EVANSVILLE, Indiana (AP) -- An inmate serving a life sentence for molesting and murdering a 10-year-old girl named Katie was apparently forcibly tattooed across the forehead by a fellow prisoner with the words "KATIE'S REVENGE," authorities say.

Anthony Ray Stockelman, 39, was removed from the general prison population for his own safety last weekend after authorities discovered the tattoo, officials said.

Prison officials said an inmate has been identified as a suspect.

A photo of what is identified as Stockelman's forehead appeared this week on a crime blog called "Lost In Lima Ohio" that focuses on news reports about crimes against children and women.

Two prison guards suspected of supplying the picture were fired for making unauthorized copies of an evidence photo, said Rich Larsen, a spokesman for the Wabash Valley state prison in Carlisle, about 70 miles north of Evansville.

Child molesters rank near the bottom of the prison hierarchy and are often brutalized by other inmates. Tattoos are against prison regulations, but inmates often fashion crude tattoo instruments with plastic utensils and needles.

Stockelman's tattoo covers nearly his entire forehead.

"If I had to guess I'd say it's a statement from the inmates," said Collman's father, John Neace.

Stockelman pleaded guilty to abducting, molesting and drowning Katlyn "Katie" Collman, whose body was found in 2005 in a creek about 15 miles from her home in the town of Crothersville.

Police initially believed Katie was abducted and slain because she had stumbled onto a methamphetamine operation in the neighborhood, but that theory was later discarded.

Another man confessed to the killing at one point but was cleared after DNA and other evidence connected Stockelman to the crime.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/09/29/in....ap/index.html



I would like to see all sex criminals get the same treatment

I hope the inmate population gave him a cavity search before adorning him with that nice art tattoo.

that's crazy

Way to go, inmates! Stick that mofo where it hurts.

Prisons are strange. Inmates can be murders and serial killers and other inmates have no problems with them as long as they didn't harm childern. But the moment a pedifile or any other person that targeted childern is released into the general population of a prison. They are targeted by the other inmates. Folks (even die hard criminals) hate other folks that target childern.

Yea...Ive seen that too. Inmates who attack children are not among friends. Criminals have dignity too.

......... NOT.


I have absolutely no kind feelings towards a child molester or child killer (and I sure am NOT an inmate, nor have I ever been one).

Whatever the other inmates can do to make a pedophile or child murderer hurt, is alright as far as I am concerned - it can NEVER be enough ... the more these animals are made to suffer the better.

I believe that these animals should NEVER see the light of day for the rest of their lives ... PERIOD.

Originally Posted by Chief Bones

......... NOT.


I have absolutely no kind feelings towards a child molester or child killer (and I sure am NOT an inmate, nor have I ever been one).

Whatever the other inmates can do to make a pedophile or child murderer hurt, is alright as far as I am concerned - it can NEVER be enough ... the more these animals are made to suffer the better.

I believe that these animals should NEVER see the light of day for the rest of their lives ... PERIOD.

A big hooah! to that, Chief. I agree with you 110%.

Originally Posted by Chief Bones

......... NOT.


I have absolutely no kind feelings towards a child molester or child killer (and I sure am NOT an inmate, nor have I ever been one).

Whatever the other inmates can do to make a pedophile or child murderer hurt, is alright as far as I am concerned - it can NEVER be enough ... the more these animals are made to suffer the better.

I believe that these animals should NEVER see the light of day for the rest of their lives ... PERIOD.

Fully agree!

with you all the way on that, Chief.