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A 41-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and sexual assaults involving four victims may be facing an extended life term. Prosecutor wants
extended term for
kidnapper-rapistBy Suzanne Tswei
Star-BulletinProsecutor Thalia Murphy argued yesterday that Angel Inoue, 41, should be sentenced to life because he is a multiple offender and psychological tests determined he is a danger to society.
Dr. Harold Hall, a forensic neuropsychologist testifying for the prosecution, described Inoue as a "predator" and "severe psychopath" who has no remorse but can be charming and disarming toward his victims. Hall said Inoue has an 82 percent probability of recidivism over the next 10 years.
In 1990, Inoue was convicted of first-degree sexual assault and kidnapping in the attack of a homeless woman. Inoue and an accomplice broke into an abandoned bus where the woman was asleep with her boyfriend, and raped her and beat her boyfriend.
Inoue was sentenced to 20 years and completed a program for sex offenders while in prison. He was paroled after serving eight years, but within a year of his release he was arrested in the molestation of two sisters, ages 6 and 12.
A month after the assault on the girls, Inoue was accused of sexually attacking a 16-year-old girl after he drugged her with tequila and a sedative called Klonopin.
Inoue was convicted in January 1999 of three counts of third-degree sexual assault in the molestation of the two girls. He was convicted in February of kidnapping in the assault of the other girl.
In yesterday's sentencing for the molestation of the girls, Murphy asked that Inoue be sentenced to a life term to be served consecutively with Inoue's other sentences. But Judge Richard Perkins did not decide on the sentence yesterday because Inoue's attorney did not receive a presentencing report.
Sentencing is scheduled for Monday. Inoue also is scheduled for sentencing by Judge Frances Wong on Oct. 2 for the kidnapping charge involving the 16-year-old.