Car thief who was high on drugs and masturbating when he plowed into Portland crime scene will not have to register as sex offender

Oregon Live|  A man who was intoxicated and masturbating to pornography when he drove a stolen car through the crime scene tape surrounding the homicide of a teen-age boy last year will not have to register as a sex offender.

Judge Michael McShane  said Friday that he thought mental illness — not sexual motivations — led Kevin Signalness  to a new low on April 18, 2011.

That’s the night several police officers saw Signalness, 41, plow into the area they had cordoned off to investigate the death of Shiloh Hampton,  14, who had been fatally wounded on a sidewalk in Northeast Portland’s Holladay Park, just south of Lloyd Center shopping mall. When one of the officers confronted Signalness about his masturbation and the pornography on the front passenger seat, Signalness reportedly replied “You caught me red-handed.”

WOMAN BEATS SEX OFFENDER WITH BAT

Sex offender William A. Baldwin moved into Tammy’s neighborhood last summer. Shortly after he got there, neighbors began circulating flyers telling people of Willaim Baldwin’s criminal past.

And when Tammy got the flyer – all heck broke loose. Here’s how the AP is reporting it:

.On June 19th, Gibson, an area resident, went to Baldwin’s house in the 1800 block of River Road and asked for him.

When Baldwin stepped outside, she claimed she was going to kill him because Baldwin had molested her children. Gibson then proceeded to hit Baldwin repeatedly with her bat, the document said, leaving him with an injured arm.

“I kept swingin’ and swingin’, and swingin’,” Gibson told investigators.

Contrary to what she had said to Baldwin, Gibson later told investigators Baldwin had not molested her children.

She did say, however, that when she saw the flyer, she recognized Baldwin as the man who had chatted up her then-10-year-old daughter during the previous summer. It may have been Baldwin’s unusual height of 7 feet 3 inches that made him memorable.

“For him to be right there, in front of my house and talking to my child — made me crazy,” she said.

“And I told him I thought he was a piece of crap and I smacked him,” she said. “I just didn’t stop hitting him. I just told him that ‘if it were up to me, I’d kill ya.”‘