Today's hearing for Christopher Hubbart, known as the Pillowcase Rapist

Lake Los Angekes, CA.-Mary Hutchinson Jeters reporting to the east valley communities: February 20, 2025

Today’s hearing for Christopher Hubbart (a.k.a. the Pillowcase Rapist) was very “interesting“.

The judge did not begin the hearing until 2:45, so I am afraid that a lot of people thought they couldn’t get through, and gave up. As always with this court, please try to login early and be very patient because sometimes things don’t get started for a while.

Just before the hearing, it was changed from a “status of release” hearing to another “terms of placement modification” hearing.

Liberty Healthcare requested another 30 days extension to prepare the property. They asked the judge to place Hubbart after another placement modification hearing on March 27, but he decided that March 22 would be long enough, and that rather than placing Mr. Hubbart after that time, as Liberty had requested, he would order them to release Hubbart to the property “on or before“ March 22. The next (status of release) hearing will be March 27 at 2:30.

Although they have a 6-foot chain-link-with-slats “privacy” fence surrounding the house (which is ironic, since Hubbart is 6‘6“ tall) and were able to install Starlink satellite Internet on Tuesday, they are apparently still working on some other issues. There are still multiple building code violations (unpermitted structures that need to be demolished and questions about the privacy fence being too close to the property lines and fire hazard violations on the property, no perimeter fencing, no outdoor lighting, cameras, etc., but the judge has chosen not to factor in those issues. Once again, he stated that “Liberty are the experts”, so it “would be up to them to decide“ when the property was ready.

The DA requested that she be allowed to share the results of the latest status reports with the other members of the Housing Committee (Sheriff’s Dept. Head of Special Victims Bureau in LA, and LA County Counsel, although they also are not allowed to tell anyone even in their own offices) since the judge had gagged everyone and the other offices didn’t have any notice of the status of anything. That was permitted for this one time.

There is still quite a bit of contention about the water meter location on the property, but the judge decided that it would be OK if, rather than moving the meter farther from the house or removing Mr. Hubbart from the property when the meter is read, as had been requested, Liberty simply be notified 48 hours in advance so that they could “have a Liberty representative on the property when she comes to read the meter”.

There was also concern about a report of “vandalism“ on the property, although anyone in that area knows that absolutely nothing has been vandalized or even touched on that property. He ordered that Liberty begin to place 24/7 security guards on the property immediately, at least a month before Hubbart even takes up residence! Liberty countered that it is a very significant expense, but apparently that doesn’t matter (as evidenced by the fact that SVP Calvin Grassmier still has security guards 24/7 at his home in Littlerock 3 1/2 years later.

And apparently a local resident named Wendy contacted the District Attorney’s office to offer her property in Pearblossom as an “alternative placement location” for Mr. Hubbart. Liberty seemed very excited about this and called the DA for details immediately after the hearing, before we were even out of the courtroom.

The sad fact is that there is absolutely no way they’re going to put Hubbart in a different location, because they’ve already spent so much money on the current property, and have been paying rent (typically at 2 to 3 times the going rate) on it since early last year. This just opens up another venue for them to put more SVPs in the area.

Sadly, money is all that matters to some people, apparently.