Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.d From: nobody@nately.ucsd.edu (Anonymous) Subject: Baker Indicted Comments: This message did not originate from the above address. It was automatically remailed by an anonymous mail service. Please report inappropriate use to Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 21:38:29 +0000 Message-ID: <9502152140.AA07768@nately.UCSD.EDU> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 70 RAPE-TORTURE FANTASY AUTHOR INDICTED IN FEDERAL COURT By William B. Treml The Ann Arbor NEWS 2/15/95 A federal grand jury in Detroit on Tuesday tightened the legal net around the 20-year-old University of Michigan sophomore charged with posting on the Internet computer system network descriptions of the rape-torture-murder of a female classmate. Jake Baker, whose given name is Abraham Jacob Alkhabaz, was indicted by the U.S. grand jury which heard testimony from several law enforcement officers about Baker's actions in publishing an Internet series of graphic stories about the abduction and sexual attacks on women. In one of the essays, Baker named a woman who was in one of his U-M classes, but whom he had never met. The grand jury indictment charges Baker with threatening to injure another person and transmitting that threat through the global computer network. One of the witnesses who testified against Baker on Tuesday reportedly was FBI Agent Gregory Stejskal from the Ann Arbor office. Sandy Palazzalo, media spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit, aid today that Baker will be arraigned before Magistrate Steven Pede at 1 p.m. Friday on one count of transmitting on the Internet a threat to injure. Baker will be tried in the courtroom of Federal Judge Bernard Friedman. Conviction on the charge could bring a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Baker was arrested last week by Stejskal and FBI Agent Gene Ward on preliminary charges of interstate transmission of threats. U.S. Magistrate Thomas Carlson ruled the content of Baker's exchange of messages with an Ontario computer buff were more serious than mere fiction and placed the U-M student in a category reserved for dangerous suspects. In one message, the Boardman, Ohio native told a correspondent in Canada that talking about rape-murder "doesn't do it for me....I have to do it." Carlson refused to set a release bond although federal prosecutors said they would not object to bond. Baker has been in the Wayne County Jail since his arrest. Baker, in person and through his attorney Douglas Mullkoff of Ann Arbor, has protested his arrest and detention in the Wayne County Jail. "This is a violation of my First Amendment rights to free speech," Baker said. "His messages were taken out of context, and he is no threat to society," Mullkoff said. "It's not right that he's locked up without a bond." Palazzalo said while Mullkoff has mentioned appealing Baker's detention without bond to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, appeal papers have not yet been received in Ann Arbor. Jailing Baker upon his arrest without bond last Friday is considered unusual in that virtually all people charged with federal crimes except treason or murder of a U.S. officer are granted bond.