Thursday night, a sex offender stepped in front of a microphone and tried to explain himself to his new community of Belmont, Massachusetts. ""My name is Carl Peterson. 'I'm the level 3 sex offender all of you have been talking about," the 48-year-old told his neighbors in the high school auditorium.
Taking advantage of strict laws that dictate where a sex offender can live while on parole, cities across the country are building little parks for the sole purpose of making offenders move. Residents of the Harbor Gateway neighborhood in Los Angeles have pushed community leaders to buy a small lot that will serve the…
Here are three things that have happened this week, in order of how difficult they are to believe. Depending on your own levels of credulousness, you may find yourself able to believe in them out of order. This is fine; the human condition is varied and complex.
"Operation: Game Over"—an initiative undertaken by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman—recently purged over 3,500 registered sex offenders from online gaming sites. Sexual predators are using voice and text chat functions on the interactive games to troll for victims. One 19-year old Monroe county man…
Meet Michael Campbell. Back in 1995, at the age of 20, he was convicted for the attempted sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. He has been arrested several times since, most recently for going within 500 feet of a playground or public pool.
For several years, British woman Nicole Lindsay says, she had a boyfriend named Lee. Or so she thought she had a boyfriend. Because Lee lacked the proper equipment to be a boyfriend—i.e., a favorite sports team. Oh, and a penis!
The Isle of Wight, a popular British beach destination, is about to open a third prison. Once that happens, the Isle will house 1,500 inmates, almost all of whom are convicted sex offenders. What says rest and relaxation more than prisons teeming with pedophiles and rapists?
From TheStar.com comes the story of activist Linda Beaudoin, who is tirelessly campaigning to get clowns and their ilk — magicians, Santas, Lady Gaga impersonators, or whoever else you've been roped into hiring for your kid's birthday party — licensed and given criminal background checks.
Internet daters rejoice! Match.com will now be screening its customers against a national sex offenders database. The decision comes after a Los Angeles woman sued Match.com after being raped by a guy she met on the dating site. However, Match.com's president said that the "decision to use the registry was not in…
Billionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein couldn't just slink away into obscenely wealthy obscurity on his private Caribbean island after pleading guilty to paying high school girls to tug on his egg-shaped penis. No, he started a blog. About science.
The Bed Intruder whistle-blower and fameball became the spokesperson for the app that will let you locate sex offenders in real life. Using something called augmented reality technology, you won't have to hide your kids or your wife anymore.
This is Michael Kevin Lallana of Fullerton, California, a 31-year-old financial representative at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. He is also, according to the Orange County District Attorney, a sex offender who put his semen in a co-worker's water bottle. Gross.
Santa Monica is currently being terrorized by an alleged environmentally conscious sex offender. (Not Al Gore.) The Bike-by groper! According to police, he "has been riding his bicycle by females and grabbing their bums, crotch and breasts." Stop it. [LAWeekly]
Actually, this is just poor foresight. SexOffenders is an app which displays nearby registered sex offenders, so you can avoid them. But it seems like the exact opposite! (Via SFSnitch)
You probably didn't imagine it was possible for perverted billionaire Jeffrey Epstein to look any worse than he already does. And yet he's managed to accomplish that feat, it seems. [PB Post, via]
Is reclusive money manager and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein looking to raise a little cash to pay off his mouting legal bills? One of the car collector's most prized vehicles, a 2003 Ferrari 575M Maranello, is now up for sale and can be yours for a very reasonable $159,000. John Connolly, the former NYPD…
Congrats to shady money manager (and convicted felon) Jeffrey Epstein, who scored a big victory in court today:
Newly-released billionaire massage aficionado and Ron Burkle pal Jeffrey Epstein is officially a registered sex offender in Florida. His brand new "Sexual Offender/ Predator Flyer" also includes a map to his house! Smirk less, Jeffrey. [Cityfile]
Pervy money manager Jeffrey Epstein got out of prison yesterday, which means he can finally begin to put the last couple of years behind him and move on with his life, right? Not really. Since Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting underage prostitutes, he had to register as a sex offender yesterday, a status that will…
Cookie, Conde's newish mommy mag, brings word of a new cell-phone alert service. Much like Dodgeball, the New York-based program that texts you every time Andrew Krucoff takes a crap, Family Watchdog also alerts you to the comings and goings of a certain class of people; in this case, sex offenders.
