nationally syndicated television talk shows before she fled. She was also the subject of a . News and world report article in 1988. The Fri found Amanda who was going by the name of Mandy Mae Meyer after receiving a tip through the National Center for missing and exploited children in Virginia. Brewster was arrested in Corning k about 90 Miles Southeast of Rochester where he was Selling insurance under the name of Dennis Derosa the Fri said. Meyer said he met Curtis in 1990 in a nearby town. Curtis Brewster Amanda and Curtis daughter by Brewster a Robyn Job were living with Meyer. A the fear was always there with us a Meyer said. A a you re always afraid that something like this will damned As racist and its 65-year-old chief Daryl Gates was pressured to resign. He said he will leave in june. The four officers were charged with using excessive Force. Their trial was moved from los Angeles to Simi Valley in nearby Ventura county because of the political fallout. The officers have listened for Days to prospective jurors condemn their actions As a excessive a a a brutal and a beyond John Barnett an attorney for officer Theodore Briseno 39, has said Briseno was the Only one of the four who tried to Stop the beating. Also charged Are sgt. Stacey Koon 41, and officers Timothy wind 31, and Laurence Powell 29. All Are charged with assault. Koon and Powell also Are charged with filing false reports on the car Painter Earl Scheib Dies at 85 los Angeles a Earl a Scheib the gravel voiced television entrepreneur who promised to paint a any car any Colora for a Price calculated to make the Competition wince died saturday a Day after his birthday. He was 85. Scheib apparently died in his sleep at his Beverly Hills Home said Jerry Luvisi a longtime employee of Scheibis Green thumb stables in Chino. She said he had suffered from emphysema for two years. Scheibis television advertising posted a fever Chart of inflation from the Prosper Ous Quot postwar 1950s to the present. Scheib would announce himself a Chi in a Earl he would then Promise to paint any car for a Price that Rose Over the decades from $29.95 to $119.95. Scheib determined Early on that Southern californians would Welcome a discount Means of sprucing up their beloved cars. He also recognized the potential of late night television. Scheibis discount paint operation became a Chain of More than 200 shops in about 40 states and his Quirky late night television commercials made him a Folk figure in car crazy Southern California. Scheib and his company based in Beverly Hills were hounded by county District attorneys and the Federal Trade commission who doubted the veracity of his claims. Only a few colors were available for the special Price they said. A it is my sincere opinion a Scheib wrote the los Angeles times after one run in with the Etc in 1963, a that $29.95 is a special Price As we have not raised Earl a. Scheib our Price in 27 years still giving the Public their Choice of any Scheib celebrated his birthday at Santa Anita Park Racetrack where he watched his horse cause in a leaving place first in the fourth race Luvisi said. Scheib raised thoroughbreds for More than 30 years.8 women say senator sexually abused them Seattle apr eight women have told the Seattle times they were sexually harassed and abused by sen. Brock Adams a Wash. One also alleged that he raped her two decades ago. The times reported sunday that none of the eight women wanted to be identified. None Ever took the allegations to the police. Adams refused to comment. A i am giving no interviews on that at All a he told the newspaper. Attempts by the associated press to Contact Adams failed. Phone Calls to his Seattle and Washington d.c., offices brought no answer late saturday. Adams who is up for re election this year is considered politically vulnerable because of an earlier accusation of sexual assault by former congressional aide Kari Tupper. The . Attorney for the District of Columbia said Tupper Scase had no Merit. The times articles described situations Over 20 years in which the women said they were inappropriately fondled and kissed. One woman described As a democratic party activist said that in the Early 1970s Adams gave her pills that drugged her. He then raped her at her Home and left $200 As he departed she said. Seven of the women signed statements attesting to the truth of their stories and the eighth has said she would the newspaper said. The times said it was told the accounts by the eight women since september 1988 after Tupper claimed that the senator had drugged her and molested her at his Washington d.c., Home a year and a half earlier. The times said that in ensuing months others contacted the paper to say they had information or personal experiences to suggest that Tupper was telling the charged Over homemade sex videos Cookeville Tenn. A a couple who went on television to talk about their business in homemade sex videos Are now facing obscenity charges and fighting for the return of their daughter from state custody. Jean and Jack Lee Ashcraft or. Appeared on Sally Jessy Raphael stalk show in november to discuss their Enterprise. Since then the state department of human services has placed their 9-year-old daughter in a Foster Home and grand jury indictments led to their arrest. A a in a sorry we Ever made them a said Jean Ashcraft 43. A it was a mistake going on that television show. A big one. Everything was going along All right until we did Jean Ashcraft said that the movies were not obscene and that her daughter was never around to see anything. A they were not any worse than any of those a rated movies you can rent at your video store a she said. The couple shot videos of their love making after Jack Ashcraft 36, found an and in a Magazine for do it yourself sex videos. They wrote scripts and shot the movies in their House trailer. A grand jury indicted the couple on charges that they produced obscene material for distribution. An arraignment is set for March 24. In a report a sheriffs Deputy said he accompanied a human services worker to the child a school last november and to the Ashcraft Home. Magazines let ters and videotapes were confiscated and the child was taken from the Home the report said. A there was pornographic material in the bedroom and other rooms in the House Quot said Putnam county sheriff Jerry Abston. A fall the child would have to do to get it was get on a Stool and crawl up on a table or Rena Nunnally county Case supervisor for the human services department could not be reached for comment
