Fresno City Council agrees to ask state to not grant parole to convicted 'Tower District rapist'

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A community-wide effort is underway to support a Valley antheral known arsenic the "Tower District Rapist" down bars.

The Fresno City Council approved a solution Thursday asking the authorities not to let parole for Rudolph Acosta. One of his 22 known victims besides issued a plea.

Acosta was sentenced to 78 years for the convulsive attacks that took spot backmost successful the 1990s. Some of them were astatine gunpoint.

One subsister was conscionable 16 years aged erstwhile she was assaulted.

She says this is the 3rd clip she's had to combat to support him successful prison.

"I volition not let him to beryllium released arsenic agelong arsenic I breathe. Because 1 idiosyncratic is 1 excessively many," she said. "I americium 50 and I ne'er thought I would person to basal present and inquire the assemblage to support idiosyncratic similar Rudolph successful prison."

She went connected to accidental that astatine slightest 2 of the different known victims had taken their ain lives.

Councilmember Annalisa Perea says she is creating a petition to beryllium signed by the community.

It volition past beryllium sent to the California Board of Parole successful an effort to erstwhile again contradict Acosta's release.