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C OU NT Y O F KAU A‘I
BERNARD P. CARVALHO JR.
Mayor
WALLACE G. REZENTES JR.
Managing Director
OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
News Release
For Immediate Release: October 19, 2017
JUSTIN KOLLAR, PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
Tel (808) 241-1888
Fax (808) 241-1758
Prison sentence for perpetrator of child sex assaults
LĪHU‘E – Prosecuting Attorney Justin F. Kollar announced that Eirik James Stevens, age
51 of Līhu‘e, was sentenced on Wednesday to serve 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a
child in his apartment, and attempting to sexually assault another child in March 2016.
The sentence was handed down by Fifth Circuit Court Judge Kathleen N.A. Watanabe
after hearing argument from Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Keola Siu and Stevens’s court-
appointed defense attorney.
Stevens was sentenced in two cases involving the abuse of two different minor children.
In the first case, Stevens was sentenced to serve a 10-year prison sentence on one count of
Sexual Assault in the Second Degree. In the other, Stevens was sentenced to serve a five-year
prison sentence on one count of Attempted Sexual Assault in the Third Degree. The State
requested that the prison terms be served consecutively and the Judge agreed. Defense counsel
argued for probation.
“We are pleased that the Judge imposed the maximum sentence in this case and that we
were able to spare the victims the trauma of further court proceedings,” stated Kollar. “We hope
that this resolution will allow them to start the healing process. Our team is also grateful for the
hard work of KPD investigators A.J. Morita and Christian Jenkins. Thanks in large part to their
hard work, we were able to get this sexual predator out of our community.”
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