SACRAMENTO, Calif — Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper on Monday criticized the parole of David Allen Funston, a 64-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and molesting children in 1995 and 1996, after state records show he was granted parole under California’s elderly parole program.
“A judge in Sacramento described him… as the monster parents fear most, yet today the parole board decided he is suitable for release,” Cooper said during a press conference at the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office…
And I, with only one single MISDEMEANOR in my entire life, will be at the same Tier Level as this guy: Tier 3. Totally broken and CALIFUBAR!!!
” You don’t get a second chance with children at all. I’m pissed. It’s not okay…” Not everyone on the registry is this guy and as a sheriff you should know that but you dwell on the worse case to punish everyone else. Punishing others for the worst of the worst drains resources for your department and not okay in California and other states. Try something else besides the broken record mindset or get a new record player aka job since you like spinning old tunes.
It’s hard to have sympathy when stuff comes up like this, given that those same LEOs & victim rights advocates have no problem handing down 20 or 30 year prison sentences for people who never touched a child, but viewed something on their computer
If this guy sees this, hope he realizes the extra extra grace he’s been given and uses his remaining time living right.
I’m as confused as the rest of us how this person would be a good candidate, with his multiple convictions, for elderly parole at such a young age. If this was the best of a bunch of other potentially worse choices, I would understand, but government hasn’t had a good track record of making good decisions in the past, so I highly doubt that.
He’s been in prison for 30 years. There isn’t a Western country aside from the United States where someone who committed a crime that didn’t result in death wouldn’t be eligible for parole at this point, probably far earlier even in this case. We get cases like this every few months and I’ve yet to hear that the boogie man who was released ever went on to re-offend.
Nothing about the criminal injustice system makes sense. You are more likely to be railroaded depending on the state you live in, the judge, and DA.
I know somebody at Chino where this guy is housed who knows him. He describes him as a very wise and recovered man who understands the evil that he did. He’s helped my friend a lot in his struggles with the parole system and with life’s challenges in prison in general.
I don’t know whether or not this guy deserves to be released from prison. His crimes are heinous to say the least but thirty years is a long time in prison. Prison can change people for the better. I like to think that they are paroling someone who has mended his ways.
This story made the mass media the other night with in-depth interviews and coverage on it for the outrage it is causing.
They just re-arrested him right before he was getting released for a new charge stemming back 30 years ago….L&L….