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GoogleJ.W. Frazier, 79, of Carney Street, has been committed to Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute in Nashville.
"We had sent him for mental evaluations and the doctors ruled him incompetent to stand trial," according to assistant district attorney Richard Cawley. "He's a danger to himself and others."
Frazier had previously been evaluated at Centerstone in Tullahoma and had also been in custody at Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute in Chattanooga, where evaluations were also conducted.
Frazier was charged last October with 26 counts of rape of a child. He allegedly confessed to the allegations upon his arrest, according to Shelbyville police detective Charles Merlo.
The alleged attacks that began last September involved an 8-year-old girl who was staying in Frazier's home before and after school, Merlo said at the time.
Merlo said that the child's parents found out about Frazier's alleged actions because he was buying gifts for the girl and she told her parents what happened after being questioned about them.
Also on Friday, a Shelbyville man learned he would not receive a new trial in connection with an incident at Duck River Speedway in May 2008.
Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell denied a motion for a new trial filed by Marvin Bobby Parker, who had been found guilty of assault charges.
Several weeks ago, Parker had asked Judge Russell to force jurors who deliberated his case to answer questions as part of legal moves to have a new trial set but his attorney, Neil Campbell, withdrew that motion.
Parker was found guilty and sentenced to a total of four years on the charges of reckless aggravated assault, two counts of simple assault, and reckless endangerment.
However, he was released for time served, a total of 59 days, and is serving one year of community corrections, an intense form of probation, after which he will be transferred to regular probation.
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yep , that's about par for the course
This story makes me sick to my stomach. A grown man does these things to an 8 year old child and now gets to ride pretty in a mental health facility? What happened to the days where we hung people like this on the courthouse lawn?
Sorry, forgot this. He was competent enough to do this not once but 26 times. Now he isn't competent to stand trial?
he is a friend of mines grandpa and he seems like the type to do this. I have always thought in the back of my mind the few times I have seen him that he was a creepshow. Glad he finally got busted! Poor child and Ill keep her in my prayers.glad I never brought my children around him. I havent seen him in a long time (like 8 years) and he was creepy and acted like a perv then. neeeds his balls stapled to a tree lol
They cut the tree down nurse_01.
We sure do have good uses for it lately.
Home invasions.
Pedophiles.
ect, ect
Not only was he competent enough to do it multiple times, he was competent enought to buy her gifts to keep her mouth shut. Also, was this examination third times the charm? Why were the other two not satisfactory enough for court proceedings?
Castration with a dull, rusty knife, then life in prison with no chance of parole. An animal such as this deserves to be beaten and tortured by fellow inmates for the rest of his natural life. But, of course the bleeding heart libs would never approve of this. According to them, it aint his fault. You see, he probably got a spanking when he was three.
thats great!!! lets show pepopiles how much of a slap on the wrist they can get.whatever happened to harsh punishment to show these demons they cant do this to our kids.