Suspect in Child Sex Abuse Tape Remains on the Lam

Oct. 1, 2007 — -- Chester Arthur Stiles, the man who was captured on tape allegedly sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl, is still on the lam.

Today in a "Good Morning America" exclusive, Stiles' former girlfriend Tina Allen described him as dangerous.

"I know him to be very violent and he is not going down without a fight," she said.

Allen said that when the tape first hit the airwaves, her daughter Stephanie Allen instantly recognized the bedsheets and identified the victim and her mother.

Allen said she had introduced the victim to Stiles. She added that Stiles had exhibited no signs of being a sexual predator when she knew him.

"He deceived everyone. He played a good game, talked a good talk," Allen said. "He presented himself wholly as the family guy, the kind of guy a single mom would be looking for."

Allen said that Stiles played with children just as other adults did and that he did not stir suspicion. He also had an affinity for dating older women.

"Every woman I have any known him to date has been older than him," Allen said.

The Victim Today

Allen said the victim, who would now be about 7 years old, has no memory of what happened to her.

"She's a lot happier," Allen said. "She's still got some adjusting to do. From what I understand she doesn't remember anything."

For now, Allen said she believes it should remain that way. She fears bringing up the incident to the victim and said that trying to get her to recall her abuse would harm her even more.

"Don't put her through more torture that she's already been," she said.

Also, Allen believes the child is not the only victim in the case. She said any person who knows Stiles has been hurt.

"Everybody who has ever met this man has now been victimized by this situation," she said. "This is a scar that is never going to leave. It's always going to be there in the backs of our minds torturing us from this day on."

The Tape Surfaces

Las Vegas police are continuing their search Stiles. Police say they have enough evidence to put the 34-year-old away for life.

Darren Tuck, 26, brought the tape of what appears to be Stiles allegedly abusing a young girl to authorities, saying that he'd found the video in the desert.

It's a story police found unlikely and they arrested Tuck on pornography charges, after he reportedly failed a lie detector test. Tuck may have had the tape for four months.

"His story about finding the tape in the desert doesn't make any sense," said former FBI agent and ABC News consultant Brad Garrett. "If he has any history of inappropriate behavior with children, he knows the fugitive or someone that's in a circle that knows the fugitive."

After getting the tape, authorities set out to find the victim showed in the 2003 recording.

"Nothing that I've seen in my career has come anywhere close to what this girl has gone through," said Sheriff Tony DeMeo, of Nye County, Nev.

Authorities gave the media a photo of the child in hopes of identifying her. The move went against department policy not to identify sex crime victims. But, the picture ushered in a flood of tips, which helped break the case and brought attention to Stiles.

Stiles, who once worked as an animal trainer for Siegfried and Roy, is described as a survivalist with military and martial arts training. He has reportedly said he would never be taken alive.