At least one of the two convicted child molesters set to move into a residence just west of Turlock will not be placed there, authorities said. A decision on the other man’s future is expected later this month.
Stanislaus County District Attorney Jeff Laugero announced last week that the effort to place Timothy Roger Weathers in a residence in the Mountain View nieghborhood, about three miles outside the Turlock city limits, has been withdrawn following nearly two years of opposition led his office.
Liberty Healthcare, which oversees the conditional release program for the Department of State Hospitals, has stopped paying rent for an add-on dwelling at the address – into which the 63-year-old Weathers was to be released.
During a July 7 hearing before Superior Court Judge Carrie M. Stephens, Weathers told the court he had personally identified five out-of-state residential treatment programs that are willing to accept him immediately.
“I want treatment,” Weathers told Stephens. “Treatment needs to be involved in everything I do.”
A month earlier, Weathers asked for a transient release, but Stephens deemed that would be contrary to public safety and denied the request.
“Protecting the safety of our community is our greatest responsibility,” said Laugero. “We will fight any attempt to place sexually violent predators in locations that endanger our children and compromise public safety. I am grateful to the Mountain View community, and it has been an honor to stand with them throughout this process to prevent this reckless placement.”
Laugero’s office will next turn its attention to Kevin Scott Gray, who is vying to be released into the main residence at 400 N. Central Ave. He’s set to appear remotely before Stephens on July 28.
“Our work is not yet finished,” said Laugero. “We are still awaiting the court’s decision regarding our opposition to the placement of Gray at the same property proposed for Weathers. If our opposition to Gray’s placement is successful, we can finally close this chapter and bring an end to the two-year ordeal endured by the Mountain View community.”
In 2024, after Liberty proposed placing Weathers at a residence in the Mountain View neighborhood, an investigation by the DA’s office revealed that the converted residence, for which Liberty had already paid substantial rent, was unpermitted and deemed uninhabitable by county officials. Additionally, the location placed Weathers in close proximity to homes with children that match the profile of minors he had previously assaulted.
Doctors evaluating Weathers said he “is diagnosed with a sexual mental disorder (pedophilia) and is likely to engage in sexually violent criminal behavior,” according to the District Attorney.
Weathers, a former Ceres resident, was sentenced in 1991 to 18 years in prison for molesting two different boys in Stanislaus County. He was transferred to the state hospital in 2000 and has admitted to doctors that he molested 20 to 45 boys, according to court documents.
Convicted four times of crimes involving forceful sexual violence against children between the ages of 8 and 11, Gray has admitted that at least 10 of his sexual assaults involved breaking into homes to access the victim, court documents show. He has admitted molesting 50 children under the age of 14 and exposing himself to children, or masturbating in front them, at least 1,000 times.
According to a DSH evaluation, Gray “remains a danger to the health and safety of others in that he is likely to engage in future predatory sexually violent criminal behavior.” His crimes date back to 1974.
