Here’s the worst part – according to the report below, college administrators knew this guy was a sex offender but didn’t tell their students.

Unbelievable.

Robby Soave of The Daily Caller has the story.

Sex offender elected student body president

Students at Riverside City College in California received a nasty surprise this week: Their recently-elected student government president is a registered sex offender.

Doug Robert Figueroa, 40, was convicted of kidnapping and then committing “lewd or lascivious acts” on a 14-year-old boy in 2005. He was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Earlier this week, someone posted a flier on campus revealing Figueroa’s status as a sex offender. The flier was initially assumed to be an April Fool’s Day prank, but Figueroa later confirmed the truth. The news stunned students, many of whom said they wished they had known before electing him to be student body president for the spring term, according to the Press-Enterprise.

“Everyone is going crazy now about this story,” said Amanda Warning, an RCC student and reporter for “Viewpoints,” the campus news service. After noticing the fliers, Warning went to a computer and found Figueroa’s mugshot on the online sex offender registry.

Students were also surprised to learn that RCC administrators knew about Figueroa’s status as a sex offender, but remained silent on the matter during the election.