An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday in Clark County Superior Court for a Vancouver man accused of trying to pay a 16-year-old boy for sex.
Michael S. Hanley, 46, was summoned to appear in Superior Court on a charge of commercial sex abuse of a minor, but Hanley did not show. Judge Scott Collier authorized a warrant on the prosecution’s request.
On Dec. 10, the boy reported to police that a man, identified in court records as Hanley, had molested him inside the man’s residence in the Landover-Sharmel neighborhood, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The boy told a forensic interviewer that he and Hanley were friends, and he often stayed the night at Hanley’s residence. He said Hanley would give him alcohol to drink, the affidavit states.
