Here's what happens with those extra-long sentences you're talking about. Maybe you can tell Wikipedia about it, nitwit.
Victim tells Parole Board that rapist ‘doesn’t get it’
New evaluations of admitted serial rapist find Gillmore a danger
By Mara Stine
Tiffany Edens (right center) weeps while retelling the story of her rape by Richard Troy Gillmore. She is being comforted by her husband Scott (right) and father Ken (off camera). A new parole consideration hearing before the Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision for Gillmore was held at the Oregon State Correctional Institution on Tuesday, June 24.
Two new psychological reports on a notorious serial rapist find the man is still a danger to the community and is likely to re-offend.
Former Troutdale resident Richard T. Gillmore, 48, argued before the Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision during a marathon nine-hour hearing Tuesday, June 24, at the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem that he’s done the self-help needed to be released.
However, his victim and the district attorney who put him behind bars more than 20 years ago cited two new psychological reports — both of which bolster a previous report that Gillmore remains a danger to the community.
In 1986, Gillmore raped then 13-year-old Tiffany Edens, breaking into the girl’s Troutdale home while she was home alone doing her chores.
Also known as the Jogger Rapist, who was associated with 13 East Multnomah County rapes, Gillmore admitted to raping six other women and trying to rape another in East Multnomah County during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The other rapes were too old to prosecute, but a judge in the Edens’ case sentenced Gillmore to a minimum of 30 years in prison. However, a parole board cut that sentence in half shortly after his 1987 sentencing.
Last fall, the parole board approved Gillmore’s request for parole — despite a psychological evaluation finding Gillmore had a 75-percent chance of re-offending within 10 years.
Because the board failed to notify his victim of the parole hearing, it held a second hearing in which she testified. The board came to the same conclusion: Gillmore remained a danger but could be adequately controlled in the community.
Outraged, Edens teamed with the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office and sued the parole board. In January, a Marion County judge found in Edens’ favor, ordering the board to conduct a third hearing.
On Tuesday, Edens, now 35, graphically detailed the attack before parole board members Steven Powers, Candace Wheeler and Darcey Baker.
“I don’t think he gets it, I still don’t think he really understands how it still affects me,” Edens said fighting back tears. “And I’m a strong woman.”
She cited recent confidential reports by Dr. F. Robert Stuckey and Dr. Gary McGuffin, who also evaluated Gillmore as part of his parole requests in 2001, 2003 and 2005 — all of which the board denied.
In Stuckey’s report dated May 22, 2008, he found that Gillmore spoke in a “very glib, superficial, and manipulative manner.”
Edens continued citing the report: “On the surface he can present as an intellectual and rational individual, but he has little integration of the sadistic, power and anger issues that he has toward women. He mentioned that his past behaviors were ‘intoxicating,’ and he appears to be a ‘fixated’ sadistic rapist who would certainly engage in similar behaviors in the future…. Mr. Gillmore appears to be an individual who has deep-seated distrust of others with much retaliatory anger and aggression. He has a habitual pattern and potential of reacting in a ritualistic habitual sex offender manner … with a substantial recidivistic potential.”
In short, Gillmore “represents an ongoing and continuous threat to the safety of the community,” Stuckey wrote.
McGuffin’s May report echoed Stuckey’s diagnosis that Gillmore has a personality disorder with antisocial and narcissistic features. Gillmore “does not have the necessary insight or awareness to understand the cause of his violent sexual assaultive behaviors,” McGuffin writes. “With the lack of such insights, the more it is possible that Mr. Gillmore will repeat the same offenses. … Since he does not understand the antecedent conditions of his problematic responses, because they are less conscious and difficult for him to recognize, they could trigger reactions that might erupt into violent sexual assaults should he have access to females in a community setting at this time.”
Gillmore said he was “stunned” by the assessments.
During a three-and-a-half hour question-and-answer session with the board, Gillmore said he agreed that he needs treatment, “and I’m doing what I can in here.” And he’d need to be released to seek more advanced treatment.
“I am deeply sorry for raping Miss Edens and the other women years ago,” he said. “I get it, I feel this inside of me. I can feel the anger and all the feelings that are coming out.”
But those emotions will help “keep me focused” on not reoffending, he said.
If released, his self-authored parole plan calls for him to live in subsidized housing in downtown Portland. Under state law, sex offenders are to be released back into the county where the crimes were committed. Gillmore also is in contact with Stepping Out Ministries regarding the possibility of being paroled to Marion County.
Bronson James, chief public defender for Oregon’s Office of Public Defenders Services, represented Gillmore at the hearing. He told the board that by state law it must release Gillmore, even if he’s still considered a danger to the community, if it finds he can be treated in the community.
Gillmore has voluntarily taken just about every treatment program offered through the prison, but more advanced sex offender treatment isn’t available behind bars.
“Nothing has changed,” James said, reminding the board that it has twice approved releasing Gillmore. “The psychological evaluations at their core are unchanged.”
Powers, chairman of the parole board, disagreed.
“The facts have changed,” he said. “More information is in the record.”
Earlier in the hearing, Powers also said the psychological reports “give me pause.” Although the board considers more than the reports, “they do raise some flags with me,” he said.
The parole board will accept written testimony through July 1, after which the parole board will review the information and issue a written explanation of its decision. |
