He is also just 13-years old.

But no one will take him in, so Nicholas Stroeder has been living in an office building near Oak Harbor.

Even though he is a minor, police are taking the unusual step of releasing his picture and his name, because he's a level three sex offender, considered a high-risk to re-offend.

"His last crime, at the Alderwood Mall, where he tried to rape a young woman, was done while he was under supervision," said Island County Sheriff, Mike Hawley.

Last year, Stroeder was on a field trip with his group home, when he slipped into the ladies bathroom at the Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood.

He crawled under a stall and choked a woman while pulling off her clothes, until another woman came to her rescue.

Stroeder's record includes attacks on a 9-year-old year girl, a 7-year-old boy, and harassing female staffers while he was in custody.

After his release last week, he moved to Whidbey Island, but his family won't take him back. So he lives in a state office building.

Stroeder spends his days at the Child Protective Services offices, because his history of sexual violence is so extensive, no other facility, no foster home, will take him. He requires around the clock supervision.

When he's not at the office with a social worker, Island County deputies drive him around. At night they take him to an Everett facility to sleep. In the morning, the process starts all over again.

"I am demanding something be done. This is intolerable," said Sheriff Hawley. Hawley argues his deputies are "baby-sitting" a sex offender and it's costing taxpayers up to a thousand dollars a day.

He insists the C.P.S. workers are at risk, and so is the community if Stroeder flees.

"You want to live somewhere safe as possible for your kids, not somewhere where there are sex offenders running around," said a concerned father and resident, Andreas Lopez.

The State Department of Social and Health Services insists the situation is temporary.

"We are working extremely hard to find him a permanent facility. We are looking into leads both in and out of state," said spokesman Steve Williams.

For Sheriff Hawley, that's not soon enough. Monday, he'll meet with the community to tell them all about Stroeder; where he's lives, and why.

But first deputies will hand out fliers with the teen's picture and a warning about his past. They will take the fliers to all homes within a quarter mile of the office building where Stroeder is staying.