What’s scary isn’t just what this criminal did, but all the chances he was given despite his dangerousness.

An American woman named Milora (29 years old) was sleeping inside her home in Los Angeles and woke up to a strange noise. She looked out the window and found a man trying to break into her house.

Milora realized the man was going to enter, so she escaped through a second-floor window onto the roof of the house. She took her phone to call the police and hid, terrified, below a protruding ledge. The terrifying part was that he followed her to the roof, searching for her with a tool in his hand—and that’s when she snapped this photo, which went viral worldwide.

The police arrived and, with the help of firefighters, managed to get her down safely. The man, named Christian Hicks, was arrested.

But here’s where things get strange and disturbing:

That same morning, police had stopped him after he broke into a backyard and then released him—after which he headed straight for Milora.

He was sentenced to three years in prison but was released, only to be arrested again in 2018 on charges of robbery and harassment, and sentenced to less than a year in jail. He was arrested in 2021 on kidnapping and rape charges, and finally, in 2023, he was sentenced to 37 years in prison.

Everything that happened was a massive failure and breakdown in the system and the judiciary. How does a dangerous person like this get given all these chances?

المخيف مو بس اللي سواه هذا المجرم بل كل الفرص اللي أُعطيت له رغم خطورته. كم ضحية كان ممكن تنجو من الأذى لو تم التعامل معه بجدية من أول مرة؟ العدالة مو بس معاقبة المجرم بعد ما تتكرر جرائمه بل حماية الناس قبل ما يصير الضرر.

— رهف🌹 (@cou8je) October 20, 2026

How many victims could have been spared harm if he had been dealt with seriously from the very first time? Justice isn’t just punishing the criminal after his crimes are repeated, but protecting people before the harm occurs.