Sex Offender Update

Two of Clark County’s high-risk sex offenders have recently become homeless, another has moved near Ellsworth Elementary School, and a fourth has moved to the Camas area.

Curtiss George Sauer, Patrick Robin King, Kenneth Lester Bull and Shaun Lynn Appelman are among about 50 local sex offenders who are classified as Level 3, the group considered most likely to commit new sex crimes, according to bulletins from the Sex Offender Registration Unit of the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.

SAUER, 48, has been convicted of second-degree sexual abuse of a 9-year-old girl; communicating with an 8-year-old girl for immoral purposes; communicating with a 10-year-old girl for immoral purposes; and lewd and lascivious acts with a 13-year-old girl.

Sauer is white, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 185 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes.

He recently registered as living here with no fixed address.

KING has been convicted of indecent liberties with an 8-year-old girl whom he sexually abused and threatened to kill if she told others about the abuse; and first-degree child molestation of a 5-year-old girl while she slept.

He is white, 5 feet 9 inches tall and 210 pounds, with gray hair and blue eyes.

King, 57, drives a gray 1983 Pontiac Firebird with a temporary Washington permit and a white 1977 Tioga 23-foot motor home with Washington license 111VJP.

He also is registered as homeless.

BULL, 61, has been convicted of first-degree child molestation of a 7-year-old girl, who was confined to a wheelchair and whom he was babysitting; and communication with a girl, age 15 to 16, for immoral purposes.

In prison, he refused to participate in sex offender treatment.

He is white, 5 feet 5 inches tall and 185 pounds. His eyes and hair are brown and he is living at 10709 S.E. 10th St. in the Ellsworth Springs neighborhood, his bulletin says.

APPELMAN, 30, lives at 19917 N.E. 13th St. in the Camas area, his bulletin says. He has been convicted of first-degree child molestation of a girl, beginning when she was 1 year old until she was 7; and third-degree assault with sexual motivation of a 16-year-old boy while he was sleeping.

He is white, 6 feet tall and 240 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.

The four men are not being sought by police.

All are monitored by the sheriff’s unit and the Vancouver Police Department’s Sex Offender Tracking Unit.

King and Appelman also are monitored by the state Department of Corrections.

For more information on sex offenders call 360-397-2284; or visit http://communitynotification.com.