Leonard Paul Carder is one of the worst kinds of human beings. Carder is a serial predator. When Carder hit up the decoy profile of retired Contributor Arthur Treacher, he was already a registered sex offender. In fact, Carder hadn't been out of prison all that long after serving a LONG time in the Kentucky State Reformatory, a medium security facility in LaGrange, KY.

Carder entered prison in early 1997 after being convicted of sexual abuse in the 1st degree for which he received a sentence of 5 years in prison, and sodomy in the 1st degree for which he received a sentence of 20 years in prison. Those charges were for molesting his 8-year-old daughter. He was denied parole several times during his incarceration in Kentucky.

Finally, Carder gets out of prison and moves to Indiana. Eventually he happens upon Arthur's decoy, Stacy. Carder sent pictures of his penis to what he thought was a 14-year-old child with absolutely no sexual experience, and instructed her to insert fingers into her vagina and anus. He didn't talk to little \"Stacy\" long. less than a week, before he drove an hour and a half to Petersburg to molest a child.

Carder dragged out his court case as long as he could. He got all the way to a plea hearing when his public defender asked to be replaced, setting the proceedings back by months. Eventually he couldn't put it off any longer, and he was sentenced to six years in prison and registration as a sex offender.

Carder didn't like that sentence, feeling it was a hardship on his family. He filed an appeal of his sentence length, which he lost. The appeal decision can be read here: http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/pdf/03171601tac.pdf

Paul Leonard Carder remains incarcerated in the New Castle Correctional Facility in Indiana. As always, we hope he enjoys his stay. Hopefully the police will keep a very close eye on this one when he gets out once again, because he WILL re-offend.


This is our 615th conviction since June of 2004.