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Another Life Term For Paul Dykes as Lurid Child-Rape Case Ends, Absent Reversal on Appeal

February 13, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Paul Dykes, right, arriving in court with other inmates this morning in what may be his last appearance in Flagler before his transfer to state prison. (c FlaglerLive)

For Palm Coast’s Paul Dykes, 21, the most immediate challenge is to contend with a brutal prison culture that makes prey of child sexual predators.

Paul Dykes Sentenced To Life In Prison Without Parole 2 Times Over For Child Rape

January 30, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Paul Dykes being fingerprinted after Circuit Judge Dennis Craig pronounced a life sentence this morning at the Flagler County courthouse. (© FlaglerLive)

A jury had found Dykes guilty on 24 counts, including raping a 1-year-old, in December, making the life sentences mandatory, and leaving little room for the judge or lawyers to maneuver.

Prosecution Intends To Try Paul Dykes Twice More Even as He Faces Life in Prison

January 9, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Paul Dykes in court today. (© FlaglerLive)

Paul Dykes was found guilty of directing the rape of a 1-year-old child last month, but prosecutors want to try him two more times on related charges, they told a circuit judge today.

In 18 Minutes, Jury Finds Paul Dykes Guilty on 24 Counts of Child Sex Crimes, Including Rape

December 6, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Paul Dykes, 21, faces life in prison without possibility of parole. (© FlaglerLive)

A jury of six women barely deliberated in the case of Palm Coast’s Paul Dykes, 21, found guilty of directing the rape of a 1-year-old girl with an ex-girlfriend, also found guilty in September.

After Wrenching, Day-Long Process, A Jury Is Impaneled In Child-Rape Trial of Paul Dykes

December 4, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Paul Dykes, right, consulting with his attorney, William Bookhammer, during jury selection today in Flagler County Circuit Court. (c FlaglerLive)

A jury of six women and one man was chosen from a pool of 50, as potential jurors were excused for a variety of reasons, many of them over the anxieties triggered by the trial’s subject matter.

Evidence Was Illegally Obtained, But Judge Rules It Admissible In Dykes Child-Sex Case

November 13, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

C.J. Whiteside, a former Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent who interviewed Paul Dykes at the Flagler County jail in what turned out to be an illegally conducted interview, testified in court this morning by video conference, during a motion to suppress the evidence gathered as a result of that interview. The judge ruled against the motion. Dykes goes on trial on charges of raping a child on Dec. 4. (© FlaglerLive)

The defense’s attempt to suppress illegally obtained evidence against Paul Dykes, the Palm Coast man accused of raping a child, fell to an exception to the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate oneself.

Behind the Man Facing Monstrous Allegations of Incest, A History of Disabilities, But Not Incompetence

October 25, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Arriving in court this morning Paul Dykes's first glance, a very brief dart, was for his mother, who was in the courtroom, and who would later testify about her son. (© FlaglerLive)

The mother of Paul Dykes, who goes on trial on charges of raping his own daughter next month, revealed in court today for the first time the personal history of the 20-year-old Palm Coast resident.

Paul Dykes Goes On Trial Over Accusations Of Child Rape and 21 Related Counts In November

October 19, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Paul Dykes, seated, as his public defender, Bill Bookhammer, spoke to Circuit bJudge Dennis Craig during a hearing at the Flagler County courthouse this afternoon. (© FlaglerLive)

The trial of the Palm Coast 20-year-old will be the latest chapter in an extensive and lurid case that involves Dykes’s one-time girlfriend, Erin Vickers, 23, whom a jury found guilty a month ago of raping her 1-year-old daughter.

Palm Coast’s Erin Vickers Set For September Trial on Child Rape in 1st of 49 Charges

July 28, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Erin Vickers in court this morning with her attorney, Garry Wood. She goes on tgrial on Sept. 18. (© FlaglerLive)

Erin Vickers, 23, and then-boyfriend Paul Dykes, 20, face a combined 90 charges of raping children as young as 1, and taking and transmitting pictures and video of child porn.

Paul Dykes Pleads Not Guilty in Child Rape and Retains Controversial Attorney David Taylor

May 12, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Paul Dykes, the 18-year-old Palm Coast man accused of raping a child younger than 5, pleaded not guilty today and hired Jacksonville attorney David Taylor, who’s been disciplined by the Florida Bar and faced an assault charge in 2012.

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