SAN DIEGO -- A sexually violent predator is a danger to the community and would be likely to commit more crimes if released from a state mental hospital, a San Diego Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.

Prosecutors want Matthew Hedge, 43, recommitted to Atascadero State Hospital for two more years.

After a probable cause hearing, Judge Michael Wellington ruled that Hedge must stand trial on a petition to have him recommitted to the state mental hospital.

Hedge completed years of treatment at Atascadero last year and was placed in a trailer in a remote area of Otay Mesa, outside the walls of Donovan State Prison.

Two months later, he was sent back to the hospital for violating conditions of his outpatient release.

During a revocation hearing in February, Hedge agreed to undergo more inpatient treatment at Atascadero.

Hedge failed to immediately report that two young girls were at a substance abuse program he attended and also failed to tell officials that he had verbal contact with them, doctors said in February.

Additionally, Hedge raised concerns when he divulged he had a deviant sexual fantasy about a child and told his wife about it when they were having sex, doctors said.

"He's aware of things that he needs to be doing. He just didn't do those things," Dr. Moham Nair testified Thursday.

Nair interviewed Hedge late last year and early this year at Atascadero.

Hedge was convicted in 1989 of molesting two boys and two girls. He served his sentence and became the first sexually violent predator released into San Diego County from Atascadero's multiphase treatment program.

Thursday, Wellington found probable cause that Hedge had been convicted of those crimes, that he had been diagnosed with a mental disorder and that he needs to be in custody at Atascadero.

Another sexually violent predator, 63-year-old Douglas Badger, was ordered released back into the community and placed at the prison trailer site by July 7.

A status hearing in Badger's case is scheduled Friday.