'If I walked away it would be on my conscience. I just couldn't walk away'
Michael Rogers 49, said shortly after the rescue that he could not bear to walk away and have the girl's death on his conscience, and Hamden police said an officer involved in the rescue might have died without his help, too.
Rogers was being held without bond in Connecticut on Wednesday, one day after he was arrested at his sister's Hamden home on a charge of being a fugitive from justice, police said. Georgia authorities said they planned to seek his extradition.
Police say Rogers was convicted in 2001 of four counts of child molestation in Georgia, but left the state in 2005 against terms of his probation and had been sought since then. Details were not immediately available Wednesday about the Georgia crime or the jurisdiction in which it occurred.
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