“I just want him to be where he isn’t going to hurt any other kids,” she said. “This is the second time around that he’s done this, and it’s got to stop.”
Just minutes before his two-day trial was expected to begin, a registered sex offender pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping a then 4-year-old girl in mid-2006 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Under the terms of the negotiated plea, Edward Dean Schuler, 41, of Dover, will serve a minimum of 70 percent of the total sentence — about 14 years — before he will be eligible for parole, 5th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney David Gibbons said Tuesday morning.
The girl’s mother, who spoke to a reporter after Schuler entered the guilty plea, said she was satisfied with the agreement.
“I just want him to be where he isn’t going to hurt any other kids,” she said. “This is the second time around that he’s done this, and it’s got to stop.”
Schuler was previously convicted of sexual assault on a child — the charge that led to his inclusion on a statewide sex offender registry maintained by the Arkansas Crime Information Center (ACIC).
Gibbons filed the rape charge March 7 after the girl, who is now living in Arizona, told authorities Schuler “poked her hard in her crotch area” while her mother was at the grocery store, according to a probable-cause statement filed in circuit court.
Schuler later failed a polygraph examination, according to the statement, which noted the child’s mother found traces of blood in the girl’s underwear after her daughter told her it hurt to use the restroom.
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