Sex offender escapes from state hospital treatment unit

Associated Press ^ | August 08, 2005 | Associated Press

[Former Military Chick]

3:35 p.m. - BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A sex offender who has criminal convictions for assaulting young girls escaped from North Dakota's state mental hospital, where he has been confined for treatment, authorities said.

David Johnson

David Johnson, 28, apparently cut through a security screen in a bathroom at the hospital between 1:05 a.m. and 1:25 a.m. on Monday, Highway Patrol Capt. Mark Bethke said.

More than 20 sex offenders are confined at a special unit of the Jamestown hospital for counseling and treatment. The process is called civil commitment, and it takes place when prosecutors, a judge and analysts consider the person sexually dangerous.

Someone may be committed without being convicted of a crime, although most offenders who are undergoing treatment have criminal records for sex crimes.

Court records say Johnson has convictions in Ransom and Sargent counties for sexual assault and gross sexual imposition.

Records say the December 1996 Ransom County sexual assault conviction resulted after Johnson was having sex with a 12-year-old girl, who resisted him when she found he wasn't wearing a condom.

Three years later, Johnson was convicted of gross sexual imposition in Sargent County for molesting three young girls who visited his home, records say.

[Former Military Chick]

Curious anyone hear about this escaped offender?

[trussell]

Missing person ping. Sex offender on the loose...

 

BISMARCK, N.D FReepers please be especially alert.

 

Blessings,

trussell

 

 If you want on/off my missing person ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.

[Former Military Chick]

PING

If you recall yesterday I posted the thread Wilberger family still hopes to find Brooke's body (where's the outrage like Natalee Holloway case) now I may not live in ND, however, I do know folks who live there, so I sent them this article. Just offering word of mouth of this animal seems like something we can do, where is I cannot do anything in Aruba.

[trussell]

North Dakota Freepers!! You have an active Fugitive Alert!

David Johnson, 28 years old.

Please stay alert for this fugitive sex offender!

Disclaimer...this list is composed of FReepers who claim this state as their home state. If you have moved or if you don't want to be alerted to urgent State news, please let me know. Please mention the state you were pinged to. Sorry for any inconvenience

[Alamo-Girl]

I pray that he will be captured soon and returned so that he can get help and that the innocents he may meet are protected.

[trussell]

I stand in agreement with that prayer Alamo-Girl!

[Smokin' Joe]

I have not heard anything, but thanks for the ping.

We will be on the lookout in the Williston area. Does anyone know any more about the guy (where his family is located, where he is likely to head, etc.)?

Grand kids will be looking at this mug shot tonight.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for joining in the prayer!

[Smokin' Joe]

I, too, am praying for his speedy return to a secure facility.

Thanks Alamo-Girl and trussell.

[benjaminjjones]

Ruh-Roh!

The perp looks like a kid himself.

[trussell]

My pleasure Joe...wouldn't it be great if a freeper found him?!!?

[luv2ski]

geez, he looks like he's 15...

[oceanperch]

Wilberger happened in our neck of the woods.

Horrible case how she was snatched.

Christian Longo was another horrific case that changed our towns track record of no grusome murders in the last 20 yrs.

We watched it on court tv being such a small community we reconized quite a few people attending the trial.
Not exactly a good thing to be seen on National TV in that venue.

Sick.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for joining in this prayer!

[Smokin' Joe]

I'd be happy to just make the neighborhood a little safer by making the parents around me aware. Mug shots will be distributed in the morning. I have 9 grand daughters ranging from 3 to 17, two of them live with my wife and I, and the neighborhood is just lousy with kids (great bunch--we love it!)

This is so little if it just helps.

I have also sent the links (to the FR post and to the original story) via e-mail to some folks with large forwarding lists in this neck of the woods, so the word will get around.

Hopefully, if he shows up out here, he'll get got.

[Former Military Chick]

Demographic Information:

Date of Birth: 09/28/77
Sex: MALE
Race: AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKAN NATIVE
Height: 5-07
Weight: 238
Eyes: BROWN
Hair: BLACK

Residence Address:

NORTH DAKOTA STATE HOSPITAL
1624 - 23RD ST SE
JAMESTOWN, ND 58401-0476
STUTSMAN CO.

Registration Information:

Expiration Date:	Lifetime
Last Address Verification:	05/06/05

[Former Military Chick]

Demographic Information:

Date of Birth: 09/28/77
Sex: MALE
Race: AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKAN NATIVE
Height: 5-07
Weight: 238
Eyes: BROWN
Hair: BLACK

Residence Address:

NORTH DAKOTA STATE HOSPITAL
1624 - 23RD ST SE
JAMESTOWN, ND 58401-0476
STUTSMAN CO.

Registration Information:

Expiration Date:	Lifetime
Last Address Verification:	05/06/05

[Former Military Chick]

Name: JOHNSON, DAVID

Offense:

SEXUAL ASSAULT - JOHNSON WAS HAVING INTERCOURSE WITH A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL AND WOULD NOT STOP WHEN SHE FOUND OUT HE WAS NOT WEARING A CONDOM AND RESISTED.
Conviction Date: 12/31/96
RANSOM COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, ND
Disposition: 1) 30 DYS SUSP 1 YR

Offense:

GROSS SEXUAL IMPOSITION - OFFENDER FONDLED THREE YOUNG GIRLS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS WHEN THEY WERE VISITING AT HIS HOME.
Conviction Date: 06/30/99
SARGENT COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, ND
Disposition: 5 YRS, ALL BUT 8 MOS SUSP

This listing refers to sexual offenses, and may not reflect the entire North Dakota criminal history of a particular individual. A complete public record North Dakota criminal history can be secured from the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation at the cost of $15 per subject.

For More Information:

Website: Criminal History Records

Phone: 701-328-5500

Fax: 701-328-5510

[GailA]

These creeps are not mentally ill, they are criminals and belong behind prison bars for life.

[tutstar]

bttt