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Molly Bolt <mollythebolt666@gmail.com> wrote in news:5344217e-7930-4a16-98c6-fb6cd56e527fn@googlegroups.com:

She can still fuck. Put her ass to work on a street corner.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten walked out of
a California prison Tuesday after serving more than 50 years of a life
sentence for her participation in two infamous murders.

Van Houten “was released to parole supervision,” the California Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.

She left the California Institution for Women in Corona, east of Los
Angeles, in the early morning hours and was driven to transitional
housing, her attorney Nancy Tetreault said.

“She’s still trying to get used to the idea that this real,” Tetreault
told The Associated Press.

Days earlier Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would not fight a state
appeals court ruling that Van Houten should be granted parole. He said it
was unlikely the state Supreme Court would consider an appeal.

She is expected to spend about a year at a halfway house, learning basic
skills such as how to drive a car, go to the grocery store and get a debit card, according to her attorney.

“She has to learn to use to use the internet. She has to learn to buy
things without cash,” Tetreault said. “It’s a very different world than
when she went in.”

Van Houten, who will likely be on parole for about three years, hopes to
get a job as soon as possible, Tetreault said. She earned a bachelors and
a masters degree while in prison and worked as a tutor for other
incarcerated people.

Van Houten, now in her 70s, received a life sentence for helping Manson’s followers carry out the August 1969 killings of Leno LaBianca, a grocer in
Los Angeles, and his wife, Rosemary.

The LaBiancas were killed in their home, and their blood was smeared on
the walls afterward. Van Houten later described holding Rosemary LaBianca
down with a pillowcase over her head as others stabbed her, before she
stabbed the woman more than a dozen times as well.

The slayings happened the day after Manson followers killed actress Sharon
Tate and four others. Van Houten, who was 19 at the time, did not
participate in the Tate killings.

Van Houten was found suitable for parole after a July 2020 hearing, but
her release was blocked by Newsom, who maintained she was still a threat
to society. She filed an appeal with a trial court, which rejected it. She
then turned to the appellate courts.

The Second District Court of Appeal in May reversed an earlier decision by Newsom, who rejected parole for Van Houten in 2020. She had been
recommended for parole five times since 2016. All of those recommendations
were rejected by either Newsom or former Gov. Jerry Brown.

Newsom was disappointed by the appeals court decision, his office said.

“More than 50 years after the Manson cult committed these brutal killings,
the victims’ families still feel the impact,” the governor’s office said
in a July 7 statement.

Manson died in prison in 2017 of natural causes at age 83 after nearly
half a century behind bars.

https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/manson-follower-leslie-van-houten- released-from-california-prison/

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