Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A Rockland County man recently paroled after serving more than three decades for a 1980 rape and murder has recently been assigned to live in Western New York. That's not sitting well with State Senator Chris Jacobs.
“I was shocked and angered when I learned the New York State Parole Board’s ill-advised and irresponsible decision to release convicted killer Richard LaBarbera has resulted in him being assigned to the Buffalo parole office and that he will be living in our community," says Jacobs. LaBarbera was convicted of assaulting, raping, sodomizing and murdering 16 year-old Paula Bohovesky in Rockland County in 1980. Jacobs says LaBarbera has never repented for his crimes, continuing to blame his accomplice for the heinous torture and murder of this innocent teenager.
"Richard LaBarbera is not welcome in Rockland County and he is not welcome in Erie County either. However, these are the deplorable circumstances we find ourselves in due to the disgraceful actions of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handpicked appointees to the New York State Parole Board," says Jacobs.