{"id":31807,"date":"2020-07-22T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rockland-county-mom-fights-release-of-daughters-sexual-assault-killer\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:15:00","slug":"rockland-county-mom-fights-release-of-daughters-sexual-assault-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rockland-county-mom-fights-release-of-daughters-sexual-assault-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rockland County mom fights release of daughter\u2019s sexual assault killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Rockland County mom fights release of daughter\u2019s sexual assault killer<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\" role=\"main\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>        July 21, 2020 <span>|<\/span> 7:15pm         <\/p>\n<div id=\"featured-image-wrapper\">\n                        Enlarge Image<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Richard LaBarbera\" id=\"standard-article-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/RichardLaBarbera.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618&#038;h=410&#038;crop=1\" ><\/img><br \/>\n                <span>Richard LaBarbera was one of two men convicted in the murder of Paula Bohovesky, 16, in 1980.<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span>NYSDOC<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                        Outraged Rockland County residents are fighting to keep a murderous sex fiend from being paroled in Manhattan later this week \u2014 just a 30-minute bus ride from where he sexually assaulted then fatally stabbed a 16-year-old honors student.<\/p>\n<p>The slain girl\u2019s mother, Lois Bohovesky, 88, said she still lives in Pearl River and is terrified that her daughter\u2019s killer, Richard LaBarbera, could show up on her doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s bad enough that he\u2019s still walking around after what he did to Paula,\u201d said Bohovesky, whose daughter was stabbed to death as she walked home from the library more than four decades ago. \u201cBut now he could be in commuting distance to my house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Concerned residents amassed more than 2,000 signatures and delivered a petition to LaBarbera\u2019s parole officer and the NYS Department of Correction and Supervision urging them to place the ex-con in Staten Island and bar him from <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing to Rockland County.<\/p>\n<p>LaBarbera, 67, is expected to be released July 23 and report to a parole officer in Midtown \u2014 a 30-minute bus ride from Bohovesky and the small Pearl River town that\u2019s still deeply traumatized by the brutal slaying.<\/p>\n<p>Bohovesky said she remained in the town all these years to stay near her daughter\u2019s memory. \u201cI don\u2019t want to lose the feeling of her presence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was spearheaded by former Rockland County Legislator John Murphy, whose daughter was Paula\u2019s classmate. \u201cForemost in our minds is that he never comes back to this community,\u201d Murphy said. The horrific crime forever changed the once-idyllic town of 15,000 people, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was an innocent sweet girl. The crime was so heinous, so animalistic \u2014 and if it could h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en in the middle of the town, it could happen to anybody anywhere,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n<p>LaBarbera was paroled upstate in July of last year after 38 years in prison \u2014 despite Bohovesky begging the parole board to keep him behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>But three weeks later he violated his parole after being found drunk and was locked up again.<\/p>\n<p>LaBarbera was one of two men convicted of killing Paula on Oct. 28, 1980, on her walk home from a part-time job at the Pearl River Library.<\/p>\n<p>LaBarbera and Robert McCain, 56, were found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were drinking at a local bar when they spotted Paula cross the street \u2014 just two blocks from her home. McCain ran over to her and hurled a chunk of concrete at the right side of her skull and beat her, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The pals then dragged her behind a vacant house, where McCain allegedly sexually assaulted her. LaBarbera then started to take his turn, believing she was dead, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>But when Paula began to stir, LaBarbera stabbed her five times in the back.<\/p>\n<p>McCain, who has denied any role in the crime, is up for parole next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe medical examiner said he\u2019d never seen such a brutal attack,\u201d Bohovesky said. \u201cWhat if they did it again?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grieving mother said she\u2019ll never overcome the loss of her daughter, and every single day she still thinks about Paula\u2019s harrowing final moments at the hands of \u201ctwo beasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took me years before I just didn\u2019t cry all the time,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the one thing worse than what happened to her would have been not knowing her at all.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/21\/rockland-county-mom-fights-release-of-daughters-sexual-assault-killer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Rockland County mom fights release of daughter\u2019s sexual assault killer&#8221; July 21, 2020 | 7:15pm Enlarge Image Richard LaBarbera was one of two men convicted in the murder of Paula Bohovesky, 16, in 1980. 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