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Bairstow Charged with Kid Rape
Party of Five helped to bring Scott Bairstow a degree of fame. Now an alleged illicit party of two might bring the actor some serious jail time.
Bairstow, a 33-year-old father of two who played Neve Campbell's abusive boyfriend Ned on Po5, has been charged with having sex with a 12-year-old girl.
The actor, whose acting résumé includes last year's Disney kid flick Tuck Everlasting along with TV stints in Lonesome Dove and the short-lived sci-fi series Wolf Lake and Harsh Realm, was charged with second-degree rape of a child Tuesday in Snohomish County, Washington. Bairstow, now an L.A. denizen, was not arrested. He is due in court for arraignment on June 3.
Bairstow's manager, Andrea Pett-Joseph, was not immediately available for comment Thursday.
According to court documents obtained by the Herald of Everett, Washington, the girl, a relative by marriage, told police she and Bairstow first started having sex in 1998. At the time Bairstow lived in the area with his wife and children. (Sources say the actor and his wife Marty have since divorced and that she has custody of their sons, Casey and Dalton.)
After the initial encounter, which allegedly took place when the girl was visiting Bairstow's home and playing on his computer, the two had sex three more times outside Washington state, most recently in 2001, according to court papers.
Prosecutor Janice Albert said that the victim became physically ill following the final episode. "The defendant apologized and asked her not to tell anyone," Albert writes in the court papers.
Earlier this year, with Bairstow in Los Angeles and working steadily, he began asking the girl, now 17, for phone sex. She told prosecutors that the actor asked "her to tell him that she was a little girl," according to Albert.
In April, the girl eventually told her parents--who didn't know about the sex but were wary of their daughter's relationship with Bairstow--and they contacted the authorities, who obtained court permission to tap the family's phones and record the girl's conversations with Bairstow.
During one conversation quoted in court papers, the girl said she was thinking about telling someone about Bairstow. The actor is quoted as saying, "Well...I'm a dad and I've got a job, and if you were to tell anyone I would be thrown in jail for 10 years."
He's not too far off. According to Washington state sentencing guidelines, Bairstow, as a first-time offender, would most likely face between six and eight years in prison if convicted.
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