Morgan Geyer

The California Board of Parole was ready to set 64-year-old David Funston free through its elderly parole program.

Now this despite the graphic thoughts he admitted to still having in a hearing last September, according to transcripts obtained by Fox News, Funston explaining that as recently as 2021, he'd repeated fantasies about

an eight-year-old girl who used to live across the street from him, also admitting that he raped a little boy because he was, quote, vulnerable and available and saying he targeted children because he enjoyed the power he had over them.

Fortunately, just as he was about to be set free, though, Placer County D.A.

Morgan Geyer intervened, charging him with lewd and lascivious acts upon a child stemming from a 1996 sexual assault of a minor.