A Pierce County Superior Court judge was wrong to prohibit a child molester from using social media, sexually explicit materials and sexually oriented 900 numbers, an appeals court decided.
Those conditions of the man’s sentence were among those reversed Tuesday when Division II of the Washington State Court of Appeals ruled they weren’t directly related to the crime.
A jury convicted 23-year-old Derek John Dossantos of first-degree child molestation and indecent liberties, for inappropriately touching a girl in the pool of a Tacoma apartment complex in 2013. She was 8 at the time, and he was 18.
Superior Court Judge John Hickman sentenced Dossantos to five years, eight months in jail in 2015 as part of a Special Sex Offender Sentencing Alternative, which also required him to undergo sex offender treatment. ..Continued..
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