Waukesha - A 44-year-old Waukesha man who already spent seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a teenage boy was ordered committed to a state-secure mental health institution after a jury determined he remains a threat.
Hector Munoz was scheduled to be released from prison in February 2010, but the state Department of Justice filed a petition under the state's sexual predator law to block his release.
After a two-day trial, a jury on Wednesday determined Munoz is a sexually violent person and Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Mark D. Gundrum ordered Munoz committed indefinitely to a state-secure mental health institution.
The sexual predator law allows for the worst sex offenders to be held for treatment after prison if it is determined during a civil trial that they are more likely to re-offend than not.
In its petition, the state contended Munoz suffers from a mental condition that predisposes him to engage in acts of sexual violence and it is likely that he will engage in future acts of sexual violence.
Munoz was a registered sex offender at the time of his conviction in 2003 of third-degree sexual assault and exposing a child to harmful materials, according to court records. He had sexual contact with a 15-year-old boy and gave him pornography, court records show.
In 2002, Munoz had been placed on 18 months' probation for a lewd and lascivious behavior charge issued in 2001. He served five days in jail, had to register with police departments as a sex offender and was not allowed any unsupervised contact with children, according to court records.