Detectives bust dozens of sex offenders, predators in Osceola still breaking law
OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – Detectives with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office recently conducted checks on the hundreds of sex offenders and predators in the county and found dozens of them are still breaking the law.
When members of the sex offender and predator unit checked up on all 550 offenders and predators living in Osceola County, they didn’t just check addresses, they checked everything.
Detective Michelle Keefer called it a “deep dive.”
“Residency, driver’s license, phone number, employment, social media, internet sites,” Keefer said.
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I think it is human nature to go for the easiest/lowest hanging fruit (Target).
95% of new sex crimes are committed by non- offenders, I would be more impressed to see the law Enforcement apparatus be more proactive on the larger scale.
I’m a little confused about this. Unless you’re on probation you do not have to show the police anything other then your ID. They can not come into your home, they can’t search your phone or computer. In fact you don’t even have to cooperate at all with them in any way. So the point is…are these people they’re harassing on probation ? If they aren’t just tell them to have a nice day and close the door. When the sheriff comes to my house I do not let them in. I close the door, get ,y license and step outside with the door closed behind me. I am under NO obligation to let him or her into my home, although I will add, that never has the sheriff deputy ever tried to get in my home either.
Correct – they cannot.
As EMSMedic3293 stated ” So the point is…are these people they’re harassing on probation ?” Or, I add, do they not know their rights?
In looking at the article, only 67 out of 550 registrants? No word on the 483 who were compliant? I wonder if any of the general readers paused to do the basic math in this respect?
I’d like to know, instead of the nebulous “some”, just how many of the 67 were actually downloading CP or committing another $ex-focused crime? Am I correct in assuming the number would be much smaller?
“Some” MUST have meant two or three. Had it been any larger, the detective would have specified.
Even one viewer of such material is too many, of course. But the detective didn’t sound too certain of the ages of those depicted. Thankfully, not one of the 550 had attempted any hands-on crime. We know this because, if they had, the detectives and reporters would have made a big deal of it.
483 compliant, my mistake, I said 525. But I would still maintain that almost none of the 67 (?) non-complaints did anything that people would recognize as a crime. They may have been registration crimes that have no relationship to sexual abuse prevention.
detective woman asking for drivers license and as the reporter says that is just the beginning of the visit.
Is this legal to be asking all these questions for a residency check?
You are under no obligation to do anything other than show ID.
If they ask questions (and you are not on probation) tell them you will not answer their questions without a lawyer present.
No they are ones who are above the law should go after ones who make the movie and ones who are selling if so worry of a sudden them give them shelter indoor they did their time ask their victims if had any what they still want to punish them
Florida is the worst state to be on the registry, cant figure out why they don’t leave–go to more friendly states?
Aside from any new offense against a child, I wonder how many of these “dozens of sex offenders still breaking the law”, were doing it intentionally? Its so hard for many registrants to keep up with the “laws” against them, and usually an offense is unintentional. Most are not sitting in front of a computer or phone screen and reading newspapers to keep up. They are just struggling to make it day by day. These detectives must be so proud of themselves. I hope someone is able to get the statistics of these offenses.
I suspect all were unintentional, since our law is strict liability.
Except maybe for the suspected child pornography possessed, according to the detective, by “some” (two? three?) registrants— and even in those cases, the detective did not seem to be sure whether the victims were children or not.
Getting the statistics would be a great idea! If anybody here is familiar with how to do it. Because out of 550 county registrants, it appears that at least 546 of them exhibited no evidence of attempting a new sex crime, and about 525 were found not to have broken any laws at all. That is a credit to the individual rehabilitation efforts of these registrants, despite so much stacked against them.