Cary Jay Smith (59)Officials warn of sex offender?s release from mental hospital after 20 years

[JohnLanders]

https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/ne...fter-20-years/

ORANGE COUNTY, California (KTLA) ? After spending 20 years in a state mental hospital, a Costa Mesa man who was required to register as a sex offender is now free, thereby prompting Orange County officials to warn the public and ask Gov. Gavin Newsom to intervene.

Cary Jay Smith, 59, was sent to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino in 1999 on a 72-hour psychiatric hold after his wife gave a letter to a psychiatrist which detailed sex acts Smith wanted to perform on a 7-year-old boy from his neighborhood, the Orange County District Attorney?s Office said in a news release on Tuesday.

Smith was held at the mental hospital since 1999 under a section of the state?s Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC 5300) as a result of a series of civil trials that determined he presented a ?demonstrated danger of inflicting substantial physical harm? to children, authorities said.

?During those hearings, Smith has repeatedly testified that he fantasizes about raping and then killing young boys in order to avoid being identified,? Kimberly Edds, spokeswoman for the DA?s Office, said in a statement. ?He claims that he has killed three boys and molested 200. He prefers to go by the name Mr. RTK, which stands for rape, torture, kill.?

In 1985, Smith plead guilty to a misdemeanor sexual offense involving a child and was required to register as a sex offender.

While at the state hospital, Smith was allowed a new trial every six months to demonstrate that he was no longer a danger to society. Over the years, psychologists testified that Smith posed an imminent danger and county lawyers argued to keep Smith confined, the DA?s Office said.

However, the state hospital did not renew the psychiatric hold against Smith and it expired on Saturday. His requirement to register as a sex offender was removed in 2005.

Smith was released from Coalinga State Hospital in Fresno County, to which he was transferred at some point, Edds said.

Edds told KTLA it is believed that Smith is ?making his way back to Orange County,? where he previously lived and still has ties.

O.C. District Attorney Todd Spitzer and Michelle Steel, chairwoman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, are urging Newsom to reinstate the requirement to have Smith register as a sex offender and warning the public about his history.

?This sexual predator has repeatedly testified under oath that he will re-offend if he is released and we should believe him,? Spitzer said. ?The public has an absolute right to know that he is coming back into our community, and we will do everything we can to prevent another child from being harmed.?

Orange County prosecutors filed 20 felony counts of a lewd and lascivious act with a minor against Smith in 2002 but were forced to dismiss those charges due to the statute of limitations of the law at the time.

[JohnLanders]

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020...n-coronavirus/

SANTA ANA (CBSLA) — Seven high-risk registered sex offenders were have been released months early in the statewide effort to reduce the jail population to slow the spread of coronavirus.

According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, each of the offenders have been charged with cutting off their monitors or tampering with their tracking devices to render them inoperable, after being released from jail for crimes ranging from indecent exposure to sexual battery to child molestation. They have also all repeatedly violated parole.

“These kinds of high-risk sex offenders are the most dangerous kind of criminal and the most likely to re-offend. They are doing everything they can to avoid detection by the parole officers assigned to monitor them so they can potentially commit additional sex offenses,” OC District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement. “These are not the kind of people who should be getting a break.

Top from left, Rudy William Grajeda Magdaleno, Calvin Curtis Coleman, Jose Adrian Oregel, Kyle Albert Winton. Bottom from left, Luis Joel Ramirez, James Franklin Bowling, Mario Ernesto Sandoval. (credit: Orange County District Attorney’s Office)

The released sex offenders include:

Luis Joel Ramirez, 27, whose criminal history includes sexual battery, assault with a deadly weapon, resisting a peace officer, burglary and possessing a leaded cane.
James Franklin Bowling, 50, whose criminal history includes lewd conduct in a public place, repeated convictions for failing to register as a sex offender, repeated convictions for sex offender on school grounds, possession of controlled substances and paraphernalia.
Rudy William Grajeda Magdaleno, 39, whose criminal history includes child molestation, indecent exposure, assault, battery, criminal threats and inflicting injury on an elder adult.
Calvin Curtis Coleman, 52, whose criminal history includes lewd conduct in a public place.
Kyle Albert Winton, 40, whose criminal history includes annoying/molesting a child, criminal threats to cause great bodily injury or death, resisting a peace officer, DUI and hit-and-run with property damage.
Jose Adrian Oregel, 45, whose criminal history includes unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, oral copulation of a person under 18 and great bodily injury. He is also a second striker.
Mario Ernesto Sandoval, 45, whose criminal history includes sexual battery, touching for sexual arousal, indecent exposure, assault on a peace officer and assault.

The OC jail population has been reduced by nearly 45% since March 7. Sheriff Don Barnes reported to the OC Board of Supervisors that new precautions are in place to keep inmates safe, including social distancing, masks and the quarantining of new inmates. Barnes, however, says his department was not responsible for the release of these inmates.