Posted on 05/02/2024 6:44:20 PM PDT by Jyotishi
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -- One of Hawaii’s most notorious serial rapists is set to be released Thursday, prompting concern about whether the so-called “Manoa rapist” is still a danger to the community.
John Freudenberg was flown back to Oahu on a charter flight last week from Hilo’s minimum security prison.
The transport was in preparation for his release on Thursday.
[Image] Sheriff's deputies, corrections officers waiting for "Manoa rapist" to arrive in Honolulu (Kawano, Lynn)
One of his victims told HNN Investigates that she believes he should remain behind bars.
“John Freudenberg is still a threat to public safety,” said the woman, who asked that her name not be released. The woman is credited with helping to catch Freudenberg after she picked him out of a line-up.
“He broke into my house and held me hostage in my home and held a knife to my throat, raping me and telling me he was going to kill me,” the woman said.
She added that before he left, he said something to her that made her realize he had no self control.
“He said, ‘I’m sorry, this had to happen to you,’” she said.
[Image] Technical problems with the state's online victim's notification network allowed a high-profile sex offender -- the so-called Manoa rapist -- to disappear from the system.
Freudenberg served more than 40 years behind bars for a series of attacks against 15 women in Manoa in the 1980s. He was 23 when he pleaded guilty to crimes, including rape, sodomy, sex abuse and burglary.
The woman who spoke to HNN said Freudenberg cannot be trusted and pointed to his own words at a parole hearing, in which he could not guarantee that he wouldn’t reoffend.
Freudenberg’s attorney, Myles Breiner, said he understands why victims feel that way, but said his client has served his time and deserves a chance to live outside prison walls.
Breiner pointed out that Freudenberg completed multiple sex offender treatment programs.
Breiner added his client recognizes the terrible things he has done, but has taken all steps necessary to be reformed. “He has spent 40 years in prison without a misconduct, which is extraordinary,” Breiner said.
The attorney said Freudenberg did not have one infraction while behind bars.
Freudenberg was a University of Hawaii Manoa honors student and president of his fraternity when he committed the crimes over a 14-month period.
He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, and was denied parole repeatedly until last year. After his release, Freudenberg will live in a halfway house with an ankle monitor.
[Image] 'Manoa Rapist' denied parole 32 years after conviction
The Hawaii Paroling Authority said Freudenberg “will be closely supervised by the HPA’s Sex Offender Supervision Unit. He will be under the highest level of supervision that includes a strict curfew, electronic monitoring, reporting in-person to his parole officer at least once a week and other stringent rules he must adhere to.”
Breiner also said Freudenberg will have to go out and find a job.
Freudenberg became an electrician while in prison.
Who in their right mind let this electrician/rapist work in their home?
They have to make room for the political prisoners who mispronoun perverts.
Maybe someone who needs electrician-human subjects to test electric chairs.
To be consistent in their stupidity and cruelty they will release him into the displaced Lahaina community.
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” ― Adam Smith
Well if it was a 2nd Amendment state then maybe somebody could just put a bullet in his head...
Just sayin’...
Shall we start some betting action on this? For example: How long will it be before there are suspicious attacks in the area where he’ll be in “house detention”....? Will it be less than a year?
Will one or more of his victims eventually settle his hash?
(And so on.)
And the legal system has put me back among us.
Didn’t rape used to be a capitol offense in some states?
Taxpayers housed, clothed and fed Freudenberg for 40 years. Individuals in the Hawaiian Paroling Authority decide to let him go. All wasted taxpayer dollars. Innocent victims pay.
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