March 3, 2026 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/03) - John spent the whole hour going through the names of who voted to grant parole to serial child rapist David Allen Funston and the details behind the parole hearing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Twenty two people get ordered for mandated mental health treatment.
Four million not making this up now. This is one
of the most disturbing things I have seen in a
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long time, and I'm going to take some time to
explain it. I don't know how long it's going to take,
might take all hour, I don't know, But you want
to listen to this whole thing. And this is about
David Allen Funston, and probably a week ago you'd never
heard of the guy. But back in the mid nineteen
nineties he went on a child rapespury. He kidnapped eight
children ages three to seven, seven girls, one boy, raped
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most of them. A couple got away. It was brutal.
I mean one little five year old girl, he not
only kidnapped and raped, he beat her up and left
her tossed on the side of the road. And he
got a sentence combined that it's sixty eight years to life.
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He was convicted in his early thirties. He's now sixty three,
and he is eligible for elderly parole. He may be thinking, well,
what the f is that? Well, in California, I think
firefighters or police officers can retire around fifty. Well, prisoners
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can be retired from state prison when they're fifty, even if.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
They've raped.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
A half a dozen kids. I'm not making this up
because I got the case here, David Allen Funston. If
you're over fifty years old and you've served at least
twenty years of your sentence, you can be paroled.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So they had a parole hearing and Newsom who wrote
the law allowing this. Newsom, that shape shifting psychopath, wrote
the law, and I have it in front of me here.
I'm signing Assembly Bill thirty two to thirty four, which
would create a diversion program and lower the minimum age
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for elderly parole fifty years of age who've served the
minimum of twenty years. There it is Gavin Newsom, that's
his signature. September thirty of twenty twenty, he writes the
law that allows David Alan Funston to leave, and then
when he's he appoints twenty one members of the Board
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of Parole. Twenty one members. They're all news I checked.
I looked up all twenty one. They all appointed and
reappointed by Gavin Newsom. And then when they let David
En Funston out, he says, well can you Newsom says,
can you reconsider? And so they reconsider and they let
him out anyway, and then Usium says, well, I had
nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I didn't have the power. You wrote the law, psycho.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You wrote the law, you appointed all the board members,
and he pretends he has nothing to do with it.
Now since he's been quote released, he's been rearrested because
it turns out he had another case sexually assaulted a
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child in Roseville in nineteen ninety six. They never bothered
to try the case because he'd already been sent to
prison and they thought he was put away for life. Well,
now he's out, so they rearrested him. He's back in jail.
But I have something to read to you, and it
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almost reads his comedy. But first I want to give
you the three names. But we know for sure. You see,
they keep all this secret. Now we're paying these board
members on the pro Board, they got a couple hundred
thousand dollars a year and their job is to let
felons out, including sexually violent felons.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And they do so we should see.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Their names, how they voted. Well, we've got three of
the names. We have some secret sources. And one of
the commissioners is Patricia Cassidy, and we're going to talk
a lot about her because she held the hearing. There
was an original hearing and she was in charge of it.
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And she is an attorney and she has worked with
the Board of Parole since nineteen ninety five and she
was most recently reappointed by Newsom in May of twenty
twenty three. Two other votes we know for sure is
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one commissioner, Robert Barton, and a commission named Catherine Percell,
and they were both nominated to the board in twenty
twenty three as well. Robert Barton used to be a
deputy DA in Kerrent County and Percell was a private
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attorney among other things. So Robert Barton, Catherine Purcell, Patricia Cassidy,
they all voted to release David Allen Funston. Now, when
we come back, I'm going to read you because I
went through one hundred and thirty pages of transcript this morning,
and I'm going to read you what David Allen Funston
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was telling Patricia Cassidy and others who attended this, and
what Cassidy knew about him from all the official reports.
And I'm going to say, I'm going to read some
things that are probably very disturbing, and Mike bother you
a lot, but this is the story of David Allen
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Funston and Patricia Cassidy and the rest of these commissioners
knew it and set them free. Anyway, you should know
what's going on here, because this is sick. There are
so many sick perverts who are working in government in Sacramento,
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and news him is the bandleader. I mean, he's the
one who writes the bill to let the perverts out
of jail. I'll tell you about it.
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All Right, so I'm about to read you out of
the transcript. This was the Parole Suitable hearing for David
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Allen Funston, who kidnapped as many as eight children, seven
girls and a boy aged seven and under raped most
of them. A couple of got away. And this is
the hearing. And the presiding Commissioner is a woman named
Patricia Cassidy. And like I said, she and twenty other
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members of the Parole board all were appointed by Gavin Newsom,
who wrote the law allowing a guy like David Allen
Funston to retire as a prisoner after the age of fifty.
He's sixty three. He had gotten like sixty eight years
to life, but they.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Let him out.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So listen to the testimony, and they first start going
through his background. Then this is Patricia Cassidy. She says,
as far as child in adolescent development, it says that
your father was verbally, financially and emotionally abusive to you.
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Your parents were married until you were about three or four.
You were sexually abused by your paternal half sister. Your
mother diagnosed with bipolar disorder. You had multiple types of
abuse throughout your upbringing. You said you were growped by
a doctor when you were twelve years old. He was
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troublesome in school. He was bullied over surgical procedures on
your genitals when you were four. Now this if you go,
if you read this transcript, apparently his sexual deviancy towards
children may have started with genital surgery. And remember we
found out that some of the great perverts in history
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in America have had deformed generals, Harvey Weinstein for example,
Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein. Well you can add David Allen
Funston to the list. Apparently they removed one of his
testicles when he was a kid because it hadn't descended,
and eventually in a shower some of the boys noticed,
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said Funston. Two boys in particularly started teasing me about
my genitals. And the teasing and bullying went on for weeks,
and it escalated to the point in Jim class where
one of the boys knocked me down along with another boy.
They picked me up and they took me over to
the volleyball poles and they were whipping. They were winging
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me back and forth, so my crots was striking the
poll the pole.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You got that.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
They picked up David Allen Funston winged him back and
forth so his crotch would strike the pole, and while
they were chanting, well, while they were doing this, they
were chanting, he has no balls. He has no balls.
This was at the age of thirteen. He said, this
is very traumatic for me. I felt rejected. I felt defective,
I was upset. I felt shame. I couldn't go to school. Okay,
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So this is the origin of when he decided he
had to start raping little children.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I guess his father wouldn't talk about it.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
He started sexually abusing his sister, and he ran away
from home for a couple of days when Funston's family
found that he was abusing the sister, and Patricia Cassidy asked,
when you were molesting her, were you penetrating her?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
No, just fondling her the genitals, kissing and pleasuring himself
in front of her. It indicates you were, Cassidy says,
it indicates you were exposed to sexualized behavior. When you
were four, your older sister used to show her friends
the scar on your generals. You also showed it to
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other girls similar age. Why did you show them? Why
would you do that? Were you so embarrassed at school
when the boys were bullying you? Why would you voluntarily
show it to other girls? Why do you think you
found yourself molesting your stepsister? These are all questions from
Patricia Cassidy, the commissioner.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
So Funston, when he's.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Asked why did you find yourself molesting your sister, he
blames his father. He said, I was influenced by the
pedophiliate books that my father had. This pornography. Yeah, there
were pedophiliac books that had fantasy stories about grown men
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having sexual intercourse with young girls, and I had these.
One of them dealt with incest. His dad had these
books lying around the house. He says, So, I had
these ideas in my head and I associated sex and
intimacy with that contact, and I regrettably I acted on
those sexual urges, the pedophelix stories that my father had
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when I was around my half sister having physical contacted
that was triggering to me. And then Cassidy goes on
he also had encounters with prostitutes, He would seek younger
looking girls. Go through just all his sexual history. He
forced himself, committed an assault in Colorado on a girl,
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a woman that was intoxicated, but he ends up marrying
a woman and he had a daughter, and having the
daughter led to the reemergence of sexual fantasies related to children.
This is all the commissioner's talking about with him before
they decide to let him go. And Cassidy says, it
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looks like you experience these fantasies, you'd pleasure yourself and
I'm trying to clean this up. You did this in
your vehicle when you were experiencing fantasies for six or
more months, and then you decided to kidnap and sexually assault.
And he had told the doctor he was looking for
greater risk to violate a greater taboo. And then you
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went to prison, and according to the record cast, Patricia
Cassidy said, you continue to pleasure yourself most days to
sexual fantasies pertaining to children. So she's going through the
history of this perversion which went on for decades and
decades again as the lead up to letting them out. Now,
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when we come back, we'll skip ahead to twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one, because he was heavily involved with self
pleasuring in the prison thinking about children.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This is just five years ago.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And then I'm going to read to you about the
program he's on to control his urges, because this self
urge control program is what convinced the pro board to
let David Allen Funston free. So this is just a
background leading up to this crucial point that's next.
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We're continuing looking through one hundred and thirty pages of
the hearing where they let the California Border Parole let
out at least for a brief time David Allen Dunstan
even though he had raped, he'd kidnapped eight kids, raped
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most of them, beat them up, and they were all
aged seven and under. And Kevin Newsom wrote the law
allowing this to happen, and this border parole hearing all
these people appointed by Newsom, and I got the three
people for sure we know of, Patricia Cassidy, Catherine Purcell,
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and Robert Barton. They voted to release him. And we
went through his whole life, all the sexual deviancy going
back to when he was a teenager. And now this
is the most important part coming up here. They David
Allen Funston testifies to the commissioners that in twenty twenty
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one he sought help because he was still having these
rape fantasies involving children. I had tried to quit on
my own in twenty eighteen, I had a lapse in
twenty twenty. I continued into twenty twenty one. And Patricia Cassidy,
the commissioner, said, so the fantasies of the children in
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twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, where they have the
fantasies of children you had molested or that you'd seen
in books, or your daughter or children on TV. And
he said, well, the primary one was a fantasy involving
a young girl that lived across the street from where
I lived with my daughter. She was one of my
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daughter's playmates. She was an eight year old girl, so
I had this was the regular fantasy had involving her.
And Patricia Cassidy said, had he ever molested her? And
she said no. This is now twenty twenty one. He's
been in prison now for over twenty years. And it
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goes on in detail. Cassidy commisster. Cassidy says, you've been
diagnosed with Pedophelick disorder. How would you describe yourself? I mean,
we're talking about a relatively long history of sexual offenses,
an intense history of self pleasure. Would you consider yourself
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a sex addict?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
But up until he.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Says, up until twenty twenty one, yeah, I was obsessed
with sex. I thought about it frequently. And the reason
that he beat up the children and attacked them physically.
When the children didn't respond in the way I wanted to,
I became angry. I didn't care who I hurt. I
was trying to satisfy my deviant sexual urges. He's telling
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them all this well. He talks about one girl, told
her to be quiet, tried to cover her mouth with
her own panties to try to shut her up, trying
to muffle her and David Allen Fundstate admits that I
know pedophilia is a lifelong condition. He says, there's always
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a possibility that I'll relapse, so it's important for me
to continue to build on my recovery. He says, I
pay attention to myself talk. I'm on guard for my
warning signs. This is all we've got that he's paying
attention to all the crazy sex thoughts he has about
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children in his head.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
But he says that he could relapse. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
He admitted to them that I could relapse. That's that's
the craziest part of this. In fact, let me skip
ahead to page ninety nine. Here, Patricia Cassidy, the commissioner, says,
are you still attracted to female children? Funstan says yes,
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I am, and she pushes, do you want to say
yes or no? Funston says yes. Cassidy says yes. Yes,
ma'am says Funstan.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Why does she have to ask him so many times?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
He said yes, I don't know if he was. She
was shocked that he admitted to it. She wanted to
make it clear, this is what you're admitting to. But
again she voted to release him anyway. Now listen to
this part. I have had urges, but I use my
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urge control plan. I tell myself stop. I'm not making
this up. This is an exact quote. I try to
remember about the harm I caused and my commitments not
to engage in masturbation, and I distract myself with another activity.
He goes, runs on and he turns on the radio,
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turns on the water, walks the dog. Ill wait a second,
he's still in prison, going through all this, So what
is he's sitting in a prison cell.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
How does he distract himself? Oh, it is going to
the sink. I guessed right.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It could be going to the sink, splashing water in
my face, or texting a friend. I listened to the
calm app.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I've heard of that app. You visualize yourself as a wave.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And you visualize surfing the wave crashing onto the rocks.
So he gets an urge and he turns on the
calm app and imagine he's a wave and he tries
to shew away all these sexual thoughts about little girls.
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Another commissioner said, describe your urge control plan. Well, I
literally rehearse it every day. The first step is to
tell yourself stop. The second step, I remember the consequences,
the worst consequences of offending. I try I primarily focus
on victim impact, the great harm it would cause to
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the young person, how it would destroy their life. The
third step is I affirm my commitment not to reoffend.
I remind myself of my new values. Again, it sounds ludicrous, comical.
This convince them. One of the commercials said. One of
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the commissioners said, I believe you said you review your
urge control plan on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Funston replies, So what I do is when I'm watching TV,
whenever an image of a child comes on, I'll use
that as a reminder to practice and rehearse the plan.
I want it to be automatic, so when I see
a child in the community, I'm already automatically going through
that urge control plan. Then there's an online technology plan,
he says, that outlines what healthy activities on the internet
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and what are not healthy activities. Oh, he's gonna have
access to the Internet.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No trouble there. You don't think he can change John, Hey,
what do I know?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
The Board of Parole Hearings thinks he can know something
you do. He says, I've done research on his birth defect.
That's the testicle that never dropped and caused all the
kids to to tease him. It's very common for boys
who were born prematurely that one of their testes does
not descend, and the surgery did into court wil I
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was four and a half, so my left testy withered
and did not develop. And he used to blame his
mother for being born prematurely. You know, maybe she was
drinking or something. But she's gotten over that. And then
he wishes to express his deep remorse for the harm
he caused all the girls and boys. Then then this
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nut Patricia Cassidy, Well, I'm going to read you her
closing statement where they finally after this is on now
up to page one, and she goes on for ten pages.
But I have highlighted the important parts, and this is
the closing of the hearing where they decide after everything
you've heard, I've read and I roughly read you up. Obviously,
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a small fraction because it's one hundred and thirty pages.
After everything I've read you, they still decide to let
him free.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
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County Board of Supervisors. All right, we're in the final
He is now the wrap up of something I have
been reading all hour. And this was excerpts from one
hundred and thirty pages from the Parole Board hearing in
front of these idiot Parole Board commissioners who let David
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Allen Funston go even though he had kidnapped eight children,
raped most of them, beat them up. And they're all
aged seven and under. Seven girls and one boy, and
I've just been reading you the excerpts where Funston is
admitting being attracted to little girls since he was fourteen
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years old, thirteen years old, and he went through all
kinds of sexual trauma as a little kid with his family.
And you know, the doctors reports, the analysts saying what
kind of pedophilia problem he has, he's been diagnosed, and
how up until the early twenty twenties he was in
prison sell and he's pleasuring himself, fantasizing that sex with
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little girls the whole time. It's all his admissions, this
is all the diagnoses, and the panel, led by Patricia Cassidy,
listens to this, and now here at the end, here's
they decide to let him go anyway, to release him,
and Cassidy says, and I don't get this, lady. The
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Comprehensive Risk Assessment, authored by doctor Kranda in twenty twenty
five took into consideration your elder parole factors and concluded
you presently represent a medium moderate risk of violence if released.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
So wait a second, if that makes no sense. You're
saying that he medium moderate risk. Yes, so there's a
risk and it's not low, No, it's not low, it's
not low moderate, it's medium moderate, so you shouldn't be
released that we.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Didn't agree with all the conclusions, so they had a
doctor assess his risk.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
He says, that's a pretty good risk there, and they go, wow,
we don't agree. What the hell.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
There were a couple of areas the doctor identified as
high risk treatment and supervision, and we felt your supervision
and response to treatment has been excellent.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So the doctor.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
The doctor's telling him that the treatment hasn't worked all
that well, and they said, I'll be okay, and we
believe your self awareness, your self control, attitude, and your
mental state, insight into your past and present character defects,
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and then starts excusing his issues because of his childhood
trauma and dysfunctional relationship and his pedophiliac disorder. See, because
he has this pedophilia disorder, they feel bad for him.
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So that's not an aggravating circumstance, that's a mitigating circumstance
that he can't control himself. You have or here's the
final quote, and again this is this lunatic Patricia Cassidy,
the commissioner, you have developed a really good urge control plan.
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You have steps that you take. You practice it every day,
so it'll be second nature to you. If a high
risk situation develops, you tell yourself to stop. That's his
urge control plan to tell himself to stop. You include
consequential thinking and that goes to the harm you create
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for your victim, and then you use distraction as far
as your release plans. That's the splashing water in his face.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
This was his plan.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
His plan was I tell myself stop, then I think
about the victim, and then I splash water in my
face as a distraction. And this nutcase Commissioner Patricia Cassidy,
he said, oh, this is all a great idea, and
she gets a majority of the board to go along
with it. So that's the treatment. The treatment is to
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say stop to yourself and splash water on your face.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
And would they be okay with him living next door
to their children? And here are two other yes votes
that we know for sure. There were others, but these.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Are the best we have now, not only Patricia Cassidy,
but this commissioner, Robert Barton and Catherine Purcell. Gavin Newsom
appointed all these lunatics, in some cases more than once.
Patricia Cassidy, Robert Barton Katherine Purcell. They think a good
program for a guy who kidnap eight children, rape most
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of them, beat them up, is next time he gets
that urge, say stop and splash water in your face.
That's his plan, and they agreed to it. I'm not
making this up. I read one hundred and thirty freaking pages.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Of this this morning.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
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the podcast. And in fact, in our number one we
did we had a conversation with Steve Hilton, the leading
candidate for governor in California, the Republican, and we talked
about how Gavin Newsom has spent over four hundred million
dollars in the last four years on a care court
to put mental patients, force them into treatment centers, a
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judge orders them in, and they've only had twenty two people.
Twenty two people get ordered for mandated mental health treatment.
Four million not making this up now. This is one
of the most disturbing things I have seen in a
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long time, and I'm going to take some time to
explain it. I don't know how long it's going to take,
might take all hour, I don't know, But you want
to listen to this whole thing. And this is about
David Allen Funston, and probably a week ago you'd never
heard of the guy. But back in the mid nineteen
nineties he went on a child rapespury. He kidnapped eight
children ages three to seven, seven girls, one boy, raped
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most of them. A couple got away. It was brutal.
I mean one little five year old girl, he not
only kidnapped and raped, he beat her up and left
her tossed on the side of the road. And he
got a sentence combined that it's sixty eight years to life.
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He was convicted in his early thirties. He's now sixty three,
and he is eligible for elderly parole. He may be thinking, well,
what the f is that? Well, in California, I think
firefighters or police officers can retire around fifty. Well, prisoners
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can be retired from state prison when they're fifty, even if.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
They've raped.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
A half a dozen kids. I'm not making this up
because I got the case here, David Allen Funston. If
you're over fifty years old and you've served at least
twenty years of your sentence, you can be paroled.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So they had a parole hearing and Newsom who wrote
the law allowing this. Newsom, that shape shifting psychopath, wrote
the law, and I have it in front of me here.
I'm signing Assembly Bill thirty two to thirty four, which
would create a diversion program and lower the minimum age
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for elderly parole fifty years of age who've served the
minimum of twenty years. There it is Gavin Newsom, that's
his signature. September thirty of twenty twenty, he writes the
law that allows David Alan Funston to leave, and then
when he's he appoints twenty one members of the Board
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of Parole. Twenty one members. They're all news I checked.
I looked up all twenty one. They all appointed and
reappointed by Gavin Newsom. And then when they let David
En Funston out, he says, well can you Newsom says,
can you reconsider? And so they reconsider and they let
him out anyway, and then Usium says, well, I had
nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I didn't have the power. You wrote the law, psycho.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You wrote the law, you appointed all the board members,
and he pretends he has nothing to do with it.
Now since he's been quote released, he's been rearrested because
it turns out he had another case sexually assaulted a
(04:20):
child in Roseville in nineteen ninety six. They never bothered
to try the case because he'd already been sent to
prison and they thought he was put away for life. Well,
now he's out, so they rearrested him. He's back in jail.
But I have something to read to you, and it
(04:42):
almost reads his comedy. But first I want to give
you the three names. But we know for sure. You see,
they keep all this secret. Now we're paying these board
members on the pro Board, they got a couple hundred
thousand dollars a year and their job is to let
felons out, including sexually violent felons.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And they do so we should see.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Their names, how they voted. Well, we've got three of
the names. We have some secret sources. And one of
the commissioners is Patricia Cassidy, and we're going to talk
a lot about her because she held the hearing. There
was an original hearing and she was in charge of it.
(05:36):
And she is an attorney and she has worked with
the Board of Parole since nineteen ninety five and she
was most recently reappointed by Newsom in May of twenty
twenty three. Two other votes we know for sure is
(05:57):
one commissioner, Robert Barton, and a commission named Catherine Percell,
and they were both nominated to the board in twenty
twenty three as well. Robert Barton used to be a
deputy DA in Kerrent County and Percell was a private
(06:20):
attorney among other things. So Robert Barton, Catherine Purcell, Patricia Cassidy,
they all voted to release David Allen Funston. Now, when
we come back, I'm going to read you because I
went through one hundred and thirty pages of transcript this morning,
and I'm going to read you what David Allen Funston
(06:41):
was telling Patricia Cassidy and others who attended this, and
what Cassidy knew about him from all the official reports.
And I'm going to say, I'm going to read some
things that are probably very disturbing, and Mike bother you
a lot, but this is the story of David Allen
(07:03):
Funston and Patricia Cassidy and the rest of these commissioners
knew it and set them free. Anyway, you should know
what's going on here, because this is sick. There are
so many sick perverts who are working in government in Sacramento,
(07:24):
and news him is the bandleader. I mean, he's the
one who writes the bill to let the perverts out
of jail. I'll tell you about it.
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All Right, so I'm about to read you out of
the transcript. This was the Parole Suitable hearing for David
(08:01):
Allen Funston, who kidnapped as many as eight children, seven
girls and a boy aged seven and under raped most
of them. A couple of got away. And this is
the hearing. And the presiding Commissioner is a woman named
Patricia Cassidy. And like I said, she and twenty other
(08:21):
members of the Parole board all were appointed by Gavin Newsom,
who wrote the law allowing a guy like David Allen
Funston to retire as a prisoner after the age of fifty.
He's sixty three. He had gotten like sixty eight years
to life, but they.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Let him out.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So listen to the testimony, and they first start going
through his background. Then this is Patricia Cassidy. She says,
as far as child in adolescent development, it says that
your father was verbally, financially and emotionally abusive to you.
(09:04):
Your parents were married until you were about three or four.
You were sexually abused by your paternal half sister. Your
mother diagnosed with bipolar disorder. You had multiple types of
abuse throughout your upbringing. You said you were growped by
a doctor when you were twelve years old. He was
(09:27):
troublesome in school. He was bullied over surgical procedures on
your genitals when you were four. Now this if you go,
if you read this transcript, apparently his sexual deviancy towards
children may have started with genital surgery. And remember we
found out that some of the great perverts in history
(09:48):
in America have had deformed generals, Harvey Weinstein for example,
Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein. Well you can add David Allen
Funston to the list. Apparently they removed one of his
testicles when he was a kid because it hadn't descended,
and eventually in a shower some of the boys noticed,
(10:13):
said Funston. Two boys in particularly started teasing me about
my genitals. And the teasing and bullying went on for weeks,
and it escalated to the point in Jim class where
one of the boys knocked me down along with another boy.
They picked me up and they took me over to
the volleyball poles and they were whipping. They were winging
(10:34):
me back and forth, so my crots was striking the
poll the pole.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You got that.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
They picked up David Allen Funston winged him back and
forth so his crotch would strike the pole, and while
they were chanting, well, while they were doing this, they
were chanting, he has no balls. He has no balls.
This was at the age of thirteen. He said, this
is very traumatic for me. I felt rejected. I felt defective,
I was upset. I felt shame. I couldn't go to school. Okay,
(11:01):
So this is the origin of when he decided he
had to start raping little children.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I guess his father wouldn't talk about it.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
He started sexually abusing his sister, and he ran away
from home for a couple of days when Funston's family
found that he was abusing the sister, and Patricia Cassidy asked,
when you were molesting her, were you penetrating her?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
No, just fondling her the genitals, kissing and pleasuring himself
in front of her. It indicates you were, Cassidy says,
it indicates you were exposed to sexualized behavior. When you
were four, your older sister used to show her friends
the scar on your generals. You also showed it to
(11:57):
other girls similar age. Why did you show them? Why
would you do that? Were you so embarrassed at school
when the boys were bullying you? Why would you voluntarily
show it to other girls? Why do you think you
found yourself molesting your stepsister? These are all questions from
Patricia Cassidy, the commissioner.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
So Funston, when he's.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Asked why did you find yourself molesting your sister, he
blames his father. He said, I was influenced by the
pedophiliate books that my father had. This pornography. Yeah, there
were pedophiliac books that had fantasy stories about grown men
(12:40):
having sexual intercourse with young girls, and I had these.
One of them dealt with incest. His dad had these
books lying around the house. He says, So, I had
these ideas in my head and I associated sex and
intimacy with that contact, and I regrettably I acted on
those sexual urges, the pedophelix stories that my father had
(13:10):
when I was around my half sister having physical contacted
that was triggering to me. And then Cassidy goes on
he also had encounters with prostitutes, He would seek younger
looking girls. Go through just all his sexual history. He
forced himself, committed an assault in Colorado on a girl,
(13:33):
a woman that was intoxicated, but he ends up marrying
a woman and he had a daughter, and having the
daughter led to the reemergence of sexual fantasies related to children.
This is all the commissioner's talking about with him before
they decide to let him go. And Cassidy says, it
(14:02):
looks like you experience these fantasies, you'd pleasure yourself and
I'm trying to clean this up. You did this in
your vehicle when you were experiencing fantasies for six or
more months, and then you decided to kidnap and sexually assault.
And he had told the doctor he was looking for
greater risk to violate a greater taboo. And then you
(14:28):
went to prison, and according to the record cast, Patricia
Cassidy said, you continue to pleasure yourself most days to
sexual fantasies pertaining to children. So she's going through the
history of this perversion which went on for decades and
decades again as the lead up to letting them out. Now,
(14:51):
when we come back, we'll skip ahead to twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one, because he was heavily involved with self
pleasuring in the prison thinking about children.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This is just five years ago.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And then I'm going to read to you about the
program he's on to control his urges, because this self
urge control program is what convinced the pro board to
let David Allen Funston free. So this is just a
background leading up to this crucial point that's next.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
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We're continuing looking through one hundred and thirty pages of
the hearing where they let the California Border Parole let
out at least for a brief time David Allen Dunstan
even though he had raped, he'd kidnapped eight kids, raped
(15:54):
most of them, beat them up, and they were all
aged seven and under. And Kevin Newsom wrote the law
allowing this to happen, and this border parole hearing all
these people appointed by Newsom, and I got the three
people for sure we know of, Patricia Cassidy, Catherine Purcell,
(16:16):
and Robert Barton. They voted to release him. And we
went through his whole life, all the sexual deviancy going
back to when he was a teenager. And now this
is the most important part coming up here. They David
Allen Funston testifies to the commissioners that in twenty twenty
(16:39):
one he sought help because he was still having these
rape fantasies involving children. I had tried to quit on
my own in twenty eighteen, I had a lapse in
twenty twenty. I continued into twenty twenty one. And Patricia Cassidy,
the commissioner, said, so the fantasies of the children in
(17:00):
twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, where they have the
fantasies of children you had molested or that you'd seen
in books, or your daughter or children on TV. And
he said, well, the primary one was a fantasy involving
a young girl that lived across the street from where
I lived with my daughter. She was one of my
(17:20):
daughter's playmates. She was an eight year old girl, so
I had this was the regular fantasy had involving her.
And Patricia Cassidy said, had he ever molested her? And
she said no. This is now twenty twenty one. He's
been in prison now for over twenty years. And it
(17:46):
goes on in detail. Cassidy commisster. Cassidy says, you've been
diagnosed with Pedophelick disorder. How would you describe yourself? I mean,
we're talking about a relatively long history of sexual offenses,
an intense history of self pleasure. Would you consider yourself
(18:06):
a sex addict?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
But up until he.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Says, up until twenty twenty one, yeah, I was obsessed
with sex. I thought about it frequently. And the reason
that he beat up the children and attacked them physically.
When the children didn't respond in the way I wanted to,
I became angry. I didn't care who I hurt. I
was trying to satisfy my deviant sexual urges. He's telling
(18:31):
them all this well. He talks about one girl, told
her to be quiet, tried to cover her mouth with
her own panties to try to shut her up, trying
to muffle her and David Allen Fundstate admits that I
know pedophilia is a lifelong condition. He says, there's always
(18:53):
a possibility that I'll relapse, so it's important for me
to continue to build on my recovery. He says, I
pay attention to myself talk. I'm on guard for my
warning signs. This is all we've got that he's paying
attention to all the crazy sex thoughts he has about
(19:16):
children in his head.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
But he says that he could relapse. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
He admitted to them that I could relapse. That's that's
the craziest part of this. In fact, let me skip
ahead to page ninety nine. Here, Patricia Cassidy, the commissioner, says,
are you still attracted to female children? Funstan says yes,
(19:40):
I am, and she pushes, do you want to say
yes or no? Funston says yes. Cassidy says yes. Yes,
ma'am says Funstan.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Why does she have to ask him so many times?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
He said yes, I don't know if he was. She
was shocked that he admitted to it. She wanted to
make it clear, this is what you're admitting to. But
again she voted to release him anyway. Now listen to
this part. I have had urges, but I use my
(20:16):
urge control plan. I tell myself stop. I'm not making
this up. This is an exact quote. I try to
remember about the harm I caused and my commitments not
to engage in masturbation, and I distract myself with another activity.
He goes, runs on and he turns on the radio,
(20:36):
turns on the water, walks the dog. Ill wait a second,
he's still in prison, going through all this, So what
is he's sitting in a prison cell.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
How does he distract himself? Oh, it is going to
the sink. I guessed right.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It could be going to the sink, splashing water in
my face, or texting a friend. I listened to the
calm app.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I've heard of that app. You visualize yourself as a wave.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And you visualize surfing the wave crashing onto the rocks.
So he gets an urge and he turns on the
calm app and imagine he's a wave and he tries
to shew away all these sexual thoughts about little girls.
(21:27):
Another commissioner said, describe your urge control plan. Well, I
literally rehearse it every day. The first step is to
tell yourself stop. The second step, I remember the consequences,
the worst consequences of offending. I try I primarily focus
on victim impact, the great harm it would cause to
(21:50):
the young person, how it would destroy their life. The
third step is I affirm my commitment not to reoffend.
I remind myself of my new values. Again, it sounds ludicrous, comical.
This convince them. One of the commercials said. One of
(22:11):
the commissioners said, I believe you said you review your
urge control plan on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Funston replies, So what I do is when I'm watching TV,
whenever an image of a child comes on, I'll use
that as a reminder to practice and rehearse the plan.
I want it to be automatic, so when I see
a child in the community, I'm already automatically going through
that urge control plan. Then there's an online technology plan,
he says, that outlines what healthy activities on the internet
(22:41):
and what are not healthy activities. Oh, he's gonna have
access to the Internet.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No trouble there. You don't think he can change John, Hey,
what do I know?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
The Board of Parole Hearings thinks he can know something
you do. He says, I've done research on his birth defect.
That's the testicle that never dropped and caused all the
kids to to tease him. It's very common for boys
who were born prematurely that one of their testes does
not descend, and the surgery did into court wil I
(23:28):
was four and a half, so my left testy withered
and did not develop. And he used to blame his
mother for being born prematurely. You know, maybe she was
drinking or something. But she's gotten over that. And then
he wishes to express his deep remorse for the harm
he caused all the girls and boys. Then then this
(23:53):
nut Patricia Cassidy, Well, I'm going to read you her
closing statement where they finally after this is on now
up to page one, and she goes on for ten pages.
But I have highlighted the important parts, and this is
the closing of the hearing where they decide after everything
you've heard, I've read and I roughly read you up. Obviously,
(24:14):
a small fraction because it's one hundred and thirty pages.
After everything I've read you, they still decide to let
him free.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
More coming up.
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John Cobelt's show continues coming up after five o'clock. Los
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two million dollars to a CEO that was leaving, but
there was a lawsuit saying that's an illegal gift.
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And judge said, yeah, you're right, that's an illegal gift.
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Two million dollars county money from those geniuses at the
County Board of Supervisors. All right, we're in the final
He is now the wrap up of something I have
been reading all hour. And this was excerpts from one
hundred and thirty pages from the Parole Board hearing in
front of these idiot Parole Board commissioners who let David
(25:20):
Allen Funston go even though he had kidnapped eight children,
raped most of them, beat them up. And they're all
aged seven and under. Seven girls and one boy, and
I've just been reading you the excerpts where Funston is
admitting being attracted to little girls since he was fourteen
(25:43):
years old, thirteen years old, and he went through all
kinds of sexual trauma as a little kid with his family.
And you know, the doctors reports, the analysts saying what
kind of pedophilia problem he has, he's been diagnosed, and
how up until the early twenty twenties he was in
prison sell and he's pleasuring himself, fantasizing that sex with
(26:04):
little girls the whole time. It's all his admissions, this
is all the diagnoses, and the panel, led by Patricia Cassidy,
listens to this, and now here at the end, here's
they decide to let him go anyway, to release him,
and Cassidy says, and I don't get this, lady. The
(26:25):
Comprehensive Risk Assessment, authored by doctor Kranda in twenty twenty
five took into consideration your elder parole factors and concluded
you presently represent a medium moderate risk of violence if released.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
So wait a second, if that makes no sense. You're
saying that he medium moderate risk. Yes, so there's a
risk and it's not low, No, it's not low, it's
not low moderate, it's medium moderate, so you shouldn't be
released that we.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Didn't agree with all the conclusions, so they had a
doctor assess his risk.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
He says, that's a pretty good risk there, and they go, wow,
we don't agree. What the hell.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
There were a couple of areas the doctor identified as
high risk treatment and supervision, and we felt your supervision
and response to treatment has been excellent.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So the doctor.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
The doctor's telling him that the treatment hasn't worked all
that well, and they said, I'll be okay, and we
believe your self awareness, your self control, attitude, and your
mental state, insight into your past and present character defects,
(27:46):
and then starts excusing his issues because of his childhood
trauma and dysfunctional relationship and his pedophiliac disorder. See, because
he has this pedophilia disorder, they feel bad for him.
(28:07):
So that's not an aggravating circumstance, that's a mitigating circumstance
that he can't control himself. You have or here's the
final quote, and again this is this lunatic Patricia Cassidy,
the commissioner, you have developed a really good urge control plan.
(28:29):
You have steps that you take. You practice it every day,
so it'll be second nature to you. If a high
risk situation develops, you tell yourself to stop. That's his
urge control plan to tell himself to stop. You include
consequential thinking and that goes to the harm you create
(28:50):
for your victim, and then you use distraction as far
as your release plans. That's the splashing water in his face.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
This was his plan.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
His plan was I tell myself stop, then I think
about the victim, and then I splash water in my
face as a distraction. And this nutcase Commissioner Patricia Cassidy,
he said, oh, this is all a great idea, and
she gets a majority of the board to go along
with it. So that's the treatment. The treatment is to
(29:25):
say stop to yourself and splash water on your face.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
And would they be okay with him living next door
to their children? And here are two other yes votes
that we know for sure. There were others, but these.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Are the best we have now, not only Patricia Cassidy,
but this commissioner, Robert Barton and Catherine Purcell. Gavin Newsom
appointed all these lunatics, in some cases more than once.
Patricia Cassidy, Robert Barton Katherine Purcell. They think a good
program for a guy who kidnap eight children, rape most
(30:01):
of them, beat them up, is next time he gets
that urge, say stop and splash water in your face.
That's his plan, and they agreed to it. I'm not
making this up. I read one hundred and thirty freaking pages.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Of this this morning.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
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