Ghilotti Released from Monitoring (serial rapist)

[The Straight Story]

Ghilotti Released from Monitoring

A Marin County judge this morning decided to release convicted serial rapist Patrick Ghilotti from a state-mandated monitoring program.

Judge John Stephen Graham said, "The good people of Vacaville did not ask for this problem. But with no new petition, I'm not in authority to do anything."

Psychiatrists for Liberty Healthcare, which had contracted for the state to oversee the conditional release program for Ghilotti, said based on its reports, Ghilotti was no longer a threat to the community. The Marin County district attorney's office, which handled Ghilotti's prosecution, retained an independent psychiatric expert who also found that Ghilotti posed little, if any, threat.

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=30510

Life & Times Transcript
9/03/01

LC010903

VAL>> ON LIFE AND TIMES TONIGHT --

JESS>> IT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES FACING LAW ENFORCEMENT: HOW TO KEEP TRACK OF CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS AFTER THEY'VE BEEN RELEASED ON PAROLE.

SAUL GONZALEZ>> THEY ARE SEXUAL SADISTS, RAPISTS AND CHILD MOLESTERS THE STATE CALLS SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS.

PATRICK GHILOTTI>> I'M A RAPIST.

SAUL>> HOW MANY WOMEN HAVE YOU RAPED?

PATRICK GHILOTTI>> BETWEEN EIGHT AND TEN.

SAUL>> WHO WERE THEY?

PATRICK GHILOTTI>> STRANGERS.

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[Pachamama]

1. He raped a woman who lived in my neighborhood, not far from where I live....

He comes from a well-known family here in Marin County that owns the largest road paving and construction/concrete companies in the area.

I know people around here, myself included that will be locking our doors again now that we know he may be walking around again....