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 ????

He is probably breaching his license conditions especially if he is deliberately visiting when children are there. Offenders can be returned to prison for this. Someone was jailed locally for this recently because staff in the building knew his history and reported him to police - they saw that he was appearing after school when teenagers would be there.

Was about to ask this.

If you do work in the field, @mindutopia , why do you think this sort of thing is so incredibly prevalent?

The nursery and library will have safeguarding leads. Let them know so that they are aware. There's no action to take ither than being aware and ensuring no risk situations develop.

If he's legally out of prison he needs to live somewhere. People being aware that he could be a danger is an effective assurance that he can't be a danger. It needs to be possible for him to live his life though.

Police. If the building is used by libraries,police ect,it most likely has CCTV ,so there still may be evidence of him watching the children.
I wouldn't contact anyone other than authorities, that way you can't be blamed if someone did decide to give him a bit of old fashioned justice.

They won't stop him going to a library. Having worked in public libraries, I can tell you they are full of lovely people and also complete weirdos and everything in between. You can let the manager know so the staff are briefed to keep an eye on him though.

He may well have a legitimate reason to be at the local council offices. The fact that he’s attending on the same day every week suggests a regular appointment. Could well be some form of adult education class intended to improve their chances of employment/rehabilitation.Having said that, if you believe this person could be in breach of their licence conditions, then you can make a report to the parole board (anonymously if you prefer.) More delails on licence conditions and the role of the parole board on gov.uk www.gov.uk/government/news/licence-conditions-and-how-the-parole-board-use-them

If he has ‘confidentiality’, then how do you know about him?

And most don’t even get jailed. One in my town got off with a suspended sentence despite having 50,000 images! Over 3000 Cat A!

it’s a fucking disgrace.

I really doubt it's incredibly common that the colleagues of council staff, library workers and nursery workers are sex abusers because normally there are a lot of background checks for those kinds of jobs.

Report him via 101 if you know his name. He should have an offender manager with the police who can take appropriate action.

Report to the police asap.

I’d be making a call to 111, even if just to make them aware he’s hanging out at a place in close proximity to young children, which I’m 99.99% sure he’s not actually allowed to be doing and could potentially be put back in prison for (as he should be).

Think how you’d feel if you did nothing and then found out he did something. There’s no harm done in just raising concerns, but there may be harm in ignoring them.

Why give advice that is not correct but is presented as fact? For a start, you don't know he was released by the parole board. They are only concerned with determining a certain number of prisoners' release. They are not concerned with any breach of conditions until such time that offender has been recalled and before the parole board for consideration of re-release. You would not report this to be the parole board!

So true! There was a convicted sexual predator at my workplace! Nice enough guy, you'd never have thought!

Sorry, meant “101” not “111”. Was very tired 😂

I phoned the police once with something similar and they were really helpful. They went and had a word with the person involved.

Definitely call them - you don't know what record this man has. It may be worse than you think.

@Jabtastic good news. I think he must be going for the children unless he has police check in weekly but not sure how likely this is and he was here the day before as well so up to something.

@FlyMeToPluto thanks he was in the paper what he did well tried to do and it was horrific he is definitely an unpleasant individual.

@TMGM will def report online and try to call as it can do no harm, but just so weird how he’s suddenly turned up hanging around and he’s here quite a while when he comes.

@JWhipple yes know his name and addrsss will do

Definitely report him.
I used to be a criminal defence solicitor and in my opinion, these types of people rarely change. I have very little faith in these courses / orders and I don’t believe that they rehabilitate.
Its a concerning pattern of behaviour which may lead to him posing a risk. I wouldn’t think twice.

@LouH1981 thank you I also believe there no way is he rehabilitated and def a risk.

Report him. He may well be in violation of the terms of his release and need recalling to prison.

Just curious as to whether you did report him and if the police or SS have done anything?
Sorry to revive the post but anything to do with little children really upset me, I have a 2 & a 6 year old x