A registered sex offender who raped an Oak Harbor girl while under supervision by the Department of Corrections is headed back to prison.

Last December, 20-year-old Caleb Clark pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court to one count of third-degree child molestation for having sex with a underaged runaway.

At a sentencing hearing Monday, Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Eric Ohme recommended that Clark receive a top-of-the-range sentence of three years and five months in prison.

Both the defense attorney and the Department of Correction officer recommended a three-year sentence.

Judge Vickie Churchill agreed with Ohme that the crime warranted the maximum sentence.

Ohme pointed out that Clark was released from prison in October of 2013 after serving time for a child molestation in the second degree conviction.

“Less than one year after release, he committed the crime of rape of a child in the third degree,” Ohme wrote in an email. “The defendant has no regard for the court’s orders, the law or his victims, and the top of the sentencing range was the appropriate sentence, which the court rightly imposed.”

Court documents state that Clark allowed a 15-year-old girl who had run away from home stay at his home and had sex with her, according to court documents.

In all, Clark violated Department of Corrections supervision 12 times. The violations included contact with a minor, possession of ammunition, failure to participate in a job search and use of a controlled substance, according to the pre-sentence investigation.

When he was 18 years old, Clark was charged and later convicted of molesting a  13-year-old girl, court records state.