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Friday, February 9, 2007
Evaluation planned for 'wild' man in rape case
OLYMPIA -- A man accused of raping an 11-year-old girl at knifepoint made his first court appearance in restraints Thursday, one day after officials said he was behaving too wildly to be transported to a courtroom.
David Lukas Lynch, 23, who police say had been living in an underground bunker in a park, was arrested Tuesday a few blocks from the home where the girl was raped on Monday.
Lynch had been scheduled to make his initial appearance in Thurston County Superior Court on Wednesday, but Deputy Prosecutor John Skinder said he was so "out of control" that he could not be transported from the jail.
In court on Thursday, he mumbled incoherently to himself and was uncommunicative.
He is being sent to Western State Hospital for a competency evaluation.
A probable cause document filed in court said Lynch wrote in journals of wanting to quit his "child hunting" habit.
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