OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — The Clackamas County sheriff’s office says a registered sex offender posed as a woman to enter a women’s locker room and hot tub at the Clackamas Aquatic Park where he talked with children.
Det. Jim Strovink says a chaperone spotted Thomas Lee Benson and chased and held him Friday until deputies arrived.
KGW reports the 39-year-old Gresham man is facing charges that include unlawful contact with a child and unlawfully being in a location where children congregate.
Benson was convicted in 1994 for child sexual abuse and was directed to have no contact with children.
