Where sex offenders live -- and why you don't know [CA](Very Scary- Must Read)

San Jose Mercury News ^ | Sun, Dec. 14, 2003 | Sean Webby

[nickcarraway]

Across Ocala Avenue from Meyer Elementary School in San Jose, in a small house flanked by palm trees, lives Ismael Otero, a 44-year-old convicted child molester classified at high risk of attacking again.

Parents at Meyer have raised no outcry about Otero, for the simplest of reasons: They don't know he's there. And it's not because school officials are keeping quiet. They didn't know either.

[breakem]

I said it was old and inefficient. You said "no it WASN'T." You need to move out of the past tense. Your information is 40 years old. You don't just turn a key and turn an old facility into a useful prison. California prisons are currently holding 2-5 times more than Alcatraz will hold. Don't have to worry about staff living in one of the highest cost-of-living areas in the country. Did you know this is a conservative site? If you like to spend tax payers money, get elected as a democrat.

If you think you can get another prison in San Francisco, go ahead and work on it.

The rock is a big tourist attraction. Why close a money making federal park and turn it into a losing operation. Makes no sense, except you have your mind made up.

[breakem]

San Francisco=San Francisco bay area.

[Calpernia]

My aren't you pleasant? Ask about Alcatrz and you call me a democrat? You can take a leap.

[breakem]

I guess you were overwhelmed by my intelligent listing of reasons not to reopen Alcatraz. I'll take your silence on the issues as an acknowledgement of that.

Sorry you were so offended. Can you explain the difference between a democrat and a republican who wants to waste taxpayer money.

[Calpernia]

I'm overwhelmed by what an ass you are. I don't talk to jackasses.

[auboy]

Thanks for the info!

[breakem]

............at what point do you stop then? LOl!

[woofie]

Where does Bill live?

[cyborg]

Notice the sex perverts NEVER live where the libs live

[Wilhelm Tell]

But, if more people knew that their neighbor were a convicted child molester with a high-risk of repeat offenses, more would probably demand to be allowed to carry guns and that CA enact fewer gun restrictions. I don't think the liberals in our legislature want anything like that.

The liberals have a strange mentality. If you have lived a peaceful life, minding your own business and not hurting anyone, the liberals are very paranoid that you might become a criminal someday if you happen to own a gun. On the other hand, the left isn't concerned at all about people who are proven criminals. The left tried to make it illegal for gun owners to live within 1000 feet of any school -- evidently out of fear that the gun owner would go postal or else out of a fear that some little darling will steal guns on his way home from school. But if a convicted child molester lives next door to a school, why that is no big deal. Indeed, the child molester might even have the "right" to associate with children and parents who object just might find themselves guilty of a "hate crime." It is like the worse you behave, the more the left wants to empower you.

[VOA]

California and Texas are at two ends of the spectrum.

A couple years ago, a couple of California teens got suspicious about a fellow
hanging around their neighborhood.
The managed to track down the guy as a registered sex offender from Texas (who'd left
TX without notifying authorities). These two kids called the cops and the
guy was hauled away.

By contrast, I almost think there is a conspiracy in high places in California to protect
sex offenders. Local TV news here in Los Angeles showed that the local cops
were not only unhelpful with inquiries about registered sex offenders...
they were down-right surly, even on camera.

[VOA]

oops, I forgot the important part about the two California kids...
the managed to ID their local pervert...
via searching the registered sex offender site maintained on the Internet
by the state of Texas.

[liberallyconservative]

Thanks so much for posting this link. Pulled up my state & found 8 within my zip-code. Decided to pull up my entire county and was shocked to see a man I KNOW as the very first guy on the list. I'm still stunned... I guess I don't know him so well after all...

[null and void]

He's worried that he's going to lose our bet about Hillary!™ running for VP...

[heleny]

The left tried to make it illegal for gun owners to live within 1000 feet of any school ...
But if a convicted child molester lives next door to a school, why that is no big deal.

Good point! A convicted child molester is far more likely to be dangerous to children than a law-abiding citizen.

[TheMole]

It's very disappointing to read your accounts of the California situation. Surely this could be significantly improved by some public pressure. Below is a sex offender webpage maintained by a not particularly conservative town in a not very conservative state. This level of service really ought to be standard everywhere.

City of Bellingham Current Level III Sex Offenders

[fishbabe]

thats what was so scary....my employer did know and let him in anyway...in fact,he was considered a high risk for offending again and no one told the women he worked for...one woman used to get on his nerves and he told her once that if she had been a man,he would kick her ass all over the store...but,he said it like it was a joke..after,she found out he had killed a woman while he was on drugs,she fell apart knowing it could have been her....

[Graybeard58]

Thanks for the link. I just found one living about a block from me and she's female. All it says about her is "victim under the age of 18. My children are adults and have children of their own they don't live nearby but it's still nice to know about her.

[Calpernia]

Thanks N&V :)