“Pleasure Point Rapist” will not be released on parole… yet

A convicted rapist will not be released on parole for at least three more years despite his potential eligibility.

Known as the “Pleasure Point Rapist,” Kim Forrest Walters was first convicted in Los Angeles County in 1979. Now 60-years-old, he is eligible for release under the new Elderly Parole Program, which took effect in 2014. The program came out of a prison overcrowding class action case. Inmates who are 60 and older and have been behind bars for 25 years or more are eligible for release regardless of whether the sentence served is determinate or indeterminate.

The Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office, with help from a brave victim, worked hard to make sure Walters wasn’t released. The victim delivered a powerful statement at the parole hearing at San Quentin State Prison. She also expressed her outrage over the Elderly Parole Program. Walters eventually admitted he was not suitable for parole. Walters and the parole board reached an agreement to delay his next hearing for eligibility in three years.

Walters is convicted of committing a series of violent and degrading sexual acts on multiple victims in multiple counties.

He was convicted in Los Angeles County in 1979 and sentenced to 11 years. He was granted parole after serving only 5 years, and was relocated to Santa Cruz County.

In 1985, Walters committed another string of violent and well-planned nighttime burglaries and rapes in Santa Cruz. The acts took a major toll on the Pleasure Point area, spreading mass fear.

Walters targed women who he fixated on. He studied the layout of their homes and where they slept. Then, in the middle of the night, he would enter the home, hold a knife against the victim’s throat, force them outside, and rape them.

In 1987, he was convicted of 32 separate counts ranging from kidnapping, sodomy, forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, forcible sexual penetration by a foreign object, burglary, and more in regard to five victims.

A judge called Walters a “sexual psychopath.” That judge handed down the maximum sentence of 141 years and 2 months to ensure he would never be released from prison.

Now, Walters could be released for parole in three years. The Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office said they’ll do everything they can to stop that from happening.

“We will do everything in our power to ensure that serial rapist Kim Forrest Walters serves the 141-year sentence imposed,” Santa Cruz County Assistant District Attorney Rafael Vazquez said. “That is the outcome that the victims, their families and our community expected. That is the only outcome that they deserve.”