Ryan Alan Hade ('' c.'' August 21, 1981 – June 9, 2005) was an American

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victim from

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. On May 20, 1989, he was

rape Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, carried out against a person without consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person ...

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, stabbed and left for dead in a vacant lot.

Earl Kenneth Shriner Earl Kenneth Shriner (born 1950) is an American criminal who in 1990 was convicted of attempted first degree murder, first degree rape and first degree assault of seven-year-old Ryan Alan Hade and sentenced to 131 years' imprisonment. Criminal r ...

was convicted of the attack and sentenced to 131 years in

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. Shriner had a long history of sexual assault charges spanning 25 years. The case has been cited as one of the catalysts for new US laws allowing indefinite confinement of

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s. Hade, who survived the attack by Shriner, died in a vehicular accident. The vacant lot where Hade was attacked was later turned into a park and was renamed Ryan's Park after his death.

References

Crime LibraryMan who survived assault as a boy dies in motorcycle wreck
''The Seattle Times'', June 22, 2005.
RCW 71.09

Metro Parks Tacoma Ryan's Park
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