Convicted pedophile set to be freed admits nonetheless lusting after baby

A infamous pedophile instructed the California parole board he lusted after youngsters as lately as 2021 — however they nonetheless tried to launch him early.

Courtroom transcripts from a September listening to present serial baby molester David Allen Funston stated that in 2021 he was nonetheless fantasizing over an eight-year-old pal of his daughter’s.

The vile predator even went into element about the best way he would pleasure himself behind bars whereas excited about her, including: “There’s all the time a risk that I’ll relapse.”

The parole board was set to launch Funston final Thursday underneath a Gavin Newsom-era regulation as a result of he had turned 50 and had served greater than 20 years in jail.

He had initially been given three life sentences for kidnapping and baby molestation in 1999.

However in an Eleventh-hour intervention, the District Attorneys workplace filed historic prices from 1996 in opposition to him and he stays incarcerated.

Funston admitted in September to touching himself to ideas of kids whereas in jail. He additionally acknowledged having a “lapse” between 2020 and 2021, describing fantasies involving an eight-year-old woman who was his neighbor throughout the road and performed together with his then-minor daughter.

Since then, Funston claims he has developed an “urge management plan” together with his psychological well being counselor with the intention to handle his deviant urges. Nonetheless, he nonetheless admits to being drawn to younger women.

In the course of the 2025 listening to, he additionally admitted to molesting a boy as a result of the kid was weak and out there as a consequence of his “need for energy and management.”

“There’s all the time a risk that I’ll relapse. I, um, I do know it’s not inevitable, so I do know that it’s essential for me to proceed to construct on my restoration.

“Uh, I don’t — I wish to do every little thing I can to make sure that I — that I by no means hurt one other baby,” Funston stated on the time.

He appeared in courtroom Monday to face the brand new prices and spoke solely to substantiate he understood his constitutional rights. He’s being held with out bail.

The district lawyer stated he introduced new prices in opposition to the “very harmful man” after California’s aged parole regulation, signed by Gov. Newsom, made the 64-year-old eligible for parole, with even one parole board member describing him as “appropriate” for launch.

The regulation permits inmates aged 50 or older who’ve served no less than 20 years of steady incarceration to obtain a parole suitability listening to.

“To be clear, this particular person was beforehand sentenced to a number of life phrases for terribly heinous crimes… Nonetheless, subsequent modifications in state regulation and up to date parole board failures have altered the sensible impact of these life sentences for the victims and communities at giant,” the DA’s workplace stated in an announcement.

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