BOSTON -- Repeat Level 3 sex offender David Flavell made numerous phone calls in 2006 and 2007 declaring he had molested a little girl, according to a police report.

The Boston Herald reported the calls were made after Flavell was declared not “sexually dangerous.”

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Flavell, 38, is charged with making obscene or harassing phone calls for calling the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children numerous times to say he had molested a girl, according to the report.

“It’s not only a cry for help, but a cry to be confined,” Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin told the Herald. “There are sex offenders who are remorseful, just not remorseful enough to not repeat their criminal behavior.”

Flavell was freed by a Superior Court judge two years ago, despite prosecutor’s objections who wanted him to be committed as a sexually dangerous person.

The calls were the last known offenses before Flavell allegedly attacked a woman in a Borders bookstore in Braintree on Jan. 29.

Flavell is homeless and has a 12-year record of indecent exposure and assault with intent to rape.