Sex offender attacked and told to leave neighborhood

2-1-17 Illinois: DECATUR – A Decatur man was being held in the Macon County Jail on Monday night, accused of beating a victim labeled as a “sexual predator.” Police statements say the alleged assault happened Aug. 20, but police finally caught up with 19-year-old suspect Saturday morning. The statements described him as being a student at Lincoln College of Technology in Indianapolis, Ind. Police accuse the man of setting upon the victim with two other teenage men as the victim walked along the 2000 block of East Pythian Avenue. The 53-year-old victim, who is a registered sex offender, told police…

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Man who tried running over man he thought was a child molester gets probation

1-22-17 Michigan: BAY CITY, MI — A 34-year-old man who tried to run over another man and said he did so to defend children has received a probationary sentence. Bay County Circuit Judge Harry P. Gil on Tuesday, Jan. 17, sentenced Justin R. Aikens to three years’ probation. The judge gave him credit for 57 days served in jail and deferred an additional 308 days, meaning Aikens will only have to serve them if he violates his probation. The judge also ordered Aikens to pay $1,400 in restitution. Aikens in December pleaded guilty to single counts of assault with a…

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Fire destroys future home of California sex offender

1-13-17 California: FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Fire has destroyed a mobile home in a rural Central California foothill community set to house a convicted sex offender. The Fresno Bee reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/2jcCcdr ) that state officials planned to put Jeffrey Snyder in the mobile home. He’s due to be released from a state mental hospital. California’s directory of convicted sex offenders describes 61-year-old Snyder as a sexually violent predator. The newspaper doesn’t say whether investigators suspect somebody intentionally started the fire. The mobile home was located near Squaw Valley, a community in eastern Fresno County. State officials chose the mobile…

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Sex offender target of ‘harassment,’ public defender says

11-19-16 Wisconsin: ELLSWORTH — A Pierce County court commissioner clamped down on a convicted sex offender’s bail conditions, but not as tightly as prosecutors sought, at a hearing last week. Pierce County Assistant District Attorney Rory O’Sullivan unsuccessfully requested Court Commissioner Jorv Gavic to hold Cameron J. Doman in jail while he awaits trial. Gavic denied the request during the Thursday, Nov. 10, hearing after Liesl Nelson, attorney manager for the State Public Defender’s Office, expressed outrage at the chain of events leading up to the hearing. Doman, a 25-year-old convicted sex offender, was charged with new felony sex crimes…

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YMCA bans man from road race for being registered sex offender

11-10-16 Connecticut: Mystic — The Ocean Community YMCA banned a Groton man from running in its popular Tarzan Brown road race last weekend after it discovered he was listed on the state’s sexual offender registry. The man, Jeffrey Roy, had run in previous editions of the race but this year when he preregistered for the race, his name was flagged as being on the registry for his role, along with two other men, in the 2006 sexual assault of an intoxicated 14-year-old girl at his mother’s home in Mystic. The YMCA’s decision to ban him led his father, Jim, a…

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Fire breaks out at home of sex offender who is feuding with neighbors

11-24-16 Alabama: An investigation is underway after a Thanksgiving morning fire damaged the home of a convicted sex offender who has been in a running feud with his neighbors. Center Point firefighters responded about 9:15 a.m. to the 10th Street home of Raymond Kyle Martin, 27. The first unit on the scene reported smoke coming from the roof, and firefighters who arrived later said there was fire on the back side of the home. It wasn’t immediately clear whether anyone was inside at the time the fire erupted. Martin lives there with his mother, Tammy McCullers, his newborn and other…

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Child molester claims corrections officer set him up for a beating

11-4-2014 Florida: Ocala, Florida — A convicted child molester, being transported to prison, was attacked by other inmates on the transport van on November 3, 2014. Ocala Police Officers responded to the scene. Edward Rogalski, 58, is a Florida Corrections inmate, and was being transported by U.S. Corrections employees to the Charlotte Correction Institute in a white van with 11 other inmates. Officers Peck and Jacques were guarding the inmates. The officers had parked their van at the Burger King located at 3478 NW Blitchton Road, so the two officers could get a bite to eat. Officer Jacques went inside…

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Lawsuit: California Breaking Law On Sex Offender Website, Leading To Vigilante Violence

11-10-16 California: SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California is breaking the law by failing to include updates about sex offenders on its Megan’s Law website, leading some offenders to be targeted by vigilantes, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The suit filed by two offenders says the California Department of Justice has not updated the sex offender registry to include the dates offenders were convicted and released from prison. That has been required under state law since 2010. The information is important so citizens can better gauge if an offender is an immediate threat, said Janice Bellucci, president of the advocacy…

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Man charged with assaulting 3 in Anchorage after finding addresses on sex-offender registry

7-28-16 Alaska: A man charged with using a hammer to attack a registered sex offender in Anchorage last month now faces additional charges for assaulting two other men listed on the public sex-offender registry. According to a recent bail memorandum, Jason Vukovich, a self-styled “avenging angel” according to one of the victims, carried a notebook with a list of names, including Charles Albee, Andres Barbosa and Wesley Demarest. Over five days in June, he entered the homes of the three men, uninvited, and hit them, sometimes with his fists and sometimes with a hammer. He also stole from them, said…

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Neighbor puts up billboard to shame sex offender into moving

11-14-16 Alabama: ROBINWOOD, Ala. – Jeb Lessley had a billboard made to pressure a registered sex offender to move. It shows Raymond Martin’s mugshot and lists his address and charges including second-degree rape and sodomy for a 2013 conviction involving an underage girl. Martin and his family want to see the billboard taken down. He lives across the street from it. “There’s people that already know my circumstances,” he told CBS 42. “They can find it on the website, but it ain’t got to be broadcast. There’s more than one sex offender that lives here.” Martin estimates that there are…

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