In April of last year, 33-year-old Solomon Galligan approached a playground at Black Forest Hills Elementary in Aurora, prompting children to flee after he lunged at one of them.
Galligan was later arrested and identified as a convicted sex offender, raising questions about how the state handles individuals with severe mental illness who are deemed unfit to stand trial.
Galligan was charged with kidnapping and child abuse, but those charges were dropped after he was ultimately determined incompetent to stand trial and sent to a psychiatric facility…