DASH:
THEY'VE KILLED, RAPED, AND
GRIEVOUSLY
MARISA:
MUCH OF THEIR HISTORY IS HIDDEN
BY PRIVACY
LAWS.
BUT NOW ONE VICTIM HAS MADE IT
HIS MISSION
TO PUSH FOR CHANGE.
THIS IS A STORY YOU'LL SEE ONLY
ON 2 .. AND IT'S
But for Nick Iwamoto .. It
brings nothing but bad
memories.
was pushed off the top of the
crater.
He was in the hospital for a
month.
to this day.
still raw.
The man who attacked him,
Benjamin Davis, was
acquitted of attempted murder by
reason of
insanity, and was sent to the
Hawaii State Hospital.
According to court records, in
October 2016, the court
granted Davis a "conditional
release" .. and he was
moved from the State Hospital to
a group home off
granted Davis
permission to move from the
group home, to live at his
had been released
to live with his parents until
you told me yesterday. and
this goes to show you the
ineptitude of the state that
Benjamin Davis is just one of a
number of people
who've been acquitted of crimes
and sent to the State
Hospital, but are no longer
there.
We asked state lawmakers if
there's a chance of ever
having a registry of people
released from the State
Hospital, like there's one for
sex offenders.
we certainly would like the
public to have the right to
offense registry and that's
crystal clear, I can find out, I
can just go to the internet. On
the other hand the person
who has a mental condition is
protected by federal law.
Not knowing about someone's
violent past can
Rauschenburg's history when they
took her into their
care home.
She was acquitted by reason of
insanity and sent
to the State Hospital.
"I just lost control. And I
picked up the knife and I
In that case, Rauschenburg was
sentenced to life in
prison.
For that Alcaraz family .. If
only they had known.
BARTOLOME ALCARAZ, VICTIM'S
HUSBAND: "I lost
a wife. It's just like my life.
But she is gone."
But for Nick, he can't come to
grips with that, especially
when he looks at what he's gone
through, and he
doesn't want anyone else to have
to go through that.
IWAMOTO: his reintegration into
society has become
more important than public
safety. and that is
unforgivable.
THE PRIVACY LAWS NOT ONLY APPLY
TO THOSE
BEING RELEASED, BUT ALSO THOSE
WHO ARE
DEPARTMENT
GIVES US AN UPDATE ON A PATIENT
IS WHEN HE
OR SHE ESCAPES AND POSES A
DANGER TO THE
PUBLIC ...LIKE WHEN CONFESSED
MURDERER
RANDALL SAITO ESCAPED IN
NOVEMBER.