A victim has made a heartbreaking plea to prevent her jailed rapist from obtaining parole and being released back into the community.
Ann Thompson was only 18 years old when she was raped by Joseph Duroux inside her Torrensville unit in front of her newborn daughter.
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In the Adelaide Supreme Court on Thursday, the Attorney General’s department will push for a last-minute indefinite detention order, which if successful would meaning Duroux will have to remain behind bars.
Thompson was one of multiple women raped by Duroux in the 1990s after he broke into their homes.
“I didn’t see his face, he had a balaclava,” Thompson told 7NEWS exclusively.
“It’s taken a lot just to keep going.”

Thompson recently received a letter from authorities that Duroux would be released from prison on Thursday.
“Don’t let him out, please don’t let him out,” she said.
Now in his 60s, Duroux is currently serving a 28-year jail sentence for seven counts of rape against three women in 1991 and one attempted rape in 1995 that occurred during break-ins across Adelaide.
He has been eligible for parole since April 2015, and was denied parole in 2019.
The parole board doubted that Duroux could control his sexual urges.
In 2019, according to the ABC Justice Hinton found that Duroux — who suffers from schizophrenia — was unable to control his sexual instincts but said if released it would be unlikely he would reoffend.
“The evidence does not support a conclusion that he is likely to immediately set about planning to rape vulnerable women,” he said in court in 2019.
Hinton said that if Duroux developed “maladaptive behaviours as a means of coping with life stresses” as Duroux had done previously, then his risk would increase.

Thompson wants Duroux to remain behind bars.
“Based on his offences, and he hasn’t made any effort to try and change himself,” she said.
“I don’t think he’s a human in a way.
“I fear for myself, I fear for the community, I fear for vulnerable people in general.”
In case of release, an interim supervision order has been approved by the court, meaning Duroux will be subject to strict parole-like conditions and electronic monitoring.
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