Pedophiles in your community
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Rissa | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 10:49 am     Couldn't find a thread to highjack for this. First, the facts as printed in our local paper: <<<<<Okotoks RCMP have been told three convicted pedophiles will be moving into Okotoks and outlying areas...........Pictures of the convicted sex crime offenders are currently not being posted. The three men recently completed their sentences and are relocating to the area within the week. “They have paid their dues and now there is nothing the RCMP can do about this, but increase awareness,” Stewart explained. Certain criteria need to be met before a public alert can be provided.<<<< My daughters' schools spent yesterday meeting with all the students in little groups, refreshing awareness, trying to alert without alarm and also practicing the schools lock-down procedures. They sent home a letter outlining their concerns and what they will be doing, including a mock lock-down each day this week to make sure the students know what to do and at least one more planned student conference with teachers and RCMP. We are a very small little community, not even 12,000 people and at least a quarter of those are rural and not in the town itself. To have THREE!!!!!!!! of these monsters moving here at the same time is just boggling. And there is nothing we can do.... police are not impressed either but they cannot release pictures, or records. We can't even find out the nature of the crime... did they molest family or strangers? Was it one or dozens? It kills me that this is a crime that most everyone acknowledges cannot be *treated*, that you cannot change your sexual orientation... so the crime has extremely high odds of being repeated... yet we have to just accept this as parents? I am so mad, unfocussed mad that I can't even put it into words. Anyone else here had to deal with this, how did your community handle it? |
Juju2bigdog | Friday, September 26, 2003 - 07:02 pm     I live in the U.S. Our police and local newspaper are very good about announcing what the pedophiles have done, where they live, AND they put their pictures in the paper. When the pictures appear the accompanying news article almost always says they are considered to be high risk to offend again. Some of the articles say that the offender has requested that if anybody sees him in the company of a child, they are to call the police. I feel for you, Rissa. And yes, the odds are indeed high that they will do it again. |
Sia | Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:40 pm     Rissa, I'm in the U.S., too, and on tonight's news I was glad to see a piece about this very topic. A woman in a community about an hour away from where I live (give or take) has been posting pictures of a registered sex offender on phone poles and in business windows in her community because he just moved to her neighborhood. I was glad to see that the news reporter handled the piece with sensitivity and that she explained things from the viewpoint of the concerned parents instead of siding with the offender. I thought the young mother featured was very brave to be interviewed on-camera and to be filmed stapling the flyers to phone poles, as I think it's likely that the pedophile could attempt to retaliate against her personally. It really worries me. I have two young children and nothing in the world is more important to me than their safety and emotional well-being. |
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