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Mandarin Man Shocked To Find His Address Listed For Sex Offender
News4Jax.com ^ | January 1, 2008

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: meghanlaw; potentialabuse
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To: Drew68
Sex offender registries are a joke. You've got violent serial rapists and pedophiles sharing the lists with guys who got busted soliciting prostitutes and 18 year-old high school seniors who got caught screwing their 16 year old sophmore girlfriends.

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?

21 posted on 01/02/2008 7:14:34 AM PST by pnh102
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To: SubGeniusX

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.


22 posted on 01/02/2008 7:17:07 AM PST by mysterio
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To: SatinDoll
Perhaps pedophiles just released from prison should have chip implants that can be traced by satellites.

I may be wrong, but I don't believe that technology exists yet.

23 posted on 01/02/2008 7:18:24 AM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got Seven? [NRA Life Member])
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To: rmh47

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.


24 posted on 01/02/2008 7:26:31 AM PST by SatinDoll (Fred Head and proud of it!)
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To: Mr. K
"you need a better lawyer- a good one would have sued THEM for damages"

No such thing of suing city hall and winning when it is just a clerical error with no malice. If YOU are willing to foot the 45,000 dollar retainer fee to get the ball rolling, I'll be more than happy to split the winnings.
25 posted on 01/02/2008 7:39:43 AM PST by wrench
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To: Dave thA
Reminds me of the time the Welsh community burned down the house of the new pediatrician in town...

Rumor has it that she once ambulated a child and also a dog.

26 posted on 01/02/2008 7:47:02 AM PST by Polybius
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To: Dave thA
Mkae that “attacked” not “burned down”... memory error...

"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

27 posted on 01/02/2008 8:26:47 AM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: SubGeniusX
...but no one was available because of the holiday.

To government bureaucrats, every day is a holiday.

28 posted on 01/02/2008 8:34:29 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.)
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To: pnh102
We would never consider this approach with any other violent criminal. Could you imagine a murderer's registry?

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.

29 posted on 01/03/2008 3:09:51 PM PST by Drew68
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