The daughter of an upstate New York mom who was brutally raped and strangled to death said she was outraged that her mother’s paroled killer was on the loose for six days — without cops being told.
“I’m irate. It’s unthinkable,” Kaitlyn Brown told WGRZ-TV. “This was a complete lapse of communication all along the line. He was not far from my house. He was loose for six days.
“Impossible to go through the red tape of trying to get even the most basic communication from Victim’s Services who is our only liaison with this nightmare of a system,” she told the outlet. “There have been some major, major errors made.”
Convicted killer Edward Kindt, who murdered 39-year-old nurse Penny Brown while she was out for a jog in upstate Salamanca on Mother’s Day in 1999, was granted parole last year and sent to a halfway house.
But authorities revealed this week that he violated his parole and went on the lam for six days — without the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office being tipped off by state parole officials.
Kindt, 41, was finally picked up early Wednesday in the same town where he killed Penny Brown and not far from her daughter’s home, according to authorities.
Kaitlyn Brown could not be reached for comment Thursday and the sheriff’s office did not return a call.
But Cattaraugus Undersheriff Eric Butler told WGRZ he was equally ticked off.
“I think frustration is a polite word for it,” Butler said “I’m angry.
“Very unique for something like this to happen without us getting a phone call,” he said. “I just don’t understand that. There is really no explanation that I was satisfied with.”
Kindt was housed in Dutchess County, but the crime — and the victim’s family — live in Cattaraugus.
On Wednesday, a pair of upstate Albany lawmakers lambasted the state parole board for not tipping off the cops, and blamed New York’s lenient criminal justice system for the gaffe.
“The pro-criminal policies of the [Gov. Kathy] Hochul administration and the Democratic majorities continue to put New Yorkers at risk,” state Sen. George Borrello fumed in a statement.
Hochul’s office did not respond to a request for comment from The Post this week.
Kindt, a member of the Seneca Nation, was just 15 when he killed Penny Brown, and was sentenced to the maximum of nine years to life in prison — the most allowed for a defendant his age.
In a controversial move, he was paroled last year despite a massive outcry from Brown’s family, victim’s rights advocates and state legislators at odds with New York’s criminal justice system.
Kindt violated parole the first time in November, and was jailed until Dec. 15 — then set free.
He was due for a parole meeting on Tuesday and never showed up — and returned to Salmanca.
According to reports, he has been banned from the Seneca Nation.
