# Navy veteran blindsided as attacker could land parole hearing months after sentencing: ‘Where is my justice?’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/navy-veteran-blindsided-as-attacker-could-land-parole-hearing-months-after-sentencing-where-is-my-justice/
- Published: 2026-11-07T12:00:31+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T13:27:46+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/navy-veteran-blindsided-attacker-could-land-parole-hearing-months-after-sentencing-where-is-my-justice
- Topics: World

## Key points

- A Navy veteran’s attacker may face a parole hearing months after sentencing.
- DNA evidence linked Favors to a 1992 rape cold case.
- Prosecutors say release is highly unlikely, but a hearing could retraumatise Amy.

## Summary

A Virginia Navy veteran has learnt that the man who raped her in 1992 may receive a parole hearing only months after being sentenced for the crime. The prospect has left Amy distressed and questioning how a review is possible so soon after what she understood as a 24-year sentence.

Anthony Favors, now 57, pleaded guilty in September 2025 to two rape counts linked to Amy’s case, receiving consecutive 12-year terms. DNA evidence connected him to the cold case in 2024, while he was serving a 60-year sentence for another rape. Prosecutors say older Virginia sentencing laws and a previous parole review make him theoretically eligible for a discretionary hearing, though they put the chance of release at “slim chance to zero”. Amy lives with PTSD, sleep deprivation and hypervigilance, and says a hearing would require her to recount the attack again.

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