The state Attorney General’s Office filed a petition Friday seeking to civilly commit a convicted sex offender from Clark County to prevent his release into the community.
Charles Alfred Boling, 70, was convicted in 1992 on two counts of first-degree child molestation and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was released in 2014 on community custody in Vancouver but twice violated the conditions of his release and was sent back to prison to finish his sentence, according to a news release from the Attorney General’s Office.
Boling was scheduled to be released Aug. 8. However, after the Attorney General’s Office filed its petition in Clark County Superior Court, a judge found probable cause to believe that Boling is a sexually violent predator. The preliminary ruling allows the state to detain him for further proceedings, the news release states.
Under the state’s Sexually Violent Predator law, the Attorney General’s Office can petition for the involuntary commitment of violent sex offenders who, because of mental illness or a personality disorder, are found to likely reoffend if they are released.
