SAN JOSE, Calif. – Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller, a child molester with convictions in several states over three decades – and an arrest in Everett – was sentenced Monday to 152 years to life for sexually abusing two 12-year-old boys.
Schwartzmiller, 65, shackled at the wrists and using a cane, did not speak before his sentencing in Santa Clara County Superior Court on 11 felony counts of child molestation and one misdemeanor charge of child pornography possession.
He chuckled when Judge Edward Lee asked if he knew about his right to appeal, answering in the affirmative that he knows the procedure.
Schwartzmiller, who acted as his own lawyer in October trial, routinely files mountains of legal arguments in his cases and has overturned two prior convictions.
In Snohomish County, Schwartzmiller was charged in February 1997 with one count of first-degree child molestation, two counts of second-degree child molestation and one count of communication with a minor for immoral purposes. He was acquitted later that year by a Snohomish County Superior Court jury.
Lee said that despite Schwartzmiller’s legal savvy in getting some previous charges dismissed, he will spend the rest of his days filing appeals from a prison cell.
“For all that above-average intelligence and charm, I have a couple of faults (with you) – an English teacher might call them tragic faults,” Lee said. “You have no empathy for your victims; that’s not particularly unusual. And you cannot see yourself as others see you.”
After the hearing, Schwartzmiller leaned on his cane and hobbled back to the locked holding area, apparently joking with a deputy before turning back to flash a grin at investigators.
Schwartzmiller was arrested in May 2005 in Everett and returned to San Jose the following month.
Investigators had found a graphic 456-page memoir describing sexual abuse, binders full of child pornography and 1,500 notebook pages with headings including “blond boys,” “no, but yes boys,” and “best of the best, 13 and under.”
Schwartzmiller, who had at least three molestation convictions and a dozen arrests over three decades, abused as many as 100 boys in eight U.S. states, Mexico and Brazil from 1969 to 2005, prosecutors said.
Schwartzmiller told jurors that he was innocent and maligned by a society that doesn’t accept men who love boys.
During his testimony, Schwartzmiller said the memoir and notebook entries were fiction.
He blamed roommate Frederick Everts – also a convicted child molester – for the child porn. Schwartzmiller also said he could not have molested the two San Jose boys, who are cousins, because he was either at a construction job or bedridden with a bad back at the time.
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