On-the-run child molester saves suicidal teenager

A JOGGER who saved a suicidal teenager from drowning herself in a US lake was a convicted child molester on the run for six years, police said.

Michael Rogers, 49, said he could not bear to walk away and have the girl’s death on his conscience, and police in Hamden, Connecticut said an officer involved in the rescue might have died without his help, too.

Rogers was being held without bond, one day after he was arrested at his sister’s home on a charge of being a fugitive from justice, police said.