10-31-16 Minnesota:ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Mower County man has lost an appeal of his civil commitment as a sex offender.
Aaron Michael Hayes of Austin, who is now 35-year-old, was sentenced to 144 months in prison for the sexual assault of an 81-year-old woman in 2002. That followed Hayes not being prosecuted after he allegedly sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl in 1990 when Hayes was nine-years-old.
Court records say that while in prison, Hayes assaulted correctional officers and other inmates. He also entered the Minnesota sex-offender program twice and was rejected from the program twice, once for threatening the prison psychiatrist and a second time for threatening another offender and his lack of progress in the program.
