Trans sex offender AVOIDS justice despite 'trying to abduct child from school playground'

However, Galligan has escaped prosecution due to a controversial law - which has drawn criticism from prosecutors and even his own lawyer.

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Thanks to an amendment to Colorado's competency law, the presiding judge had no choice but to dismiss the charges because the 33-year-old cannot be "restored" to competency.

Prosecutor Ryan Brackley said: “Someone could ask that she be put into a more long-term, secure facility, but because the criminal case had to be dismissed, that’s not something that we have any control over anymore.

“What we would like to avoid in this case... is the tendency for it to be a revolving door through the criminal justice system, into the civil justice system and back to the criminal justice system without any meaningful secure mental health treatment."

Galligan is currently staying at a treatment centre, the District Attorney's (DA's) office for Colorado's 18th district has confirmed.

A spokesman for the DA's office said: “Given Galligan’s documented history of mental illness and previous criminal cases, we are hopeful they will remain in an in-patient treatment center for the foreseeable future."

The DA's office suggested that the "only way" that Galligan will be released back on to the streets is if “a licensed professional notates that they believe Galligan is no longer a threat to the public or themselves”.

Galligan's own attorney blasted the law after the case was dropped.

The attorney told the court that “we recognise that there is a broken system in the state of Colorado".

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The registered sex offender's sister, Sarah Galligan, revealed that her sibling was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia as a teenager, and said that the community was unsafe with the perpetrator on the streets.

Sarah also said that the 33-year-old has been in and out of prison for the past 12 years.

She said: “It just really sucks he had to do something so eye-catching for everybody to see he’s not well, and he’s not OK to be out and be on his own."

Surveillance footage captured the moment that Galligan appeared to charge towards students playing in the school's field, causing children to run away shrieking "stranger danger".

A police report highlighted that Galligan allegedly grabbed one of the children - but lost his grip on the student after he had tripped.

The president of the Aurora Police Association, David Exstrom, said: “My heart breaks for the kids that were at that school on the playground that day that they had recently experienced that.

“And then to see that he wasn’t held accountable for that. My question is going to be, what’s kind of the long term impact that those kids have in the police in our judicial system?”

Dante White, whose 11-year-old was on the field at the time of the incident, revealed that his son, along with many of his peers, have had to seek therapy due to the trauma of the ordeal.

White said: "My son wouldn’t even go upstairs to, like, brush his teeth unless I was right there with him... That’s not a way to live.”