The South Dakota Department of Corrections is warning the public about 57-year-old Daniel McQuillen.
McQuillen was sentenced to 55 years in prison in 1983, but has refused sex offender treatment programs or assessments during his time behind bars.
McQuillen was born in Aberdeen and was the youngest of nine children. During a psychiatric evaluation back in 1982, he admitted to getting pleasure from window peeking while his sisters were undressed.
He also admitted to stealing women's underwear on at least 20 occasions starting when he was six years old.
The crime he’s serving time for now happened in September 1982 when he was arrested for raping an 11-year-old girl and assaulting a second teenage girl at knife point.
"We just want the public to be aware that this individual is out and they can take their own precautions as they see fit," South Dakota Secretary of Corrections Denny Kaemingk said.
McQuillen will be released Friday from the medium-security prison in Springfield.
When he was sentenced, every inmate got four months of credit for every year they served behind bars. That means he essentially served a 55-year sentence with each year only lasting eight months. Friday, his sentence is up after 29 years and he will be free without supervision.
"Being that he's going to flat his sentence, there will be no after care required," Kaemingk said.
In a written confession to police in 1982, McQuillen admitted to grabbing the 11-year-old girl while she was standing on a Sioux Falls street corner waiting for newspapers to arrive for her paper route at around six in the morning. He took her to a school playground, took off her pants, raped her and then ran away.
In a separate written confession, McQuillen said just a few weeks after that incident, he stopped by Washington High School and followed a girl into the locker room where he held her against a locker with one hand while holding a knife in the other hand. He tried to put his hand in her pants but couldn't and walked away from her.
The aggravated assault charge for that case was dropped when he was convicted of the rape.
McQuillen has refused any treatment or assessments while he's been in prison, but a psychiatric evaluation performed on McQuillen in 1982 before he was locked up reveals that he window peeked at his sisters at a young age, performed nearly two dozen burglaries where he stole women's underwear and had a pattern of targeting teenage girls, taking their clothes off, but not actually raping them.
The report says that he showed no remorse for the crimes.
The doctor who did the evaluation said that McQuillen is not a true pedophile because he thought the 11-year-old girl he raped was older.
But he did conclude that back in 1982 McQuillen was a danger to others and should be locked up in prison.
Before going to prison for rape, McQuillen was convicted of burglary in 1975 and convicted of attempted rape in Brown County in 1978.
When he leaves Springfield Friday, he plans to travel to the Sioux Falls and Tea area. From there he plans to go to Aberdeen, and then live somewhere near Lead.
McQuillen was sentenced to 55 years in prison in 1983, but has refused sex offender treatment programs or assessments during his time behind bars.
McQuillen was born in Aberdeen and was the youngest of nine children. During a psychiatric evaluation back in 1982, he admitted to getting pleasure from window peeking while his sisters were undressed.
He also admitted to stealing women's underwear on at least 20 occasions starting when he was six years old.
The crime he’s serving time for now happened in September 1982 when he was arrested for raping an 11-year-old girl and assaulting a second teenage girl at knife point.
"We just want the public to be aware that this individual is out and they can take their own precautions as they see fit," South Dakota Secretary of Corrections Denny Kaemingk said.
McQuillen will be released Friday from the medium-security prison in Springfield.
When he was sentenced, every inmate got four months of credit for every year they served behind bars. That means he essentially served a 55-year sentence with each year only lasting eight months. Friday, his sentence is up after 29 years and he will be free without supervision.
"Being that he's going to flat his sentence, there will be no after care required," Kaemingk said.
In a written confession to police in 1982, McQuillen admitted to grabbing the 11-year-old girl while she was standing on a Sioux Falls street corner waiting for newspapers to arrive for her paper route at around six in the morning. He took her to a school playground, took off her pants, raped her and then ran away.
In a separate written confession, McQuillen said just a few weeks after that incident, he stopped by Washington High School and followed a girl into the locker room where he held her against a locker with one hand while holding a knife in the other hand. He tried to put his hand in her pants but couldn't and walked away from her.
The aggravated assault charge for that case was dropped when he was convicted of the rape.
McQuillen has refused any treatment or assessments while he's been in prison, but a psychiatric evaluation performed on McQuillen in 1982 before he was locked up reveals that he window peeked at his sisters at a young age, performed nearly two dozen burglaries where he stole women's underwear and had a pattern of targeting teenage girls, taking their clothes off, but not actually raping them.
The report says that he showed no remorse for the crimes.
The doctor who did the evaluation said that McQuillen is not a true pedophile because he thought the 11-year-old girl he raped was older.
But he did conclude that back in 1982 McQuillen was a danger to others and should be locked up in prison.
Before going to prison for rape, McQuillen was convicted of burglary in 1975 and convicted of attempted rape in Brown County in 1978.
When he leaves Springfield Friday, he plans to travel to the Sioux Falls and Tea area. From there he plans to go to Aberdeen, and then live somewhere near Lead.