Paroled sex offender
arrested in girls’
alleged rapes
A Piikoi Street resident has
By Jaymes K. Song
served half his term for an
'89 rape-kidnap
Star-BulletinA convicted sex offender out on parole was arrested last night for allegedly raping two young girls inside his Piikoi Street apartment.
The suspect was arrested at 9:50 p.m. in connection with raping two sisters, age 6 and 12, in February, police said.
The alleged incidents took place on two separate occasions.
Sex crimes detective Earl Takahashi said the 38-year-old man appears to be an acquaintance of the children's mother.
He was booked on three counts of first-degree sexual assault and two counts of third-degree sexual assault.
According to state records, the suspect was sentenced to 20 years for raping and kidnapping a woman in 1989. He also has 26 various misdemeanor arrests on Oahu and a felony third-degree burglary arrest on Kauai.
He was receiving sex treatment while on parole, said state officials.
The suspect was paroled March 4, 1997, from Oahu Community Correctional Center, then was put back in March 10 of this year for violations that included driving a car, having alcohol in the house and disobeying curfew, said state parole authorities. He was then released March 23 on the conditions he submit to random polygraph testing and electronic monitoring.
He was also twice denied parole for not completing his sex treatment while in prison.
"All the precautions were taken, but a lot of times with sex offenders, you never know when they are going to blow up," said a Hawaii Paroling Authority spokesman.
Brothers who assaulted child
By Rod Thompson
face consecutive 20-year terms
Star-BulletinHILO -- Two Big Island brothers convicted of sexually assaulting a girl who was 8 years old when the offenses began have been sentenced to 60 and 95 years in prison.
Circuit Court Judge Riki May Amano yesterday sentenced Zachary A. Kahakai, 25, to a maximum of three consecutive 20-year sentences.
Amano did not set a minimum sentence, leaving that to the state parole authority.
The first offense involving sexual penetration and intercourse allegedly took place in 1991, when the girl was 8. Two more incidents of intercourse took place in 1993.
The judge also sentenced Zachary's brother, Stacy Kahakai, 28, to four consecutive terms of 20 years each for four first-degree sexual assaults, plus three consecutive terms of five years each for third-degree sexual assaults not involving intercourse.
The total maximum for Stacy Kahakai amounts to 95 years, but Amano set a minimum of six years and eight months for him. The parole authority may increase that minimum.
Defense attorneys portrayed the victim as having made false accusations of sexual molestation against people other than the Kahakai brothers as early as age 4.
The victim, now 15, spoke in a barely audible voice at the sentencing yesterday, saying she wanted to return to a normal life.
