News10NBC is tracking the case of ________. We are trying to learn why a man who is a registered sex offender after a child porn conviction, was allowed to live across the street from an elementary school.
________ was in federal court in downtown Rochester Wednesday morning. It was a brief hearing to discuss his most recent arrest. We learned ________ is housed in a federal prison in Ohio where inmates with health issues are kept.
________’s attorney had no comment. The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment on camera.
Here’s the background and why we’re reporting on the story:
________ was convicted of possession of child pornography. He served seven years in federal prison. ________ was released, labeled a Level 1 sex offender (the least restrictive level) and allowed to live in his home in Marion, Wayne County.
In September of 2018, approximately a year later, ________ was picked up for violating the terms of his release. He was sent back to federal jail. ________ was released in late March of 2019.
Two weeks later, on Saturday, April 6, ________ was arrested by the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office for public lewdness.
That’s when we started looking into ________’s living situation. We learned ________ had specific rules about what he could not do and where he could not go.
For instance, the federal release guidelines obtained by News10NBC said ________ could not “loiter” within 100 feet of a playground or school.
However, ________ was again allowed to live in his home which is across the street from Marion Elementary School. News10NBC paced the street. The house is approximately 49 feet from the school property.
This is the perfect example of….”Bad facts, make for bad law.”
Obviously this old guy is more than a little out of his mind….he is a danger to nobody, but he does seem to compulsively from time to time to wag his wienie in inappropriate places…
However, this proposed solution….a new law imposing distance living restrictions from schools is….insane.
It would impact a broad and ever growing group of citizens that have nothing to do with this set of very unique “facts.”
This also ignores the truth that the proposed solution doesn’t even solve the problem of this particular individual…
Society must make the choice to spend $50,000 per year to lock up crazy old people that do this; if society wants to make this choice, they need to make it clearly and openly, not some subterfuge of imposing a 2,000 exclusion zone from school.
Best Wishes,
James I, in blind hope that society comes to its senses, (Ha! fat chance…)