HIV-Positive Home-Invasion Rapist Who Assaulted Woman in Her Sleep Freed After Serving Just 11 Years, Sparking Outrage

An HIV-positive s----- offender who broke into a woman's San Francisco apartment and raped her in 2013 has been granted parole after serving about 11 years in prison. Roberto Detrinidad, was granted parole following a successful hearing, according to officials.

Detrinidad was arrested in September 2014 and convicted in June 2016. His victim was a bartender who had recently moved to the city.

​“This was like my Super Bowl of crime that night,” Detrinidad told parole officers on January 6, 2026. “This was gonna be the thing that made me finally feel like a man,” Detrinidad said. He had previously claimed during the trial that the victim had consented to the encounter.

​According to the San Francisco Public Safety News, the victim and her roommate returned to their Sacramento Street apartment in the early hours of August 8, 2013, after finishing a bartending shift.

​Later that night, Detrinidad broke into apartment on the third floor and s------- assaulted the victim while she slept.

​“I broke into the front gate (which) was really easy for me to open because I found a piece of plastic to jiggle to lock open,” Detrinidad said during the parole hearing.

​“The second door, all you needed to do was put a finger on the inside of the tongue depressor of the lock, and I went upstairs, and the front door of the apartment was unlocked,” he added.

​“When I saw her in the window, it was attractive to me,” Detrinidad said. “Honestly, I looked at the door of the building. I saw that I could get in there easily. I started a plan that if I could get in there, have my way with her, and get away, that was my plan.”

​When questioned about the consequences of his actions, Detrinidad said, “That time in my life, I had been going through some things that brought me kind of low.”

According to Public Safety News, Presiding Commissioner Michael Ruff and Deputy Commissioner Cristina Guerrero said “the mitigating factors outweigh the aggravating factors.”

​“Mr. Detrinidad does not pose an unreasonable risk to public safety and is therefore eligible for parole,” the commissioners said.

​“Our decision in no way excuses his behavior in the life offense where he acknowledges that his actions affected the victim for a significant period of time,” they added.

​The victim said the attack caused her mental distress and that she sought therapy after the incident. She said she had to leave San Francisco in 2016 because of the trauma.

If California Governor Gavin Newsom does not intervene, Detrinidad will be released by May 5.

​Former Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert criticized the decision and said Detrinidad had not completed s---offender treatment or relapse-prevention programming.

“Why is California releasing violent s-- offenders before they’ve even completed serious treatment for the crimes that put them in prison?” Schubert said.

​Prosecutor Andrew Clark called the case a “horrific life crime”, according to the report.