By Alan Duke
February 23, 2014
Photo courtesy veooz.com
(CNN) – A convicted child rapist apparently cut off his ankle monitor and left a Colorado group home where he was serving parole, a state official said.
A fugitive warrant was requested minutes after Eric Eugene Hartwell, 51, walked away from “Independence House” in Denver Friday evening, Colorado Corrections Department spokesman Roger Hudson told CNN Sunday.
Hartwell was convicted of raping a child in 1991 and attempted indecent liberties in 1996, according to the Colorado sex offender registry.
“This is an active investigation of an absconder that we are hoping not to send even farther underground,” Hudson said.