Coalinga State Hospital is where sexually violent predator Joshua Cooley is currently housed.
ABC 7 Bay area update: Investigators got a tip a couple hours after our story aired and sheriff's deputies say they found Zamora hiding under a tarp at a relative's house in Sanger.
From the original ABC7 Bay Area article:
An alleged sexually violent predator is free in Fresno County because of a mistake at the jail.
The jail accidentally released Juan Manuel Zamora, 54, Wednesday and he skipped court Thursday.
California's Megan's Law website says the convicted sex offender is incarcerated.
Court records show his conviction for sexual battery by restraint in 2009, and another for lewd and lascivious acts with a victim under the age of 14 in 2015.
His sentence on the most recent case was almost finished when the Fresno County district attorney filed a case to classify him as a sexually violent predator - a violent sex offender with a diagnosed mental disorder.
Three psychiatrists deemed Zamora too dangerous to release into society and worthy of a lifetime commitment to Coalinga State Hospital. As of last week, Zamora also faced another felony child sex case stemming from a pair of 2013 incidents with a teenager, but prosecutors dropped it on Oct. 14.
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