Soros-Backed DA Plans to Drop Charges Against Registered Sex Offender Accused of Trying to Kidnap a Child
“This has been like the fourth time that we’re sitting here thinking, How the hell did he get released? Who’s letting him out?”
A spokesman from the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s office told Fox News affiliate KDVR-TV on Friday that the DA plans to dismiss charges against a registered sex offender who allegedly tried to grab an 11-year-old child during recess outside Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado, in April 2024.
Solomon Galligan, 33, is charged with one count of attempted kidnapping.
Solomon Galligan, a registered sex offender, attempted to kidnap a boy at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado.
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— AF Post (@AFpost) April 22, 2024
KDVR reported they’d previously learned from Aurora police that “Galligan is a sex offender, whose registry is linked to the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office.”
The DA’s office told KDVR that after his arrest, Galligan underwent a competency evaluation and was later deemed incompetent.
As a result, a spokesman from the DA’s office told the media outlet last Friday they are “planning to drop charges against the defendant, which is required by law when they are found mentally incompetent to stand trial.”
In a Monday statement to The Washington Times, the spokesman said, “Bottom line: When a defendant is found incompetent to proceed, we are legally obligated to dismiss charges. Our hands are tied based on the findings of competency.”
The Times reported:
The DA’s office said Galligan will be civilly committed to mental health treatment upon his release, but the terms of his sentence were only shared in court.
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Court records said Galligan has a 2011 conviction of nonconsensual sexual contact, and a 2012 conviction for failure to register as a sex offender. He also asked the court to refer to him with she/her pronouns during his initial appearance last year.
The DA’s office said the suspect’s mental competency has been raised in past court cases outside of Arapahoe County.
The incident was captured by the school’s security cameras and released to the public following Galligan’s arrest.
In the video below, the suspect, presumably Galligan, can be seen lunging at a boy on a playing field. The boy escapes and runs to the others who have already fled. The boy later said Galligan smelled like alcohol and had white powder on his face.
KMGH-TV, ABC News’ Denver affiliate, reported that, according to a probable cause statement, “the children yelled ‘stranger danger’ as they ran toward the teacher assistants on the field.”
Colorado has gone to shit…
Charges against a registered sex offender who tried to kidnap a child from an elementary school, are set to be dropped as he's been deemed “too incompetent to stand trail”
He’s set to be released back into the community.
Solomon Galligan, 33,… pic.twitter.com/uYEsi47CNG
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) July 14, 2025
Shortly after Galligan’s arrest last year, several members of his family spoke to KUSA-TV to provide some details about his background. When Galligan was 16, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
His family said Galligan left the family home for good when he was 18 and for the past 12 years, he’s been in and out of jail. “Previous charges includ[ed] assault, burglary, and sex crimes.”
His niece, Amanda Morris told KUSA, “He was known for acting out, making impulse decisions, running away… not knowing where he was going.”
Except for the times Galligan was in custody, they never knew where he was. His older sister, Sarah Galligan, explained, “Every six months that we find him in the jail system, we’re happy he’s there, because then he’s not out on the streets.”
Sarah learned from her father about the April 2024 incident. She told KUSA, “It just really sucks he had to do something so eye-catching for everybody to see he’s not well, and he’s not okay to be out and be on his own.”
According to KUSA:
Sarah described the familiar routine of his past arrests: Galligan would be deemed incompetent to stand trial due to his mental health, but a shortage of beds in mental health facilities meant he couldn’t be treated or institutionalized. Consequently, he would eventually be released back into society, only to repeat the cycle.
“This has been like the fourth time that we’re sitting here thinking, How the hell did he get released? Who’s letting him out?” Morris questioned, highlighting the family’s frustration with the system.
But what happens if, as has occurred in the past, there is still a shortage of beds in local mental health facilities? If this man is released without proper supervision or treatment, he could pose a serious threat to the community. Rather than simply dismissing the charges, he needs to be closely monitored and, if necessary, institutionalized to protect public safety.
I suppose that’s not District Attorney Amy Padden’s problem.
Below is a photograph of Padden, who is responsible for this foolish decision. According to the Times, campaign finance records show she received approximately $40,000 in donations from billionaire George Soros last year. It may not sound like much, but in a district attorney race, $40,000 goes a long way.
As they say, “If you take the King’s shilling, you do the King’s bidding.” Apparently, Padden understands this concept very well. The Times reported on Padden’s “sweetheart deal to a 15-year-old illegal immigrant who killed a woman in a high-speed crash last summer.
The District Attorney allowing this child sex predator to walk free is Amy Padden.
Amy Padden is a Soros-funded prosecutor who is making Colorado unsafe for it citizens, but, as her record shows, a haven for predators, murderers & illegals. pic.twitter.com/zeQHj7Xhgh
— Greg Scott (@GScottSays) July 14, 2025
BREAKING – Progressive DA Amy Padden of Colorado plans to drop all charges against Solomon Galligan who attempted to kidnap a child near Black Forest Hills Elementary due to “mental incompetency.” pic.twitter.com/fVvNqZ5JC7
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) July 13, 2025
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The Arapahoe County voters are obviously very inclusive and enlightened.
Indeed. The DA received 100,000 Virtue Signaling Points for that.
But, how many live next door to their beliefs?
Not many. Most of them live farther down the street.
WAAAY down the street.
Oh, the luck of the Irish.
Eventually society is gonna have to decide to reopen and reinvest in confinement facilities for those adjudicated as mentally incompetent. The alternative is letting the wokiesta pendulum keep being pulled in one direction until society snaps and over corrects in the opposite direction. No whining from the wokiestas when it happens and at some point it will and it will be focused entirely on removing the Cray Cray to protect the rest of us. Gonna make Nurse Ratched seem like the angel of mercy.
This is it.
I’m not sure there’s a finger point available here unless there’s outright fraud in his competency findings. He looks very messed up from the pic and needs to be in a facility.
Looked at properly, when used for purposes of enforced quarantine from society, there really isn’t a hell of a lot of qualitative difference between a “treatment facility” and a prison. If Colorado won’t pony up for the former, then they need to use the latter.
I don’t disagree at all. But if you look at this pathetic creature it’s pretty clear that his parents abused a high volume of hard drugs.
I understand most states have a special Row set aside for people like him.
Depends on the state. In my state if you commit a felony and are mentally ill/on drugs, then you are considered “Acquitted due to mental illness or defect”, However, with that you become a ward of the state for 5 years during which time the court decides pretty much your whole life. Most end up the the state mental hospital. If you break any of the rules of your probation, they you get to start your 5 years over.
In Oklahoma I believe they have “Guilty but Insane”. You get the same sentence but you get to do it in the prison that has treatment staff.
In some states
That is not quite what is happening here. While this DA might be problematic for other Soros-related reasons, I am not sure that what happened in this case is one of them.
Galligan committed this act back in April 2024. Based upon previous professional experience with Colorado’s criminal justice system, I surmise that his attorney raised the issue of competency, and consequently, Galligan was sent down to the Colo. Mental Health Institute in Pueblo for an evaluation on the issue. I suspect that CMHIP found him incompetent to proceed, then he was committed to CMHIP temporarily to attempt to restore him to competency. A review was held probably sometime in the autumn of 2024, at which time they continued to hold him to continue to try to restore him to competency. Another review was probably held sometime in the last couple of months during which time CMHIP opined that he was permanently incompetent.
I want to note here that competency is different from insanity. The former is about whether the defendant is capable of understanding what is going on in court and able to assist his attorney in his defense. The latter is about whether the defendant was, at the time of the commission of the crime, capable of understanding the wrongness of his actions. Competency is a threshold matter for the court to determine before the case goes to trial whereas NGRI (not guilty by reason of insanity) is a plea made by the defense which allows the jury to find such verdict at trial, the consequence of which is commitment to a mental hospital rather than prison. Necessarily, a NGRI plea first requires that the defendant is competent to proceed. While a defendant’s attorney might hire whatever psychologist or psychiatrist he wants to evaluate his client and render an opinion on competency to rebut the findings of CMHIP, as a practical matter, the DA’s office will rely on the opinion of the state hospital.
Anyway, Colo. Rev. Stat. 27-65-108.5 provides that when a defendant is deemed permanently incompetent, the DA’s office, somebody from the Behavioral Health Administration, or some other mental health professional may petition the court to find the defendant to be a danger to himself or others and commit the defendant to short-term treatment (up to 3 months). This short-term commitment is not required every time a defendant is found to be permanently incompetent, but if a defendant is found permanently incompetent, the DA’s office may not continue to prosecute the case, and must dismiss.
There is a provision in C.R.S. 27-65-110 for long term commitment, which could last indefinitely (with evaluations every 6 months). However, the procedure for this sort of involuntary commitment starts only after a short-term commitment has first occurred.
The article doesn’t give us the details of the procedural posture of the case, but from what little we have, I suppose we should be glad that either the DA’s office or someone else in the government at least sought to commit him pursuant to this statute at all. Because the case is more than a year old at this point, I do believe that this isn’t simply a case of the DA being soft on crime, but rather that the case went through the process of competency determination pursuant to the Colorado Code of Criminal Procedure first, and that as a result of the process, it is being moved out of the criminal courts and into the realm of civil behavioral health proceedings.
Naturally, there might still be larger systemic issues that resulted in Galligan being out in the community such that he could commit the crime back in April of 2024 in the first place, but inasmuch as his earlier crimes took place in a jurisdiction roughly 100 miles south of Aurora, CO, those problems cannot be blamed on the Arapahoe County DA’s office. If Galligan is indeed committed pursuant to 27-65-108.5 the subsequently let out again, it is a problem, but likewise, I don’t think it would be fair to blame the DA for that. There might be some behind-the-scenes chicanery to which we are not privy, but from what information we do have, it seems to me that this particular case is not being dismissed due to any lack of zeal for getting justice for victims or holding perpetrators accountable on the part of the DA’s office.
AnevUSA –
Unfortunately , I am not familiar with the procedures, and requirements to get someone with that level of imcompetence committed.
He absolutely should be committed, unfortunately, I dont know state law well enough to get him committed to a mental facility.
Unfortunately, it is also well establish by US supreme court precedent that the defendent has to be competent to stand trial. Thus the DA cant try him. Whether dropping the charges is the correct procedure depends on whether it helps or hurts getting him committed, whether the charges can be reinstated if he regains competency in the future ( dropping the charges with or without predijuce?)
Sounds about right. But don’t worry, he’s going to be getting some “mental health treatment” so there’s no chance at all he’s going to try to
grabkidnap any other children, right? Right?!??The very fact that he committed this crime as a registered sex-offender should have resulted in his immediate incarceration under strict supervision for the rest of his natural life. But nope, the retarded blacks always get a pass on their criminal acts no matter how heinous or outrageous the actions are.
Handsome fellow, isn’t he.
First thought? Halloween mask.
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I confess that his remaining teeth are actually whiter than mine.
She ain’t much to look at either.
Looks like a cover plate for the next Stephen King novel.
“Sarah described the familiar routine of his past arrests: Galligan would be deemed incompetent to stand trial due to his mental health, but a shortage of beds in mental health facilities meant he couldn’t be treated or institutionalized. Consequently, he would eventually be released back into society”
Colorado is so f*g incompetent.
Florida officials have offered new “Galligan’s Island” exhibit at Alligatraz Theme Park.
Stephen King is the epitome of the acute TDS-afflicted sh*tlib. He’s like Rosie O’Donnell less the fake sack and strap-0n. The only worse-afflicted male celebrities I know of are Alex Baldwin and Robert DeNiro.
* Alec Baldwin
I was thinking more like an extra in that voodoo James Bond flick.
Live and Let Die with a young Jane Seymour
IMO Jane Seymour is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen..second place tie between Sophie Marceau, Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Connolly.
This creature needs to be returned to the Infernal Regions.
So does the defendant!
He’d be a helluva extra for a zombie movie!
But he wouldn’t see the point to demanding braaaaaaaains.
I was thinking, “Sex offender? Looks like he wanted to eat the kid’s brain.”
He has the right face and personality to match—one of the few people who could beat Zohran Mamdani running for mayor of NYC.
Drop him off on the DA’s doorstep.
The Open Society has its drawbacks.
I feel bad for his family. Schizophrenia is a heart breaker.
Please take this picture down. It’s kind of making me nauseous.
On the homepage, it shows up adjacent to Karen Bass’s manic grin photo.
My monitor overheats if I don’t scroll them off.
ty for publishing this
I saw this the other day and thought
if the gop doesnt take THIS EXACT situation and put it to the voters they are bigger losers than even I thought they could be
just to add to this mess:
The head of London’s Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, said on Sunday that it is “shameful” that there are more black teens being killed in the British capital city than white boys.
Despite only making up around 13 per cent of the city’s population, black Londoners account for 45 per cent of knife crime murder victims.
However, they are also vastly overrepresented in those who commit such crimes, with black Londoners accounting for 61 per cent of knife murderers and being responsible for 53 per cent of knife crimes in general.
^^^^THIS IS THE NEW DEMS..THE ONES THAT HOGG WANTS THE ONES THAT MOGIDISHU OMAR WANTS
the uk and the usa are on the same course to destruction as lefty policies overwhelm us
maga!!!!!
Most murders are done by acquaintances, even when gangs are involved the murderer and victim know each other. Maybe if the Brits focused on punishing criminals rather than inanimate objects they’d be able to do something about the violence.
I suspect, though, that he’ll just suggest executing working-class whites to even the numbers.
Saw that, what an idiot, certainly can’t add 1+1
Interesting side note: These are not the descendants of slaves. These are people right “off the boat” and the children of same. They have no legacy of slavery to account for their behavior. Maybe something else is involved?
their slavery was within their own continent /country/tribe
yeah,, that dna and/or culture is violent
Poster thug for the contemporary, vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crat Party, along with their innumerable illegal alien and Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist thugs.
The DA needs to undego the same test as the pedo as he too will be ruled incompetent
where do we go from there!!???
pam bondi!!!!!
How dare you assume its gender!
Deliver him to Alex Soros as a wedding present. He can become his butler.
In late COVID there was one of these creepies hanging out by the merry go round in Spokane. Everyone standing 10 feet apart. He was doing his twisty girations like he wasn’t right in the head right in front of the kids. I was pretty sure he was going to show his tool at some point.
Not that zombies have any awareness of such things, but I was in peak cauliflower ear form at that point. Amazing how he sobered up and became less girationy when I walked over and stood 5 ft from him. He creeped his ass back out of there and a few of the parents thanked me.
I had a GF whose brother was paranoid schizophrenic. His behavior was so bizarre at times that I wondered if any of it was a put-on, knowing that his behavior would be excused because he was mentally ill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CzFshwvLOc
His older sister, Sarah Galligan, explained, “Every six months that we find him in the jail system, we’re happy he’s there, because then he’s not out on the streets.”
in the jail system, we’re happy he’s there, because then he’s not out on the streets.”
in the jail system, we’re happy he’s there, because then he’s not out on the streets.”
the real queston then becomes:
why is the government formenting vigilantism !!!?!!!!
b/c they are
they know they are
especially when it comes to the black population of suspects being released not imprisoned
does the lefty really want those race riots and/or no riots just a black run america!
yes is the answer
and you know that for sure
He should be beaten with more than the ugly stick
We’ve got several mental cases in my small town. They are a constant problem because the jail isn’t equipped to take them, the hospital won’t take them and the state psychiatric hospital only has about 200 beds for the entire state and a few community based centers that don’t intake patients. Psychiatric hospitals are expensive to run and they don’t buy votes so there’s no way in hell my democrat run state is going to expend money on them. For some of these people, the only thing that can be done is to warehouse them and protect the public from them and them from themselves.
OK, I am a retired Commissioned Peace Officer of the State of Colorado. I also spent part of my childhood in Aurora, in Arapahoe County. Granting that at the time I was there, there were still mastodons roaming the open prairie where that school is now, All I will say is that if that creature ends up in the prison system; a) he will not last too long, and b) all three branches of the Democrat-controlled state government will go into morning for his loss.
Subotai Bahadur
I did consider the possibility of prisoner-on-prisoner violence when I made my equivalation earlier. But I estimated that the potential for patient-on-patient violence in a “mental health facility” might well not be all that different, and would certainly be suppressed less effectively.
All who had reason to be present on the streets of Manhattan and other boroughs (though mostly the former) in 1972 – 74 know what is was like after the “great” geraldo rivera presented his “investigative report” on Staten Island’s Willbrook State School and Hospital. Nelson Rockefeller (Rino-POS) was NYS Governor, saw an opportunity to be “sensitive” to the “horrors” rivera reported on (and there was much horror and government malfeasance).
Nelson decided he could bridge a perpetual budget gap and “do the ‘Right’ thing” (well before Spike); so Nelson shut down all of the state’s “mental hospitals” and “mainstreamed” the residents to the streets of NY.
For two + falls and winters the streets of Manhattan and other boroughs were “home” to the then “homeless”; the environment (aka exposure) was the governor’s solution to Willowbrook. geraldo didn’t care; he had made a “name” for himself and then a fortune.
“Mainstreaming” and “pharmaceuticals” are not the most appropriate answers to those born “mentally defective”. If the family cannot or will not provide “safety” and “care” then it is an appropriate role for government (“necessary and proper” and all that).
My imprecatory prayer is that geraldo, nelson and all those directly connected, as well their progeny to the third and fourth generation, suffer no less than those they abandon.
why didnt those who say they care…DO THEIR JOB???
when someone is homeless..where are those tax empties churches???
what are the dems who say THEY CARE??
etc
rockefeller etc ..its not their job to house people unless those people have committed a crime
so why right now 2025 are the biggest blue cities filled with homeless while san francisco boston etc etc have the high earning dem voting blocks,,NOT DOING THEIR JOB!!!??
correction:
tax exempt
I hate to defend the DA here, but they most likely had to dismiss because competency reports determined that the defendant was incompetent and not restorable in the foreseeable future.
Colorado’s competency laws are terrible.
And to clarify, that would necessitate dismissal because if the judge made the finding that the defendant was not restorable, Colorado law would require dismissal.
When considering dangerous offenders, determinations of incompetency are usually accompanied by an order to remand the offender to a mental institution.
In this case, the offender has already been found effectively untreatable. That should mean the trip to the institution should be his final trip to anywhere.
The article says that he will be civilly committed. But who knows what that means.
Eventually it’s gonna end with an ‘evil oprah’ who proclaims ‘You get a lobotomy… and you get a lobotomy ….all of y’all get a lobotomy’. OR if our govt refuses then a resurgence of the vigilante solution where homeless folks were doused in gasoline and lit afire to burn them out or move them out. These sorts can’t be turned loose in society and a solution of some sort will eventually be implemented.
there are always ways around this be
if you want
and yes I do mean legally
What is going to end up happening is he is going to try to grab some kid near an armed dad and get filled with lead. Then, being in Colorado, Dad will get charged for doing what needed to be done to protect his kids and the guy will become a martyr. We really do need to reopen a lot of mental institutions and have involuntary commitments again.
the willie horton of 2026
I think this guy has all the potential to be elected US congressman and become the newest member of the squad. Make it so dramacrats, Make it so,
Everything is fine as long as he can’t get into the gated communities where the woke social justice heroes live.