Convicted rapist busted again

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Bobby Joe Helms stands before a judge once again Monday, this time it was for violating his probation. The 52-year-old is a convicted rapist who admitted attacking 16 women back in the '80s in a fashionable section of Tampa.

After being locked up for more than 20 years, the man nicknamed the "Hyde Park Rapist" was released. Early last year: he moved into some Melbourne apartments and promised not to do any harm. “I can’t express it in words, basically it has to come from my actions from here forward,” said a free Bobby Joe Helms in January 2008.

Fast forward to last Friday. Melbourne Police say they stopped helms near the intersection of U.S 1 and Parkway. They say the convicted rapist was with a 16 year old girl and he had a lot of prescription drugs.

As the 52-year-old stood before a Brevard County judge Monday, his probation officer tells the court, he ordered helms to stay away from the 16 year old girl cops say they found him with.
“I felt that with all the events that had taken place including the fact that he had indicated to me his intentions to have a sexual relationship with her and her being a minor I instructed him not to have any contact with her.”

The judge ordered Helms to stay in jail with no bond pending a transfer back to Hillsborough County.