While just perusing some bookmarked sites, the spouse decides to check out an online service that lists convicted sexual offenders by zip code. I'd done this in the past and nothing had come up. This time, something did....
One block from our house, directly across the street from where my and 11 other kids catch their school bus, lives a convicted child molester-his crimes were Wreckless Endangerment of a Child and Aggravated Sexual Assault. We can assume he didn't brush up against a 15 year old....
It is up to the county prosecutor's office to notify neighborhoods if a convicted sex offender moves in. We weren't. Neither was the preschool on our street. The Board of Education did not know this, the town's police department didn't either.
I called a neighbor, a mother of twins my kids used to play with. If anyone gets moving, it's Lisa. Before noon, the bus stop was moved to our own street, the police captain was contacting the prosecutor's office and my husband, who happens to be on very friendly terms with the mayor, notified him, who in turn is confering with the town attorney.
Parents, check out your neighborhoods. Megan's Law didn't mean squat to us. This is the link we used that revealed the scum:
http://www.familywatchdog.us/