Rights group says poor supervision, oversight led to Montana State Hospital rape by convicted sex offender

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

A female patient at Montana’s psychiatric hospital was reportedly raped by a convicted sex offender in March 2008, and the state recently paid a $375,000 settlement to avoid litigation in the case.
More glaring than the sexual assault on a mentally ill, newly committed patient, however, is the lax supervision and lack of oversight that allowed [...]

Man twice a rape suspect back in court on probation violation

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

A Missoula man convicted of felony sexual assault in September but who a judge spared from serving hard time now stands accused of violating his probation by driving drunk, and faces up to 100 years in prison.
Daniel G. Tudahl was arrested Jan. 12 in Bozeman on his third DUI charge, but denied the probation violation [...]

Rape suspect pleads no contest to lesser charge of sexual assault

Friday, July 31st, 2009

After two separate mistrials failed to resolve a 2005 rape case, Daniel G. Tudahl opted Thursday to plead no contest to a lesser charge of sexual assault.

A plea agreement drafted this week calls for a four-year deferred sentence, and also credits Tudahl with a full year of time that he served both in jail and [...]