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Sexually violent predator may be placed in the Antelope Valley, LA County supervisor responds

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Sexually violent predator Calvin Grassmier [Image via Megan’s Law webiste]
ANTELOPE VALLEY – A sexually violent predator who was blocked by a judge from moving into a La Crescenta neighborhood last month may now be placed in the Antelope Valley area.

The proposed placement address for convicted rapist Calvin Grassmier is 10320 E. Avenue Q10, in Littlerock, which is less than a quarter mile from Littlerock High School and in close proximity to Daisy Gibson Elementary School and the Sun Village Community Center, according to Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger.

“I reiterate my grave concerns and considerable alarm with the latest proposed placement of sexually violent predator Calvin Grassmier into a home in Sun Village, which may impact the safety and well-being of the local residents,” Barger said. “I believe that the residents deserve transparency and accountability from all those involved in this process and I will work with the local elected officials, public safety leaders, and the community to continue to vehemently oppose this proposed placement. I encourage others to join me in expressing their concerns to the Superior Court and the District Attorney’s office, and advocate for the safety of the children, youth and adults who reside in this community.”

Grassmier, now 66, was convicted in the 90s of multiple charges of rape by force and oral copulation of a minor under 14, according to the Megan’s Law website.

Grassmier was committed to the Department of State Hospitals as a “sexually violent predator” in 1999 and held in a secure hospital for treatment, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. On Nov. 4, 2020, the Court ordered the conditional release of Grassmier to begin outpatient treatment and supervision. He was originally to be placed in a neighborhood in La Crescenta, but Superior Court Judge James Bianco rejected the move, citing five factors, including a significant number of people living in close proximity to the proposed location and inconsistent cell phone reception that he said is a key to GPS monitoring.

The judge said that he believed the challenge posed by those factors was “too great,” but said he had “great confidence” that an appropriate placement would be made.

The judge also noted that the community was “vociferously opposed” to Grassmier’s release in La Crescenta.

A similar movement has already started to block Grassmier’s release to the Antelope Valley, according to a change.org petition.

Barger is encouraging location residents to submit written comments to the District Attorney’s Office before Aug. 10 via the following:

Mail to:

Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office
Sexually Violent Predator Unit
9425 Penfield Ave., #3210
Chatsworth, CA 91311

Email to:

SVP@da.lacounty.gov

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49 comments for "Sexually violent predator may be placed in the Antelope Valley, LA County supervisor responds"

  1. Liberty Healthcare Corporation handles SVP’s, and they are handling Calvin Grassmier. The state hospital housed him after prison and now Liberty contracted by the state looks for a suitable place for this SVP. Calvin has an extensive background of convictions that are truly horrendous including minor’s. I don’t want any residential community to house this monster, so now what? Maybe the state hospital can provide a trailer for him on state grounds.

    • This is the problem…there is no “suitable place.” At the time of sentencing it probably should have been obvious that SOMEDAY when it came time to release him there wouldn’t be a suitable place so maybe a sentence that involved having to release him wasn’t clever.

      Spilled milk, water under the bridge, but when some other predator is getting convicted next week or next month or next year instead of making the same problem for the citizens of…2050?…whenever…we need to be smart enough to at least learn something here.

  2. A rapist and a trumper , shocking Not! Republicans running these child sex rings in the AV , disgusting!

  3. Illegal immigrants, bums, gangsturds and sexually violent predators all getting dumped in the Antelope Valley. Somebody(s) is quite bitter towards this town.

    • Define “dumped” in this context?

      I am pretty sure “illegal immigrants” are basically autonomous and those who choose to come to the AV make that choice on their own, so “dumped” seems not applicable.

      Despite Wrecks’ paranoid fantasies there is no evidence of this “give the homeless a bus ticket” program that he has ranted about in the past. So if by “bums” you mean homeless people, again they seem autonomous and any who come here apparently come by choice…a pretty understandable choice, in my opinion. If I were homeless the open spaces created by the totally haphazard development of Lancaster would be attractive to me too. Wouldn’t you rather camp in a half mile square of desert across the street from a shopping center, rather than on a busy sidewalk in a properly urbanized city?

      The sexually violent predator part relates to this story and is a valid question. I am curious myself how the DoC arrived at Sun Village as the place to put this guy. However, this guy is apparently subject to GPS tracking and while no one seems to be talking about the actual extent of the supervision on him it seems unlikely that he is going to be able to “predator” as easily as the predators we already are stuck with…after all, no one is directly supervising the badged thugs roaming our streets, and we are all familiar with the evils they get up to.

      • No kidding. They know how to “predator” well themselves because they have a quota to meet to make it to deputy of the month. As for mister grassmier, he, like many other pervs, were placed here because someone is benefiting from them financially just like how poverty pimps benefit from homeless welfare…. Or a vehicular interlock device company benefiting from dui’s. I’m not justifying dui’s. Its just an example. Nevertheless, someone is benefiting from it, spites this town, likes the business, and is putting the scum of the earth first before the people of this town. I refuse to take my family somewhere where there is someone who violently sexually violated a child. As for Illegals, they get dumped here by “cayotes” who profit well off of them and sees this nice town as a trap city thats easy to hide in the desert and still get around despite the “eye in the sky.” Someone definitely has spite towards this once nice town and is benefiting well as more scumbags are dumped here. And being that a full sized dump truck isn’t actually being used, the word “dumped” wouldn’t be applicable. “Herded” maybe?…

      • I have an idea. Why not build a community of tiny house way out in the desert. And place the predators out there. The tiny houses community would be fenced and have 24 hour surveillance. In the long run i believe it would be safer and more cost effective. I believe that the rent is $5,000 a month for just one person. It’s just not fair. Families are loosing their homes because they can’t pay rent. Something to think about.

    • Alby you cry so much about illegals here let me tell you at least they have a job and have better things than you probably do .all you do is sit in front of a screen and post craps about everything why dont you go find yourself a job instead.

      • Lisa it seems that you’re an illegal that complains about people complaining about you for trashing this town and expects us to shut up and tolerate the nonsense. Pillow case rapists belong in jail just like illegals politics belong on the otherside of the border as do you and your ignorant assumptions. And speaking of assumptions, I’ll bet your job sucks and you’re as ugly as Grassmier with long hair and you use a pillow to suffocate and force copulation on a refrigerator just to have half a chance at procreating but all your getting out of the relationship is ice cream and pizza.

  4. Good luck Littlerock. The board of supervisors did crap for Lake La when the Pillow Case rapist came to town.

  5. This is why parents feel safer letting kids play hours of video games rather than go out and play.

    Thanks libtards for your stellar contributions to society!

    • Here is conservative fantasy on full display.

      Start with a “here’s why…” that is completely dissociated from genuine causality. Helicopter parents have been hovering over their kids like giant baskets of paranoia for years, and getting more frantic instead of less. This guy was IN JAIL. Then he was in LA CRESCENTA. He isn’t the answer to why parents have gotten more end more paranoid and committed to helicoptering. There hasn’t been an actual increase in child predators. There’s just been an increase in fear…fed by police, ‘law and order’ politicians, ‘security’ companies, and all the other people who profit off that fear.

      And of course, you close with a wild blame throw at your personal full service demons…with the standard Republican “I gotta use a slur and try to be insulting since it isn’t face to face and I won’t have to put my hummingbird ass behind my alligator mouth” flourish.

      • t isn’t face to face and I won’t have to put my hummingbird ass behind my alligator mouth” flourish.< YOU are the poster child.

        • lololol…I’ve met numerous other commenters from this site face to face, and there’s nothing I say here that I won’t say face to face.

          So get on out there hummingbird and start throwing that “libtard” thing around…let us know how it goes.

          • lol…must be a different Tim…my mom’s dead.

            It’s kinda funny how you make up a new screen name to make a comment like that. The irony is delicious, but you probably can’t see it even when it is pointed out.

          • I’ve met you face to face, and I have something to say to your face:

            Hello my friend and honorable debate adversary. Hope all is well!

    • What in the world does politics have to do with this guy being placed here? Well, I’m sure alot, but not a Republican/Democrat thing. Nobody WANTS him here, and if ur kids are inside playing video games all day, I feel sorry for them, and u may want to look into some sort of parenting class.

  6. Near to schools, absolutely, positively with out a doubt completely and utterly disgraceful!

  7. Looking at the comments here and y’all are making a joke, like the health and safety of our community doesn’t matter. This is unacceptable and juvenile.

    • Well, we could discuss the situation like reasonable adults if you want.

      The man has done his time. By law, he has to be released somewhere. Every possible place is going to react exactly the same way and press exactly the same case that La Cresenta made in court, successfully. So there is a clear problem of consistency in the law. If the law says that he has to be released SOMEWHERE, but also allows his release to be prevented EVERYWHERE, then there is a basic problem in the law and something needs to change.

      Now, one fact of law that has to be considered is that IN THIS CASE there is no going back and saying “yeah this guy should have gotten a life sentence so we would never have to deal with where to release him.” It’s too late. Our laws say you can’t go back and resentence someone after they have done their sentence, and that is universally recognized as a good thing. So this guy has to be released somewhere and that sux, but is what it is.

      The question is, do we get so tied up debating how to go about that and figuring out how to make some community somewhere bite that bullet that we don’t look at where there is an obvious difference to be made. There will be someone, somewhere, just like this guy next week, or next month. Being shortsighted humans, we will be so busy fretting about this guy being released that we will not even blink when the next guy is being given a sentence that will lead to him someday being released and causing the exact same problem. Just like at the time this guy was sentenced, we will be kicking that can down the road.

      If this guy being released is just something we cannot abide, what we need to be doing is demanding that crimes like his merit a life without parole sentence. I would back that.

        • Is it? Do you really think sexual predators are about sex, and that making them sexually impotent will solve the problem, or is that more a revenge thing that just makes you feel better?

          That wasn’t a snipe, it’s a real issue. It’s really easy to blur the line and lose track of prevention when we all have that desire for retribution.

          • Correct.
            The super spreading Texas democrats and there newly infected White House staffers can all get free helicopter rides to Walter Reed for covid treatment.

        • Chemical or surgical castration doesn’t work. It’s all about control and most SVP’s also use foreign objects.

          • I’m not sure where to put my comment so here goes: I like many other readers (here on the AV Times site) are tired of posts by “Claire”, “William”, and Tim Scott, among other usernames you give yourself!!!! It is utter nonsense and should not be tolerated anymore! I believe we should investigate and block such haters. Thank you.

          • It’s funny…I was just talking to someone today who was saying how even though they disagree with a lot of my positions they respect the fact that I always put my name to them…as opposed to the screen name soup that some posters use. I’m gonna take a wild guess that this “brand new” person, “ENOUGH,” who raises the issue of screen name changing as an accusation, most likely is one of the regulars that has totally discredited whatever name they have been using and is hoping this change will make their cry more effective.

          • Well, ENOUGH, since you deliberately forgot to mention Beecee and Sonjya, let’s block you as well.

          • “as opposed to the screen name soup that some posters use“

            Perfect description of your buddy’s William and democrat Dave.

          • lololol…basic clown acting like they are justified through randomly accusing others.

            William has been around here longer than I have. He’s put up with dingbats using his name, right wingers being exposed for posting nonsense followed by “other” right wingers posting the same nonsense, and basically the same nonsense that I have laughed at for years.

            Now, it’s POSSIBLE that basic clown and Sonya just fell off the turnip truck, and that all the old plague of turnips moved on…but what is more likely?

            Personally I favor a ‘register with the site to comment’ system that would make a one screen name per commenter system de rigueur. It wouldn’t affect me, since I use one and only one anyway, but maybe there would be some hesitation next time a right winger was posting obvious lies that they would be remembered for if there was some impediment to just changing their name and claiming they were “brand new but in total agreement with” their previous name.

          • Beecee, especially Beecee, can’t form a coherent thought so she/he/it simply calls the author of a comment “nerd”.

            So, let her call aliases nerds all she wants.

            It just shows how shallow and ignorant she is.

            And, it entertains others and me to watch her struggle to win a point.

            She hasn’t so far.

            The universe just doesn’t care about Beecee.

          • Bottom line is those two are always posting under random user names, and being called out as cowards for doing so.

            Struggling,
            Lol.
            Your hyena rants have no effect on me.

          • Sadly you are….

            But there is help that can be had for you.

            Don’t give up Tim.

            We are here for you.

          • lololol…I’ve been around for years, and have no reason to “give up” in the face of a basic clown that is not half the wit of even Mike the arrogant fireman…who was hardly a wit at all. I’m assuming you are just a third or fourth username applied by some lame that tried to make me “give up” before with “epic burns” like ‘hur hur, yer gay’ and went on into the dustbin of history. So, no, even you will eventually get that you have no credibility and are being laughed at, not with, when you post your daft links to nonsense and your “epic burns” and you’ll disappear for a week then return as “Bozo, the advanced clown” or something similar and post the same driveling nonsense…then wonder how we know it is you.

          • Of course we have no effect on you Beecee.

            You would have improved by now.

            AND YOU HAVEN’T.

            You keep coming back for more.

          • “Sadly u are.” Was that an I know u are but what am I burn? Lol. Good one Beecee, u have them on the run. Lol

  8. This is one of the county’s “tricks” they’ve been pulling for years. Remember the placement of the Pillow Case Rapist in Lake Los Angeles in 2014? This seriously needs to stop. In addition to being a family friendly community, the AV is also very spread out and remote. Do to the AV’s open rural roads such sex offenders are given an open range to do what ever they want to whoever they want without a neighbor near by to hear. I absolutely love the desert, but the fact that it’s so remote and any creepo can pop out of nowhere and attack without a store let alone a house to run into for miles just gives me the willies. The County needs to consider the safety of the AV residences, both families, single people and seniors who live out there alone, and stop using the AV as a dumping ground for violent convicts. Human beings are living out here and need to feel safe.