Man arrested in Melbourne child molestation case was fresh out of jail, records show

A Palm Beach County man suspected of molesting a child in Melbourne last month was let out of jail for violating probation on a prior child sexual assault conviction just days before the alleged incident, court and jail records show.

Douglas Louis Ryan, 33, of Pahokee, was arrested Tuesday in Palm Beach County. He was being held Wednesday without bond and awaiting transfer back for Brevard on one count of lewd and lascivious molestation on a victim under 12.

Melbourne police responded Sep. 27 to an address in the 500 block of Footbridge Drive, in the Meadows Mobile Home Park off North John Rhodes Boulevard, regarding a complaint that a 10-year-old child had been molested the previous day, according to a police press release.