BOLO CoCo County residents. Stay safe. L&L.
Posted on 02/10/2005 9:54:13 PM PST by SmithL
San Francisco -- A convicted sex offender _ chased out of four San Francisco Bay area towns _ was given court approval Thursday to move into a Contra Costa County community despite public opposition.
Cary Verse, 34, has been living in a motel room in San Jose for the past year while he's been in the outpatient phase of the state's mandated treatment program for California's most serious rapists and child molesters.
A new state law requires that sexually violent predators be sent back to the county of last residence before their incarceration; Verse was last arrested in Contra Costa County in 1992 for assaulting a man in a homeless shelter.
Anthony Ashe, a criminal defense attorney, volunteered to be Verse's landlord about three months ago, offering to house him for $1,250 a month in a cottage attached to Ashe's law office in Bay Point.
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BOLO CoCo County residents. Stay safe. L&L.
You can bet if the judge lived in this neighborhood he would make some other ruling. You won't see judges releasing these predators into their own neighborhood.
I don't like paying for life in prison for these guys and execution is improbable.
What about creating a sort of prison community: they can live freely, work and move around within the community, but serious border guards would prevent them leaving?
Just a thought.
unbelievable!
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