A Colorado child molester who walked free after a court ruled he didn’t get a speedy trial is back behind bars after four days on the street.

Michael McFadden was convicted of sexually assaulting six children but was freed from jail when the Colorado Supreme Court refused to reconsider a lower court’s ruling that he didn’t get a speedy trial.

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The issue involved a jury questionnaire and a ruling about whether his attorneys had waived certain time requirements each time it was required.

Prosecutors had said that McFadden selected families with young children, most frequently boys, who he molested while riding four-wheelers and dirt bikes.

“He gets into a situation where he has access to those kids, and he grooms them pretty heavily,” the prosecutor said.

McFadden had to register as a sex offender because of a previous conviction and didn’t do so, which is why he was re-arrested Friday night in Colorado Springs.