Ever find out a co-worker was a child molester?

[demnan]

Right there in black and white in the local newspaper the co-worker's name and address was printed. He was "charged with aggravated sexual battery and taking indecent liberties with a minor after allegedly sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl . . ."

This was a guy who I used to have a beer with. He even tried to make a play for me when it looked like he was breaking up with his wife (I don't date married men). Can you imagine.

Has anyone here ever found out that someone you know is a sexual predator?

[GOPisEvil]

1. Holy crap! That would freak me right out!

Not, it's never happened to me, although I did find out that a guy in my old apartment complex was a registered sex offender and had been convicted of sexually assaulting a minor. I never met the guy, though.

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. no, but

I just did recently find out that the father of one of the kids who came into our unit (I work in the Neonatology unit of a hospital) was a serial rapist wanted in about five states.

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

3. Yes, three times, I got notifications in the mail - about my neighbors.

It scared the living hell out of me. The first time, I found out that he was 18 and got busted having sex with his 15 year old girlfriend (who he honestly believed to be 17). That made him a jackass and an idiot, not a predator, in my opinion.

The other two were much scarier. Sexually assaulting an 8 year old and a 19 MONTH old. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :


Not long after that, I got a raise, and was able to afford to move into a much better neighborhood. I've been here for a couple of years, and not a single one of those cards in the mail, thank God.


On edit: No, not co-workers. Just neighbors. My state's registry is online, though. I should look. :scared:

[LWolf]

4. Yes.

He never worked at my school site; he was president of our local association until he became an administrator. I attended a few meetings that he presided over.

They caught him in a sting operation, going to meet a teenage girl he'd been "chatting" online with; the teenage girl turned out to be a cop.

He lost his job, his credentials, and his wife and kids. He lives locally with his mother since his release.

[Southpaw Bookworm]

5. Some former neighbors

Two were my age:

One was convicted of molesting his 2-year-old daughter. The other has twice been convicted of molestation, including the child of a roommate.

The other was a 56-year-old man next door who was sleeping with the 15-year-old across the street and got her pregnant. Of course, her family actually very excited about the match because he would marry her and because he not only had a well-paying job but also a nice pension from the mines. (Thus, he could support all of their freeloading asses.)

:scared:

[silverlib]

6. His name was Richard...

He was in a twelve-step program and I knew he had been in prison, but I didn't know why - and I didn't ask. He was about sixty-two years old when I met him. He was funny and he was sweet. This particular twelve step programs met on holidays and celebrated "twelve-step birthdays" on the first meeting of every month. Richard baked the birthday cakes. One particular New Years, where the meeting actually fell on New Year's Day, there had been discussion where many members stated they couldn't stand black-eyed peas and would not be participating in this New Year's Day tradition. After the meeting and after the cake had been served and the "birthdays" celebrated, I joined Richard outside the building for a smoke. He told me a big secret. In making the cake, he had inserted one black-eyed pea in every piece so that each of his friends shared in the tradition for good luck without knowing it. I only saw the good in Richard. I found out several years after he passed away that his prison sentence was because he had been arrested in a local grocery store for molesting little boys in the boy's bathroom. I was absolutely astounded. It put a new face on this issue for me. I can't explain the feelings involved, but I think sadness for all involved would be at the top of my list. He told a story once of when he was sixteen and his father had been on a drunken rage and, once the father passed out, he carried him to some railroad tracks where the train ran every night at 3:00 am. He left him there, but that night the train was late and his father woke up in time and staggered home, not knowing how he had ended up passed out on the tracks. Makes you wonder what kind of childhood he must have had while nobody watched and nobody cared.

Oops - way too long and way too sad and way too confusing.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. This just happened at my Dad's work. A guy he liked and respected

didn't come in to work one day. My dad got a radio call that the man had committed suicide and he was devastated. Come to find out later, the man was wanted for molesting his stepdaughter. The police had come to his door and he ran to the back bedroom and shot himself while they waited outside. It was truly horrific.

That and a guy I went to school with is on the list for peeing in public. :eyes:

[Khephra]

8. A best friend of mine confessed that he was going to jail for

a sexual crime. Blew the hell out of my mind at the time. I doubt he did it, but still...you never know.