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Judge Says Videotape Too Graphic for Public

The jury in the Chester Stiles trial heard more details about the videotape at the center of the child molestation case. Prosecutors say the tape shows Stiles sexually abusing a two-year-old girl.

The man who found the tape testified Wednesday, along with the child's mother and the detective who investigated the accusations. All of it leads up to the tape being played to the jury, which is expected to happen tomorrow.

The video obviously has some sensitive material on it. It will be shown to the jury in the courtroom, but it will be hidden from the view of everyone except those jurors.

The video tape now held in a evidence bag has been at the center of this trial and the prosecution set up how police found out about it.

"He told me that he had been in the area dirt biking and he had lifted up a sign that he found to use for a jump and that underneath, he found a plastic bag with a video tape in it, and that he had watched a portion of that tape and it was of a little girl being assaulted and that is why he had contacted me to turn it over to me," said Nye County Detective David Boruchowitz.

That man was Darrin Tuck. On the stand he admitted he had the tape for four months before turning it over to police. He said he while he watched it to see what it was, he didn't watch it all.

"The picture gets still then a little girl gets moved in front of the camera," he said. "I see somebody start to pick up the little girl's dress."

It was that dress and the pictures of the bedroom that helped the victim's mother identify her daughter on the tape. She said she hadn't known about the abuse until a friend urged her to watch the news.

"I saw them showing a picture of a little girl who was sexually assaulted by a man and they showed a picture of Chester," she said.

She went on to say that Chestier Stiles was at her home just three days before she saw those pictures, taking a dog she had to give away.