Sex Offender has been arrested for RE-OFFENDING at local church

King 5News ^ | July 2, 2005 | PAT McREYNOLDS / KING 5 News

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You would think that would count but sadly it doesn't, yet.

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Of course not - when it's said "by them's what makes the rules".

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He's dead
boo-freaking-hoo

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002357046_offender04.html

Snohomish County Jail authorities are investigating how David Herget, a registered sex offender, died while on suicide watch at the jail early Saturday morning.

Jail authorities did not say that Herget, 62, killed himself, but more than one law-enforcement source said he did. The county medical examiner is expected to release the cause of death tomorrow.

Mountlake Terrace police arrested Herget on Friday on suspicion of 18 charges, including child rape and child molestation, involving three minors, and he was booked into the county jail later that day.

Authorities put him on suicide watch after a family member expressed concern Herget might harm himself and because of the nature of the allegations, said jail spokesman Jim Harms.

On suicide watch, Herget was in a single-occupancy cell in the jail's Special Custody Unit and was observed every 30 minutes. The officer watching Herget also was guarding 32 others at the time, though not all were on suicide watch, Harms said.

Around 4 a.m. Saturday that officer called a medical emergency, and a nurse on duty performed emergency CPR on Herget.

The jail staff also called 911, but emergency-medical technicians could not save Herget, who died around 4:30 a.m., before he could be taken to a hospital, according to Harms.

A post-incident review is under way, and an internal investigation may be conducted, Harms said. The last time an inmate committed suicide while in the Snohomish County Jail custody was in 2003, Harms added.

Mountlake Terrace police arrested Herget after the three minors in the past week reported the alleged incidents, said Police Chief Scott Smith. He was booked on six counts of child rape, six counts of child molestation, three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor using photographs and live performances, and three counts of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes.

Herget allegedly met the youths at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mountlake Terrace, where he was a member, police said. Smith said there are four other possible victims.

Herget was convicted in 1993 of second-degree child rape in another Mountlake Terrace case. He was sentenced to seven years in prison, which was suspended after he served 180 days in jail, promised to undergo 36 months of treatment as an outpatient sex offender and registered as a sex offender.

He was released from community supervision on that conviction in August 2001, court records indicate. The suspect was registered as a Level 1 sex offender, considered the least likely to reoffend.