Rape Suspect Enters Plea Agreement
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Posted: 8:08 AM Sep 11, 2007
Last Updated: 9:36 PM Sep 11, 2007

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The man known as the Ninja rapist won't be allowed to sexually assault any woman ever again.

Monday the State Attorney's office accepted a plea agreement for 35-year-old Bobby James Allen, Jr., which includes surgical castration.

Allen was the prime suspect in a number of sexual assaults on Bay County's eastside in 1998 and 1999.

He was dubbed the "Ninja rapist" because he wore a black mask and Ninja-type outfit. It is believed he may have raped, or attempted to rape, as many as 7-women at knife-point, over a 2-year period. The last attack happened in cedar grove in January 1999.

In 2002, Allen was arrested for a 1999 Cedar Grove rape. The combined D-N-A index system matched Allen to that attack and he was supposed to go on trial for the crime. But, during one of his trips between the Bay County jail and the courthouse in 2002, Allen escaped from the transport van. He was recaptured two hours later by the Coast Guard as he attempted to swim St. Andrew Bay.

Then, 2-weeks before the trial date, authorities say they linked Allen to another sex crime in using new D-N-A evidence. That helped lead to Monday's plea agreement.

Allen is pleading to four counts of armed burglary, three counts of sexual battery while armed, and one count of attempted sexual battery while armed. Investigators say the deal resolves a number of the 1998 and 1999 cases.

As part of the terms of the agreement, Allen will serve 100% of a 25 year prison sentence as a dangerous felony sex offender. He'll then serve 10 years probation upon his release. He'll be designated a sexual predator, with all registration and treatment requirements, and electronic monitoring.

And Allen has agreed to be surgically castrated. That surgery will be conducted within 8-days after his formal sentencing. He is scheduled to be sentenced on September 20th.

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Posted by: Jake Wyler on Jun 17, 2009 at 09:42 PM
haha serves him right.

Posted by: Tim Location: Sacramento on Nov 22, 2008 at 05:23 AM
The courts are sicker than the rapist for offering mutilation as a plea deal. If he knew this would happen to him (the coerced castration for reduced life sentence w/o parole if done in 8 days)he would have just killed his victims instead, just like the handful of rapists out there right now, too many already kill their victims. FL has added yet another reason to kill victims. Let's hope they don't decide to kill, as this would defeat the purpose of the law.A security guard raped a woman in FL, then tried to kill her by throwing her over the balcony of a hotel where he worked. FL castration law is bad, and made that rapists into a dangerous killer.This guy didn't mutilate his victims, it does not fit the crime. Robbery, has a much higher recidivism rate than ANY sex crime. What next we cut off hands of those who steal? Remove tounges for perjury? Everyday I hear of innocent men being released after 20 yrs on bogus rape convictions. Thank God they were not castrated, like today!

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