From: Tommy the Tourist (Anon User) Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories Subject: Baker Denied Bail Date: 11 Feb 1995 22:54:13 GMT Organization: none Lines: 106 Message-ID: <3hjf6l$6o8@agate.berkeley.edu> Originator: remailer@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU U-M FANTASY WRITER TO REMAIN IN JAIL By Arthur Bridgeforth Jr The Ann Arbor NEWS Jake Baker's cyberspace fantasies of abduction, rape, torture and murder convinced a U.S. magistrate Friday to keep the University of Michigan sophomore in Wayne County Jail at least one week pending a pre-trial hearing. Baker, 20, was arrested Thursday and charged with interstate transmission of a threat after he sent messages and stories through his computer on the Internet computer network. He could face up to five years in prison. U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas A. Carlson Friday ruled the content of Baker's e-mail messages with an Ontario man were more serious than mere fiction. Included in the messages and stories were proposed plans to find a secluded spot in the Ann Arbor area and to abduct a woman, rape and torture her. Carlson specifically pointed out an e-mail message from Baker to the Ontario man. "Just thinking about it any more doesn't do the trick," Baker wrote. "I need to do it." Vilma Baker, the student's mother, rushed up to give her son a kiss as a U.S. marshall handcuffed him. Jake Baker's attorney, Douglas R. Mullkoff, restrained her. "I think the judge thinks he's a psychiatrist," Vilma Baker said afterward. The idea that her son is dangerous is "pure fantasy" said Vilma Baker, an English teacher for 32 years, who teaches creative writing. "It's not a genre that I would read. But I don't like Stephen King or MTV either." Insisting her son's Internet stories were pure fiction, Vilma Baker said her son used the victim's name in his story because the woman's name is a sexual play on words. The court hasn't released the name of the woman, who is a student at U-M and was in a class with Baker. She is being referred to as "Jane Doe" in court documents. During Friday's hearing, Mullkoff argued that Carlson's decision was excessive. Carlson rushed to judgement on Baker -- who doesn't have a criminal record or a history of violence -- solely because the magistrate didn't like the content of the stories, Mullkoff said. "I fully recognize that the defendant doesn't have a prior record and he comes from a good family," Carlson said. "But after reading the works, the court is persuaded that there is another side to Mr. Baker that the psychiatrist and his family don't know." On Thursday, assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Chadwell had recommended Baker be held on an unsecured $100,000 bond with the restriction that the student not travel outside his hometown of Boardman, Ohio --a suburb of Youngstown -- or the Detroit area, that he not contact the victim and the he turn in his passport. But, after Carlson recommended that Baker continue to be jailed, Chadwell changed the government's recommendation Friday and backed the magistrate. The change came because of Carlson's recommendation, Chadwell said, and a review of the material. But it also relied on the testimony of FBI Special Agent Gregory Spejskal, who said the victim was extremely upset and felt threatened by Baker's not being in jail. Mullkoff argued the stories were fictitious and were posted in a special area of the Internet set aside for items with sexual content. In addition, there were warnings at the beginning of Baker's stories indicating their explicit nature, the attorney said. The U-M suspended Baker Feb.2; he has appealed. Mullkoff said two psychiatrists who examined him testified at a university hearing Thursday that Baker showed no evidence of mental illness. The closed suspension hearing probably will resume next week, university spokeswoman Julie Peterson said. I stole 25kg of C4. We're waiting for the final go-ahead then we'll kill him. -------- For more information about this anonymous posting service,please send mail to remailer@csua.berkeley.edu with Subject: remailer-info. This message contains automatically generated keyword blocks that have been designed to resemble a threat. These blocks are not a statement of intent by the remailer operator or anyone else. -------- To respond to the sender of this message, send mail to remailer@soda.berkeley.edu, starting your message with the following 5 lines: :: Response-Key: the-clipper-key ====Encrypted-Sender-Begin==== ====Encrypted-Sender-End====