Max Factor heir and convicted rapist Andrew Luster is set to walk free after being granted parole - as victim slams Kamala Harris reform law

UK Daily Mail ^ | 09/18/2024 | Ruth Styles

[DFG]

The disgraced Max Factor heir who was convicted of 86 counts of drugging and raping unconscious women in 2003 is set to be released early after his crimes were reclassified as 'non-violent' under a 2016 law change masterminded by Kamala Harris, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Andrew Luster, now 60, infamously fled to Mexico during his rape trial – only to be tracked down by Dog the Bounty Hunter and hauled back to the US in chains.

Now one of his victims has bravely come forward in an exclusive interview to talk about her fears at his imminent freedom.

Tonja Balden, 51, who was just 23 when she was drugged and raped by Luster after a night out in Santa Barbara, told DailyMail.com. 'I'm afraid that when he is released he may continue the same crimes. He just turned 60. That's not very old.

'It is so psychopathic to set up this type of thing where you find a woman, drug her, and then she's an unconscious body and to do all of these things to her while you're videotaping it. That is a real sadistic way of thinking that I don't know if that can be fixed.'

Initially handed 124 years in prison, depraved Luster's sentence was revised down to 50 years in 2013 on appeal.

And now the serial rapist will walk free from Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California, in a few months' time after being granted parole in August, having served just half his sentence.

Luster is eligible for parole thanks to Proposition 57 – a criminal law amendment written by Harris during her term as California's Attorney General that gives offenders deemed non-violent automatic parole after serving half their sentence.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

What is non-violent about rape?????

[xoxox]

86 counts is not exactly a one-off. this creep should have gotten a death sentence.

[ptsal]

black robe bad act, IMHO

[Liz]

Imprisoned rapist, Andrew Luster is eligible for parole thanks to Proposition 57 – a criminal law amendment written by Harris during her term as California's Attorney General that gives offenders deemed non-violent automatic parole after serving half their sentence.

[ConservativeMind]

How is some physical crime against another, non-violent?

[monkeyshine]

I guess if you drug the victims first there is no need to be violent. Makes sense, in a nonsensical way.

[Liz]

Somebody got a fat $$$$payoff

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

I’m sure he learned his lesson. Feminists can rest easy, focus on Yrump.

[ridesthemiles]

EXACTLY

[Moltke]

Kamalalogic. When logic just isn’t so.