Killer Mother Susan Smith's former prison guard girlfriend doesn't think he should be released on parole, suggesting in a new interview that he “hasn't really learnt anything” from three decades of imprisonment.
Alfred Rowe pointed out NewsNationAshleigh Banfield-Smith, 52 — who is serving a life sentence in South Carolina for the drowning deaths of her two young sons — learned to be a better criminal while behind bars.
“His prison record shows that … he hasn't really learned anything while in prison other than how to commit illegal acts other than murdering his sons,” Rowe told Banfield.
Smith became eligible for parole this year, and could be released in just a few months.
His first parole hearing is scheduled for Nov. 4.
Rowe, who had an affair with Smith that caused her to lose her job, told Banfield she would likely reoffend and violate her parole.
“I think everyone deserves a second chance, and that includes Susan,” Rowe began. “She does, but she has a lot to clean up before she gets a second chance.”
Rowe said Smith will not be able to stay away from drugs and alcohol, which will likely be a condition of her parole.
“She will be behind bars immediately,” he added.
“If she still likes sex the way she did before, she'll find a strip club, too, and that would be a violation, too.”
Rowe pleaded guilty to having sex with Smith in 2001 while she was an inmate.
“I don't know how I let that happen,” he told Banfield.
“I think being young, never having been around that many women before … I just got caught up in her sweet talk and her cunning, her cool demeanor.”
Smith has been incarcerated at Leath Correctional Institution in Greenwood, South Carolina, for more than two decades.
In 1994, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder his two sonsShe left Michael, 3 years old, and Alexander, 14 months old, strapped into their car seats as she drove her vehicle toward John D. Long Lake in Union County.
At the time, she told police that a black man had robbed her car, and she appeared on the news begging for the boys' safe return.
Thirty years later, Smith has told her relatives that she believes she deserves freedom.
The Post previously reported Smith contacted her ex-husbandSpoke to David to see if he would support her bid for parole.
Relatives said they would be “100% opposed” to his release from prison when they were allowed to speak at a November hearing.
