In re the Detention of Froats

¶1 Edward Froats appeals a trial court order committing him to the Special Commitment Center as a sexually violent predator. He argues that the State failed to prove a requisite recent overt act.

¶2 Because on the day the State filed the commitment petition Froats was incarcerated for conduct that would itself qualify as a recent overt act and because the trial court correctly found that he committed several recent overt acts during incarceration, we affirm.

FACTS

¶3 In 1973, Froats abducted two children from a playground at knifepoint and drove them around in his car for an hour or more. The…