Two clients from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program facility in Moose Lake appeared in Carlton County Court last week, charged with crimes committed within the facility.
Hearings scheduled for both men were continued until Sept. 29, because attorney Terri Ann Port Wright only recently started representing the clients in court.
Saprio B.B. Doranti was in court for several incidents that allegedly occurred in the past 11 months at the sex offender treatment center, including several felony charges of making terrorist threats and indecent exposure, as well as felony fourth-degree assault, criminal damage to property in the fourth degree and possession of a dangerous weapon. Doranti legally changed his name from Elliot Bell Holly.
According to the complaint:
In February, Doranti was a patient in the high-
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security unit of the Sex Offender Program facility when staff observed him damaging the walls by scraping them and rubbing ink and feces on them. He allegedly had at least two metal shanks, which he had sharpened to a point. The shanks, or sharpened objects, appeared to be made out of metal from an eyeglasses case and a nail clipper. He proceeded to make numerous threats to harm nearby security staff. The complaint also states that when two female staff members tried to reason with him, he threatened to kill one and blow up her home and exposed his genitals to the other.
The second patient, William Emil Caldwell, was scheduled to have a review hearing on charges of criminal sexual conduct in the first and second degrees, false imprisonment and misdemeanor assault in the fifth degree for the attempted rape of a fellow inmate on May 28, 2009.
According to the criminal complaint, the attempted rape is alleged to have occurred when a security counselor was helping a separate patient with the use of a printer. A man in a room about 10 feet from the security counselor was found with bruising and redness on his face, neck, stomach and arms, and he stated that Caldwell had struck him repeatedly and tried to choke him while trying to remove his clothes. Although the security counselor peeked into the room more than once, the complaint stated that Caldwell only momentarily ceased his attack when the counselor looked, until his victim was able to wrestle away from him, hit the door lock button and get out of the room, according to the complaint.
If convicted of a crime, clients of the Sex Offender Program can be sent to prison rather than remain in the treatment facility for sex criminals.
