That was *last* year's assault... After that, son lived in a hotel for a while, then opted to be homeless.

I was handing out soup last winter solstice and gave him soup before I recognized him. He was unpleasant to me, but not belligerent.

He would ignore me if he saw me on other occasuons. He posted something weird about martial arts and the cops once, he still has Facebook.

Then (what keb refers to) was I heard while I was out of town that he got arrested, and when I looked up public records there were 3 things, an assault arrest in Feb, and a lewd and lascivious plus another assault and some emergency order thing from June 5. I called the jail, he'll be there till court July 1, no bond. He is in quarantine or was when I called because everybody gets quarantined, he has not asked for counseling. So other people are safe from him right now. I felt more relief than anything.

Then I had a long talk with the arresting officer. She did not remember what she arrested him for in Feb but what he did in June was, to my mind, a serious escalation of his mental illness, being that he grabbed a woman by the tit and then dropped trou. She and her friend brought the willywagging charges, the emergency thing is a restraining order against him.

I have emailed the prosecutor of record and the commonwealth's attorney asking if the case can be moved to mental health court but have not heard back.

So one hand, relief for safety of others; other hand yikes, he has never been sexually violent before, and thinks of women as people (or at least did growing up). And on the gripping hand, I have no standing, legally, to request mental health court. Probably up to the victims.

So, yeah, interesting times.