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Sex offender charged with trespassing at Annapolis school
Database alerted officials that man was convicted of sex offense
By Justin Fenton, Baltimore Sun

August 29, 2007 – A 22-year-old sex offender was arrested yesterday afternoon after attempting to enter Annapolis High School to pick up a family friend, Anne Arundel County police said.

School officials said a program adopted last school year to track visitors -- which also scans a national registry of sex offenders -- alerted staff that Torrence Ramone Davis, of Annapolis, was listed as a potential sex offender. He left the school without the student, and was later arrested and charged with trespassing.

Davis told school officials he had come to pick up a relative, and the student's mother confirmed to police that he was a family friend whom she had sent. But as a sex offender, he is banned from school property without written permission from school officials.

According to court documents, Davis was charged with rape and a fourth-degree sex offense in September 2005. He pleaded guilty to the fourth-degree sex offense in March 2006 and received three years of supervised probation and a suspended six-month prison sentence.