NEIGHBORS UPSET AT LIGHT SENTENCE.

Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer

LANCASTER - After deputies led away a paroled rapist who danced naked in a retired couple's back yard while high on cocaine, demanding to be let into their house to take a shower, the couple thought he would end up in prison for a long time.

Instead, Isaac Youngblood - who once served nine years in prison for rape and child molestation, was sentenced to four years for auto theft, and just got out from behind bars the last time in February - is due to be out of jail in August.

``It's ridiculous that I can't get any protection here,'' said Roger Folger, 66, who said the 6-foot, 255-pound Youngblood tried to enter two doors before deputies arrived. ``I'm now considering selling my house and moving out of here - the house I've lived in for more than 27 years. He should have gotten a felony and gone back to prison.''

Youngblood, 34, who lived with his mother next door to the Folgers, was arrested May 21. When he went to court two days later, he pleaded no contest to being under the influence of cocaine and trespassing, both misdemeanors. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years informal probation, which means he will not be under supervision of a probation officer.

Once Youngblood is done with his jail time, state parole agents said, he may be sent back to prison for up to a year if they decide he violated his parole, but they have not made that decision yet.

Youngblood was not charged with any sex crime because his actions did not fit the legal standard, prosecutors said.

While he was naked as he danced in the Folgers' backyard sprinklers, rubbing his genitals, he did so because he thought he was on fire, prosecutors said.

``If there was anything of a sexual nature in the deputies' report then he surely would have been charged with that, but he was just whacked out on drugs,'' Deputy District Attorney Gregory Denton said. ``There was no intent to sexually arouse himself or anyone he exposed himself to, therefore there was no sex crime.''

According to the deputies' report, Youngblood had talked briefly with Folger about 6:50 a.m. May 21 as Folger did yard work at the side of his home.

Youngblood returned to his home, then less than five minutes later appeared at the Folgers' backyard fence yelling that someone was trying to break into his house.

Folger tried to ignore the yelling, then saw Youngblood jump the fence totally nude.

Folger ran into his house and locked the door behind him, just before Youngblood began pounding on it, demanding to be let in so he could take a shower, saying he was on fire.

Folger yelled for his wife to lock the sliding glass door and then heard her scream as Youngblood appeared in front of the door and tried to pull it open.

When the Folgers refused to let him inside, Youngblood stepped into their lawn sprinklers and began rubbing himself, the report said.

When deputies arrived, they found Youngblood inside his own home, wrapped in a towel, sweating and breathing hard, the arresting deputies' report said. He rambled when he talked, they said.

After the deputies got pants on him, he began to struggle, saying that the carpet was on fire and that he was burning up. Deputies escorted him to the patrol car.

Folger is angry that Youngblood was allowed to plead no contest to the misdemeanor charges and didn't get a tougher sentence.

Folger said Youngblood terrified his wife.

``She saw him standing there naked, trying to get into our house,'' Folger said. ``And the District Attorney's Office hasn't done a thing about that. It nearly scared her to death. Let's see how they react if their wives see someone at the sliding glass door naked, trying to break in.''