Sick confession of pedo with 300-year sentence revealed as he’s freed under Gavin Newsom law

A pedophile who was hit with a more than 300-year sentence for sexually abusing children as young as 5-years-old admitted his sick desires are “always going to be there” — but was granted early release anyway under a controversial law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Gregory Lee Vogelsang, 57, was convicted of kidnapping and molesting multiple children between the ages of 5 and 11 in the ’90s in the Sacramento area. He was sentenced to 355 years to life in prison.

But in the November hearing, a three-person board granted the pedophile parole, despite his heinous crimes.

In a transcript of the hearing, released by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, Vogelsang spoke about his obsession with young boys.

“I got to know what the internal triggers and external triggers and what the risky situations and the warning signs are for pedophilia,” Vogelsang said, according to the transcript reported by Capital Public Radio.

“And, like I said before, when I don’t view a child as a sex object, I don’t want to become aroused, but I know it’s always going to be there.”

He also blamed the abuse he faced as a child for his obsession.

“I think when I was a child, I had normalized child molestation due to my father abusing me from seven to 11,” Vogelsang said.

“It wasn’t until I had dealt with my own childhood abuse of the pain, the harm, the guilt and the shame that I felt as a child, that today I can sit there and say that I honestly understand the psychological and the emotional damage that I was doing.”

A law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 cleared the way for Vogelsang’s release, because it allows inmates 50 and older and who have served 20 or more years to receive parole consideration.

Other pedophiles, like David Allen Funston, have also received consideration because of the “elderly” parole law.

Advocates for the law say most sex offenders don’t re-offend on parole, but the sickening crimes committed by Vogelsang have critics questioning the decision.

Vogelsang was convicted on dozens of felony counts, including a lewd act on a child, kidnapping a child to commit a lewd act, and lewd act on a child with force or violence.

Investigators found boys’ underwear in Vogelsang’s possession, which he admitted he would keep as momentos for sexual stimulation.

Evaluations found Vogelsang posed a greater risk to the public than 80% of other sexual offenders, KMPH reported.

Psychological evaluations of Vogelsang showed he remained sexually attracted to young boys between 5 and 11, and as recently as 2020, he masturbated to fantasies of them, the outlet reported.

The Sacramento Sheriff’s Office denounced Vogelsang’s release, which is pending until a final board review on March 18.

“The California Board of Parole Hearings is at it again,” the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post about the decision.

“They have granted early release via the Elderly Parole program to sexually violent predator Gregory Vogelsang, who molested more than five children in Citrus Heights and was sentenced to over 300 years in prison for his crimes. And he is headed to a neighborhood near you,” they added.

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