Santa Sex Offender Arrested for Failure to Register Santa Business
The headline from this story on WFLA reads, “Sex offender Santa seeking Christmas party employment arrested”, but the headline doesn’t tell anything close to the story. The person required to register, in this case, had committed his offense in 1993 (25 years ago) and was no longer on probation. As such, there’s no prohibition in the Florida Statutes on his being employed as a Santa.
What the police set up the elaborate sting operation for (as detailed in his arrest report) was to arrest him for not registering his self employment.
Granted, freelancing as a Santa is probably not the best way for someone on the registry to earn a few dollars during the holidays, but there was nothing inherently illegal about it. The lesson learned was to make sure your “i”s are dotted and your “t”s crossed because any petty violation can land you back in prison after a quarter century!
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I agree this is literally 1 (one) point for the cops. Who knows his motives but he fit the adgena this detective is probably earned a stripe and pay increase. What about the 30 thousand other techs that were pure tech on unsuspecting offenders. “Well we see you didn’t list your garage sale and see here you have yoga videos and women’s clothing and what’s this….video games, how you want to explain this sicko”
I am not siding with L.E.O.’s I have a sex crime on me too. I question his motives. Really a Santa business? Knowing full well the hate and anger towards us why go out of his way to Pi$$ed off L.E.O.’s,parents, or some lame excuse for politican? Certain Isolated incidents causes the rest of us to suffer. I don’t want to sound like the villain here,however, I don’t feel sorry for him. He gotten what he deserve. People need to start to think of others then themselves. I not upset he was working a business, I am upset his hidden desires could hurt us all. I am not doing any finger pointing either. But I am sick and tired of this Registry $hit because of others’ actions. Those who committed these actions are either in prison for life or dead. Nevertheless, the rest of us have to endure the hardships.
then you should know that as being a member of the Hit List $$$ can be very hard to come by! he is arrested 25 years ago!
@Concerned Yes I understand money is very hard to come by. Dish washing jobs, is better than Santa. I was arrested and convicted 28 years ago. I don’t have the 1000 foot law where I live,but that doesn’t mean I should go out of my way and live near any schools ..,etc. He has the responsiblity to keep up on those laws. For the Membership, I value my freedom and life,I have a linked to the sex offender dept at the sheriff office to follow any updates. I been here for 8 years and no problems. Common sense is to asked ” What am I required to do to stay out of trouble/jail?” Once again Each and every sex offender has the duty to themselves to asked questions or seek help. Where I am living at there is a small support group, but nothing like FAC where you live in Florida. If that is where you are living. I wish there was Action Committee here. but there isn’t So you get update on laws and changes. I on the other hand have to get online once a month and seek the information out
the problem with your idea of staying out of trouble I don’t think is the best one. If you been visiting FAC site for any length of time then you should know that the police or the person doing the registration likely will not tell you the correct as most of the time they do not know. Perhaps this person could not find that type of job or is unable to perform that type of work. the man has no sanctions on him, has not been in any trouble for a very long time. he should be allowed to do any legal job he can without being subject to things like he shouldn’t have this job or he shouldn’t live here or over there!
would you say the same thing about a drunk driver that was convicted 25 years ago that they should not work anywhere alcohol is sold should never drive again should not be able to live or be within 2500 ft? (btw Miami is 2500 ft. residency law).
If a sanction is good enough for one citizen it should be good enough for all citizens or none at all. Contrary to today’s concern about sex offenders, there are threats out there that are of much more concern. Debt paid is debt completed…all then should be able to go to work and earn an honest living. Should we have a public registry for all threats or none at all. I vote for none at all unless law enforcement, within its confines, needs a document to track all threats…all!
It’s obvious to me that this was done to make headlines, which in turn helps the cops on sex offender squads justify their positions as well as top cops’ budgets.
Heres a little more to the story discussing internet identifiers.
https://www.wesh.com/article/sex-offender-santa-seeking-christmas-party-employment-arrested-orange-county-deputies-say/25336662
The City of New Orleans was first established by certain countries emptying there jails and dumping them out there in that mosquitoe infested area. It worked out pretty well for all. The problem is today certain factions of society aren’t as civilized as they were 300 yrs ago. They don’t want to give others a second chance no matter what the cost.
Quarter century.