Amboy's Jeff Spady pleads guilty to child rape
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
By STEPHANIE RICE, Columbian staff writerAn Amboy man who made international news last year when he fled to Canada with his wife and four children amid allegations of child sex abuse pleaded guilty Monday in Clark County Superior Court.
Jeffrey B. Spady, 41, pleaded guilty to rape of a child in the first degree and custodial interference in the second degree.
He will be sentenced Sept. 8 by Judge Roger Bennett.
According to state sentencing guidelines, Spady faces between seven years, nine months and 10 years, three months in prison.
Clark County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Tonya Riddell said she’ll recommend Spady serve nine years and two months.
Last fall, Spady and his wife, Kim, left their Amboy home with their four children the same day a court commissioner ruled Jeff Spady could not live with his family in light of allegations he had sexually abused a girl, a relative who was not one of his biological children, for years.
While their neighbors back home defended them to the media and decried the abuse allegations, the couple spent two weeks on the run before they were arrested in Saskatchewan.
In court Monday, Spady pleaded guilty to raping the victim between 1999 and 2001, when she was younger than 12.
In exchange for his plea, Riddell dismissed charges of rape of a child in the second and third degrees, which had been based on alleged incidents of abuse when the girl was older.
In March, Kim Spady pleaded guilty to custodial interference in the second degree, a gross misdemeanor.
She was given credit for the 174 days she’d spent in the Clark County Jail and was going to work with the state to be reunited with her children.
Stephanie Rice can be reached at 360-735-4549 or stephanie.rice@columbian.com. | 
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