Patients Cry Out for Help

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Every state has laws that prosecute folks for not getting necessary care for the people in their charge. Why are administrators of these facilities not subject to those laws?

9-2-17 California:

Coalinga State Hospital (CSH) is experiencing a current crisis like none other in its past. On August 17, 2017, staff for Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula informed the Director of this website, that he could not help the patients at the Hospital that he represents. Approximately 100 patients have died at CSH since 2005, over 20 are currently in the dying process, and dozens are committing passive suicide by refusing medical treatment for serious illnesses.

Hundreds of professional staff have fled the facility over the years due to working conditions, and there are few prospects to replace them. Patient Services area presently stretched past the breaking point and are so serious that monthly treatment team meetings have been cut back to quarterly.

Psychologists have double their prior caseloads, and some nurses are being told to work as psych techs, as some examples. Medical doctors are also responsible for as many as 200 patients, and the hospital is spiraling out of control.

There is also information that outside medical specialists/contractors have terminated their contracts to see patients due to not being paid on time. ..Continue..

Coalinga State Hospital Website

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An individual's site allegedly gathering what transpired at the hospital, however, not just the civil commitment cases. (It appears there are many personal opinions of circumstances.) CLICK for further information.

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Site Claims: Coalinga State Hospital is a completely broken mental health facility, where there is unprecedented human suffering, and administrative, clinical, and law enforcement corruption. Approximately 100 patients have died since the facility opened in 2005, with another 15-20 patients currently in the dying process (unconfirmed). The facility employs about 1500 staff attending to 1300 patients -- hundreds of whom are committing passive suicide by refusing medical treatment for serious medical illnesses, or they are expressing to staff a longing to die, or belief they will die. At the hospital, officials have refused to survey its patient population for several years. Patient care costs are approximately $200,000-$250,000 per patient per year.

Dozens of documents are in the process of being scanned and uploaded to this site, including dozens of audio recordings which were recorded by a patient at the hospital. These recordings were made pursuant to California Penal Code § 633.5. These recordings are being posted to this site after being released to the patient who made them by the Department of State Hospital's Legal Department.

There is overwhelming evidence that there is a genocide going on at Coalinga State Hospital, and that evidence will be found here in the coming days. California Governor Jerry Brown, as well as his staff, have ignored information about the situation for years. Judges, senators, and the FBI have also ignored the evidence which will be found here.

The names of individuals and entities who have been notified of these circumstances are identified on the "Entities Notified" page.

Governor Jerry Brown has ignored multiple requests to place the hospital into a "State of Emergency". Every member of the California State Senate has, similarly disregarded the need for the State of Emergency. Coalinga State Hospital needs a Crisis Management Team to immediately take control of all hospital operations. This team must include agents from the FBI, representatives from the Legislature and, most importantly, independent mental health experts to assess the patients. Continued at above link.

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Quiet Community Learns About New Neighbor When Disturbing Flyers Start Showing Up on Doors

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3-13-17 California:

“We'll be watching, but we can't let them roam free.” That's what Daniel Gaines, a father of three young children, told cameras about how his family was reacting to the news of their new neighbor.

As KCRA reports, residents in Marysville, California are on edge following the news that a sexually violent predator is moving into their community.

Sixty-three-year-old Eldridge Chaney Jr. is reportedly moving to a state-run home following his release from prison and 20 years in treatment for diagnosed mental disorders, alcohol use disorder, and other disorders.

According to KCRA, Chaney was convicted of rape and attempted burglary in 1978. Ten years later in 1988, he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl as well as assault to commit rape of another woman.

​Residents fight placement of violent sex offender​ in Marysville

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3-12-17 California:

MARYSVILLE, Calif. (KCRA) — A violent sexual predator, who is convicted of multiple rapes, has been ordered out of a mental hospital and into a Yuba County home.

Eldridge Chaney Jr., 63, completed four out of five phases of a state sex offender treatment program at Coalinga State Hospital. A transitional release under constant watch is the final phase.

A judge in Monterey County, where the crimes occurred, ordered the move after state workers were unable to find an adequate home in Monterey County.

However, Yuba County officials don’t believe the Ellis Road home is a good fit.

“He really has nothing in his background that is consistent with the location here in rural Yuba County,” District Attorney Patrick McGrath said.

Judge sides with Placer County, rejects placement of sex predator near Lincoln

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2-9-17 California:

SAN JOSE A Santa Clara Superior Court judge on Tuesday rejected the state’s plan to locate a sexually violent predator near Lincoln after Placer County officials and residents argued the placement would pose a danger to children in the area.

After hearing testimony for several hours Tuesday, Judge Michele McKay McCoy decided that Dariel Shazier cannot live in a home on Kilaga Springs Road. Nearly two dozen Placer residents, as well as a host of county and city officials, appeared at the hearing about 150 miles from where Shazier would have been placed.

Shazier, 50, has no apparent ties to Placer County, and the state has faced difficulty in finding suitable locations for sexually violent predators because of community concerns and laws restricting where sex offenders can live. The case was being heard in Santa Clara County because that’s where he last resided.

McKay McCoy said the Placer County placement was inappropriate. She was concerned about potential problems with GPS and cellphone service in the rural area northeast of Lincoln. She also said she wasn’t persuaded that the state contractor supervising Shazier, Liberty Healthcare, would guarantee the community’s safety based on its track record.

Fire at home planned for sexually violent predator termed suspicious

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1-13-17 California:

Investigators are continuing to seek the cause of a fire in Squaw Valley that destroyed the home proposed for a convicted child molester who has served his sentence.

Cal Fire Capt. Jeremiah Wittwer said the fire that destroyed the home intended for Jeffrey Snyder, 61, is considered “suspicious, but they can’t rule out (an electrical cause) since there was power to the residence.”

Snyder was supposed to be housed in the mobile home at 36188 Sage Lane, near the corner of Sage Lane and Hawthorne avenues.

The mobile home was the second residence proposed in Fresno County for Snyder, a sexually violent predator who remains under the supervision of the Department of State Hospitals. Officials had proposed a home in northwest Fresno, but that idea was scrapped after neighbors complained.

'Pillowcase Rapist,' who was living in L.A. area, must be confined to a state hospital, judge rules

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1-16-17 California:

A Judge in Santa Clara County ruled Friday to revoke the conditional release of a notorious serial rapist who had been living in a home in the Antelope Valley after leaving a state mental hospital in 2014.

The decision by Santa Clara County Judge Richard Loftus means that Christopher Hubbart will again be confined to a state hospital, where he was locked up as a sexually violent predator for nearly two decades. He will remain confined for at least a year, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

The revocation came after Hubbart’s treatment team informed the court he had violated several terms of his release, including failing five polygraph tests. He also refused to participate in treatment in a “meaningful manner,” withheld important information and wasn’t transparent with his treatment providers.

Hubbart — nicknamed the Pillowcase Rapist for his pattern of covering victims’ heads during his attacks — has admitted to at least 44 sexual assaults across the state.

County of San Diego v. Commission on State Mandates

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12-29-2016 California:

C.A. 4th
No. D068657
For Plaintiff: Jennifer B. Henning for California State Association of Counties and League of California Cities as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

For Defendant: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Douglas J. Woods, Assistant Attorney General, Mark R. Beckington and Kim L. Nguyen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents California Department of Finance, California State Controller, and the State of California.

Prop 83 did not eliminate state mandate to reimburse local governments for costs associated with implementing Sexually Violent Predator Act (Huffman, J.) ..Continued..

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State owes counties millions in sex offender legal costs

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12-28-16 California:

California must reimburse its counties for the legal costs involved in determining whether sex offenders who have completed their prison terms should be sent to mental hospitals, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.

A lawyer for local governments said the statewide cost would be about $25 million a year for the reimbursements, which the state stopped paying in July 2013.

“If the state wants to create a new program, they also need to think about how it gets funded” at the local level, said Jennifer Henning, who represented the California State Association of Counties and the League of California Cities in the case. “When you don’t do that, you risk (losing funding for) other services.”

The case involved California’s sexually violent predator law, a 1995 statute that allowed the state to keep sex offenders locked up after their prison sentences if they were found to be mentally ill and potentially dangerous.

Back to square one in finding home for Fresno child molester

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9-27-16 California:

Child molester Jeffrey Snyder, who is locked up in Coalinga State Hospital, isn’t getting out anytime soon.

Judge Gary Hoff, who ruled in March that Snyder should be released from the hospital, learned Tuesday that owners of 292 properties have rejected renting housing to Snyder.

The hearing in Fresno Superior Court comes in the wake of dozens of residents protesting the placement of Snyder in a five-bedroom, two-story home on La Paz Avenue in northwest Fresno. Residents said the home was not suitable for Snyder because it was near a school and park.

The protest prompted the owner and state Department of Hospitals to pull its application of the La Paz Avenue home, prosecutor Richard Thomas said.

Hoff said he has received 73 letters from residents opposing the placement of the 61-year-old Snyder in the La Paz Avenue home. A vast majority of the letter writers told the judge that many children live in the neighborhood and they feared Snyder would re-offend.

Sex predator to be placed in Jacuma Hot Springs

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1-22-16 California:

SAN DIEGO — A judge Friday ordered a sexually violent predator to be placed at a residence in Jacumba Hot Springs for continued supervised outpatient treatment.

Superior Court Judge David Gill was scheduled to hear public comment on the proposed placement for 49-year-old Ural Davis, but no one showed up to speak. Gill did say that authorities received 11 emails and five phone calls regarding Davis’ pending release.

”I do think it is a suitable placement,” the judge said, noting that releasing SVPs into the community with no place to live isn’t acceptable. Gill ordered that Davis be placed at the residence on Old Highway 80 by Feb. 29.

Deputy District Attorney Kristen Spieler told the judge that Jacumba residents are concerned about a sexually violent predator being placed in their community, but reiterated how difficult it is for authorities to find housing for such offenders.

Davis was sentenced to 27 years in prison in 1993 after being convicted between 1984 and 1992 of sexually assaulting women in three separate cases.

California’s laws test whether sexual predators can ever be rehabilitated

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1-10-16 California:

At the foot of a fence around a small house in the desert, a protester cleared her throat. She wanted to scream loud enough for the man inside to hear.

“Raaaaaapist!” she shouted. “Go away, rapist!”

“No one in this world loves you,” her friend yelled. “You are a sexually violent predator!”

The shrieks were met with silence from the white, two-bedroom home outside Palmdale where Christopher Evans Hubbart has lived since his 2014 release from a California mental hospital.

Hubbart, 64, is one of the state’s most notorious sex offenders. Nicknamed the “pillowcase rapist” for his pattern of covering victims’ heads, Hubbart has admitted to at least 44 sexual assaults in Southern and Northern California.

Two decades ago, politicians portrayed him as a poster child for why California needed to lock up the most dangerous sex offenders even if they had finished serving their prison terms. Hubbart was the first person held under a law that allowed the state to confine sexually violent predators in hospitals if they have a mental disorder that makes them likely to reoffend.

Convicted child molester released by Orange County judge faces new charges in Pennsylvania

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11-20-15 California:

SANTA ANA – A convicted child molester who was considered by an Orange County Superior Court judge to no longer be a sexually violent predator and was released from custody was expected to appear in a Pennsylvania courtroom Monday on charges of exposing himself and showing pornography to a teen.

Alan T. Rigby, 68, made headlines in January 1989 when he pled guilty to sex crimes involving more than a dozen children and was sentenced to 19 years in prison, Deputy District Attorney Peter Finnerty said.

Rigby was a teacher and coach from 1986-87 when he “groomed” many of his victims, Finnerty said. “He would take his victims on outings and show them pornography as he tried to get them comfortable with his deviant sexual advances,” Finnerty said. “He would also expose himself to his victims and masturbate in front of them in addition to having sex with them.”

California’s dilemma: No one will take freed sex offenders

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11-20-15 California:

The plight of an unwanted sex offender is not something most people care about, but the uproar in Vallejo over the release of convicted predator Fraisure Earl Smith is the ultimate manifestation of a rehabilitation program that has failed to convince the public it is workable.

Smith, who committed five sexual assaults over 15 years and underwent intensive therapy, was released from a psychiatric hospital last month and has been forced to live as a transient.

It is an ongoing issue with California’s troubled “sexually violent predator” program, which transfers the most egregious sex violators to a psychiatric hospital after their sentences are up so they can undergo psychological counseling before their release.

Sex offender kicked out of Vallejo motel after outcry

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11-20-15 California:

A violent sex offender released from a psychiatric hospital last month and forced to live as a transient was kicked out of a motel in Vallejo this week amid public outcry, including critical statements from local police and city officials.

Fraisure Earl Smith, 51, who committed five sexual assaults over 15 years, was evicted Wednesday from the Motel 6 on Enterprise Street after police and residents discovered he had been secretly placed there, Vallejo officials said Thursday.

It appears that Motel 6 did not know that they had rented a room to Mr. Smith, the recently released sexually violent predator,” said Daniel Keen, the Vallejo City Manager. “Once they confirmed that he was staying there, they acted immediately to evict him.”

A Vallejo Police Department statement said Liberty Healthcare Corporation, the contractor hired by the state to handle the release, “concealed Mr. Smith’s identity” in an effort to obtain two rooms at the motel.

“Two men employed by Liberty gave their own names and failed to disclose the identity of Mr. Smith, who would be staying in the motel rooms,” the police statement said. “We appreciate the speedy manner in which Motel 6 acted to ensure the safety of its residents and of the city’s residents. We value their assistance in setting the record straight.”

Landlord backs out, sexually violent child predator no longer to move into unincorporated Oakley

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11-3-15 California:

OAKLEY -- Just days after a judge ruled that a sexually violent child predator would be allowed to move into a home on the 2500 block of Dutch Slough Road, the landlord who owns the property has now decided he doesn't want a convicted child molester living on his property.

So authorities are working to set a new court date to come up with a suitable location for sexually violent child predator Robert Bates, according to the Deputy District Attorney who is handling the case.

On Friday, Judge Patricia Scanlon ruled that Bates, 51, must move into the Dutch Slough Road home by Dec. 14.

It didn't take long for the news of the property owner's decision to spread among Dutch Slough Road residents, many of whom have been closely following the case. Among them is Rosa Aguilar, 33, who lives with her 5-year-old daughter at a home located roughly 15 feet from where Bates was scheduled to live.

"I am so relieved," Aguilar said after learning Bates would no longer be her neighbor.

Judges refuse to extradite 'paedophile' unless his human rights are guaranteed

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10-7-15 California:

UK judges are refusing to extradite an alleged American paedophile who has been on the run from the FBI since 2007 until they have received an assurance that his human rights will not be breached.

The two judges sitting at the High Court in London made it clear that if no assurance is given they will refuse to hand over Roger Giese, 40, to stand trial in California, where is charged with sexually abusing a boy under the age of 14 from 1998 until 2002.

The former choir master has been living in a village in Hampshire under a different name and working for a PR company.

An extradition request from the United States was certified by the Home Office in May 2014, and Giese was arrested on June 4 last year.

Judge orders sex offender released from state hospital, despite no permanent housing option

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10-14-15 California:

A sexually violent predator is to be released back into the community without a fixed address after officials were unable to find a suitable residence for him.

Fraisure Earl Smith, 51, is expected to return to Solano County by Nov. 30, visiting Solano County Superior Court Judge W. Arvid Johnson ruled Tuesday. Smith, found to be a sexually violent predator by a jury in 2010, is currently housed in Coalinga State Hospital.

The ruling comes after an exhaustive search that spanned months and put state and county officials on a search to find a suitable location for Smith to reside upon his release. Officials estimate more than 4,000 locations had been considered, however, none were found to be acceptable, and in some cases, landlords reversed their willingness to rent to a sex offender.

Child molester released in East County ordered back to mental hospital

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8-27-15 California:

SAN DIEGO — A sexually violent predator admitted Thursday that he violated the terms of his outpatient release and was ordered back to Coalinga State Hospital for further treatment.

Gary Snavely, a 52-year-old convicted child molester, was ordered released into the community last December after filing a petition for conditional release. He was placed at a home in Jacumba Hot Springs.

Deputy District Attorney Kristen Spieler said officials supervising Snavely determined he was not completely honest with his treatment team and deemed to be in violation of his outpatient status. He was removed from the home July 2 and was awaiting a Sept. 21 hearing to determine if his outpatient status should be revoked.

Snavely admitted the violations today, including misuse of medications, failing to remain appropriately clothed at all times on his property while in public view and failing to report any and all instances of sexual thoughts and fantasies involving sexual deviance to treatment staff. Authorities said there are no new victims.

“The court did the right thing by sending Gary Gene Snavely back to a state mental hospital,” Supervisor Dianne Jacob, who represents San Diego’s east county, said in a statement. “He’s a deranged man and a repeat lawbreaker who never should have been allowed in our community in the first place.

Sexually Violent Predator Back in Custody for Allegedly Violating Terms, Conditions of His Release

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7-21-15 California:

A sexually violent predator is back in custody after he allegedly violated the terms and conditions of his release, the San Diego County District Attorney's office said.

Gary Snavely, 49, moved to Jacumba under a conditional release on Feb. 20 when Judge Louis Hanoian approved the move. He lived a mile away from Jacumba Elementary School.

On July 2, the diagnosed pedophile was removed from that residence and placed back into custody of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department for violations of his release.

Prior to his move into the Jacumba home, 10 letters opposing the placement were submitted, including one from San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob.