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Ex-con on lifetime parole for rape, murder of 10-year-old NYC girl charged in new sexual assault
nypost.com ^ | May 22, 2023 | Larry Celona and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 05/25/2023 3:07:56 PM PDT by lowbridge

An ex-con on lifetime parole for the rape and murder of a 10-year-old Queens girl was allowed to remain on the streets despite getting arrested again last year — and is now charged with another sexual assault, The Post has learned.

Charles Rowe, 56, was able to cash in on the state’s controversial “Less is More” act, which made it easier to keep him out of jail even after he was hit with a felony stolen car rap in December, according to law enforcement sources.

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“Thanks to the governor’s ‘Less is More’ it is almost impossible to violate someone,” the source said. “Lowering the standards is responsible for one woman fighting off this monster and another woman being raped in two horrific crimes where both women were threatened to be killed.”

The statute, signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2021 and enacted last year, allows parolees to avoid jail over a “technical violation” of their release conditions and, according to critics, also makes it tougher to put them back behind bars if they are accused of a new crime.

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Rowe had earned his lifetime parole status after he was convicted of raping and killing little Vanessa Broughton inside her bedroom on Christmas Eve in 1987.

Rowe was a guest of the girl’s family at their Jamaica home when he was left alone with the youngster, then raped and repeatedly stabbed her to death — leaving her naked and blood-soaked body on her bed, where she was found by relatives at 1 a.m., according to news reports from the time.

He was convicted of murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

Rowe spent nearly 35 years behind bars before he was released from the upstate Sullivan County Correctional Facility on Jan. 19, 2022

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: crime; newyork; nyc; rape

1 posted on 05/25/2023 3:07:56 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Rowe must be a close friend of Bragg.


2 posted on 05/25/2023 3:10:43 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: lowbridge

Good God!


3 posted on 05/25/2023 3:24:57 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: lowbridge

Lotta men and women these days need a good ol-fashioned, disappearing.


4 posted on 05/25/2023 3:27:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lowbridge

So at what point in time....are we going to start hanging these people????


5 posted on 05/25/2023 3:30:51 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: Secret Agent Man

Amen.
The American people tolerated this weak system of pseudo justice and anyone harmed or killed after being kind to the felons is on their heads.

Those who are kind to the cruel
will in the end be cruel to the kind
—Talmud on Ecclesiastes


6 posted on 05/25/2023 3:33:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: lowbridge

“Less is more,” hmm? As in less punishment is more crime?


7 posted on 05/25/2023 3:33:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: lowbridge

I really would prefer proper law enforcement to death squads, but I think we’re going to get death squads.


8 posted on 05/25/2023 3:33:26 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: lowbridge

Too bad a 10-year old girl had to die because of stupid adults’ votes.


9 posted on 05/25/2023 3:34:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lowbridge

May God take that little girl into his arms.
And may we be strengthened in our resolve to be his workers for true justice on this earthly plane obeying his will.
Amen.


10 posted on 05/25/2023 3:34:32 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

It has been mostly this way since Earl Warren, only is now just beyond berserk. Our system of justice is a flaming joke.


11 posted on 05/25/2023 3:58:41 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Salman
I really would prefer proper law enforcement to death squads, but I think we’re going to get death squads.

It is shameful that society's weakness and lack of integrity forces good people to do the work (with the tired cliche "he took the law into his own hands"====then get law enforcement working and get some new, stronger laws and punishments going if you don't like it).

12 posted on 05/25/2023 4:07:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: lowbridge

What’s the odds on the raped women continuing to vote for Democrats?


13 posted on 05/25/2023 5:37:02 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: lowbridge

Best put him on double secret probation.


14 posted on 05/25/2023 5:50:07 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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To: SkyDancer

Rapests should be disarmed first.


15 posted on 05/25/2023 6:32:51 PM PDT by DaBeerfreak (As long as the politicians believe they're not the problem; we have a big problem.)
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To: DaBeerfreak

Should be dis-something or other if you get my drift.


16 posted on 05/25/2023 6:46:08 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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To: SkyDancer

"Should be dis-something or other if you get my drift."


Agree -- he should be immediately dis-pointered. (See the two public restroom signs below to clarify the meaning of that.)


      

17 posted on 05/25/2023 7:15:49 PM PDT by Songcraft
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