Judge to consider sending infamous 'Pillowcase Rapist' back to hospital

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/22/california-judge-to-consider-revoking-release-pillowcase-rapist/?intcmp=latestnews

A judge is set to consider sending California's infamous "Pillowcase Rapist" back to a state hospital nine months after his controversial release into a small California community, prosecutors confirmed Wednesday.

Christopher Hubbart, 64, who admitted sexually assaulting more than 40 women in Los Angeles and San Francisco between 1971 and 1982, moved into a home last July in Lake Los Angeles -- an unincorporated area of Antelope Valley near Palmdale -- amid fierce protests from residents of the rural, desert community. Hubbart earned his grim moniker for the method of his crimes: binding victims' hands before pulling pillowcases over their heads to silence their screams.

    "We believe this violent predator continues to pose a serious danger to our community."

    - Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County District Attorney

Whatever new development prompted Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Richard Loftus to hear a prosecutor's request for Hubbart to be sent back behind bars is part of a sealed record that will be revealed at the April 29 court procedure, which is open to the public. Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey declined to say what prompted the motion by her office.

"We believe this violent predator continues to pose a serious danger to our community,"  Lacey said in an email statement. "My office is committed to protecting the public."

Hubbart served decades in prison and state mental hospitals, but in 2012, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gilbert Brown, who is now retired, ordered the admitted rapist released into the Lake Los Angeles area, where he was born and raised. Lacey petitioned the state Supreme Court in July 2013 to block Hubbart’s release, but the court denied her request, prompting widespread protests from residents.

Since his release July 10, Hubbart has lived in a modest, white one-story home under the watch of a security guard. Hubbart, who is not on probation or parole, is required to wear a GPS ankle bracelet and register as a sex offender with the Lancaster Sheriff's Station, one of 23 subdivisions of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department directly tasked with security matters surrounding Hubbart. He also is required to continue treatment and obey a curfew, as well as be subject to random searches, drug testing and polygraphs, according to police.

Hubbart, who was known to look for children's toys outside homes in the belief that mothers might be less resistant to his assaults in an attempt to protect their children, was released from a state hospital in 1979, but he was later convicted