Saturday, May 30, 2009

Finding Sex Offenders In Your Neighborhood

Do you know everyone who lives in your neighborhood? The truth these days is that most people don't even know who lives next door. It can be scary to find out that a sex offender is living near you, especially if you have children. Luckily you can now look online and see exactly where sex offenders live. Freesexoffenderreports.com is a free website that lets you see the locations of sex offenders in your area.

I used this information once to get my kids bus stop changed. We lived on a dead end road, and when Ryan started 4K, the bus came to our house to pick him up. The bus driver was wonderful, but she only lasted a couple of years. When the kids were in kindergarten and first grade, the bus driver changed, and the kids were going to have to walk to the end of my road to catch the bus. I was not happy about this, because I was pregnant, and couldn't walk them down. They were only five and six years old, and there was no way I was letting them go by themselves. So I got online and found out that there was a registered sex offender who lived one house away from the bus stop. I used that information to get the bus to come to my house again.

I had to protect my children, because if I don't, who will?

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