Posted on 01/02/2008 6:01:56 AM PST by SubGeniusX
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A man whose address was mistakenly listed as that of a sexual offender is worried that it could hurt his family and that the same thing could happen to others.
Claudio DiGregorio and his family live what he calls a normal life in a quiet Mandarin neighborhood. He was startled when he discovered his street number listed on a state Web site as the residence of a man was recently released from prison on a conviction of lewd and lascivious battery child under 15.
"My first impulse is that I was angry," DiGregorio said. "I was angry, I was shocked."
DiGregorio said things got worse when he got a mailing from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement asking sex offenders to verify their address.
"My son (is) happy in the community where I raise him, without dealing with something like this," DiGregorio told Channel 4's Vickie Pierre. "This right here blows my mind to no end."
DiGregorio said he contacted the FDLE, but is still waiting for them to remove his address. Channel 4 contacted both the FDLE and the Florida Department of Corrections, but no one was available because of the holiday.
"Your reputation and your character itself is very important," DiGregorio said. "To me, that's the backbone of what this world is about."
"If someone uses my address to get out of prison and no one does a follow-up, I believe it could happen to anyone," DiGregorio said.
And then you have to wonder how many people were put there due to corrupt prosecutors and judges...
It is disgusting that any truly violent sex offender, rapist or pedophile is ever allowed to walk the streets in the first place. We would never consider this approach with any other violent criminal. Could you imagine a murderer's registry?
It’s time to rethink the way those lists are constructed. There is too much sloppiness, and there are people on the sex offender sites who committed offenses like peeing in an alley or dating a girl a year younger than themselves in high school.
I may be wrong, but I don't believe that technology exists yet.
Well, chips are already in all my pet dogs and cats. Don’t know if they can be tracked by satellites though...you’re probably correct about that part.
Rumor has it that she once ambulated a child and also a dog.
"Burned down" was an incident in England. A boy (~6 years old) died in that fire. But they succeeded in rendering the registered sex offender homeless
To government bureaucrats, every day is a holiday.
No kidding. There's plenty of murderers walking free.
Better yet, let's have a burglars' registry! They always receive a slap on the wrist and have a much higher recidivism rate than sex offenders. Most of them steal from their own neighborhoods. This way, I'll know whose windows to peek in when my stuff gets stolen.
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