“Offender Alert” flashed on the computer screen during a routine visitor check-in Tuesday at Annapolis High School.
And this was not the first time it happened to Torrence Davis, 22, of Annapolis. Davis ? a registered child sex offender charged with a fourth-degree sex assault ? said he was picking up his cousin from school.
“While I was looking at the picture on the computer screen and looking at him to confirm it was a match, he figured out something was wrong,” said Lisa Pitt, the school?s business manager.
The alert flagged Davis, indicating he also had received a notice for trespassing onto school property in May 2006.
“Sex offenders are not even supposed to be on school property,” Principal Don Lilley said.
Pitt attempted to occupy Davis in the school?s office until authorities were notified, “but he started to get nervous once he was being questioned,” county police spokesman Mark Shawkey said.
Davis left the school, and School Resource Officer Fred Paesch was notified to check the parking lots and confirm that Davis actually left school property.
The school did not notify the female student because they cannot let a child leave with a possible sex offender, Lilley said.
But when Paesch contacted the student?s mother, she told him Davis was a family friend and she sent him to pick up her daughter. Police do not know if she was aware he is a registered sex offender, Shawkey said.
Davis was arrested Tuesday at his house at 23 N. Linden Ave.
The school routinely runs the names of visitors through the Raptor/Vsoft computer software system that correlates with the national sex offender registry.
