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Revocation hearing set for “Pillowcase Rapist”

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A revocation hearing has been set for April 29 in Santa Clara County for serial rapist Christopher Hubbart. The 64-year-old admitted to raping approximately 40 women between 1971 and 1982. He was dubbed the “Pillowcase Rapist” because he muffled his victims’ screams with a pillowcase over their heads.
A revocation hearing has been set for April 29 in Santa Clara County for serial rapist Christopher Hubbart, who was conditionally released to an Antelope Valley residence last summer. The 64-year-old admitted to raping approximately 40 women between 1971 and 1982. He was dubbed the “Pillowcase Rapist” because he muffled his victims’ screams with a pillowcase over their heads.

LOS ANGELES – At the request of Los Angeles County prosecutors, a judge in Santa Clara County agreed Friday to consider revoking the release of a serial rapist who has been living in the Antelope Valley since last summer.

“Pillowcase Rapist” Christopher Evans Hubbart was conditionally released from a state hospital in July 2014 and was allowed by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gilbert Brown to live at a home in the 20300 block of East Avenue R in Lake Los Angeles.

The ruling prompted an outcry from local residents, along with objections from elected officials, including District Attorney Jackie Lacey.

In a statement issued Friday, Lacey said, “We believe this violent predator continues to pose a serious danger to our community. My office is committed to protecting the public.”

The District Attorney’s Office declined to discuss the basis for the request to have Hubbart, 64, taken back into custody.

The judge who granted Hubbart’s motion for conditional release has since retired from the bench, but Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Richard Loftus agreed to hold a revocation hearing on April 29. The 10 a.m. hearing will be open to the public and held at Santa Clara County Superior Court, Department 32.

Hubbart admitted to raping approximately 40 women between 1971 and 1982. He was dubbed the “Pillowcase Rapist” because he muffled his victims’ screams with a pillowcase over their heads.

The serial rapist was sent to Atascadero State Hospital in 1972 after the court deemed him a “mentally disordered sex offender.” Seven years later, doctors said he posed no threat and released him.

Over the next two years, he raped another 15 women in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to court documents. Hubbart was again imprisoned, then paroled in 1990.

After accosting a woman in Santa Clara County, he was sent back to prison and then to Coalinga State Hospital.

Hubbart was designated a sexually violent predator in Santa Clara County in 1996. His lawyers argued last year that Hubbart’s continuing detention violated his rights to due process, sparking a battle over where he should live.

As a condition of his release to Lake LA, Hubbart was required to wear an ankle monitor. He was also ordered to attend regular therapy sessions and make quarterly reports to a judge.

Removing the Pillowcase Rapist from Lake LA “would be a huge victory for the community’s safety,” said Assemblyman Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale) in a statement issued Friday.

“The decision to place a serial rapist in a rural community with limited law enforcement resources was completely irresponsible by the Santa Clara County court,” Lackey stated. “I introduced Assembly Bill 262 earlier this year to address this very problem which would prevent future serial rapists from being released into rural communities.”

“I hope the court will act in the best interest of the Lake LA community and grant the Los Angeles District Attorney’s request to have Hubbart removed,” Lackey added.

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[City News Service contributed to this report.]

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51 comments for "Revocation hearing set for “Pillowcase Rapist”"

  1. I was hoping he would have been killed already,he has been a waste of the tax payers money going way back…we spend over $200.000 a year for his conditional release,I think burying him on the property would have been the right thing to do as Martyn Haggett owns the property he resides in….Martyn Haggett is a FELON whom tried to have is X wife killed,and the home at 20315 E. Ave R in Lake LA where he lives that tax payers are paying for isnt worth $300.00 a month and tax payers are forking the bill at $2400.00 a month…so burying him on the property would have saved time and money wasted on this waste of life….and what system cuts a deal with a felon(Martyn Haggett)to house a brutal serial rapist!!!!!!lol…our system is a joke

  2. no [removed] this uguly ass guy he should be put under 6 ft he has no respect for human life he should go to hell together with everyone who is defending him they are probably as sick as he is.

  3. Maybe all of us will get lucky and all the sex offenders will be removed from the AV. They should just dig a giant hole about 15ft deep and make them all live in it for the rest of their lives. Why should we have to be scared of them, you never know when they will strike again. Like the man the judge only sentenced to 10yrs instead of 25yrs. Judge said he wasnt a preditor, said it wasnt a visious act. The three yr old happened to wander into his garage. Thats an act that deserved death. Sodomy is as viscous act as a man can do, especially to a two or three yr old. Child. If the judges are on their side I guess we should be in the right to just kill them. They leave us no choice.

    • queenofmadd…Your extreme anger/hatred and those of the same mind-set, end up not solving anything for the good of society. Hot headed people are irrational and only end up making things worse.

  4. Leave him alone… He isn’t bothering anyone now. People find all types of reasons to bitch. Y’all may talk crap for my opinion….but that is what it is MY opinion

    • Maybe you should let him wrap a pillowcase around your hwad and [removed] in the [removed] after he breaks into your house in the middle of the night

    • Let him come move with you and your family. I am sure that he won’t bother you guys.

      • KIAACKEY WHY DONT YOU PAY FOR HIS RELICATION IF U DONT WANG HIM IN LAKE LA YOU SMUCK.!

    • Isn’t bothering anyone now? is that really your defense? Guys raped over 40 women. If given the opportunity its highly likely he’ll do it again. Forty women. You don’t come back from that.

  5. Klismaphilia (sometimes spelled Klysmaphilia) is receiving sexual arousal from introducing liquids into the rectum and colon via the anus. It is a paraphilia that often involves the use of enemas.

    This isn’t a person who pee’d in a public park or flashed his junk at someone. This IS a man with incurable mental illness who has proven many times that he is not too be trusted. He stalked his victims, raped them in front of their children. In at least 2 cases, he returned and raped their daughters, 1 girl was only 7. It costs over $200k a year to keep this depraved excuse for a human, in the conditional release program. So, for each of you folks who feel he should be left alone or that he’s served his time, you all can bank-roll his care yourself and let him live with you.

  6. THANKS TO THE AV TIMES FOR STIRRING UP ALL THE ANGER AND HATRED TOWARD THIS OLD WHITE MAN PROPAGANDING LYNCHING PF THIS MAN YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELFS

    • Here we go again…another perpetrator defender attempting to deflect and de-minimize legitimate safety concerns. Since when is the free exercise of speech “lynching?” Since when is the public’s efforts to petition the government for a remedy mob mentality? Honestly, perp-defenders, did you believe that the Antelope Valley was just going to role over on this issue? If you did you clearly don’t know us and you clearly don’t belong. Way to go AV Times for reporting on current and pertinent events in our community. Keep up the fight AV!

    • Damn the AV Times for reporting the news of the Antelope Vally. I guess the AV Press should be called out as well since they charge $200 plus a month for reporting the news of the Antelope Valley……

      • Antelope Valley Press covered it today. Think they’ll ever do an expose or negative story on Paris? Not a chance.

    • This old white man? That is a really stupid statement…look at the old fart that just got 102 years in prison for raping women…age does not matter because rape is not due to passion…it comes from rage!

  7. I agree with you “right down the road”, he is probably more scared of people than they are of him at this point. Does he have family interaction?

  8. Revocation based on what? Is it in the article? Did I miss it?

    All I read is

    “In a statement issued Friday, Lacey said, “We believe this violent predator continues to pose a serious danger to our community. My office is committed to protecting the public.””

    Dear Ms. Lacey – let’s hear the basis for the request Unless there is a valid reason, violating Due Process and the US Constitution is the exact opposite of ‘protecting the public’.

    • Quincy, leave the lawyering to the lawyers. Civil commitment of sexually violent predators does not violate due process as it has nothing to do with punishment so much as treatment and monitoring of a mentally ill and dangerous person (see Kansas v. Hendricks). I commend our civil servants like Jackey Lacey, esq. who are standing strong against this perverted wave of judicial rulings demeaning survivors, undermining public safety and compromising the human rights and dignities of law abiding citizens. There is no “cure” for what afflicts Hubbart; no therapy which can provide any guarantee or peace of mind to the public. Hubbart through his own actions has shown his propensity and predisposition towards grave human rights violations. He must be returned to ensure that his mental illness does not destroy any more lives.

      • Hubbart, through the court’s decision, has shown not to possess such propensity and predisposition. That is why is living in the AV and not in Coalinga.

        Please see my other comment below. And I thank you to not tell me what to do, or not to do.

    • Right on target Quincy. These people should be upset at politicians, lawyers, judges, and the system. When public pressure sways due process we are in big trouble.

      • No John, we are in big trouble when special interest groups are able to thwart the will of the people (ACLU/CARSOL). The will of the people is to place public safety first. We have already done this song and dance with Hubbart with a court determining him to be “cured” and released him only to have him rape multiple times again. How many victims do you need to make in order to believe he is not cured? For me, NOT ONE MORE VICTIM! You can’t purport to be an advocate of Women’s Rights of Human Rights and then support the release of a person whose behavior violates the very people those rights/groups purport to support. It’s simple folks; don’t rape and you won’t go to prison and/or civil commitment…if you are incapable of abiding by these laws you should; you can; and you will be committed indefinitely to a mental facility for care and treatment for your own safety as well as the public.

        • We are in really big trouble when we have certain groups giving up on upholding the Constitution of the United States of America against a group of NIMBYs. Lord knows the average citizen does not care.

          Very true, don’t rape and you won’t get sent to prison or Civil Commitment. CH did and he was rightfully sent to prison. But he has served his term. That is fact. Trampling his rights as an American hurts all of us.

          • I’m curious why you think that serving his term is fair in this case? He’s a serial rapist who’s raped over 40 women. At what point do you say “gee maybe this guy is simply broken and is a danger to society because clearly he’s not going to stop.?” What number would that have to be? 50? 100? Personally I think 40 is pretty excessive to the point where its proof that he won’t stop given the opportunity.

          • The issue isn’t whether anyone thinks the term served is fair. The issue is “Do we or do we not have a system of justice, and are we willing to support the application of that system in all cases?”

            The fact is that there will be some people who disagree with the results in each and every case. But there is no way to keep the system and toss out just the occasional case you disagree with.

            So, do you want to throw out the entire system over this guy? Or do you want to acknowledge that despite the fact you disagree here the system for the most part works to your benefit?

  9. Since when is it your business what another does. You are supposed to protect yourself regardless. Why is it we ae more concerned about this man than the hundreds that are paroled each year that have murdered. I for one am more worried about the convicted murderers that live within the city than this man that is living under such scrutiny. I am a survivor of rape so yes I speak from experience.

  11. @quigley- I do have a child and have been a victim of this type of crime for your info…..however, re-read my reply to Johnny and STILL tell me my opinion sounds stupid!?!?

    @right down the road- I agree and have heard the same thing your saying from other residents near by. IN A PERFECT WORLD, ALL SEX OFFENDERS WOULD BE LOCKED UP FOR LIFE!!!!! Unfortunately, our world is far from “perfect”.

    • Re-read your reply to Johnny and I still agree with Nancy P….never said you sound “stupid”! However, I will send my regards to you for what you have been thru….which is why the AV residents will not tolerate a POS living anywhere near our families….not an argument, simply the truth!

  12. Anyone who raped 40 women should not be let out of prison! And his guarded residence with private security and outrageous rent for the shack that it is should not be paid for with taxes. Think of the victims

      • This man served his FULL prison term and THEN was held (imprisoned) in a ‘hospital’ for years. He has finished paying his debt to society (there used to be such a thing) and then some.

        • To Quincy: Civil commitment does not violate due process for a beginner’s understanding on this issue read Kansas v. Hendricks (link below). Civil commitment has nothing to do with punishment or the SVP “paying his debt to society” (which I would argue the debt due is to his victims and he has not paid on those debts and I don’t think one can). However, I digress, civil commitment is about recognizing that some members of our society are incapable of respecting the human rights and dignities of others and because of that they reside in a treatment facility that will care for them while protecting the public from a person who has demonstrated upon several releases already that he has the propensity and predisposition to destroy the life of many. You are doing no favor to the Hubbarts of the world by releasing them.

          http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=95-1649

          • Familiar with Kansas v. Hendricks, as well as Comstock.

            Whether you think it is punishment or not, the courts have ruled, and so it is not. I would imagine those ‘living’ at Coalinga see it differently, but alas.

            In California, the State must PROVE that the ‘patient’ continues to suffer from a mental abnormality and continues to be more likely than not to commit further sex crimes in order for continued detention. (Welfare & Institutions Code 6600).

            Apparently the State failed to convince Judge Brown and he states that CH would NOT be a danger to others while under supervision in the community.

            Just like the decisions in Hendricks and Comstock make Civil Commitment non-punitive by the court’s finding, so is CH not a danger to the community by the court’s finding. You can’t have it both ways.

            And our legal system is not based on ‘paying a debt’ to the victim. That is why the case is not brought by the victim, but by the State of California, or the People. If it were up to the victim I doubt any criminal would ever get out.

  13. my honest opinion is you should just let this man be if he is currently abiding by all the conditions set on his release then why try to send him back.

    • Hello John. Do you happen to be a resident in Lake Los Angeles? Would you be worried if you had to have this man as a next-door neighbor?

      • @Johnny-According to the Megan’s Law website, I have numerous sex offenders in this “nice” neighborhood I live in, so what’s the difference?? Rapist, child molesters are all the same, SICK, this one just has a nickname for how he did it and admitted to it. What about that “uncle George” that’s been molesting his niece for 15 years and lives in your neighborhood???

    • I totally agree. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Us taxpayers are going to pay for him whether he’s in a facility or not. His conditions of parole, supervision, and restrictions are so strict, it’s damn near impossible for him to re-offend.

      • I think it’s your last statement that has people scared. “it’s damn near impossible for him to re-offend.”

        • Exactly Nancy P….Michele & John must not be siblings, parents, grandparents, aunt or uncle to a sister, daughter, granddaughter, or niece. This POS belongs behind bars!!!

          • I do live right the road, from this, with kids.. (Teenagers)… I am so sick of the people protesting,… They make more noise than this guy.. Either way, we do pay for this guy.. Leave it alone

          • I am grateful for women who protest to get men or women like this out of their communities. If it weren’t for these loud neighbors I am certain he would have reoffended. Never stop someone from protecting people of viciously sickened attacks. Thumbs up to these women in Lake Los Angeles who have fought hard for their community.

      • He would have already offended if it weren’t for the Lake Los Angeles women who do not give up
        The state has failed many…mom’s don’t.