I have a registered Sex Offender next door

http://www.familywatchdog.us/Search.asp
from JoeUser Forums

Just came upon this link, and found out a neighbor (not an immediate one, but one behind me) is a sex Offender!  That is really scary.  But at least the site showed him to me.

His crime?  Indecent liberties with Child by Custodian.  I guess that means he did it to his kids.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Scary yes, but not incapacitating. There is no reason to act any differently than you did yesterday, after all, the neighborhood hasn't changed a bit. There is no greater threat to the kids in the neighborhood, in fact there is less, because it is a known threat. But then again, if you didn't know he was a sex offender, but you saw him do something suspicious, would you react much different?


Awareness is the key and you are now aware.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just a note of warning.  NOt all states are on line yet, so if your state is not, they say they hope to have thm on line by October 20 of this year.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
forwarned is forearmed doc.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

in fact there is less, because it is a known threat.

Tell that to the 20 month old girl in Des Moines.  I dont think her parents feel better just because the guy was registered.

And I do feel less safe.  For my Family.

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

forwarned is forearmed doc.

Very true.  I did not know this guy before (I dont know any of my neighbors behind me except the ones that got Lil'Girl.  But on our daily walks, I will be looking out more now.

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Why couldn't the do-gooder have put the "special package" in HIS mailbox....
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
YIKES! We had checked our city registry when looking at potential homes to buy and we were able to get in a part of the city that as of yet doesn't have a large number of offenders.
One thing I would like to point out is that when we lived on post at Fort Stewart the elementary school did backgournd checks on all volunteers, I was the volunteer coordinator and did these checks with the post coordinator and we had a couple pop up with violent and sex crimes that were not allowed in the school at all, had to pick up their kids outside. I wish we could do that at civilian schools, is scary to think all you have to do to have access to the kids is drop by the office and sign in, no id required, no questions asked.
I don't know the ages of your kids Dr. Guy but are they old enough to speak to about this and to be warned to stay out of that area and away from said individual?
Also you mentioned the name of the crime "indecent liberties with child by Custodian". From my understanding these type of freaks have compulsions to do this crap and will branch out and do these things to other people's kids when given the opportunity.
When we lived in Hinesville Ga they put pictures of the registered offenders in the paper, don't know if they still do as people were griping about it but you as a concerned citizen are allowed to make up fliers and distrubute them around the neighborhood saying beware that there is a sex offender in our midst and maybe you could put that website on it.
Thanks for sharing the website, I am sure there are a lot of people out there who will be dismayed at the numbers
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

Cool site, slow as hell though.

I would hate to see what your address turns up!

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

Why couldn't the do-gooder have put the "special package" in HIS mailbox....

Now that was a great comeback!  I wonder if the do gooder even knows this guy is in the neighborhood?

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

I don't know the ages of your kids Dr. Guy but are they old enough to speak to about this and to be warned to stay out of that area and away from said individual?

Fortunately, my Youngest is 12, almost 13.  The rest are 18 (almost for one) or older.  So I am a bit more worried about my son, but not a lot.  I think he is both intelligent enough, and big enough at this point.  But I will thinktwice about leaving him home alone in the future (probably make him call me every 2 hours or so - "Aw Dad!" - I can see that coming).

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Tell that to the 20 month old girl in Des Moines. I dont think her parents feel better just because the guy was registered.
And I do feel less safe. For my Family.


Dr. Guy, I understand that you feel less safe, and I even understand why. But, if you learned one of your neighbors has had a bomb in their basement for the last 5 years, would your knowledge of that bomb change the danger the bomb posed?

Unlike the bomb in the basement, knowledge that your neighbor is a sex offender empowers you, not weakens you. It is the difference between the mere perception of safety and safety itself. Yesterday you didn't know there was a threat, but you felt safe. Today you feel less safe, but are no less safe then you were yesterday.

You know he is there, you know he is a sex offender. You don't know if he preys on kids in general or only relatives (two completly different mindsets of pedophile). You do however, have the upper hand on him, you know him for what he is.

Fear works for the pedophile, awareness works for everyone else.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's good that you're aware of him now. You should tell your family so that they are aware too. And good thing to do where your son is concerened.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
We have one several blocks down. I showed my 9 year old his picture several times and we walked by his house one day and I told him all about it.....but I've preached private parts and strangers to him since he was 2 so he listened but wasn't too amazed.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top

Dr. Guy, I understand that you feel less safe

It is not that I feel less safe, just that my children are less safe.  And it is a kind of betrayal.  I know that family pedophiles USUALLY dont stray to strangers, but I can not take that chance now can I?

Knowledge is power, and yes, I have some now.  The fact that I know, and he does not know that I know does not make me feel better.  Ignorance is bliss, if no safer than knowledge.  I will not allow it to dictate my life, but I will use the knowledge to be more careful in the future.

Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top

And good thing to do where your son is concerened.

Very true.  My son is no dummy, and him knowing will make me feel better.

Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top

We have one several blocks down. I showed my 9 year old his picture several times and we walked by his house one day and I told him all about it.....but I've preached private parts and strangers to him since he was 2 so he listened but wasn't too amazed.

Great idea!  My son likes to look at the Victoria Secrets catalog, so I dont think I need to talk to him about private parts.  But showing him the picture is what I plan to do, and also the house.

Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Not sure about "indecent liberties." That sounds more like walking around naked or something. Usually when it is sodomy, rape, sexual assault, etc., they call it that. The only person I found in a quick search had asked a kid to pull his pants down, and another had take pictures of a child naked.

I have 28 in my zip code at present, most of them violent, oddly enough. I think the apartments a couple of miles away are a dumping ground for some parole officer. The guy that lived two streets over from me was run off by his neighbors, and then got arrested for not reporting that he moved, lol. Warms my heart.

He used to walk his dog around the time school let out. It makes me physically ill to think about it.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top

That sounds more like walking around naked or something. Usually when it is sodomy, rape, sexual assault, etc., they call it that.

The site only gives the categories.  Not the actual offense.

Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Damn shame. Once you have been convicted I think they need to list the circumstances of each offense in harsh detail, so that patterns of behavior can be established. If someone lured kids in a particular way, we need to know what to watch for.

In the meantime we'll just have to be nasty to them in blanket fashion, huh?
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
I've got 7 of them, all living within 6 miles of me...one is under 2 miles away on the road where my girlfriend lives...that makes me a little nervous...

~Zoo
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top

Damn shame. Once you have been convicted I think they need to list the circumstances of each offense in harsh detail, so that patterns of behavior can be established. If someone lured kids in a particular way, we need to know what to watch for.

Perhaps others do.  Let me google it and see what I can dig up.

Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top

I've got 7 of them, all living within 6 miles of me...one is under 2 miles away on the road where my girlfriend lives...that makes me a little nervous...

There were a lot living within that range of me as well, but I was most concerned with the red square was sitting ontop of my house!  None of the others are actually in the neighborhood - just close by.

Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
Not sure about "indecent liberties."


That covers a multitude of sins. The last guy we court martialed for pedophilia had 'indecent liberties with a minor' as one of his charges (one of MANY charges) and it was because he had taken photos of himself masturbating and ejaculating on her. Sorry if that's too much info....but as you said, I think that we need to start putting the details of EXACTLY what these assholes did to their victims next to their photographs.
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top

Sorry if that's too much info....

Not when it comes to sex offenders.

Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
Not when it comes to sex offenders.


Having been privy to the details of a few trials involving pedophiles, I have to say that they disgust me more than any other group of people on the face of the earth - and given my spiritual philosophy it really pains me to say that.

I have more tolerance for a crack addict than I do a child molestor.