I was curious about my hometown and registered child sex abuse offenders. I came upon this site where you can put in your zip code and find out who to watch out for. I am always looking out for the safety of children. I often see children alone who by my standards should not be out by themselves.
One memory that comes to mind is that I was in a friends neighborhood and saw a child barely able to walk on his own wandering around in front of a duplex. I took the hand of the child and asked where his parents were. He pointed to the side of the house and we walked around and found his mother in the kitchen towards the back of the house. I explained I was visiting a friend in the area and did not think the little guy should be out by himself. She thanked me profusely and told me she thought the little guy was with her husband who apparently had just left in his car. Thats the only part of the story I got. In the time that the husband left to the time I came along many horrible things could have happened to this child. I am grateful that I was there at the right time.
The web address to check out to be on the watch for predators is: http://www.offendex.com/
I suggest that you check this out for your own neighborhood or even to places your family might visit.
Where ever you go with children is the place you should check out.
There are so many rules as to where a sex offender can live that it is increasingly difficult to house them. They have to be a certain distance from any school or daycare. There has to be notifications to residents living in the area. Each state or community has different restrictions.
In my search I found 94 child sex offenders from the zip code of the house I grew up in.
http://www.offendex.com/
One memory that comes to mind is that I was in a friends neighborhood and saw a child barely able to walk on his own wandering around in front of a duplex. I took the hand of the child and asked where his parents were. He pointed to the side of the house and we walked around and found his mother in the kitchen towards the back of the house. I explained I was visiting a friend in the area and did not think the little guy should be out by himself. She thanked me profusely and told me she thought the little guy was with her husband who apparently had just left in his car. Thats the only part of the story I got. In the time that the husband left to the time I came along many horrible things could have happened to this child. I am grateful that I was there at the right time.
The web address to check out to be on the watch for predators is: http://www.offendex.com/
I suggest that you check this out for your own neighborhood or even to places your family might visit.
Where ever you go with children is the place you should check out.
There are so many rules as to where a sex offender can live that it is increasingly difficult to house them. They have to be a certain distance from any school or daycare. There has to be notifications to residents living in the area. Each state or community has different restrictions.
In my search I found 94 child sex offenders from the zip code of the house I grew up in.
http://www.offendex.com/
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