'How is this justice?': Convicted Southern California child rapist granted release from prison 34 years early

In 2013, Frank Duane Brown, 72, pleaded guilty to six felony counts and admitted to raping a child. Now, 11 years later, he's about to be released from prison 34 years before the end of his sentence, and the Riverside County District Attorney had harsh words for the judge who decided to allow it.

Brown was sentenced to 45 years in prison in 2013 after the guilty pleas for forced lewd and
lascivious sexual acts on a child under the age of 14 years old.

Brown's release was granted Thursday by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Scott P. Williams under the state of California's "Compassionate Release" law.

Compassionate release grants medical parole to inmates with less than six months to live. Brown was diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer in July.

He'll be a free man within 30 days.

"While early release has become increasingly common, it is appalling that this release was even
being considered given the offender's violent crime against a child,” Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said. “Once again, the state places the victim in a traumatic situation, forcing her to fight to keep her perpetrator ...