OTTAWA — The mother of an 11-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted said she is “sick to (her) stomach” that the high-risk teenaged sex offender who attacked her daughter before trying to abduct another child was released from custody Thursday with apparently no place to go.

Ontario Court Justice Catherine Kehoe concluded the 15-year-old sex offender had to be released after he’d already spent 17 months in youth detention. However, the judge ordered that he couldn’t reside in his family home with his father, a physically and verbally abusive man who has assaulted the boy in the past and is currently on court-ordered conditions to stay away from his son.

Kehoe said the teen idolizes his father, and the family home is where he learned “violence, disrespect for women and minorities, and that verbal and physical aggression are acceptable behaviours.” The judge said she was not convinced that the teen would get the intensive supervision and sex offender treatment he needed if he lived there.

A doctor found the teen to be a high to very high risk to reoffend sexually.

But the teen’s youth probation worker addressed the court after Kehoe sentenced him to 19 months’ probation, including conditions that he remain under strict supervision and undergo treatment.

“We don’t have a place of residence for him outside of his family home,” explained Brandee Sisco.

“The alternative is for him to go to a youth shelter, and I’m not going to be able to supervise the conditions you’ve put in place if he is in a youth shelter,” said Sisco.

“I’m making that order right now that he can’t reside with his family. Either probation will have to do something or the CAS (Children’s Aid Society) will have to step in if he’s at risk,” replied Kehoe.

Outside of court, the mother of the 11-year-old girl the teen sexually assaulted said she felt “extremely unsafe.”

“It’s disgusting and no one is intervening,” said the mother. “Little children have to worry about this guy now.

“What’s going to happen to him? He has no residence,” she said. “He’s a high-risk offender. He is going to do this again if he doesn’t get the treatment,” she said. “He’s not going to be watched.”

“They can’t just allow this kid on the street. They can’t,” she said. “In the beginning, it was just fear for my daughter. Now it is every child that I fear for,” she said.

The woman said her daughter is terrified the teen will come hunting for her to try to do it again.

The woman’s daughter was lured by the teen in April 2011 from Bellevue Manor Park to a wooded area with promises of candy. He also attempted to lure an eight-year-old girl on a separate occasion, there was an ice cream store.

The teen was found guilty in June of sexual interference, sexual assault, abducting a person under the age of 14, and attempting to abduct a person under the age of 14.

The teen said during his sentencing hearing he would take counselling and medication, but that he didn’t want to remain in CAS care. The teen can opt out of CAS care when he turns 16 in about three weeks.