Judge gives repeat rapist 20-year term

The Daily Inter Lake

A 60-year-old repeat rapist designated as a sexual predator was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison.

District Judge Stewart Stadler suspended none of the sentence for Roger Boy.

"I think it's a good sentence," said prosecuting Deputy County Attorney Tim Wenz, who cited Boy's "long criminal history" that includes prior rapes.

Boy was arrested after a violent attack in August 2004 in Kalispell. He had been released from prison just a year or two before on a previous conviction.

He attacked a woman in her 50s at the Rosebriar Inn, where both were residents.

She was severely beaten, scratched, bruised, and choked to unconsciousness, according to the report from Kalispell Police Department.

Alerted by her screams, the manager and residents interrupted the assault. Boy reportedly pushed past the others, walked out the apartment door and then left the inn through the back door. He was arrested when he returned the next day.

His history of crimes in Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Montana led to his listing as a tier-3 sexual offender - the highest listing in terms of danger in Montana.

"Somebody like that shouldn't be on the streets," Wenz said.