LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville police arrested a man accused of sexual assaulting four women in downtown Louisville.

In a social media post Friday, Louisville Metro Police said the man pictured above inside UofL Health — Jewish Hospital allegedly sexually assaulted four several women in or near the hospital parking garages, and two of the incidents happened Friday morning.

"Nobody feels safe walking to work thinking they're going to get assaulted," said Kelly Vormvorck, who works downtown.

"Our security cameras captured an image of the person in question, and in cooperation with LMPD, provided the photo to police," Heather Fountaine, a spokesperson for UofL Health, said in a statement Friday. "This image was taken after the alleged physical assaults mentioned by LMPD, which did not occur on our campus or involve UofL Health employees, patients or visitors."

LMPD said it was "saturating" downtown with marked and unmarked units, focused specifically on the hospital corridor. The man had made both homicide and suicidal threats, police said.

The man had made both homicide and suicidal threats, police said.

About 45 minutes after the initial post, police said the man, identified as 38-year-old Daralle Oliver, was arrested in Jeffersonville, Indiana, on unrelated charges.

"I'm glad they got him so he wouldn't attack nobody else or nothing," said Kim Brown, who works downtown.

Oliver is a repeat offender with a history of being found incompetent to stand trial. He has over dozen misdemeanor charges including disorderly conduct, menacing and theft in Kentucky, and several more in Indiana. 

In 2015, Oliver was charged with attempted rape. Court records said he tried to rape a female patient at Our Lady of Peace Hospital.

It is a behavioral health hospital where Oliver was also a patient. He pleaded guilty in 2017 when the charge was lowered to sexual abuse.

He was sentenced to four years in prison and registered as a sex offender. 

"It appears that the system hasn't appropriately protected the community from this man," said Rep. Jason Nemes, R-Louisville.

According to the state sex offender registry, Oliver's listed address is in Lexington. He's expected to be charged for Friday's accused crimes in Louisville.

If guilty, Oliver could end up behind bars again, or if a judge rules him incompetent following a court process, the Cane Madden law, passed with bipartisan support in 2021, could involuntarily hospitalize Oliver.

"It protects our community, make sure there are fewer victims," Nemes said. "But it's also good for him because he needs to get treatment."

Cane Madden is a Louisville man who continued to commit crimes, and found incompetent to stand trial but also failed to meet the criteria for involuntary hospitalization, over and over for several years. 

Most recently, Madden was charged with the August 2019 beating and rape of a Louisville child until he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial on March 11, 2020. 

In multiple instances in the past, Madden had been found incompetent and failed to meet this mental health criteria — meaning he repeatedly walked free — dodging both incarceration and mental health treatment. In Madden's case, psychiatrist ruled treatment would not help him. 

If a judge finds there is a preponderance of evidence of guilt, there will be another hearing to determine whether it is in the best interest of the defendant and the community for the person to be involuntarily hospitalized using four new criteria, such as whether the person was a danger to themselves or others.

If the defendant is hospitalized, a judge would periodically review the status of the person.

On April 1, 2021, Beshear signed a bill into law that patched that gap in state law as it related to Madden's situation. Under the law, a defendant found incompetent has an evidentiary hearing, in front of a judge, to determine if there is a probability the person committed the crime. The defendant will have an attorney for this hearing.

The law was slightly adjusted in 2024, so that it could apply to to offenders without a history of criminal behavior. 

Balancing the rights of individuals, protecting the community, and involuntary incarceration can be controversial.

Nemes said the Cane Madden law has a fair approach.

"It's a mighty important thing that we're doing here, so we have to make sure that we're careful when we do that and then we don't do it willy nilly," Nemes said. "We want to make sure that it is in the rare circumstance where we involuntarily commit someone because you're innocent until proven guilty and so forth, and that's something that we hold as sacred in our country."

A new report by the U.S. Department of Justice accused the state of Kentucky of failing people with mental illnesses.

It's all laid out in a nearly 30-page investigation, accusing the state of breaking the law.

The DOJ's findings claim the state is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by how it treats people with serious mental illnesses, specifically in Louisville.

“People with serious mental illnesses in Louisville are caught in an unacceptable cycle of repeated psychiatric hospitalizations because they cannot access community-based care,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in the reports initial release.

The report said thousands of people are admitted to psychiatric hospitals, like Central State Hospital, every year in Louisville. More than 1,100 patients had multiple admissions in a year, and some spent more than a month in the hospitals.

The DOJ said the state “relies unnecessarily on segregated psychiatric hospitals to serve adults with serious mental illness who could be served in their homes and communities.”

The Justice Department said it would work with the state to remedy the report’s findings. But if a resolution cannot be reached, the government said it could sue Kentucky to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The LMPD Office of Sexual and Physical Abuse Investigations will handle Oliver's case.

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