Convicted child molester killed by inmates

A convicted child molester has been beaten to death by other inmates at the state penitentiary, and the child victim's grandfather says his prayers have been answered.

Last April, Kevin Achartz was convicted of molesting a boy and sentenced to life in prison for his third strike. Btu before he was locked up at Walla Walla, he heard angry and emotional words from the victim's family.

"Perhaps you will be the victim instead of the perpetrator, amen," said the victim's grandfather, Glenn Heyes, in court.

Achartz died in the hospital on Thanksgiving day, and Heyes said it was the best Thanksgiving present he could ask for.

"I prayed him to meet his maker. I did," he said. "He got justice because that's God's justice for what he's done to humanity."

The victim's mom, in a letter written from her home in Alaska, disagreed with her father.

"Kevin Achartz was someone's child also, and although he fell from grace, he did not deserve to be beaten to death. He was not given a death sentence by our judicial courts and should never have had to die without such sentence imposed on him," she wrote.

Glenn Heyes said he only has sympathy for Achartz' family.

"I'm a mean sob but I tell you what. I sympathize with them and I'm sorry," he said.

But he also predicted in court that Achartz, a convicted child molester, would not last six months in prison. And he was right, almost to the day.

"He hasn't got the whole nine yards yet because he has hell to go to now," he said.