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The Times of India
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TOI World Desk

Outrage erupts in California as serial child molester granted parole, Newsom says his ‘hands are tied’

Outrage and political backlash have erupted across California after state parole officials approved the release of David Allen Funston, a convicted serial child rapist serving multiple life sentences, under the state’s controversial elderly parole programme.

Funston, 64, was convicted in 1999 on 16 counts of kidnapping and molesting eight young children in Sacramento-area communities in 1995.

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