European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday april 23 2007 stars and stripes Page 11 sex offender says accusers Are lying by Jeffrey Collins the associated press Darlington so a convicted sex of fender insisted at least four times he was Tell ing the truth and denied raping two teenage girls in an underground room he built during testimony in his trial sunday during an hour of often contentious Cross examination Kenneth Glenn Hinson re iterated what he told the jury the sex Between him and the two then 17yearold girls in March 2006 was consensual and he ran from police for four Days because he thought they wanted him on drug charges the two girls have testified that Hinson 48 took them from a bedroom in their Darlington county Home while they slept and dragged them to a secret underground room prosecutors allege he bound them with duct tape raped them and left them to die because the room had no air Supply Hinson is charged with two counts each of criminal sexual assault kidnapping and As Sault and Battery with intent to Mil if convicted he faces a mandatory life sentence under the states two strikes Law the underground room was built under Hin sons tool shed it was about the length and Width of a midsize car with a ceiling about 4 feet High Hinson said he built the room to package marijuana he said he had about four pounds hidden in the room the night the girls said they were attacked once again on sunday he talked about How the room was carefully built Over two years is it True the Only thing More carefully constructed than that underground Dungeon was the Story you told this jury yesterday prosecutor Jennifer Evans asked All i can say is that it matches the Evi Dence Hinson replied Gavin Jackson the Florence so morning defense attorney Rick Hoefer left and Kenneth Glenn Hinson look Over evidence during Hin sons testimony in Darlington so on saturday Hinson is accused of raping two teens in a Dungeon like space behind his Home Evans asked Hinson just once if he kid napped the girls from their Home and raped them he simply replied no the girls names Are being withheld be cause the associated press does not identify alleged victims of sex crimes Evans and Hinson often sparred during his testimony her first question was whether a smile on Hin sons face saturday meant he was getting a thrill out of telling the jury about having sex with two teens in smiling this you pre Fer i frown Hinson said sunday the Case attracted National attention when state attorney general Henry Mcmaster said during the manhunt that in 1991 for the rape of a 12yearold girl could have been indefinitely committed to a state program for sexually violent predators after serving a nine year prison sentence two review committees had recommended that Hinson be placed in the program warn ing he could commit a future sex crime but judge Edward Cottingham rejected the plan and set Hinson free protesters outnumber Neo nazis at so rally Columbia so a Neo nazi group rallied at the statehouse on saturday to protest illegal immigration but was out numbered by opponents and Law enforcement officers in full swat gear fewer than 100 members of the National socialist movement marched in the two lock Parade and rallied on the North Steps of the statehouse where a statue of George Washington stands members did the nazi Salute yelled racial epithets and launched a diatribe against jews during the 90minute rally police reported no problems Dur ing the rally one person was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after he threw an egg police sgt Florence Mccants said police then escorted the group out of town and up interstate 26 for a few Miles Mccants said Dallas bound flight evacuated after threat san Antonio about 100 passengers were evacuated from a plane destined for Dallas on sat urday after san Antonio International Airport received a bomb threat authorities said the Airport received several Calls saying a bomb was in Termi Nal one Airport spokesman David Hebert said around am a caller referred specifically to the Dallas bound flight Hebert declined to release the name of the airline the san Anto Nio express news reported from the associated press ill St s s for hug his the few medical
