Gov. Newsom Frees the Worst Child Rapists in America

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Even while Epstein drama is consuming the country, David Allen Funston is being set loose.

Funston became notorious for luring children as young as four years old in Sacramento into his car with candy and dolls then raping them. A little girl had a knife held to her throat while he raped her so badly she bled. One 5-year-old girl was raped, beaten and left by the side of the road. He raped a little boy and kidnapped two sisters, 4 and 5, before he was finally stopped.

Funston was known as “the monster parents fear the most” and was sentenced to three life terms in prison in 1999. But in 2020, even as he was having surfers arrested and small business owners shut down, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 3234 into law which took the state’s already generous ‘elder parole law’ and redefined ‘elder’ as being any criminal over the age of fifty.

Now, Funston, who was convicted of 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation, is being granted ‘elder parole’ under Newsom’s law to the horror of the children he once abused.

California’s original ‘elder parole’, passed by state Democrats and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, had jettisoned life sentences for criminals over sixty. Newsom’s expanded addition lowered the age to fifty and effectively eliminated life sentences for most criminals.

Including the child rapists now potentially headed for the exits.

Other child rapists who benefited from Newsom’s free pass for pedophiles included Israel Ceja, a Mexican convicted in 2000 of over 20 counts of forcible rape for crimes that began when his victim was 11-years-old and included attempted murder and other assaults to induce a miscarriage, who qualified for parole despite a sentence of 139 years in prison.

Michael Dausey, who raped his 14-year-old niece at knifepoint, and had previously raped a minor in Oregon, has also qualified for parole.

Cody Woodsen Klemp, who was sentenced to 170 years in prison after raping at least 5 women and girls, after charges that included 20 counts of committing a lewd and lascivious act on a child, 10 counts of rape, and 10 counts of forced oral copulation on a child, was deemed by the parole board to be at ‘low risk for violence’ and was set for release. The decision was only overturned after major protests by victims, one of whom warned, “He will absolutely rape again. He has been committing rapes since he was eighteen years old. The only time he did not rape was when he was in prison.”

Republican Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones introduced SB 286, also known as Mary-Bella’s Law, in an attempt to block rapists, child abusers and murderers from qualifying for elder parole at an appearance with key victims including those who had been assaulted by Charles Mix, sentenced to 350 years in prison for the 2005 kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl, and Cameron Hooker, of the ‘girl in the box’ story, also suspected of the murder of Marie Elizabeth Spannhake.

As of February 2026, the bill has been blocked in the California state senate.

While most of these predators have not yet been released, Alvin Ray Quarles, known as the ‘Bolder Than Most Rapist’, who had raped a series of women and was diagnosed with sexual sadism disorder, voyeuristic disorder and antisocial personality disorder, was released despite the pleas of his victims, only to be rearrested again for an undisclosed parole violation.

Merle Wade Wakefield, convicted of lewd acts on a child and rape by force, who was also classified as a violent sexual predator, was released and has not yet been rearrested.

While individual communities, victims and DAs continue to fight the tidal wave of rapists and child molesters headed for the exit because at the age of fifty they’re considered ‘elders’, and pleading with Gov. Gavin Newsom for mercy, many California Democrats are doubling down.

Aubrey Rodriguez (he/they), a former legislative director with State Sen. Catherine Blakespear, and a legislative advocate for the state ACLU, claimed that he would feel comfortable living next door to a rapist. “We believe people have the capacity to change, and that we don’t want to sentence them for the rest of their lives for a mistake that they committed in the past.”

Kim Su, of Uncommon Law, a pro-crime group backed by the Obama Foundation that represents some of the criminals being set loose, suggested that victims, some of whom had been sexually abused as children, were just suffering from irrational “stranger danger”.

Even while victims have to go it alone, pro-crime groups like Uncommon Law are backed by millions in funding from radical groups and taxpayers.

Uncommon Law received a $3 million grant from the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. Gov. Newsom has not been able to answer what exactly freeing sex predators and other criminals to commit more crimes has to do with business development.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose eyes are on the 2028 presidential election, has been careful to skirt parole approvals for truly controversial cases like the RFK assassin, and Frederick Woods, the millionaire kidnapper who buried a bus full of kids under the earth and had Newsom’s father lobby for him, but set loose David Weidert, who forced a developmentally disabled man to dig his own grave, beat him with a shovel, stabbed him with a knife, choked him with a telephone wire and then buried him alive. And he may play a game of blocking parole for individual child predators if the protests are loud enough, but it was his signature that enabled all of this.

A 50-year-old child rapist is not an “elder” and the only reason that the monsters sentenced to over a century in prison are being tracked for parole is Newsom’s signature on a bill.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, like other California politicians, including Rep. Ro Khanna, have tried to exploit the Epstein case, but California Democrats have paved the way for the release of abusers who make Epstein look like Mother Teresa, monsters who abused little girls and boys, who used knives and weapons, who made them bleed and locked up victims for years.

Newsom has a lot to say about Epstein, but the Clinton-linked sex predator was 66-years-old at the time of his death and 54-years-old during his original arrest. Under Newsom’s law, California would not have considered him a dangerous predator to be locked away for life in prison, but an “elder”.

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