A spokesperson for the Utah County Sheriff’s Office’s confirmed to Salt Lake City-based KSL-TV that the man was arrested on December 14, one day after the channel’s website published an investigation revealing Homer had sexually assaulted several women over the past ten years, but his sentences amounted to less than a month in jail altogether.

According to the Utah-based TV station, Homer has been arrested at least nine times during his life for cases involving domestic violence and sex crimes. His juvenile records show that he was charged with rape of a child under 14 when he was 16.

But thanks to a series of pleas, Homer avoided lengthy sentences and the insertion of his name in Utah’s sex offender registry, being placed on probation instead.

KSL reported that, over the past 10 years, Homer has been convicted of seven new crimes while on probation.

One of the alleged victims told the Utah TV station that she was sexually assaulted in November, while Homer was on probation for sex crimes against a 16-year-old. KSL reported that Homer served a total of nine days in jail in relation to the case after pleading guilty to “dealing harmful materials to a minor,” but not to unlawful sexual misconduct with a minor. He was then put on probation on Group A Sex Offender Conditions.

Vanessa Clark told KSL that the state’s justice system failed to protect her and other women from Homer, though they were aware that he had been repeatedly accused of sexual crimes.

“I think that the criminal justice system and Josh Homer need to be held accountable. With all of these records, it shows that he should not be out on the streets because it’s a liability to the lives of other girls like me,” Clark said.

“We women, we matter. Your voice matters. Your well-being, after everything that he has done, it all matters. I think that you should trust in yourself that you should be able to speak out.”

Clark is not the only woman to come forward and ask for justice against Homer.

Several Utah women had recently come forward to accuse the man of being a serial predator and call for his incarceration. An online petition started four months ago asking to “lock him up” gathered over 1,100 signatures on Change.org.

The petition was launched by Serina Hammon, who wrote that she launched the initiative “because there is a serial rapist that has been active in Utah for over 10 years.”

Hammon wrote that she knows Homer personally and she “grew up with him and many of his victims.” She recalls that during the summer of 2020 the #UtahRapists movement uncovered at least 30 victims of Homer, “and many more have shared their stories publicly since.”

The woman wrote that the reports filed by women against Homer are so numerous that it’s enough to search for the man’s name on Google or Twitter to find the accusations against him—and the lack of convictions. According to Hammon, many of the alleged victims were told it had been too long since the attacks or there was not enough evidence “or just haven’t heard back from their detectives.”

“This man has gone to court multiple times for breaking into women’s homes and sexually assaulting them,” Hammon wrote.

One of the women who signed the petition wrote on the page: “He has been terrorizing my friend. Stalking her, damaging her property. He’s a menace to society. I don’t understand how he is free.”

According to KSL, there have been several “apparent gaps at every level of Utah’s criminal justice system” that allowed Homer to remain free. KSL investigators found that judges twice terminated Homer’s probation after he violated their conditions, deeming them “unsuccessful.”

KSL reporting caught the attention of Utah’s State Bureau of Investigation, the TV station writes. Investigators confirmed that their office has received more than 25 claims of sexual assault against Homer.

Though Homer has never been charged with rape as an adult, several Utah law enforcement agencies cited by KSL have been investigating at least five rape allegations against him.

Homer is currently being investigated for violating his probation. Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said on Wednesday, after his arrest, that the man was then on a 72-hour hold. If he’s found to have violated his probation, he will appear before a judge.

Newsweek contacted Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon and Utah Department of Corrections for comment.