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Until recently I lived in the largest housing estate in our area, an estate of 150/200 houses which was once described as a village within a small town. The estate had a large population of young families many with small children of primary school age.
A couple of years ago the head of our next door neighbours family, a man in his early 50s, was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a young girl of primary school age. He was supposed to have exposed himself to the girl and her wee pal and when the pal ran off he then put his hands up the other girl’s skirt.
He was given bail and after spending a short period of time of living with his childless step daughter he returned to his family home which was about 100 yds from his alleged victim’s house and began living as normal denying all the allegations against him. The children of the estate continued their life too and were out playing around the houses and in the swing parks as usual.
After many months the man was finally brought to trial and he pleaded guilty to the charges and was jailed for 6 months and placed on the sex offenders list. What surprised the population of the estate most was that in mitigation his layer told the court that as a condition of his original bail he had been living with his step daughter in a childless house and had not breached the further condition which was not to approach to within 500 yds of the estate!
We could only assume that the bail conditions had been imposed to reduce any risks to children in general and his victim in particular but which had been flagrantly abused through lack of some sort of supervision.
The man was released from prison after serving 3 months and is now back in his family home and surrounded by children and nervous parents.
Given the above I’am surprised that only 322 listed sex offenders are missing. http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newschannel.aspx?type=UKNews1&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C2-AlsoToday-14
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A couple of years ago the head of our next door neighbours family, a man in his early 50s, was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a young girl of primary school age. He was supposed to have exposed himself to the girl and her wee pal and when the pal ran off he then put his hands up the other girl’s skirt.
He was given bail and after spending a short period of time of living with his childless step daughter he returned to his family home which was about 100 yds from his alleged victim’s house and began living as normal denying all the allegations against him. The children of the estate continued their life too and were out playing around the houses and in the swing parks as usual.
After many months the man was finally brought to trial and he pleaded guilty to the charges and was jailed for 6 months and placed on the sex offenders list. What surprised the population of the estate most was that in mitigation his layer told the court that as a condition of his original bail he had been living with his step daughter in a childless house and had not breached the further condition which was not to approach to within 500 yds of the estate!
We could only assume that the bail conditions had been imposed to reduce any risks to children in general and his victim in particular but which had been flagrantly abused through lack of some sort of supervision.
The man was released from prison after serving 3 months and is now back in his family home and surrounded by children and nervous parents.
Given the above I’am surprised that only 322 listed sex offenders are missing. http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newschannel.aspx?type=UKNews1&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C2-AlsoToday-14
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