Transylvanian Community Service
Convicted perv’s prison-penned tome about Dracula gets two years knocked off his sentence:
Romania - Finding Jesus might get you out of a U.S. prison early. In Romania, an American historian who is a convicted pervert found Dracula, and he’s out.
Kurt W. Treptow of Miami was sentenced to seven years in prison for sexual perversion and abuse of minors. He won early release after serving less than five years.
His lawyer, Liviu Bran, said the historian was released early for writing“The life and Times of Vlad Dracul” while in prison - it was as community service.
Treptow was sentenced to seven years in December 2002 for offenses involving two girls, ages 10 and 13, whom he invited into his home in Iasi. A Romanian woman convicted of being his accomplice is still in prison.
Treptow, looking visibly emaciated, declined to comment. Bran said in court Treptow only had sex with the 13-year-old girl and that he did not know she was a minor. Treptow, who first studied in Romania as a Fulbright scholar during the communist regime that fell in 1989, has written several books on Romanian history. (AP)
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:48 am on Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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February 28th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Hmm…maybe he’s just supporting the troops: http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2006_08_20.html#005958
February 28th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
He didn’t know a 13 year old girl was a minor? This was a Fulbright Scholar? What the hell do they feed those girls in Romania?
That’s an interesting concept of community service, by the way, putting aside the idea that community service ought to be applied in a case of sexual perversion.