The bridge where state officials told a high-risk sex offender to sleep after his release from prison earlier this month is less than five miles from the home of the woman he raped.
Some of her children go to an elementary school blocks from the bridge. Another goes to the high school about a mile away.
“I’m scared to be at my house now. I’m scared to go around town. I’m scared to run into him. I’m scared for my kids at school,” said Sabrina, 29. She asked that her last name not be used. “I don’t think he has anything to lose now, so who knows what he’ll do.”
Police still are looking for David J. Torrence, 43, a level-3 sex offender released from prison on April 20. He was told by state parole officers to sleep below a bridge along 88th Street Southwest under U.S. 2 near Snohomish.
Torrence was released from prison April 20 and under Washington Department of Corrections supervision until he cut off a tracking bracelet in Lynnwood Wednesday night, April 23, said Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Rebecca Hover.
Torrence had served a year-long prison sentence for failing to register as a sex offender before his release, she said.
Police recovered the GPS bracelet and box at an apartment complex in the 5800 block of 200th St. SW.
The Washington Department of Corrections issued a nationwide warrant for felony escape with no bail.
In 1995, Torrence pleaded guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court to raping a 16-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 89 months in prison.
Anyone who knows where David J. Torrence is should call 911.
Herald reporter Jackson Holtz contributed to this story.
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