Paedophile in area what to do

Warn everyone you know and definitely tell the nursery and the library.
the first person I would be speaking to would be the police. That man clearly needs to be locked away somewhere he can’t do harm to children.

personally I would rather they were put down.

How is she defending him?

Petition him out of the area? Don't be ridiculous.

Report it to probation. But, this is the one you know about. You will pass many every day that you don’t know about

Unfortunately I suspect there’s really nothing that can be done and he’s probably not doing anything legally wrong or breaching anything by doing this.

We had a similar situation a couple of years ago, he had been released and moved in with his mum in the street behind us, young children living either side and all up that street, a nursery literally 1 street over and a primary school over the road. Used to sit in his front garden blatantly watching the kids in the street not even trying to hide it, used to walk back and forth outside the nursery and the school staring. He was reported by so many people and every single time nothing came of it, as long as he wasn’t approaching, contacting or working with children then he wasn’t technically in breach of anything, there’s nothing that says he can’t “watch”.

It is awful to see though and so worrying to think he has to actually be caught doing something again before anything will be done although I appreciate that as others have said there is no alternative really as there are kids everywhere.

Can you link to any evidence of your assertion about prevalence. 100% chance of working with a paedophile? Obviously this cannot be true.

Report it to police/probation. If he's breaching his conditions they need to know. If he's not then they won't do anything and no harm done.
I'm not sure about telling the nursery/library people, there is a fine line between being aware and cautious and stirring up vigilantes.

Surely that info would be passed on though through the system? Especially if same county? Some counties are huge.
Gosh it’s so bloody awful isn’t it. I wish there was a death sentence for paedophiles tbh. It would just make life less scarier!

I would report to children's services, but there may be nothing they can do and there are unfortunately peadophiles absolutely everywhere. Until they actually get caught very few people will have any idea who they are, at least when on sex offenders register they are monitored.

That's some busy building!

Surely if the police are that accessible, you just pop in & have a word.

no idea what you're on about confidentiality, unless someone told you that shouldn't have, what's the problem (& how did you find out)

I know someone released from prison due to child sex offences - he was under probabtion and in the early days could no longer own a phone or any device with internet access as part of his probation rules. it is possible this person is the under the same rules, and could be genuinely visiting the library to innocently access the internet. Also, before anyone jumps to defend these people the person I mentioned above reoffended and was sent straight back to prison 🙌🏼

In protection of children I would keep a log of visits and his behaviour, should you reach a point you feel you need to report, the police officers on-site should help give you the details of the general probation teams, otherwise crime stoppers is always an option people rarely think of in these cases.

Let police know and let the nursery know. I would think it's extremely unlikely he is out of prison and still not allowed to go to any public area where kids might be. Kids could be anywhere - library, shop, doctors, A&E, park, on the street. In fact the more you think about it, if he wasn't allowed where kids are, that would effectively mean he was on house arrest. However letting those people know means they can act if he is doing anything he shouldn't and if he's not, they won't and that won't hurt you, him or anyone else.

well yes, maybe where there are much less children knocking about as I’m sure the local authority / CP will know. He clearly hasn’t integrated back into society well by leering at children at the library so needs to be somewhere like a city centre where children aren’t there often / live there compared to suburbs! Doubt they’ll go underground when they have to report to probation often?! how would you feel if you were in OP situation or if one of those children were yours he was ogling?

How do you know this guy is a convicted paedophile?

Assuming it is public knowledge not something you have learnt in the course of your work then you are merely 'gossiping' at worst by telling people you think should know.

Do be damn sure you've got the right guy though, and dont go too far eg telling everyone or putting it on Facebook, that could constitute harassment.

I think you would be doing the right thing to speak to the police and warn the nursery.

Report to the Building manager and probation services.

The nursery surely wouldn't let a random man anywhere near the kids anyway