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Well, the state of California made national news not long ago for letting a violent sexual

predator voting to let a violent sexual predator out of prison early due to a state law that

says that elderly inmates should be released from prison if the parole board votes to do

so.

Well, that's exactly what happened with one pervert and Randy, they keep doing it.

The California parole board has decided to grant elder parole to another absolute monster.

This is one of those stories where it's really hard to hear what's being alleged here,

but you need to know the actions of somebody that the California parole board said, yes,

this person is deemed to be safe to reenter society because they're over 50.

I can only imagine what we're about to hear.

For more, here's ABC 10 in Sacramento.

And again, this one's kind of hard to hear.

And now the decision to release Seja has sparked outrage from prosecutors and the victim's

family.

ABC 10's Nasi Javi joins us now after talking with the survivor and uncovering disturbing

new details from the parole hearing.

Nasi, this must come as a horrific shock.

How is she feeling about all this?

Oh, yeah.

You know who the parole board doesn't care about at all?

The victims of these crimes.

Of course, and don't let Gavin fool you.

Gavin will say, I didn't do it.

Don't blame me.

Guess who appoints the parole boards?

Truthfully, she was crying for most of our phone call and at the center of this case is

that survivor.

She tells me she just found out about this today.

And now she's being forced to relive everything all over again.

Her case is really highlighting a controversial part of California law, which allows some inmates,

including those convicted of sex crimes, to be considered for early released based on

age and time served.

And by the way, in case you want to buy that Gavin Newsom has nothing to do with this,

Gavin Newsom signed the bill in 2021, lowering the age for elder parole from 65 to 50 and

from 30 years to 20 years.

Thanks Gavin.

The district attorney says this case is different.

It points to years of horrific abuse and the lasting trauma left behind.

We have a man who was convicted of molesting his stepdaughter, raping her violently for nearly

a decade in the 90s to the early 2000s.

A man sentenced to 139 years in prison now recommended for release.

I don't think he served all hundred and thirty nine.

Nope.

A man sentenced to what's the point of having these

insane number sentences if they don't count?

It doesn't matter because the state of California will not keep anyone in prison.

And this is why people say, oh, the death penalty, that's the easy way out.

Life in prison is so much worse.

Well, guess what?

In this state, there is no such thing as life in prison, so don't kid yourself.

A man sentenced to 139 years in prison now recommended for release.

His name was Israel Sayha and the victim was a little girl when he started to rape her.

A childhood taken over years of abuse.

We spoke with a survivor who just found out the parole board recommended her rapist for

early release under the elderly parole law.

Seriously, who is on this parole board?

They're just doing what Gavin told them to do.

Don't forget, this is a George Floyd thing where they believe that the prisons are violent,

so we need to let everyone out of prison.

And what's crazy is they did this out of quote unquote, equity because they think that

the prisons are racist and they think that this is about releasing more black people

from prison.

Well, guess what?

These people aren't even black.

But that was the motivation for them to pass this legislation in the first place.

Some sort of weird bastardization of what equity looks like.

They're trying to be color blind or they're trying to write past wrongs, whatever the case

may be.

But what they're doing is they're letting people out of prison who have demonstrated

that they cannot live in polite society.

They cannot play by the rules.

And these people are being put back out into the communities so that this woman now has

to spend the rest of her life looking over her shoulder.

She says the abuse started when she was just a child continuing for years inside her

home.

The D.A. says at least some of the incidents happened on this backcountry road at a home

where the family lived back in 1999 here in Winters.

On one occasion, he tried to, okay, let me just warn you once again.

Some of these details are really difficult to process, but it's important because this

is who Gavin Newsom through his parole board is letting out.

On one occasion, he tried to push her out of a truck to cause injury on another occasion.

He pointed a gun at her and he pulled the trigger and the gun either misfired or was empty.

The crimes were discovered in 1999 when she collapsed in public and was taken to the

hospital.

She was pregnant, D.N.A. confirmed Israel Seja was the father.

This little girl was impregnated by this monster.

It started when I was nine and I got pregnant by him when I was 15.

Prosecutors say the abuse escalated, including attempts to force a miscarriage.

He actually maybe jumped off the roof of the house.

He took me to, I guess, like, a witch doctor or something and she tried the miscarriage

to that.

I mean, he was just trying to get rid of it and really, seriously, who in their right

mind would say that this person should be free?

Okay, this is why I'm never doing jury duty again.

When I sat on jury duty for that full month, what you're hearing now is a PG version

of what we had to sit through for a full month.

And they go through it in all of the glory details over and over and over again.

That was the worst month of my life.

And really, we're kind of waiting, I mean, the middle of the years.

In 2000, he was sentenced to over a century in prison.

Prosecutors say they believed he would never get out, but now the DA says the state parole

board has recommended his release saying he met the qualifications for elderly parole.

Good Lord.

The DA says one commission and the qualifications are you've served 20 years and you're over

50 because you know how when you're 50, you're elderly, you know what's funny to go back

to the trial where when I was on the jury.

The defendant in that case was 90 years of age.

If your brain is wired to be attracted to children and that violent sex with children

is something that turns you on, it doesn't matter how old you are.

That doesn't go away until we can figure out how to reprogram these people's brains.

You're not going to change them.

So what you have to do is you have to separate them from society so they can't hurt other

people.

That's what prison is for.

And that's what the judge decided and that's what the jury decided.

The fact that we're not going to respect the sentence and the verdict that the judge

and the jury came down with after sitting through what I'm sure was a horrific month of

testimony and they came to this conclusion, you're going to let this person out who

is almost certainly a threat to society so that this now has the chance to happen again

is beyond my ability to comprehend.

The DA says one commissioner, Neil Schneider, called him an excellent citizen.

And this is what they think.

This is not something that slipped through the cracks by the way.

This is what Gavin Newsom and company believe.

This is not an accident.

This is not a one off.

This is what they think.

And the DA tells me that he made some disturbing comments in that hearing.

They said that he admitted to having thought still of little girls.

And when asked how he would handle those, he said that he would pray.

The DA says that's just unacceptable.

He's submitting a letter to Governor Newsom urging him to take action and have the decision

recommending parole for this convicted child rapist reviewed and reversed.

I did reach out to the governor's office and parole board.

The governor's office did just get back to me.

They say they have not received it for a review yet and they cannot comment on pending

cases back to you.

My goodness, Naze and we should point out as well that according to state law, all reviews

must be done within 120 days from the hearing or May 29th.

His actual release date is unknown, but he's currently being held at Satin Quinn State

prison.

Stay with us for updates.

So there you go.

Another absolute monster that should be spending the rest of his life in prison getting

out because of elder parole in California.

But the people in California hate Trump and that's how they voted in the gubernatorial

election.

So this is what we have.

Nothing is going to change until you start voting differently.

I just don't understand how people go out and vote for this guy and then they complain

about something like this.

He's not the problem.

You're the problem because you voted for him knowing that this is how he sees the world.

He regards criminals as a protected class, which means his judges, the attorney general

who he appointed, his parole boards and everyone in the system sees it that way too.

So don't act surprised when they act on their beliefs.

That's what they think.

You knew that when you voted for him, not this audience, but the people of California.

And now this monster is coming to a community near you, lock your doors.

Now there is movement in the legislature to try to repeal this monster today.

They want to change this law because well, it doesn't make anybody look good in election

year or maybe just maybe some of the electeds in Sacramento have a conscience.

For more on the possible changes to the elder parole law that, by the way, Newsom was

just asked about and he said he does support.

Here is Fox 40 in Sacramento.

We need change.

That's what Assemblymember Stephanie Wynn is calling for in California's elderly parole

program.

As a stance today, the program allows prisoners 50 years or older who've served at least

20 years of their sentence to apply for early release from state prison.

We need to do a better job at putting standards on this program.

Wynn, a Democrat from the Sacramento area, says the issue is especially urgent following

a recent decision by the state board of parole hearings to grant elderly release for 64-year-old

David Funston.

He was sentenced in 1999 to three consecutive life terms for kidnapping and sexually

assaulting seven young children.

And right now this law has been on the book since 2021.

That's when it was expanded to 50 years old.

It's because this case was so outrageous that people started paying attention to this.

How many of these predators have been released over the last four years?

Well, think about it.

It has to be something truly, truly, truly eye-popping to make the news because you think about

the war in Iran.

You've got the heat wave coming to town.

You've got March Madness on the horizon.

There's a lot of noise in the world.

There's something like this to pop into the papers.

It has to take something extraordinary, which means I think you're probably right, Randy.

It's happened many, many, many, many, many times, but just not in a way that can force

its way on the front page of the newspaper.

He was sentenced in 1999 to three consecutive life terms for kidnapping and sexually assaulting

seven young children.

Governor Gavin Newsom disagreed with the parole board's decision, but the board ultimately

moved forward with it, saying Funston no longer posed what it called an unreasonable risk

to public safety.

Upon his scheduled release, though, last month, Funston was transferred back into custody

and plastered County to face new charges in a separate child sex assault case dating

back to the 1990s.

Yeah, that was an interesting one where the day he was getting out, because this guy committed

a hell of a lot more crimes that were never, ever adjudicated plaster County who decided

not to file charges for a case they had against him because they thought, Oh, he's going

away for life.

They realized they were still within the statute of limitations and they refiled the case

from the 90s.

And that's why that monster is still behind bars.

But this is a fluke where some Republican sheriff can come save the day.

That's not always the case with these guys.

And lawmakers say he's not the only case they're concerned about.

The board on Wednesday will consider parole for 57-year-old Gregory Vogel slang sentenced

to 350 years from molesting multiple young boys in the 1990s.

20 years of a 350-year sentence, that sounds great.

I wonder if they realize how ridiculous this looks.

I realize here in the insane asylum, the people that voted for them are just, I guess,

looking at this as business as usual.

But if someone's visiting this state from Florida or Iowa or Japan or someplace like

that and they hear this, they think we're all on drugs.

I can't believe that we would allow somebody like that to be re-released out in the community

again.

If admitting that you're still attracted to children is not enough to deny parole, then

what is?

Now, Win hopes to bring change to the elderly parole program with her new bill, AB 2727.

If signed, it would raise the elderly parole eligibility age from 50 to 75 before someone

can even be considered for early release at all.

Because 75 is actually elderly.

The proposal would also increase the minimum time served to 30 years and require them to

undergo a screening by the Department of State Hospitals.

So at half of this bill is just undoing the damage that the legislature and Gavin did

by reducing these thresholds in 2021.

Gavin Newsom is one of the most destructive things that's ever happened to the state of

California.

It's going to take us decades to undo the damage that he has done.

And require them to undergo a screening by the Department of State Hospitals.

On top of that, the bill would completely bar anyone convicted of the most serious sexual

offenses from qualifying for elderly parole at all.

Those offenses include aggravated sexual assault of a child and certain sex crimes involving

victims 10 years old or younger.

We need to ensure that something passes to protect our communities.

Now, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said they want to make

a few things clear here.

In a statement they said in part, quote, commissioners for the Board of Parole hearings take many

factors into consideration when determining a candidate's release suitability.

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This is complicated.

What you're trying to do is you're trying to defend the indefensible.

This includes the comprehensive risk assessment, the candidate's central file, parole plans,

and impact statements at the state Capitol covering local news that matters.

A ton while us Fox 40 news.

So this is one where we can't ignore it.

We have to pay attention to it.

And as this thing goes through the legislature, it's important to have your voice heard that

your local member in the assembly in the state Senate passes this and it gets to Gavin's

desk because we have to now that people are paying attention.

Maybe we can undo this damage, but this is maybe the worst law ever passed in the state

of California.

And that's saying something.

Now Gavin Newsom is running for president and the conventional wisdom is that he's going

to get there because women are going to vote for him.

Women think he's attractive, women think that he's slick, women think that he's smart.

How any woman could vote for him after he did all this is crazy.

Let's open up the phone lines now at 800-222-5222.

I know that many of you have very strong feelings about this.

I want to talk to the ladies in particular.

Gavin Newsom thinks that you're the ones that are going to put them in the White House.

Let's say you 800-222-5222 1-800-222-5222 800-222-5222 is a telephone number 1-800-222-5222.

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Now Randy, there are those in Sacramento who are also looking to change the mental health

diversion.

So here's another bizarre loophole that is letting people back out onto the streets.

And that is a law passed a couple of years ago called the California Mental Health

Diversion Law.

Where if you self attest that you are suffering from any mental illness, including things

as depression or ADHD, without even a judge making the decision, you can qualify for

instead of going to prison, going to mental health treatment and it qualifies for all kinds

of violent crimes.

Oh my.

So there's been a push for two years now to change this.

This is something that Sacramento Sheriff Jim Cooper has been trying to get people to

pay attention to.

It didn't make it out of committee last year.

It just passed a crucial committee this year, but this is yet another law that was in

the name of criminal justice reform that is being exploited that we need to fix for more.

On the mental health diversion law and efforts to change that one, here's KCRA.

A bill aimed at tightening California's mental health diversion program is taking a major

step forward.

This year, E3's Jason Marx is here now to explain what this bill does and how it pertains

to mental health.

What we spoke with area judges, district attorneys and also law enforcement and everyone agrees

that something needs to be done to sort of tighten the levers here on mental health diversion.

And today, that process is taking a big step with AB 46.

Mental health diversion is a program signed into law in 2018 and what it does, it allows

some who have committed crimes with mental health issues to get treatment instead of going

to jail.

And you can say whatever the mental health issue is and you don't need to have any documentation

to prove it and public defenders up and down the state know this and are using it all

the time.

Well, it's like what happened in San Francisco when you had people who were here illegally

who were accused of crimes and they would all say that they were being persecuted in their

country of origin and they can't go back.

Well, specifically what the drug dealers from Honduras would say when they were put on

trial by Brooke Jenkins, the district attorney is their victims of human trafficking.

And for a long time, that was working.

Oh, yeah.

And what it does, it allows some who have committed crimes with mental health issues to get

treatment instead of going to jail.

Supporters of AB 46 say they agree with the goal of diversion, but they also believe

there are people taking advantage of it simply to avoid staying behind bars.

They're also citing high profile.

Also, shouldn't there have to be, I don't know, some kind of connection, how your mental

illness caused you to bump off a 7-11?

What this is is this is just another tool to get them out of prison early.

They don't want anyone locked up and they're looking for any excuse to let them out early.

Oh, they have a mental illness.

Oh, they're elderly.

Oh, it's this.

Oh, it's that.

Let's just create a long list of excuses so that the parole board has something to hang

their decision on and say, oh, we had to let them out because they were mentally ill.

We had to let them out because they're too old, whatever.

Well, and this goes even further than that because the diversion means you don't even

go to prison.

In lieu of prison, you go to this program and there's no sentence.

You just have to complete the treatment and usually it's outpatient and usually they're

not even following up on you.

They're also citing high profile cases in which criminals reoffended after they were released

on diversion.

One judge we talk with says he feels like his hands are tied and says the way that the

law is worded, it makes it difficult to deny someone the program once they requested.

That's right.

You self attest to this.

The judge doesn't even have a say if you qualify for this or not because of the way this

law was written.

It's unbelievable that this is allowed to happen.

It makes the entire criminal justice system a complete joke in California.

It is.

A. B. 46 was introduced by assembly member Stephanie Nguyen in 2024.

It would give judges more discretion when handing out mental health diversion.

By the way, this Stephanie wins.

She's also the one trying to revise all the parole.

She's great.

I've only we could get the rest of the legislature to go with the common sense on these issues

and realize that the public is not with them on this.

You need to get to a majority.

Well, and you remember what happened though.

This was important.

Last year, another Democrat Maggie Krell was for a prosecutor in say in Sacramento.

She's the one that put forth the bill to make it a felony to purchase a child for the

purposes of sex.

And it wasn't already a felony, thanks to California laws.

And that one was about to get killed in committee until people started paying attention.

People started sharing the story on social media.

They started calling their elected representatives and it went for being killed in committee to

becoming law because they realized that the public was not with them on that.

But she created a lot of enemies in the process, a lot of enemies in the legislature.

They were eventually shamed into moving forward with it, but they didn't want to do it.

And believe me, the knives are out for her.

It would give judges more discretion when handing out mental health diversion.

That bill was heard today by the Senate Public Safety Committee.

At the hearing, the Public Defender's Association spoke against a before he six saying it was

of course they did because that's what they do.

Have you seen what's going on with the public defender in San Francisco?

He claims he's so overwhelmed that he's just not going to take cases.

And you know what happens when a public defender says we're not going to take cases, the cases

just get dismissed.

Oh, no, it's been a complete nightmare.

And at this point, we're all sure it's a tactic that the public defender just wants people

to get out.

And this is the technicality saying this is why and we have to remind people of this every

election year.

You don't know a lot about the people running for judge, but if it says on their ballot

designation that they are a public defender, you don't want them as a judge.

And what is the hills saying it would be a step backward for criminal justice.

In the end, AB 46 got out of the committee with a unanimous vote.

I'm telling you, the temperature has changed on some of these issues because people pay

attention.

Situationally, yes, but unless everyone's paying attention to it and collectively outraged,

the bad stuff still gets through.

I want to be clear that we are not in any way eliminating the program.

We should, but okay, see, this is also what they have to do.

Even if they move the ball forward, they still have to pay lip service to the bad policy.

What we're doing is strictly just putting guardrails around it so that it is clear that

if a judge feels that the individual poses a public safety threat, that the judge has

the opportunity to deny the mental health diversion program.

Which is something, unless you're, you know, the crazy judges in San Francisco who let

everybody out.

And there's a lot of them.

So AB 46 cleared a major hurdle getting out of the public safety committee.

Assemblymember Nguyen is pretty confident that soon Gavin Newsom will have this bill

in front of them to sign.

That's the latest here in Sacramento, Jason Marks, Kasey Ray, three news.

Well, people against changing the law prefer treatment over jail time saying it could be

very effective.

The bill now moves to the Senate appropriations committee.

There are so many examples of this law being used in the last few years and Jim Cooper

has pointed out a lot of these where somebody commits a horrific crime, blames it on their

ADHD, doesn't go to prison, and then they re-offend yet we call this program a success.

No, it's a rigged system.

It's a rigged game and the game is rigged to benefit the criminals.

Let's go to Lisa in San Jose, Lisa, hello.

Hello.

Hi there.

Hi.

I was about Gavin Newsom.

Yes.

Yes.

He makes me want to throw up in my mouth, actually, I did.

I'm sorry.

Yes.

Any woman that votes for him based on his looks makes men think we're stupid because voting

for someone based on their looks shows that you're unintelligent.

I can't imagine how anyone could look at his record and think to themselves, oh yeah,

he's going to be good for women, letting all these sex offenders out of prison early,

you think that's good for women or children?

These people have lost their minds.

No, it's not.

He can have them for neighbors or let them watch his kids.

All right.

Thank you for the call.

Let's go to John and Long Beach.

John, welcome.

Gentlemen, good afternoon.

I think that if anyone realistically with half a brain looked at Gavin Newsom's record,

how in the world could they vote for him?

But obviously, there's a lot of people who don't think about what they're voting for.

They just think about what someone looks like.

And I had told this on your show before I had a friend who went to college with him and

she told me, and I still am friends with her, she told me that he was exactly like he

is now in college.

And all he talked about was political office and someday he wanted to be president of the

United States.

And he was always the pretty boy like he is.

So if anybody votes for him, they got to be drinking some kind of kool-aid that I don't

want.

I can tell you that much.

All right.

Thank you for the call.

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Spencer Pratt candidate for mayor in Los Angeles joins us tomorrow.

And he is polling second in recent public polls in the race for mayor of Los Angeles just

behind the incumbent, Karen Bass, who's sitting at 20%, which is pathetic for any incumbent

running for reelection.

Karen Bass knows the heat is on.

So now she's trying to clear out homeless encampments to show that her project inside safe

is working.

John, what did we say about promoting Spencer Pratt bang on?

The kiss of death.

Yes.

Every time you say someone's coming on the cancel.

So just remember that if that happens, so when Karen Bass ran and won the LA mayor's

job in 2022, she promoted something called project inside safe where she would work

to dismantle encampments and move everyone in a motels.

And what she said at the time is we will make sure these encampments never come back.

Well, an encampment that she cleared in Venice is back.

Surprise, surprise.

For more, here's ABC 7, eyewitness news.

Some Venice residents are voicing their frustration after a homeless encampment cleared

by mayor Karen Bass's inside safe program has returned.

This one is located at Rose Avenue and Hampton Drive.

eyewitness news reporter.

Oh boy, that's one of the old bonnet encampments going way back.

This one is located at Rose Avenue and Hampton Drive.

eyewitness news reporter Josh Haskell explaining what the mayor plans to do now.

Over three years ago, ABC 7 was in Venice when one of the most notorious homeless encampments

was cleared by mayor Karen Bass and councilwoman Tracy Park, the city's second inside safe

operation.

The encampment was located on Hampton Drive between sunset avenue and Rose Avenue.

Wisconsin businesses applauded the action and continued outreach that housed over 100

people, but the encampment is now back.

We need to not I'm shocked.

It's almost as if they don't want to be in the motel rooms.

They want to be on the streets in the encampments where all the drugs and fun are.

We need to not have to keep having a land war like every few months in the same place.

Once we win it, we should win it.

The law is not enforced.

It goes and it comes.

Wish it was a stick.

It would make it easier for the PD.

We visited the encampment and witnessed it being cleaned, outreach taking place.

But instead of those living at the encampment, accepting shelter, we saw the opposite.

In just a few hours, crews cleared the encampment that was here on Rose and Hampton near Main Street.

But those who were living at this encampment tell us that they just moved around the corner

and once the crews leave, they plan to return.

They're sticking their claims.

Talk about a game of whack-a-mole.

Do you want to get off the street?

Yeah, we're trying.

Every I don't want a stereotype.

But every single time, whether it's in Oakland or Los Angeles, the local news interviews

a person living in these encampments, you can hear the meth in their voice.

Do you want to get off the street?

Yeah, we're trying.

So where are you going to set up your tent and where you're going to sleep tonight?

Right back where I was until I got housing.

Every single time.

Like clockwork.

Because I'm not running away.

There's nothing to happen.

Was the state really worse off when we used to put meth heads in jail?

Oh, that was much better.

That was much better.

If we could snap our fingers and go back to that, we would do it in a heartbeat.

The problem is we're not putting anyone in jail now.

Because I'm not running away.

There's nothing to hide.

What are they doing exactly?

Making our lives a lot harder.

Because the reason my bag gets stolen is because of a cleanup crew.

My backpack.

That doesn't sound paranoid at all.

Nope.

My backpack, everything in it.

My ideas, my birth certificate, everything was stolen.

So I can't make it anywhere because everyone's an ID for a job.

I don't think it's the backpack that's pandering you from getting a job, lady.

No, I think it's the math.

According to Councilwoman Park's office, those who live at this encampment have picked

an area that's in between 241 18 zones.

So that is legalese for the bureaucracy is real.

Come on, Tracy.

You know better.

According to Councilwoman Park's office, those who live at this encampment have picked

an area that's in between 241 18 zones, areas where encampments are prohibited and a statement

may or bases off.

Yeah, but Karen Bass said no one's ever coming back and that was BS.

They're always coming back until you put them in an institution or until you put them

in jail.

They're going right back to the encampment and a statement may or bases office set in

part.

Knowing this is an extremely attractive area for encampments, but we will not be deterred.

Also the encampment...

And why are you allowing it?

Because inside safe doesn't work.

Also the encampment surrounds a currently vacant building, the historic Rose Restaurant,

which has been in Venice for over 40 years.

In a statement, the company that operates the Rose Sprout LA set in part, we have been

repeatedly vandalized.

That's equity.

burglarized and harassed.

Despite all this, we believe in the strength of this community and are committed to an eventual

reopening.

Yes, when there's a new mayor, it's really amazing that she's even running for re-election

with this.

Bad of a job as she is done.

Wouldn't you just say, okay, I don't have the skill set for this.

I'm going to do something else with my time.

Well, and this is news for the Bay Area.

As dumb as you think California voters are, LA voters might be the dumbest.