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Autism Advocate Faces Rape Counts

Posted by DFO

Dec. 18, 2009 8:22 a.m. • 1 comment

A Coeur d’Alene resident and self-described advocate for autistic children is in jail in Missouri on sexual assault charges from more than 20 years ago. Randall L. Tetzner, 50, was booked into the Adair County Detention Center early this morning after fighting extradition in Kootenai County, where he’d been in jail since Sept. 18. Tetzner is charged with two counts of sodomy and two counts of rape for alleged incidents in 1986 and 1987, according to jail records. Tetzner is well known in the Coeur d’Alene School District, where he advocates for improved policies for children with disabilities and helped start an “autism essay contest,” according to news archives/Meghann M. Cuniff, Sirens & Gavels. More here.

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Phaedrus on December 18 at 8:40 a.m.
I have had dealings with this guy and when I heard this I was not surprised.

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