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[tonilea]

I wouldn't waste a thought on that man or his GF. You should never feel bad for protecting your children! Besides he is a convicted child sex offender and she is almost worse than he is for putting her "need" for a man - any man, obviously - over her children. Pathetic.

 

[N&B'smom]

OP. I certainly understand that you are not happy with how intense everything got but I think this is obviously a very good thing. You do not need a sexual predator living a couple doors down from you, that is so scary. I'm very glad that this will put an end to it and EXTREMELY happy that your girls did NOT go into that house!!!

 

[Disney Doll]

What she said, because she did it without the words I would have used. And why are you not posting that you already have called the police? This isn't something that anyone with half a brain would say, "gee you might have overreacted."

I know in my state, once convicted they are not allowed around children, period. There has been a case or two where some dumb-horses-behind woman has shacked up with one, and had a baby-who was then taken away.

I would have called the police the day I found out he was living with children, and had been convicted of that.

My DD wouldn't go outside, and I would be telling the rental office I was moving and wanted my deposit back or I would announce to everyone what he was and where he lived. No way in a very hot place would I stay there, especially after that.

If you check out the registered sex offender website, you will find that there is nowhere in the country that you can move to avoid living in relatively close proximity to a registered sex offender. Plus, many sex offenders are people you actually know. The stereotypical skeevy guy is just that...a stereotype mostly perpetrated because we could not bear to think that Grandpa (or someone else we trust) might be fondling little Susie.

So essentially, there'd pretty much be no where that you could live if you would not want to live near a registered sex offender. RSOs are sometimes such because they were a 18 year old guy who had sex with their 17 year old GF and GF's daddy didn't want his baby to get a bad rep, so he has the kid arrested. Big difference IMHO between that and an adiuult choosing to do inappropriate htings to a 7 year old.

The more important points here are:
1. Is he an RSO?
2. If so, is any encounter w/children against his "rules" as being an RSO? If the answer is yes, then reporting him to the proper authorities is the thing to do. Let the police &/or the parole board handle it. That is what they are there for.
3. Do the OP's children know that under NO circumstances, no matter what he says, no matter what he does, no matter what he says he has, no matter what help he says he needs, are they to go anywhere near him. They need to be told that if this man says "I feel sick can you come and help me?" that thy are to not go into his house and they are to get an adult to deal with the situation.

I agree with whomever said to read the book "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin deBecker. I have made it required reading for all the women I know. I have given it as a gift numerous times.