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Updated at 12:03 p.m., Friday, July 27, 2007

Prosecutors look to grand jury in Hilo rape case

Advertiser Staff

 

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HILO, Hawai'i — Big Island prosecutors have decided to drop charges against a convicted murderer accused of raping a 12-year-old girl earlier this week, and instead plan to seek a Hilo grand jury indictment in the case later.

Peter Bailey, 49, will remain in jail without bail in the meantime based on an arrest warrant charging him with a parole violation, prosecutors said.

Bailey is accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in the office of a Pepe'ekeo church Sunday night after picking the girl up for choir practice. There was no choir practice that night, and police said Bailey used the opportunity to sexually assault the girl.

Bailey was active in the church the girl attended, had keys to the church building and sometimes worked on the grounds, parishioners said.

The case has stirred community outrage because Bailey was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 1980 for the slaying of 17-year-old Carol Olandy on O'ahu.

Bailey was initially given a 35-year minimum prison term by the Hawai'i Paroling Authority, but parole officials later reduced that to a 20-year minimum. Bailey was paroled in early 2003.

Bailey and Francis Talo were convicted of kidnapping Olandy from a parking lot at the Pearl City Shopping Center on April 29, 1979. The pair said they wanted the Camaro that Olandy was driving "to do a job," according to testimony in the 1979 trial.

The two defendants then took Olandy out to the pineapple field, shot her and drove to Fort Ruger Market and robbed the store. They were arrested a few minutes after the robbery, still driving Olandy's car.

Olandy's body was located by authorities days later in a Kunia pineapple field with seven bullet wounds.