OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. —
Police said a man was locked up after he was accused of trying to kill sex offenders.
Officers said he tried to set the men on fire.
Jorge Porto-Sierra has been formally charged with four counts of attempted premeditated murder.
Osceola County detectives said the 50-year-old confessed to deputies he tried to kill multiple people at the Friendly Village Inn on Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway.
After his March 7 arrest, Porto-Sierra said he arrived at the motel to “barbecue all the child molesters on fire and kill them.”
WESH 2 News confirmed at least two of the four victims are convicted sexual offenders.
Witnesses told deputies Porto-Sierra made several threats, screaming, “I’m going to kill you, child molester,” and allegedly began throwing gasoline on their front door.
Porto-Sierra is accused of breaking a hotel window to pour gasoline inside.
Witnesses said he was carrying a cigarrette the whole time.
Another couple said Porto-Sierra rammed their car and poured gas on it.
When asked by deputies why he did not carry out his threats, Porto-Sierra said, “You got here too soon.”
Porto-Sierra remains behind bars at the Osceola County Jail.
He’s being held on no bond.
This man is being released June 21 from a 5-year sentence. If you are in Osceola County, please get the word out to all registrants and families.
Good catch. FAC pls consider re-posting as an updated news item, in the interests of ‘getting the word out to all registrants and their families.’
An article about this guy appeared in my news feed today, but it was vague.
Department of Corrections search shows release date is in less than one year.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=C40214&TypeSearch=AI
Since his attack was on random registrants, shouldn’t every registrant in the country be warned about his release…victims rights and all
Florida Action Committee, thank you for your blog post.Really thank you! Awesome.
Oh, and this wasn’t Porto-Sierra’s first offense:
https://www.rapsheets.org/florida/kissimmee-jail/PORTO-SIERRA_JORGE/526269
Curious how there was no mention of that.
This happened two months ago and is just now being reported??? I love the way the article refer’s to the perp as a “man,” but the victims as “sex offenders.” That says a lot. I wonder what Jorge Porto-Sierra’s citizenship and or immigration status is. Here’s his rap sheet:
https://apps.osceola.org/Apps/CorrectionsReports/Report/Details/526269
Apparently there was a child or children involved since one of his charges is “787.02-2 – FALSE IMPR ADULT OR CHILD<13YO."
Miami-Herald article http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article210609969.html
has a disgusting comment from Facebook by Tiffanie Cole – "He had good intentions lol"
This is one of the dangers of the sex offender registry. SO’s are open game for those who want to cause harm.
Yes, they are allowed by the government to finish what the government started – all part of the plan.
Create a sub-class of citizens with a meaningless label – post their face and location online – sit back and let the psychos finish them off.
If we are incurable, then how is this not a disability?
How long until FDLE offers this guy a job?
I literally almost fell out of my chair laughing at this. Good question. Um, it’ll be after he serves his measley 3 month misdemeanor sentence in county jail. I mean, you saw what the officers asked him, right? “What kept you from going through with your plan?”
this took place at a run-down motel where the DOC send people when they walk out of prison. thus not many would have any weapon to defend themselves. my best friend was at this motel for 3 months till found another place to live so this strikes very close to home but why is the person also not charged with using the registry improperly? I would say amazes me but this it the righteous police that charged him and I doubt very few have even ever been charged with misusing the registry so why even have a law that the police, state, etc… follow and abide by!
I keep a baseball bat in my car for this very reason. There’s way to defend yourself. Every family member of an RSO should go online and search for “weapons disguised as every day ordinary items.” You’d be surprised what you find. These are mostly on survivalist websites. So they can be hidden in plain sight. And if anyone asks about my bat, I just say oh yeah, I’m in a softball league.
MJ,
to avoid big issues please make sure you have a least a ball glove that fits and perhaps a ball or 2 with you as well
Yeah remember “ If the glove don’t fit you must acquit “ And vice versa,in this case.
When he was on paper my son was told by his PO that a baseball bat is not considered a weapon and he could keep it at his front door. They would be hard pressed to say it was a weapon just because you may have to defend yourself.
“When asked by deputies why he did not carry out his threats, Porto-Sierra said, “You got here too soon.'”
UMMM………someone please tell me why that matters and why the cops would ask such a question? He should’ve been gang tackled to the ground and dragged to the cop car just like I was in the sting operation that didn’t even involve an actual person being harmed or violated or threatened.
Ya know, it’s sh*t like this that makes me not want to blame my fellow RSO’s from wanting to die or take their own life. I’m not advocating that by any means. But the truth of the matter is that we will have to deal with this kind of crap (among everything else) for the REST OF OUR LIVES with no reprieve!! I can relate because I felt the same way and had the same thoughts cross my mind since I got arrested and even more so when I got released from prison and just saw the major obstacle I had to overcome just to get a job, find a place to live, etc… The mental toll it takes on you is just torturous. There were several times when I would just go sit and stare at the river or ocean for hours thinking what’s the point? I would look at all the bridges we have here in Jacksonville and think, hmm, which would be the best one to jump off of?
But then I realized that doing that would give these assholes like Ron and Lauren and the idiot state of Florida that much more victory over me and I’m not letting them have it that easy. When everyone in this govt goes down, and they WILL, I wanna be here to see it. So that’s what motivates me to get up and fight another day. The wicked will be brought low the Bible says and I intend to see it. Fight on!!
“When asked by deputies why he did not carry out his threats…..”
Are the police asking because they wanted it to happen???
@M
That’s exactly what I was thinking and what caught my eye in the article.
@MJ
You’ve got to keep an eye on the Cops as much as the vigilantes.
If this is not a hate crime then there is no such thing as a hate crime.
Also since this is a hate crime So is all discriminatory legislation aimed solely at sex offenders.
I will try to explain why this is a hate crime. I came from the hippie generation who also had unacceptable ideas and were often beat and killed for expressing them. There are things that are definitely an infringement on others rights and are wrong rape, murder ,pedophilia , but the problem is they have lumped many other things together with these and called them the same. Nudity, sexting consensual sex , and dozens of other things that are not predatory actions against others,but rather differing ideas as to what is acceptable. Religion is belief ,what is a belief, An idea which our constitution says we have a right to,and to express as long as we don’t infringe on others rights. If two people both agree that what they are doing is acceptable and there not forcing their ideas on others ,why is it worthy of banishment from society. The problem is there are many law based on religious beliefs though not Biblical but they think they are. So they feel justified in forcing their beliefs on all.
So the sex offender registry by lumping together persons with different beliefs (like religion) with those with predatory actions they have used protective laws to infringe on personal beliefs (religion) which we are supposed to have freedom of. This being so by someone threatening the life of SO it is a hate crime against a people with a certain belief for they felt something was normal that other have disagreed with.
That hate crime perhaps was aimed at rapists or pedophiles but he can’t distinguish by the list who is and whose not but commits the act anyway.
Is like here locally,a man went into a Jewish Center and shot and Killed 4 people because he hated Jews. Non of the people he killed were Jews. He has been convicted of a hate crime.
The one going to do harm against SO doesn’t know whether that person was guilty of a crime against society or someone with a different point of view, so we must assume ,as in the case above , the crime was done as a hate crime because of someone with a different belief from them.
And please tell me HOW this is not a “hate crime”????
FAC says “that we (sex offenders) are NOT a class of people”.
Sorry to say, when this crap happens, we ARE a targeted class of people. And these are hate crimes, plain & simple.
Ron Book (and Lauren) should be charged as accessories to the fact, inciting hateful, racist speech against a CLASS of people , causing harm to another thru LIES, PERJURY (lying while giving testimony/ presenting false facts to push your agenda)
Let me ask you this…
You can get arrested for painting swastikas on buildings, calling Black people “Ni**ers, calling gay people fags and all of that is listed as HATE CRIMES.
YET, call a sex-offender a “Kiddy-diddling M-F’er” (as the COPS have called me), Pedo, short eyes, paint “MOLESTER” in front of your house, windows shot out, bricks thrown at your car, people damaging your lawn, shouting at you, screaming all sorts of names..
And you dont see where this would fall under the term “HATE CRIME”??????????
Or is this 1938 Nazi Germany and sex-offenders are the new Jewish people who have to wear the “scarlet letter”?
Both of the Book’s are Democrats, so I can understand their lack of common sense and the want of Anarchy. (Much like Antifa)
Sean,
We ARE class of people.
We ARE NOT a Protected Class as that definition is established in Federal (and most State’s) discrimination or anti-hate laws. That definition and the protection it affords is generally reserved for; Race, Color, Religion or creed, National origin or ancestry, Sex, Age, Physical or mental disability, Veteran status, Genetic information, or Citizenship.
If you are going to state that we are incorrect and that registered sex offenders are protected under the anti-discrimination or anti-hate laws, please provide a citation to the law you are referencing. Provide one case where any court has found that.
I’m challenging you because you seem to be so certain and I would love for you to find it because it would help us.
The federal anti-discrimination act is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000-). Over the years they have added separate laws that included other classes of people, such as The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), The Equal Pay Act and even The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. In 2009 President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act which covered sexual orientation and identity.
In Florida, Florida Statute 775.085, titled “Evidencing prejudice while committing offense; reclassification.” is our State’s hate crime laws. It covers, “prejudice based on the race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, homeless status, or advanced age of the victim”
There is no doubt that hate is the motivation for these vigilante offenses against sex offenders and we would love it if registrants were included in the definition of “protected class” or included in the list of classes of victims, offenses against which carry enhanced penalties under our hate crimes laws, but there is currently no law (that we know if… if you know otherwise, please show us) that would classify crimes against registrants as hate crimes.
The jews did nothing other than exist. Bad comparison. Most of us have done something to be in this classification. Most of us have submitted to an original penalty and have complied. The focus here is moving on but yet our classification for some reason exempt us from civil rights that at this point are being denied us. By definition this would not be a hate crime but more vigilantism. If we cant even get our constituional rights recognized or our human rights accepted how can we even expect any type of protection for our classification? Lets not lose sight of the obvious that we are here for various reasons and for various pasts. We will never escape that but just would like to see an end to a bottomless penalty with no end in sight. 800,000 registrants and growing yet add 4 for each minimim that this indirectly affects. 3200000 minimum people affected so 2400000 additional victims created solely by this system of thought….. and growing.
Jm – I understand what you are saying but remember many of the crimes RSO’s are convicted of were not even crimes 10 or 15 years ago – others were misdemeanors. My point is before the Nazis could justify the actions of the Holocaust, normal every day things were made crimes if they were done by a Jew. The same thing applies to segregation in the USA – things were made crimes if they were committed by a person of color. The segregation in itself was not the greatest outrage (although it was bad enough) it was instead the fact that violating those rules was a crime and many times death occurred and vigilantes were rampant. Although, I agree that the situations are vastly different there are many things that are the same. The interim camps for the Japanese – Americans during WWII was similar. Certainly, one thing all of these situations have in common is that they were allowed because the general public was controlled and driven by FEAR. Fear based on misinformation and out-right bigotry and lies. If we could somehow educate the general public to the truth about RSOs, their crimes, and the psychology behind them we would see things change a great deal. The myth about stranger danger is alive and well – even in my own family no matter how many times we talk about it and I show them statistics – they forget and drink the kool-aid (that is until I rein them back in a remind them of the truth – LOL)
This is one of the Reasons, we have a Ring doorbell, it Videos and recording of any voice within 30 feet of our front door and it keeps it in memory for a year…
I’m surprised someone didn’t shoot him,
I haven’t had an issue yet,but I’m ready…Stupid People
I can here all the politician’s now, OH, its only sex offenders, they brought it on themselves, percentage wise only a couple of them got hurt.