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Convicted serial rapist James Alexander Parent has been released in Calgary, police said Friday, despite being at high risk to offend again.

Parent’s convictions include the 1987 sexual assault of a woman inside her Calgary home. He stormed into the house wearing a mask and gloves, holding a knife to the victim’s throat and threatening to kill her as he repeatedly raped her.

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He was convicted in 2011, identified over two decades later by DNA evidence from a rape kit. The charges included sexual assault causing bodily harm with a weapon, disguise with intent, unlawful confinement, break and enter, uttering threats, and mischief.

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The mischief charge stemmed from an incident where Parent, 58, kicked in a wall at a police station in 2008.

Parent was also previously found guilty on charges of indecent assault and kidnapping of two girls, ages eight and nine, in incidents from 1980 and 1982. He was also convicted of break-and-enter with intent against two women in 1988.