Rantz: Soft-on-crime Washington judges release accused rapist, car thief

King County and Seattle’s soft-on-crime approach has extended to Thurston County where two judges recently went easy on two dangerous suspects. Law enforcement agencies are livid.

Tenino Police said they were contacted by a mother who accused her ex-husband Kenneth Douglas Gerdts of raping her minor daughter from when she was nine through age 14. There was enough evidence for the Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office (TCPAO) to file multiple charges for sex crimes, including rape of a child in the first degree. He was officially charged on August 28.

The probable cause documents offer explicit and shocking details of the alleged sexual conduct by Gerdts. It explains that

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