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[email protected]. • • • • • ' • . • al1221a 72, N1111tlaar 23 AIDS rapist gets 8·1-243 _year prison ·term • • Donald Hatch, 40, threatened victims with infected hyperdermic needle • • By Eric Smith Hilltop Staff Reponer AIDS virus and rat poisoning. applauded the sentence in the case c~pus, Dawson responded, ''We're According to a Washington Times but . believes it was too long i~ trying to be sensitive to strangers on Donald Hatch, the ''AIDS rapist'', article, Hatch is a suspect in at least coming. the campus, but we can't be • who terrorized the Howard com· everywhere that a crime might OC· munity in fall ·of 1987 was ten other rapes or attempted rapes at ''It illustrates that the wheels of cur." sentenced. last week to 81 to 243 years the time near the campus in 1981 and justice turh very slowly. It is a tn prison. 1982, but cannot be prosecuted in Since the 1987 rape attacks, Hatch,40, was sentenced by the those cases because the statute of marvelous sentence, but ideally it Howard's security division has in· D.C superior court after being con· would have come swifter," Dawson victed in August of 1988 on a 14 liffiitations ran out two years ago.