LOS ANGELES – A judge will consider in January whether to revoke the conditional release of a serial rapist who had been living in an Antelope Valley home for about two years before being taken into custody for allegedly violating the terms of his release, the District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
The hearing will be held Jan. 9-10 in Santa Clara County for Christopher Hubbart, the so-called “Pillowcase Rapist.”
According to the District Attorney’s Office, Hubbart violated several terms of his conditional release, including failing five polygraph tests.
During the January hearing, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Richard Loftus will decide whether to recommit Hubbart to Coalinga State Hospital for at least one year.
Hubbart, 65, was released from Coalinga State Hospital in July 2014 and was assigned 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, despite outcry from residents and area elected officials.
Hubbart was designated a sexually violent predator in Santa Clara County in 1996. His lawyers argued in 2014 that Hubbart’s continuing detention violated his rights to due process, sparking a battle over where he should live.
Residents of the area where Hubbart was sent to live vehemently opposed the decision, as did county Supervisor Mike Antonovich, who represents the area.
The District Attorney’s Office tried unsuccessfully last year to have Hubbart’s release revoked, with District Attorney Jackie Lacey saying “this violent predator continues to pose a serious danger to our community.”
A judge, however, rejected the request.
Without explanation, Hubbart was taken into custody Aug. 9.
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. Hubbart 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.
As a condition of his release, Hubbart was required to wear an ankle monitor and attend regular therapy sessions and make quarterly reports to a judge.
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Take the AV Back!! says
I believe the paragraph for this story on the AV Times Facebook page said he allegedly violated some of the terms of his conditional release – including failing 5 polygraph tests. So the violations of those terms could be what got him taken back into custody. And while ‘mercury’ pointed out the polygraph tests, the explanation said the violation INCLUDED the tests – which leads me to believe there were other violations.
Oh, and Mercury, if you feel he should be able to live wherever he chooses, let him pursue life, liberty & happiness next door to YOU. While you may think that it’s A-OK for a county that’s 300 plus miles away to dump this creep in the Antelope Valley, it’s NOT OK! And if we don’t fight it now, it’ll continue to happen!!
mercury says
Just like the detention past his court ordered incarceration handed down at sentencing violates his constitutional rights, so does this new stint in custody. Which is not for a new crime (the article would have mentioned this) and not a parole violation (he is long past his criminal sentence, having it served in full and then some).
Whether we like it or not – he was just ‘sentenced’ to another 6 months of incarceration awaiting this hearing, without a criminal conviction or even charge, based on a crime he or someone else MIGHT commit. Possibly due to failing a polygraph – an instrument widely considered junk science and inadmissible in a court of law.
Whether we like him or not – that is unconstitutional. Regardless of what the courts say.
He may very well be a creep, but he has served his sentence and has the right (!) to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness like any other person and certainly any other criminal convict.
He should live wherever he chooses. Don’t want him as a neighbor? Move. It’s a free country. Sort of.
Kathy M says
Hey [removed]! We DID move. We moved here to the desert and live with the heat, cold, and wind to NOT be living in crime infested cities.
We drive 25-30 miles to the animal shelter, the sheriff station for where this Judge DUMPED him is 23 miles away, and has very limited coverage in this area, which is relatively low crime. A rape victim, and a war widow with 4 daughters were his closest neighbors. Why should they have to SELL and move because a felon decided to rent out a $500 shack for $2k to a Sexual predator?
IF released, he should have been where there could have been more protection of the neighbors. Tax payers were paying for security guards not to protect potential victims, they were to protect this man for a long while after he moved in.
He let his ankle monitor go dead multiple times, changed his appearance, and still was allowed to remain free at an earlier hearing. Now it seems he has more violations we won’t have a list of until after the hearing.
He wasn’t from here, NEVER lived or worked here. Why was it OK for a Santa Clara judge to dump him on us? It wasn’t OK.
Janet says
Go to hell
J says
So what did he actually do to be taken into custody. I think we all deserve to know. I;m sure I am not alone in wanted to know. None of us wanted him living in our neighborhood, who would? I still think they should move him to that judge’s neighborhood or put him away where he will never be a threat to anybody ever again.