Whaddya suppose the pedo's lawyer is going to say?
What do you suppose that pedos jury is going to say, made up of moms and dads and grand parents if I do find something to charge him with?
Obviously you have never dealt with registered sex offenders, I have and unfortunately do on an (alarmingly) regular basis. My county has a large number of them and we also have a citizens group headed up by a mother of a 13-year-old girl who was cornered by one who just so happened to live in their neighborhood. Mom found out this person was a RSO and now is on a crusade to educate everyone in our county to the shear number of these people living near folks.
As a result a large number of parents now know of them and we do get regular calls on them for usually suspicious behavior.
The last call I had involved a 45-year-old male standing in a small brush/tree line still on the public access to a county maintained roadway, watching a small group of girls play in a kiddie pool in a yard.
He was about 50 feet from them, was spotted, the kids freaked and ran screaming, mom called the cops, dad went after him.
We knew exactly whom he was, due to the parents having viewed and printed his info and picture off the Internet. We straight to his house, remember these fools are still state property because they are on intensive probation and required to register as SO’s and therefore have little expectation of privacy.
Remember we can’t trust them so we have them make themselves known to us by registering.
I went off on him pretty good, held a come to Jesus meeting with him and basically told him if I ever received another call out here again that I would find a lawful reason to take him to jail and would make it my personal crusade to have his parole revoked sending him back to prison, that if any child so much as turned up in this neighborhood with a scratch or God forbid missing his name would be at the top of a very short list.
The man was in tears when I left.
The entire conversation was audio taped as per our department SOP and I did inform the Sheriff.
The neighbors were happy and I never heard a single thing out of that incident, I also spent the next two weeks making frequent stops at the complainant’s house just to check in.
I’m sure those law abiding parents who live in that small neighborhood think better of us for doing that, but you know I really don’t care, what I’d like to do is put that bottom dweller back in jail.
Think anyone here would lose any sleep over that?