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| Search Still on for Convicted Rapist |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/26/2001 |
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Police warned Salem, Oregon residents that a convicted rapist who escaped from a state prison is suspected of sexually assaulting a woman and may still be in the area. Salem Police Sgt. Mark Chase said two people reported seeing a man fitting the description of Leighton Bates, 41. Police say Bates attacked a 46-year-old woman as she came into the laundry room of her apartment building Monday, threatened her with a sharp instrument and sexually assaulted her. When the woman's teen-age son came looking for her, Bates forced both back to the apartment, Salem Police Lt. Chuck Bennett said. He said Bates spent the night there, exchanged his prison clothing for some of the teen's clothing and took two knives. He used the phone, then forced the woman to drive him to Silver Falls State Park, 20 miles east of Salem. The woman drove back to Salem and contacted police. Bates escaped from the medium-security Oregon State Correctional Institute on December 24 after apparently wrapping himself in plastic and hiding in a delivery truck, said Gerald Long, a corrections department spokesman. He had been serving time for charges including rape, kidnapping and robbery for posing as a stranded motorist and kidnapped and raping a teen-ager. The earliest he could have been released was 2037. Bates escaped from the Salem prison once before, in 1985. In 1992, he escaped from a minimum-security prison in Baker City. |
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