Man who raped girl, 6, met mother on MySpace:
This must be every single mother’s worst nightmare…
Michael J. Kairis, 33, pleaded guilty today to rape and gross sexual imposition. He faces up to 11½ years in prison and is to be sentenced on July 11 in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
In exchange for the plea, the county prosecutor’s office agreed to drop a sentence of life in prison, as the law specifies for the crime, so the girl would not have to testify.
Kairis contacted the girl’s mother on-line and set up a date. They met in August and began a brief romance, Assistant Prosecutor Brant Cook said. The woman’s Web page mentioned that she is the proud mother of a girl, he said.
One week later, the girl told her mom that Kairis had raped and groped her while in her house. Kairis, of 368½ Campbell Ave., threatened to kill the girl if she told anyone.
“There couldn’t be anyone more of a risk to the community than Mr. Kairis,” Cook told Judge John P. Bessey.
The mother, 33, was in court yesterday to see the plea, She said she did a computer search on Kairis after her daughter told her about the sex and was shocked to find his name on a Web site of sexual predators.
“As soon as I saw his name on the list, I dropped MySpace. I don’t search online anymore and I don’t date,” the woman said. “I was in the house when this happened.”
In court yesterday, the woman learned that Kairis has since married someone while in jail.
This scumbag wrecked two lives and then has the audacity to make this request…
Kairis’ attorney, Timothy Pierce, asked Bessey to let Kairis out on house arrest with an electronic monitor until July so he could take care of his terminally ill father and drug-addicted brother and also because he recently was married in jail and hadn’t had a honeymoon. But Bessey said no.
Boo-freakin’-hoo pal. Go directly to jail and do not collect $200.
If I were the prosecution, I would have pressed for the life sentence. I realize it would be traumatic for the victim to testify, but what’s going to happen once he gets out?
