Freed Colo. Child Sex Assault Suspect Back In Jail

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- Michael McFadden, 46, who made national headlines after he was released on a technicality, after being sentenced to hundreds of years in prison for sex assault on six children, is back in jail.

Colorado Springs Police re-arrested Mcfadden at the El Paso County Citizen’s Service Center around 4:30 p.m. Friday after he was released from the Colorado Department of Corrections in Grand Junction. McFadden's 2015 conviction for sexual assault on a child was overturned, but McFadden had another open warrant for an earlier sexual assault on a child conviction which required him to register as a sex offender. McFadden was booked into the El Paso County Jail.

The Colorado man befriended people with young kids and then placed himself into situations where he could get access to them, prosecutors told The Daily Sentinel.

McFadden was sentenced to more than 300 years in prison — a life sentence that would prevent him from ever touching another child ever again.

But on Tuesday, he walked out of the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility a free man, after his conviction was overturned on a technicality.

McFadden appealed his conviction, saying he was denied his right to a speedy trial. His trial was delayed because his own attorneys tried to include provisions in the juror questionnaire to help them choose members. The defense also agreed — twice — to waive speedy-trial trial requirements, Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubenstein told Patch in an emailed statement.

A Colorado statute says defendants must be tried within six months and a state appeals court in June ruled that statute was violated. The court tossed his conviction and ruled he couldn't be retried again.

The state Supreme Court then declined to hear the case, allowing McFadden to walk away a free man, until he was caught in Colorado Springs on a previous warrant for a different sex assault case.

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