The victim of a twice-convicted sex offender wants to warn the public the predator has been released back into the community.
"Eliezer Diaz took me up to the Lake Isabella mountains and raped me and beat me really bad," said the victim, identified to Channel 17 viewers as "Mary." That's not her real name. It is the station's policy to protect the identity of rape victims.
Diaz, she said, "pulled all my hair out of my head, put hickies all around the back of my throat, sodomy, tried to throw me in the Kern River and do away with me."
Diaz, 40, was paroled Saturday. Mary fears he will once again commit a horrific sex crime."I've been living in fear this whole time knowing that this guy is going to come back and get his revenge on me, which he's already stated several time that 'I'm his or I'm dead," she said.
Diaz was convicted in 1988 and 1992 for child molestation.
In 2000, after dating for a month, Mary said she broke it off with Diaz. She was 18.
She said a month later he kidnapped her and brutalized her for eight hours as revenge for dumping him. Diaz was arrested on charges of kidnapping, oral copulation by force, sodomy, rape and assault with a deadly weapon. Diaz struck a deal with prosecutors and all the sex crimes charges were dropped in exchange for a no contest plea to the assault and nine years in prison.
He has been released two times from prison since 2009, and both times, he violated his parole. Mary was not notified by his most recent release because after Diaz's plea bargain, she is considered an assault victim, not a rape victim.
Now, she wants to notify the public.
"I don't want anything to happen to anybody else. You never know who could be his next victim," she said.
Crime victims can notify the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations at www.cdcr.ca.gov. The Victim Services department can put them on a parole notification list
State parole officials said Diaz is being monitored on a GPS ankle bracelet in the Bakersfield area and he is in compliance.
