Registered sex offender from Meredith is alleged to have re-offended with pre-teen girls

LACONIA — A Superior Court judge ordered registered Meredith sex offender held on $50,000 cash only bail Monday for allegedly violating the terms of his parole.

Paperwork filed with the Belknap County Superior Court indicated Daniel Blackstone, 26, of 222 Chemung Road allegedly sexually assaulted two girls, ages 8 and 11, while visiting with his girlfriend in an undisclosed Maine community.

Blackstone was convicted of felonious sexual assault on July 19, 2007 for having oral sex with a girl who was younger than 13-years-old. The assaults took place in Meredith between October of 2003 and January of 2004 when Blackstone was 20.

He was placed on three years probation after his release from jail.

Under the 2008 terms of his probation and 2007 conviction, Blackstone was ordered not to leave New Hampshire without permission from his parole or probation officer and not to have unsupervised contacts with any minors.

According to documents filed by Parole Officer Seifu Ragassa, on March 15, Blackstone allegedly admitted to leaving the state multiple times between September 2010 and January to visit his girlfriend in Maine.

He also allegedly admitted to unsupervised physical contact with two girls, allegedly telling Ragassa he fondled and touch them inappropriately.

Blackstone is being held at the Belknap County House of Corrections and is scheduled for a bail hearing in Belknap Superior Court on May 14. Should he post bail, Judge James O'Neill Jr. ordered he live with his mother on Chemung Road, sign a waiver of extradition, and be subject to 24-hour confirmation of his whereabouts.

He may seek bail modification if he is accepted into a residential treatment program.