40 rapes, but he will be cured with therapy---Really!

[Solitary]

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/california-judge-says-serial-rapist-to-be-released

LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" A judge on Friday ordered that a serial rapist be released to live in a Los Angeles County community in spite of a host of vocal protests.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gilbert Brown issued a brief order saying that Christopher Evans Hubbart, 63, must be released by July 7, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a statement. With several severe restrictions that include 24-hour GPS monitoring, Hubbart will be allowed to rent a small house in a remote area in Lake Los Angeles, near the city of Palmdale.

The decision comes two days after a daylong hearing in Northern California, where Brown heard passionate objections from residents, many of whom drove 350 miles north from Southern California. Hubbart's most recent crimes occurred in Santa Clara County, but Brown ordered him released to Los Angeles County, where Hubbart was born and raised.
AP Photo: Department of Justice, File

This undated file image provided by the Department of Justice shows convicted serial rapist Christopher Hubbart.
"I am extremely disappointed with the court's decision," said Lacey, who spent months fighting the release into her county of man with a history of at least 40 rapes.

"Now we are preparing for his arrival," she said. "We will do everything within our authority to protect the residents of Los Angeles County from this dangerous predator."

Hubbart will wear a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week GPS monitor on his ankle and will be accompanied by security people every time he goes out in public for the first six months to a year of his release, Lacey said. He will be transported to therapy sessions twice a week. therapy? Does anyone think this will change him?

Brown said he received an enormous outpouring of emails, petitions, cards, letters and postings on a website set up by Lacey for public comment. The documents filled two banker boxes as well as two full binders, he said.
"The court has reviewed them all," Brown said, offering no other comment.

"The court approves the proposed address. Mr. Hubbart is ordered to be placed within 45 days," he said in his written order.

Hubbart has acknowledged raping and assaulting about 40 women between 1971 and 1982, when he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. He was paroled in 1990, but arrested in a new attack just two months later and returned to prison until 1996. How could this happen, he was cured?

When his term ended, he was deemed a sexually violent predator and confined to a state mental hospital. Doctors at the hospital recently concluded he was fit for release, but few options were available. California laws bar sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools and other places where children congregate, eliminating nearly all urban areas in the state. This where he should have stayed to protect more woman from getting raped. If being in prison and a mental hospital didn't cure him, why should anything else do it. 

Local leaders quickly denounced the decision.
County Supervisor Michael Antonovich called it "an unconscionable threat to public safety."
Palmdale Mayor James Ledford said he was "a little upset" on learning the news.
"It's very disappointing, very disappointing that this guy with this kind of record in the past would be put into any community," he said.

Ledford said the city is going to continue to try to fight the order.
Cheryl Holbrook, one of the residents who drove north to the hearing and a member of a community group created to fight the release, said she and others from the Ladies of Lake LA were already heading to protest at Hubbart's new home, which is about five miles from her own.

Holbrook said she was shaking because of the news, which she said was made worse by terrible memories of being raped as a 14-year-old by two men at knifepoint and impregnated.
"I think it's wrong," Holbrook said. "When this guy commits another crime, the blood's going to be on that judge's shoulders."

Hubbart will be required to report to the judge in San Jose for quarterly progress reports.
In a related development, the state assembly passed legislation backed by Lacey requiring courts to give residents of counties receiving sexual violent predators a voice early in the judicial process.

Do they actually listen? How many times do we have to hear about these violent predators getting out and doing it again? 

[Jason78]

But that's what they do with criminals that have been convicted and served their sentence.   They get let out again. 


What measures do you think ought to be put in place to safeguard the public after a criminal has served their custodial sentence?

[Solitary]

Get rid of psychologists and psychiatrists that say these violent predators are cured, and religious authority that says they have found God and are no longer a threat to society, and the lawyers that used every means possible to win and to hell with the truth during their probation hearings.. Solitary

[aileron]

Doctors at the hospital recently concluded he was fit for release, but few options were available.

The judge probably has no choice.  The state is holding him past his sentence based on mental health public safety grounds, and the doctors at the facility are claiming "...he was fit for release..."

Given the very high recidivism of serial rapists, the doctors better know what they're doing here.

[stromboli]

I have cure for serial rapists that involves a tree branch lopper. For some reason the Utah state correctional people weren't interested.

[Solitary]

That would be cruel and unusual punishment, unlike the electric chair, hanging and shooting them that is used.  Solitary

[Green Bottle]

16 years for 40 rapes to begin with? 

So thats like 2 years for every 5 rapes committed, seriously ,  thats a fuckin joke !!         

[Jason Harvestdancer]

First, the purely objective response.  The law says what the law says, and the law says he has done his time and should be released.  There is no legal mechanism for holding him past his release date.  The fault is in the prior sentencing judge, especially given that hours after a prior release he was back at it again.  While that prior judge messed up, there is no way to fix this after the fact.  Since the law requires he be released he has to go somewhere other than a jail and the question then is where to go.

With all that said, this guy is going to be my neighbor.  Well, my town, but about 8 miles away and not down town.  It's a small town with one traffic light.  The people here are quite upset.  He was almost released into our town but the residents objected so strenuously that the state reconsidered, and placed him somewhere else in our town instead.  At least he's not down town this time.

Many people think that the reason he's being released into our small rural community is because he will be disappeared.  Not disappear, but disappeared, which implies that the decision isn't his.  More likely it is because our town is too poor to object.  Are the security personnel there to protect the public from him, or to protect him from lynch mobs?  It's pretty clear that if he does offend again that this particular town is unlikely to let him get to a judge again.

[aileron]

There is no legal mechanism for holding him past his release date.

Actually, there was a legal mechanism to hold him past his release date and they did in fact hold him past it - mental health and public safety.  He's being released now because the doctors claim he's not a public safety concern.

[Jmpty]

Serial rapists and pedophiles are sick. They should not be held past their sentences, but if a pattern of deviant behavior is established, then they should be chemically castrated, and supervised for life. Period.

[KUSA]

What measures do you think ought to be put in place to safeguard the public after a criminal has served their custodial sentence?

Vigilance and exercising second amendment rights.

[Solitary]

I'm  prepared!     Better than even a riot gun. A flame thrower would be nice though.    :trunksthing: Solitary

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Oh for krystake..He's a serial rapist, not the red army.

[KUSA]

Oh for krystake..He's a serial rapist, not the red army.

They die the same.

Now for humor.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Here we go..bandwagon politics. Everyone opposes rapists and yet acts as if suggesting we castrate or kill them is a new and novel idea. AS IF somebody is suggesting we elect them to public office...well,  other than the GOP.