There is a paedophile living on the next road to me.

[Wellthisisjustfuckingbrilliant]

Found out today through the medium of Facebook. Pleaded guilty to downloading cat A images and received a suspended sentence/put on the sex offenders register.

He lives almost next door to a play park.

At the moment there is plenty of pitch forks at the ready from the neighbours from what I can tell. But can anyone tell me seriously how this will be policed/monitored?

[quote SabrinaTheMiddleAgedBitch]@supernova89 Our local newspaper does this. So it would be Joe Bloggs, 58 from street, town [/quote]
Is it not encouraging harassment though? If everyone knows where he lives.

I would hope the police are on top of this. If he's been convicted then hopefully he'll be monitored and thus on his best behaviour now. I wouldn't worry about your own children though, people don't shit on their own door step.

Sadly, there are lots of them out there. My next door neighbour’s son is one, and he often visits her house with his kids. When he was convicted, his mum was a weird mixture of denial and minimalising what he’d done.

Many years ago, another woman in our street accused a (different) man in our street of molesting her daughter. That accusation seems a bit weird though, as the family subsequently moved closer to the alleged abuser.

Didn’t a recent documentary estimate that 500,000 men in the UK had accessed child abuse images online? A horrible thought, and I hope this figure is mainly made up of accidental breaches.

OP as PP's have said he will be risk assessed by police/probation and managed accordingly.

As for living by a park, etc. Plenty do, because they own or private rent. It is difficult for housing associations/council to relocate offenders just based on their convictions as their are rules housing must follow.

SOPOs no longer exist, Sexual
harm prevention orders replaced them. It's highly unlikely anyone convicted now will be prevented from accessing the internet because it is not compatible with modern life, but their internet use can be monitored. Other prohibitions can be made but should be relevant to their offending behaviour.

Is it not encouraging harassment though? If everyone knows where he lives

It's a hard issue, because I do believe it should be published after a conviction (not an arrest), but also publishing it may encourage other people to come forward and so give weight to the case.

I was watching that programme that was on recently - the disappearance of Shannon Matthews. I think one of the police officers on the team said that, at the time, there were something like 2,000 known sex offenders in a 20 mile radius of Shannon's home.

Well at least your aware but as a word of caution most offences against children are by people in there own home or close relatives. So perhaps be worried about those in or close to your home than those you know about who live a couple of streets down

@Wellthisisjustfuckingbrilliant No problem at all. I would also encourage if there are any concerns at all regarding the distance he is living etc for it to be reported by anybody who has these worries to the non urgent police line 101. Information sharing through the correct channels can be key to ensuring that if there are genuine issues they are dealt with promptly.

This will attach to the offender's record that a concern has been raised, and the details of the SOPO will be checked, if there is a breach then it will be back to court or alternative housing may be needes for the offender.

I completely understand that this is frightening and worrying.

They should house them all together in a gated community as far away from the public as possible. But no, next to parks seems to be the usual place shudder

In Scotland (and probably the rest of the uk) he would be considered s MAPPA client. This means Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement. In other words he is monitored everywhere he goes. The police check on him twice a day. If he isn’t we’re he should be, if his tag is triggered he is arrested. MAPPA clients are much less likely to reoffend as there is no opportunity to do so. Yes it’s terrifying but he is monitored constantly

@Wellthisisjustfuckingbrilliant

My question is what steps would be taken. I’m not talking about people charging round his house with pitchforks. Social media is currently getting very heated. I’m asking if there would be monitoring etc going on?

Could local police tell you?

Wherever he lives, he could be in walking distance of a children's playground.

It's revolting but forewarned is forearmed etc.

they are everywhere, just assume your neighbours are! our local policeman has to visit to check and told me there are several in different houses within a couple of minutes walk from my house.

@Fundays12 this is not what MAPPA means in England, very very few offenders have GPS tags

Considering the prevalence of child sexual abuse, there are a lot of sex offenders out there, but the most common incidences take place within the family.

@turnedthewatersintoblood

they are everywhere, just assume your neighbours are! our local policeman has to visit to check and told me there are several in different houses within a couple of minutes walk from my house.

This is the reason I feel sick letting my almost teenage daughter out and about. They are bludy everywhere.

I remember watching a program years ago and it said the amount of paedophiles (can’t spell) there are in Britain is astonishing and would be the equivalent of having one in each London underground tube train carriage. So how ever many passengers one of those holds, there would be one of them in the population 😓

Ohh that’s scary as MAPPA should safeguard kids.

The ones you know about are not the problem, its the ones that are not getting caught that worry me more....

On a programme recently ( I think it was the Disappearance of Shannon Matthews) I was quite shocked to hear that in about a 20 mile radius of her house , there were over 1000 registered sex offenders.

Released sex offenders are housed in flats in my home town directly opposite a park and on a main route for passing school children going to the local primary. Go figure. So many local protests about this place but its still going. It's supposedly staffed but I dont think the staff monitor, they're more like housekeepers.

I also recall an old colleague being in the paper for downloading images, as well as his address it included his photograph.

I would have thought he couldn't be within a certain distance of schools, playgrounds etc...it is not right that he can remain living beside (or v near to) a kiddies' playpark.

Watch your kids, don't leave them alone unsupervised in the playground, teach them the 'stranger danger' rules. Unfortunately this is the way it is...my DC are late 20's...I didn't know of anyone for sure in our locality but we lived on outskirts of major city....so couldn't know all neighbours. You can't live in fear but you do need to be supervigilant about who keeps company with your child.

I’d call the non-emergency number for the police about the Facebook pitch forks.

At an old house we had leaflets through the door about a convicted sex offender living on our street. The man had severe learning difficulties and lived with his ill elderly mother and someone threw bricks through their windows. I’d called the non-emergency number once I got the flier as I was worried about vigilanteism and that’s exactly what happened.

@TableFlowerss

They should house them all together in a gated community as far away from the public as possible. But no, next to parks seems to be the usual place shudder

So prison.

Quite.

Unfortunately there are many peadophiles in communities. My ex's mum married a convicted peadophile, he had regular visits from the police. On one of these visits he had a 9yo girl sitting in the front seat of his van. The neighbours found out and wanted to kill him, they had to be rehoused by the council, and they moved them next door to a primary school!

Better that you know, truly. I discovered two in my own family, convicted, one served time in prison, the other plead guilty and got time served though was a serious offence involving his own children. You never in a million years would have guessed. You probably have others even closer to you that you have no idea about. Better the devil you know sadly.

There was one on my street, his adult DD went public about he abuse she suffered at his hands when she was a child, she appeared in the papers and on the news to talk about what happened, gave up her anonymity. Her dad was in his 70s when he was jailed for 15 years for it, his wife worked with another neighbour and they beleived he was innocent, her mum and brother stopped talking to her, it was very brave of her to speak out. He used to scowl at my DC on their bikes when they were young, I just thought he was a grumpy old man. He served 10 years and came out of prisonat 80 and they moved away from the area. I was tyring to find the news reports about the case but cant find anything, although we are talking 1998