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Report by Jo Scott
Everett
Stadig, long-time Mt. Rushmore employee, is an active Christian
pro-lifer and an Abe Lincoln look alike. On June 30, 2012 during the
final push to gather signatures for Colorado’s Personhood amendment,
69-year-old Stadig was collecting signatures in front of the Stapleton
King Soopers grocery store when he was attacked and thrown off his bike
to the ground by a man who became enraged because Everett was asking for
signatures "to protect unborn children." A witness who saw the attack
recorded the assailant’s license plate number and gave it to the police.
Everett was taken by ambulance to the hospital where he underwent
surgery for a broken hip.
In the following weeks, Mr. Stadig, concerned that the crime against him was not being investigated, enlisted the help of other pro-lifers and two volunteer attorneys to pressure the Denver police department to investigate the crime. Yet it turns out that the police were pursuing the matter, and eventually brought assault and rape charges against the perpetrator, a successful Denver businessman.
In August, William Costello was arrested for the attack on Everett Stadig. “Katie’s Law” allows law enforcement to procure DNA samples after a felony arrest. That DNA linked William Costello to three rapes for which he was charged on November 16, 2012.
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| William Costello |
The
police gave Costello a charge of only second-degree assault when
Everett, a 69-year-old man, was attacked while straddling his bicycle
and asking for signatures on his personhood petition. To add insult to
injury, the D.A.'s office didn't even speak to the victim until
September 18th, whereas they entered the mere second-degree charge on
August 11th, after talking only to the perpetrator and not the victim.
In addition to Everett, at least one witness, and perhaps others, spoke
with police. The perpetrator, now known to be a pro-abortion Democrat
with ties to high-profile governing officials including a former
governor, was angry that Everett was a pro-lifer. Costello at first
walked away toward his vehicle, then returned, and assaulted Everett by
throwing him to the ground. The force of the impact broke Everett's hip.
This is a first-degree assault on an at-risk adult and the Denver D.A.
Mitchell Morrissey should upgrade this charge against this
out-of-control and dangerous offender.
Lynn Kimbrough with the Denver district attorney’s office stated:
William
Costello, 47, has been charged with two counts of second-degree
kidnapping, two counts of sexual assault on a child, three counts of
sexual assault, and two counts of impersonating a peace officer.
Costello was arrested and charged in July 2012 with assault on an
at-risk adult following a confrontation between Costello and a man
collecting petition signatures. “Costello’s DNA was taken at the time of
his arrest pursuant to Katie’s Law, and was then linked to three
unsolved sexual assault cases occurring in 2008, 2010, and 2011.
Kimbrough appears to have misspoke saying the arrest was in July, since the arrest affidavit is dated August 9 and the D.A. indicated to Stadig that this first arrest was made on August 11.
Costello, whose rape victims range in age from 13 to 49, as reported by the Denver Post, is a successful real estate broker who has ties to "high profile Democrats," all of whom of course are pro-abortion, including being a long-time family friend of former governor Dick Lamm who introduced in 1967 Colorado's first law to decriminalize the killing of unborn children. DNA evidence indicates that William Costello raped a 13 year old girl in March 2008, a 22 year old woman in 2010, and a 49 year old woman in 2011. The Post also reported that Costello was arrested while driving the car of a top political strategist, who they haven't named, while distributing yard signs to a Durango, Colorado Democratic campaign office, and that about a year after the rape of the 13 year old, Costello attended a birthday party for a grandson of Governor Lamm.
Photo of recovering Stadig:
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in July, Everett Stadig told the pro-life media that he was attacked
because he collecting personhood signatures. In a telephone interview
from his hospital bed, Stadig told LifeSiteNews
that the man was “in his mid-thirties and looked about six foot tall.”
He refused to sign, and began to swear and shout at Stadig. “He was
yelling ‘I’m pro-choice!’” Stadig recalled, adding that he used “most
foul language."
Stadig explained that being ‘pro-choice’ meant pro-abortion, and again urged him to sign. At first the man walked away, but returned half a minute later, still swearing and yelling. "He said 'you don’t have a right to be here!'" Stadig related, "and I said 'I do have a right to be here, this is a Colorado Petition Drive'. Then he grabbed my petition pad, and with the same movement threw me to ground, and I was hurt so bad I couldn’t get up."
Seems Mr. Costello has a dog in the fight for personhood. Where is a rapist going to get rid of the evidence of his crime without the abortionist? American Right To Life's leading article on the rape "exception" has been updated:
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in July, Everett Stadig told the pro-life media that he was attacked
because he collecting personhood signatures. In a telephone interview
from his hospital bed, Stadig told LifeSiteNews
that the man was “in his mid-thirties and looked about six foot tall.”
He refused to sign, and began to swear and shout at Stadig. “He was
yelling ‘I’m pro-choice!’” Stadig recalled, adding that he used “most
foul language."Stadig explained that being ‘pro-choice’ meant pro-abortion, and again urged him to sign. At first the man walked away, but returned half a minute later, still swearing and yelling. "He said 'you don’t have a right to be here!'" Stadig related, "and I said 'I do have a right to be here, this is a Colorado Petition Drive'. Then he grabbed my petition pad, and with the same movement threw me to ground, and I was hurt so bad I couldn’t get up."
Seems Mr. Costello has a dog in the fight for personhood. Where is a rapist going to get rid of the evidence of his crime without the abortionist? American Right To Life's leading article on the rape "exception" has been updated:
As for the men who use women, like serial rapist William Costello
who assaulted an elderly pro-life activist Everett Stadig who was
merely collecting personhood signatures, rapists as a group are
pro-choice because abortion entices them to think they will get away
with their crime.
In this news report Denver District Attorney, Mitchell R. Morrissey said that this crime is one of the most “significant offenses that we’ve had” and that without Katie’s law the cases would have gone unsolved. Everett Stadig is thankful also for the dogged perseverance of pro-life attorneys Rebecca Messall and Barry Arrington. And the pro-life community is thankful that while Everett who working to protect the innocent and deter the guilty, he indirectly became involved in the apprehension of a serial rapist.
It remains to be seen whether Stadig's sense that the police were leaving him out of the investigation was merely wrong, or resulted from the pro-choice campaign activist being a well-connected Democrat, or because Costello was suspected in the more serious rape crimes. What is now known is that the D.A.'s office was more interested in talking to the criminal, Costello, than to the victim, Everett, and perhaps due to that failure gave this angry Costello a gift by undercharging him.
Additional Questions: Did the police attempt to obtain King Soopers surveillance video that is believed to exist prior to the D.A. filing a second-degree charge? Will the police let the victim know whether such video exists?
Hear Everett interviewed from his hospital bed just two days after his assault in the BEL radio program Romneycare upheld and Abe Lincoln felled. And see Stadig's role in the Hostility Met with Hospitality event hosted by Colorado Right To Life at a National RTL conference, which event helped to give traction to the pro-life strategy which will lead to enforcement of the God-given right to life of the unborn child, Personhood!
Update: Regarding pro-choice serial rapist William Costello, Westword newspaper's alleged journalist Michael Roberts has reported that the alleged DA office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough has stated that "two other people came forward with information" bringing the number, in addition to the previously reported serial rapes, to five separate crimes, apparently in addition to the assault on Stadig. Halfway through Roberts report, he has a floating reference, "In the wake of Costello's arrest..." But what arrest? As Denver's media has generally underreported and misreported the assault on Everett that led to Costello's arrest and becoming a suspect as a serial rapist, Roberts doesn't even tell his alleged readers what the arrest was for, nor about the sixth victim, an at-risk adult who suffered a broken hip at Costello's hands.
Update:
Apparently, on Aug. 11, 2012, the D.A. charged the perpetrator with
only second-degree assault after only talking to the offender, whereas
his office had not even talked to the pro-life victim, Mr. Stadig, who
did not get to speak with the D.A.s office until Sept. 18.
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