A convicted child sex offender not allowed on school property has been arrested after assaulting a referee at a high school basketball game in western Kentucky.
In a basketball game pitting Livingston Central High School against Lyon County High School on January 28 in Livingston County, 47-year-old Douglas E. Walker, of Salem (Livingston Co.), hit a referee with a “drink bottle,” which also struck a Lyon County player, according to WKDZ.com.
Walker was immediately escorted from the gymnasium.
The ensuing investigation showed that Walker is a child sex offender convicted of third-degree rape (victim under the age of 16), third-degree sodomy (victim under the age f 16) and unlawful imprisonment in Union County over a decade ago, according to the Kentucky State Police Sex Offender Registry.
Walker is a lifetime registrant on the registry, and therefore not allowed on school property.
He was arrested and charged with assault of a sports official, registered sex offender school restrictions and second-degree disorderly conduct and lodged in the McCracken County Detention Center. He is no longer listed as an inmate.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
