Paedophile in area what to do

[mickey54]

Really don’t know if should do something or not? Local paedophile released from prison early after 2 years. He is on sex offenders register and sexual harm order for life. He lives close to myself. However he now keeps appearing each week same day at the local council building where I work. Here there is a library and kids nursery. Last week the building was evacuated following a fire alarm he came out and was gawping at very young group of school kids virtually on top of them.

aibu to report him, is he meant to be going places where kids are my concern is he might be scoping out the library where the school children visit.
report to building manager. Library ? I feel really bad it’s playing on me and feel like can’t turn blind eye but what’s reasonable and what can you not do ????

What, and inflict him on a different area?

Paedophiles exist. We can't just shoot them all. They exist and they have to live somewhere. Better to have them living where the police etc know where they are than driven underground.

@Odearr thought that too but it is different times and my colleague spotted him the day before as well.

Ring 101 and ask for their advice?

There is now a paedophile in your area , but guess what , there probably always has been . He's a paedophile because he's been labelled as one ( rightly so ) but how do you know the man around the corner , or the man in your local shop , or even the man that helps out at your kids club ?
What I'm trying to say is , be aware a paedophile can be anywhere , be anyone .
Be vigilant everywhere not just around those who you know are guilty.

Without defending anyone - OP you know all this and the authorities don't?

@CocoDC think exactly this have a bad feeling about esp after what I witnessed last week.

That's not for you to decide. Just let the police know and they'll do what they need to.

I’d let the police know and the nursery, if I was a nursery worker I would want to know if there was anyone that presented a risk to the children in my care.

@Fireworknight good idea.

@User37482 i know I did think this I did warn the school teacher the other day when he was ogling the kids

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

Report to the Building manager and probation services.

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.

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?

@Catza yes library and nursery opposite each other the day of the fire alarm the kids were in the library when he appeared on car park

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.

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.

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 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.

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!

@AutumnLeaves24 it is it’s a big hub but unfortunately the police are not accessible to the public from here.

@Ellsbells22 i personally think he is an accident waiting to happen he got 5 years out in 2 it’s disgusting

@DeirdreRachid no I haven’t !

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