SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A placement hearing is scheduled Monday for a sexually violent predator proposed for conditional release at a home in the Mount Helix neighborhood.
Merle Wade Wakefield, 64, who is currently housed at Coalinga State Hospital, is classified as a sexually violent predator, a designation for those convicted of sexually violent offenses and diagnosed with a mental disorder that makes them likely to re-offend.
After serving their prison sentences, sexually violent predators may undergo treatment at state hospitals, and may also petition courts to continue their treatment in supervised outpatient locations.
According to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, Wakefield was convicted of sex crimes in 1981 and 1990 and served prison terms for each crime.
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More than 40 people spoke at a hearing Tuesday, urging a San Diego judge to deny placement of a 78-year-old man classified by the state as sexually violent predator in a home in the Mount Helix area, where he would live under supervision and GPS monitoring.
Douglas Badger, 78
(Courtesy of San Diego County Sheriff’s Department)
Last month, local authorities announced the state had proposed placing Douglas Badger at 10957 Horizon Hills Drive, a home on the northeast slope of Mount Helix, just outside El Cajon city limits.
Superior Court Judge Theodore Weathers did not decide Tuesday on the proposed placement, nor did he indicate when he would make the ruling.
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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Elected officials and residents weighed in Tuesday on the proposed placement of a convicted sex offender in a supervised home in the Mount Helix neighborhood.
Comments from the public were shared during a San Diego Superior Court hearing regarding a proposal from the Department of State Hospitals to place Douglas Badger, 78, in a home at 10957 Horizon Hills Drive.
Badger, who is currently housed at Coalinga State Hospital, is classified as a sexually violent predator, a designation for those convicted of sexually violent offenses and diagnosed with a mental disorder that makes them likely to re-offend. After serving their prison sentences, sexually violent predators may undergo treatment at state hospitals, but may also petition courts to continue treatment in supervised outpatient locations.