Steven Willett, 57, has a criminal record that includes four felony convictions for sex crimes: rape and two instances of attempted rape involving adult women, and lewd and lascivious acts with a 13-year-old girl.
He was declared a sexually violent predator by a judge. Because California is one of 20 states to allow civil commitment of violent sexual offenders determined to have mental disorders likely to cause them to strike again, we are financially responsible for this monster.
“The worst of the worst,” says Riverside County, Calif., District Attorney Rod Pacheco. Willett wears a Global Positioning System ankle bracelet and his days are mostly spent alone in his mobile home, where he has satellite television.
He makes trips for treatment and the occasional accompanied outing to a store. Over the course of the first year, the costs associated with Willett’s conditional release are expected to total about $126,000, including ongoing treatment at $2,000 a month, about $34,000 spent to prepare the property for a mobile home and about $44,000 for around-the-clock security guards that were used in the first eight weeks.
That figure does not including travel expenses for treatment, which she says are higher than usual because of his remote placement, according to Nancy Kincaid, assistant director of the California Department of Mental Health.
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