LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville Metro Police said 38-year-old Daralle Oliver has sexually assaulted at least four women, two of them Friday morning, downtown near the hospital corridor.
This isn't the first time he's accused of something like this.
"If somehow there is a failure in the system than who knows what might happen," said David Holton, retired district court judge.
He's looked through Oliver's lengthy criminal record which dates all the way back to 2013.
In 2017, Daralle Oliver was sentenced for four years for sexual abuse.
"A sexual abuse charge there's different degrees sex abuse 1st, sex abuse 2nd those can carry decades in prison," Holton said.
Oliver's repeated offenses include eight criminal trespassing cases where he was found to be incompetent in July of 2013.
So why was Oliver's cases always dismissed?
Holton said the court has an obligation to dismiss a case when someone is incompetent.
"If that criminal statue cannot be prosecuted because of the incompetency that's where the prosecutor has to step in and file for the civil commitment," said Holton.
Louisville Metro Police, as part of their public safety warning, released an image of Oliver on social media walking into the lobby of UofL Health -- Jewish Hospital Friday morning.
LMPD stressed that no sexual assaults happened on their campus.
"It's great," community member Carolyn Allen said. "That's where he needs, to be off the streets."
She and other Louisvillians are thankful he was arrested in Jeffersonville after LMPD sent out a warning for people to be on the lookout for him.
"You never know people walking around what they're doing and what they're up to, you just can't trust anybody anymore," Allen said.
Holton has called for more investments for mental health when offenders are found to be incompetent.
"That's where our behavioral health system needs to step in and more vigorously address those issues," he said.
He said not everyone who commits an offense can be incarcerated and that "it's a lot less expensive to treat than it is to incarcerate."
WHAS11 talked with Louisville Metro Police about the arrest in Jeffersonville.
They told WHAS11 that before he can be returned to Louisville, Oliver will have to first answer the charges he's facing in Jeffersonville.
WHAS11 have not yet confirmed those charges.
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