Terri Hatcher Molester Dies in Prison

The former uncle of Desperate Housewives actress Terri Hatcher has died in prison of colon cancer. Hatcher helped put her uncle Richard Hayes Stone behind bars after she told authorities that he molested her in the late 1960’s and early ‘70s, when she was no more than 7-years-old.

Stone was convicted in 2002 of molesting two young girls, one of them California teen Sarah Van Cleemput who committed suicide. Cleemput left a note before shooting herself. “You’re probably thinking a normal teenager doesn’t do this; well, ask Dick!” the not read.

Investigators linked “Dick” to Stone, who was a close friend of the Cleemput’s family. Hatcher went to police with her story after reading about Cleemput’s death in a newspaper.  

In 2006 Hatcher went public with her story and admitted that she struggled to decide if she should go to authorities. “At the end of the day, there was no way I was not going to put this girl first, before whatever damage might be done to me,” she said.

Hatcher’s admissions about Stone were entered as evidence and he pleaded guilty to child molestation charges. Stone was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He died this week at the age of 70.

Hatcher said she kept the sexual abuse secret from her entire family. “That’s a victim thing; you ask yourself, ‘Am I just crazy? Did I make all this up?’ Somehow it might be easier to accept that you’re crazy and made it all up than to admit that it happened, and how awful it was,” she told Vanity Fair in 2006.

The now 43-year-old said she last saw her uncle when she was around 8-years-old.

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