The Wayne Dumond story would seriously harm Huckabee’s chances to win any more primaries, let alone the general election if, God forbid, he should win the Republican nomination. The MSM has downplayed the facts of this case (when it gets mentioned at all), but once they become known, the public will be horrified.

Dumond was convicted in Arkansas of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. The girl was a distant relative of Bill Clinton, and some in Arkansas believed that the Clinton machine had played some (improper) role in Dumond’s conviction. But Dumond was a career criminal, and probably a sociopath in the bargain. Among other things on his sheet, he had been involved in the brutal beating death of a man. In that case, Dumond testified under a grant of immunity (for testifying against the others involved in the killing) about how he had beaten the man in the head with a claw hammer. Dumond was also involved in several other rape/sexual assault cases. In one of those cases, Dumond had raped a woman at knife-point in her bed while her toddler slept a few inches away. Dumond even admitted to police that he had committed rape.

Dumond’s victims begged Huckabee not to release him from prison in Arkansas (where he was serving a life sentence), but Huckabee ignored their pleas. Huckabee apparently felt sorry for Dumond because, while in his home before being convicted, Dumond claimed that he had been assaulted and castrated by two unknown intruders. (It is likely Dumond’s injuries were self-inflicted. Dumond’s own wife suggested as much to the doctors who treated Dumond). According to 4 members of the Arkansas parole board, Huckabee pressured them to release Dumond. (Huckabee denies it, but his denials are not credible). The board gave in to the pressure and released Dumond, on the condition that he leave Arkansas. Dumond complied and moved to Missouri, where he raped and murdered two women, one of whom was pregnant with her first child. Dumond was convicted of one murder, and was in jail awaiting prosecution for the second murder when he died.

Huckabee claims, to this day, that he could not have foreseen (!) that this admitted rapist and killer might rape and kill again if released from prison.

AZCoyote on January 14, 2008 at 3:46 PM