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State of Sex Offenders - Documentary · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: M there's no food. I'm cooking now, chicken and rice.
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  Speaker 2: It's my meat, says man.
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  Speaker 3: Me can be tender.
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  Speaker 4: Loved with pepper.
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  Speaker 5: Meet James.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where I sleep at.
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  Speaker 6: James has been living in the woods for three years.
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  Speaker 7: That's the swamp home.
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  Speaker 6: Sweet, How did James get here? James is a sex offender.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask you what your offense was? Pretending to
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  Speaker 1: have safe with a minor? Do you consider yourself to
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  Speaker 1: be a safer person?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: I'm safe?
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  Speaker 1: Would kids be safe around you?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I am there really away?
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  Speaker 1: How did you end up here?
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  Speaker 10: Oh?
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  Speaker 11: I got a prison and I had a choice.
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  Speaker 2: Go back to person when I'll cameya.
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  Speaker 11: Na, it's a lot of people.
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  Speaker 5: Buried in the woods of Central Florida.
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  Speaker 6: Is a dark place filled with desperate men and little hope.
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  Speaker 8: We have to live out here in the leper colony.
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  Speaker 8: We're not allowed to live among the normal folk.
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  Speaker 6: Over seven hundred thousand sex offenders live in America. They
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  Speaker 6: fill us with fear. What should we know about sex offenders?
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  Speaker 6: What do they want us to know about themselves? And
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  Speaker 6: where do they live once they're released from prison? They
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  Speaker 6: are America's pariahs, pushed into the shadows.
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  Speaker 5: America.
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  Speaker 6: It can be.
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  Speaker 5: Inspiring and beautiful. It can also be dark and ugly.
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  Speaker 6: It's so many things, but it's ours, it's our America.
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  Speaker 6: We could have gone anywhere in America to tell this story,
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  Speaker 6: but we chose Florida. The Sunshine State attracts not only
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  Speaker 6: families coming on vacation, but also vast numbers of sex offenders.
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  Speaker 6: More than fifty thousand of them live in Florida, and
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  Speaker 6: every month dozens more are released from prison.
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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, how you doing.
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  Speaker 6: Like any parent or future parent, I wanted to know
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  Speaker 6: where they go and how law enforcement kept track of
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  Speaker 6: them all. I was about to learn it was a
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  Speaker 6: huge job. Even the US Marshals get called in when
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  Speaker 6: one of these men turn up missing.
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  Speaker 8: He actually moved, didn't notify us that he moved.
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  Speaker 5: He actually gave us a fake address.
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  Speaker 6: We got a crime line tip.
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  Speaker 12: It says that he's hiding at two O seven, the
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  Speaker 12: main target house.
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  Speaker 13: We have a warrant for his arrest, and we're going
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  Speaker 13: to go find him.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think he's reoffending?
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  Speaker 1: That would be the gating out of question.
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  Speaker 13: Please come to the door, come on out, come.
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  Speaker 6: On out right now now At seven in the morning,
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  Speaker 6: and they believe that, uh, a man who has not
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  Speaker 6: registered is staying here. This is a game of cat
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  Speaker 6: and mouse. Offenders who don't wanna be found, law enforcement
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  Speaker 6: tasked to find them.
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  Speaker 4: Where was the sexual offender's orveillentce squad?
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  Speaker 6: And you have a.
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  Speaker 2: Warrant for your arrest, Well, what's George?
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  Speaker 14: Are you skipping back of your horse at acting in
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  Speaker 14: Orange County and lake Lytown?
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  Speaker 12: And then you're hiding out down here.
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  Speaker 6: He is supposed to register on the sex offender list
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  Speaker 6: semi annually and apparently he has not been registering. So
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  Speaker 6: incomes law enforcem meant and he's going back to jail.
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  Speaker 14: Listen, I've got to search you.
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  Speaker 10: I need you to lean up. I cannot search you
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  Speaker 10: lean down, RELI.
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  Speaker 6: This is what it looks like on the side of
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  Speaker 6: the law doing whatever it takes to keep sex offenders
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  Speaker 6: from committing new crimes. Even a seemingly small infraction can
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  Speaker 6: send a sex offender back to prison. This man had
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  Speaker 6: failed to register a change of address. It sounds like
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  Speaker 6: a minor slip up, but the marshals see it differently.
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  Speaker 6: What kinds of dangers could someone like this pose to me?
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  Speaker 13: A guy that's staying off the radar probably is a
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  Speaker 13: higher chance of reoffending than someone who's incompliance. The ones
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  Speaker 13: that deliberately slip off the radar and surface somewhere where
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  Speaker 13: no one knows who they are, what they're up to,
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  Speaker 13: who they're staying with, or probably doing it for a reason.
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  Speaker 6: The marshals told me their workload is grown along with
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  Speaker 6: the number of sex offenders across the country. The crimes
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  Speaker 6: are many, from exhibitionism to rape. They all appear on
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  Speaker 6: the same list, the Sex Offender Registry. We pace the
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  Speaker 6: offender's faces on the Internet and pass laws that crowd
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  Speaker 6: them into ever shrinking pockets of real estate. It makes
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  Speaker 6: us feel safer, but is it really working. It's a
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  Speaker 6: complicated problem, and to understand it, I had to go
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  Speaker 6: into their world.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, the cost is five hundred dollars a month. It's
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  Speaker 15: twelve hundred and fifty dollars in advance.
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  Speaker 6: Randy Young deals in real estate.
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  Speaker 15: Would you like that account?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 15: Hold on please is another call.
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  Speaker 6: He's an entrepreneur in a specialized market. He finds housing
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  Speaker 6: for people no one wants living in their neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 9: The last time I counted, I got eighty nine phone
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  Speaker 9: calls in one day. That's from the prisons, from the probation,
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  Speaker 9: from the families, from clergymen, from public defenders. Just goes
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  Speaker 9: on and on.
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  Speaker 6: Every day, another call, another sex offender getting out of
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  Speaker 6: prison looking for a home. Randy is constantly on the
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  Speaker 6: lookout for new rental properties.
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  Speaker 15: And I try not to saturate a neighborhood. And we
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  Speaker 15: have three or four houses in the last neighborhood. So
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  Speaker 15: here's a new frontier for me.
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  Speaker 6: A self designed computer program shows him where to look.
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  Speaker 15: Anything inside of a circle.
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  Speaker 6: Is taboo, yellow circles, pink circles, white circles. It's a
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  Speaker 6: colorful quilt of protective zones around playgrounds, schools, parks, places
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  Speaker 6: where children congregate and sex offenders are forbidden to live.
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  Speaker 6: Randy looks for the spaces in between, which can be tough.
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  Speaker 6: In some states like Florida, zones can reach twenty five
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  Speaker 6: hundred feet in every direction.
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  Speaker 15: We're right on the fringe of a daycare and I'm
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  Speaker 15: going to is a man on that to see just
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  Speaker 15: how close we are.
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  Speaker 6: So it's this street is the dividing line.
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  Speaker 15: Yes, that doesn't work, but the side of the street
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  Speaker 15: should be fine. If it's one foot over the line,
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  Speaker 15: that's all we need.
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  Speaker 6: Once he's identified a legal pocket of real estate, Randy
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  Speaker 6: starts looking for potential new housing. He's already found homes
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  Speaker 6: for five hundred sex offenders.
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  Speaker 15: It looks at least a three bedroom, one bathroom, so
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  Speaker 15: it fits the mold.
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  Speaker 6: So this neighborhood may soon get a number of sex offenders.
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  Speaker 15: Look already has some.
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  Speaker 6: Randy does this work at his own risk. He tells
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  Speaker 6: me he's gotten death threats. People do not want sex
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  Speaker 6: offenders in their neighborhoods, and they want Randy to stop.
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  Speaker 6: But Randy knows that without his help, many of these
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  Speaker 6: men will have no place to live, and he cares
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  Speaker 6: because he was once in their shoes. Randy is a
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  Speaker 6: sex offender. In two thousand and three, Randy encouraged a
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  Speaker 6: nineteen year old female to perform oral sex on a
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  Speaker 6: fourteen year old boy while he watched. Randy spent ten
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  Speaker 6: months in jail. How did your sex offender passed play
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  Speaker 6: into what.
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  Speaker 11: You do now?
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  Speaker 15: I did could admit a crime, but my seventy eighty
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  Speaker 15: year old mother did not. She was put through a
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  Speaker 15: real help trying to find me a place. She drove
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  Speaker 15: me to, a crack invested hotel with people sleeping on
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  Speaker 15: the sidewalks and bugs crawling on him. I mean a
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  Speaker 15: really bad place. I felt bad that my mother even
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  Speaker 15: had to go into that part of town, let alone
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  Speaker 15: her to see me being rejected from there. I really
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  Speaker 15: started this business to try and ease that pain for
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  Speaker 15: the families of sex offenders.
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  Speaker 6: Though he wears the same label, Randy has his own code.
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  Speaker 6: He won't accept anyone he thinks may re offend.
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  Speaker 15: What's that no guy's name. I'm looking for people coming
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  Speaker 15: in almost with their tail between their legs, ready to
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  Speaker 15: do anything to stay out of prison. If you're not ready,
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  Speaker 15: then you're coming to the wrong place. I'm not the
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  Speaker 15: person the best with. I'm rough and tough, and I
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  Speaker 15: don't put up with any tomfooler.
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  Speaker 5: It's a strange view into a shadowy world.
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  Speaker 6: Randy's business is my way in access to people I
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  Speaker 6: probably would never meet, desperate men who hope to start
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  Speaker 6: their lives over again. A man has just arrived from
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  Speaker 6: prison today to Randy's house. Originally he had agreed to
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  Speaker 6: allow us to shoot him, but he decided that he
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  Speaker 6: didn't want to be filmed because he at some point
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  Speaker 6: wants to try to get back to a normal life,
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  Speaker 6: so all we can do is shoot him from the
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  Speaker 6: back of the head.
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  Speaker 5: This is kind of.
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  Speaker 1: What we've been dealing with.
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  Speaker 6: These are condemned members of xiety, and it's understandable that
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  Speaker 6: they wouldn't want their faces shown on television because they
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  Speaker 6: are already considered the ultimate pariahs.
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  Speaker 15: Everyone is watching you, and you never know if anyone
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  Speaker 15: is trying to do you in. You have to realize
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  Speaker 15: that you're not free. You are still in prison, and
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  Speaker 15: if you think that you're.
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  Speaker 4: Not, you're full.
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  Speaker 6: Randy's new tenant, a man will call John Serve seventeen
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  Speaker 6: months for traveling with intent to have sex with an
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  Speaker 6: underage girl. Now he gets a tough dose of reality
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  Speaker 6: from one sex offender to another.
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  Speaker 15: How to deal with children Such a tough thing because
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  Speaker 15: you know you're going to run into them. I don't
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  Speaker 15: think that you're overly attracted to children, but you cannot
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  Speaker 15: have any contact with them. Just don't look their way
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  Speaker 15: at all. I'm really taking a big chance. You could
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  Speaker 15: end it for everybody by damaging another person. And mess
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  Speaker 15: with me, and I'll put you back. I'll do anything
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  Speaker 15: I can to put you back. I mean anything I can.
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  Speaker 15: If I think you're a danger, I will do anything.
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  Speaker 15: I will testify against you. I don't care period.
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  Speaker 1: You got any questions, No.
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  Speaker 6: Most of Randy's homes are in modest neighborhoods within walking
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  Speaker 6: distance to services.
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  Speaker 15: On This highway is about everything that you need, a
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  Speaker 15: home depot, all kinds of fast food, and some of
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  Speaker 15: the big restaurants will hire a sex offender. So this
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  Speaker 15: is home, sweet home.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, As one of Randy's tenants, John will share a
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  Speaker 6: house with two other sex offenders. They know full well
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  Speaker 6: what kind of reception the world has to offer men
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  Speaker 6: like him.
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  Speaker 1: Has it been hard to live with this label?
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  Speaker 15: Everybody thinks you're like the cancer of sight.
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  Speaker 8: They don't want to have anything to do if you
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  Speaker 8: want to say, see, you're you know, sex offender.
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  Speaker 15: By man.
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  Speaker 6: Group houses are a way for Randy to make more
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  Speaker 6: money and for sex offenders to find homes. But as
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  Speaker 6: I look around, I realize this is a neighborhood where
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  Speaker 6: families live. Okay, I just want to show you how
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  Speaker 6: close we are to where children live right.
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  Speaker 1: Across the street.
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  Speaker 6: The protective zones only apply to places where large groups
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  Speaker 6: of children congregate, not to a single home with a
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  Speaker 6: couple of kids. I talk to the neighbor who doesn't
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  Speaker 6: want to be on camera, but he said that a
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  Speaker 6: year ago, when Randy first took possession of the house,
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  Speaker 6: he was very, very.
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  Speaker 5: Apprehensive and concerned.
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  Speaker 6: But it's been almost a year and he says I
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  Speaker 6: haven't had any problems, so he seems to be okay with.
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  Speaker 3: It for now.
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  Speaker 6: It's hard to wrap your mind around three sex offenders
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  Speaker 6: living in a neighborhood where children live right next door
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  Speaker 6: and across the street. But Randy has a good reason
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  Speaker 6: for grouping these men together. They're easier to watch.
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  Speaker 15: Other people that I've dealt with, many of them have
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  Speaker 15: done really horrible, horrible things. They need to be monitored.
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  Speaker 15: I want them monitored. Probation is going to be in
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  Speaker 15: that neighborhood. For each offender, you have to visit them
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  Speaker 15: at least twice a month, So if you have four
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  Speaker 15: in the house, that means that there is going to
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  Speaker 15: be eight visits.
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  Speaker 6: Now you're living in a house with all sex offenders.
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  Speaker 6: What's that like for you? Who you're one of these guys?
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  Speaker 7: Now, I'm just still in a state of shock. Stated
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  Speaker 7: you know, almost a state of denial of it. You know,
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  Speaker 7: I am that type of person. I'm not ready to
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  Speaker 7: say that that's what I am because I know it's hot,
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  Speaker 7: it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us how it happened online?
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  Speaker 7: On eighteen and above website? And I was led to
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  Speaker 7: that she was eighteen years old? She turned seventeen a
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  Speaker 7: week after I got arrested. How old are you at
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  Speaker 7: the time? I was forty one.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think there's a worse label in this country
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  Speaker 6: than sex offender?
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  Speaker 7: No, that's got a rank right up there at the top.
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  Speaker 7: I mean when people say sex offender, they think child molester.
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  Speaker 7: Kids don't do nothing for me. I like, ladies, I'm
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  Speaker 7: not a child molester. I'm not a sex offender. You
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  Speaker 7: know I did something stupid. I've had friends disown me.
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  Speaker 7: Trust is something you take a lifetime to build up
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  Speaker 7: and when it takes one instant to wipe it all away.
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  Speaker 7: So I disappointed everybody, including myself.
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  Speaker 6: John's future has begun after spending seventeen months in prison.
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  Speaker 6: He has a hard road ahead living as one of
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  Speaker 6: society's most feared, but at least for now he has
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  Speaker 6: a home. Randy's about to show me the people who
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  Speaker 6: fell off Everyone's map. Hidden away in the middle of
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  Speaker 6: the woods is a place of last resort for some
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  Speaker 6: thirty sex offenders, people who can't afford to live in
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  Speaker 6: Randy's homes.
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  Speaker 15: So you think it's a nice little pond. However, it's
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  Speaker 15: infested with snakes.
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  Speaker 6: Here in the sweltering heat of Florida. They live without
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  Speaker 6: power or running water. It's basically a swamp, but it's
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  Speaker 6: over one thousand feet from where children congregate, and that
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  Speaker 6: makes it a legal residence for sex offenders.
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  Speaker 5: This is really wild.
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  Speaker 6: We're in the middle of the woods and I'm seeing
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  Speaker 6: tent after tent.
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing people across.
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  Speaker 11: The pond over here in other tents, and everyone in
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  Speaker 11: this vicinity is a sex offender.
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  Speaker 15: The fact is that being this far away is kind
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  Speaker 15: of good. They're far from children.
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  Speaker 11: This is obviously a very sensitive issue, but we're going
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  Speaker 11: to try and see if we can get people to
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  Speaker 11: talk to us.
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  Speaker 6: Estimates say that there are hundreds of sex offenders living
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  Speaker 6: in the woods throughout the state of Florida.
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  Speaker 5: And I must tell.
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  Speaker 6: You that this, as you can see, is pretty vile.
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  Speaker 6: You can't really smell what it's like, but you have
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  Speaker 6: to trust me on the fact that the guys out
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  Speaker 6: here are really living like animals. I mean there's no water,
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  Speaker 6: there's no electricity. You know, there's human feces all over
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  Speaker 6: the place, and there.
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  Speaker 16: Are a lot of people who say that this is
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  Speaker 16: how they should be living.
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  Speaker 6: Thirty six year old Steve has been living in a
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  Speaker 6: tent in the woods of central Florida for the last
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  Speaker 6: two years.
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  Speaker 8: I deal with it by looking at it as a
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  Speaker 8: camping trip, just a really home one, he.
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  Speaker 5: Keeps to himself.
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  Speaker 6: It's rough in the woods, especially in the heat of
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  Speaker 6: summer when tempers can flare.
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  Speaker 8: I can count on maybe one hand the number of
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  Speaker 8: people that I actually talk to. Sometimes people get into arguments,
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  Speaker 8: people drink, it escalates into violence.
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  Speaker 1: It happens.
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  Speaker 6: Steve had served nearly six years for his crime. He
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  Speaker 6: agreed to share his story. The bugs are bad out here.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The guy out there said that the guns have bones.
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  Speaker 16: Yes they do.
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  Speaker 8: Sometimes I'm just smacking you feel and crunch.
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  Speaker 6: I was surprised to find Steve had company his twenty
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  Speaker 6: three year old wife, Christina.
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  Speaker 11: You got married after you got out of prison, Yes,
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  Speaker 11: but you have to sleep here. Yes, how does that work?
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  Speaker 8: It's trying at best.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes, How did you get into this mess?
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  Speaker 8: What being out being on probation?
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  Speaker 6: Nope?
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  Speaker 1: How did you get arrested?
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  Speaker 8: When I was living in Jacksonville where a girlfriend of mine,
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  Speaker 8: she had two daughters, ages six and ten, and I
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  Speaker 8: molested them over the course of about a year and
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  Speaker 8: a half. They performed or sex on meeriodically. It came
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  Speaker 8: to light with some family members and police were involved.
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  Speaker 8: Warrant was issued, I turned myself in. It's not the
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  Speaker 8: size of it, really, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's very difficult to hear about.
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  Speaker 6: The crime because, I mean, because it is vile and
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  Speaker 6: I just want to understand and you knew it was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: How did it happen?
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  Speaker 8: I can't really say that I've really come up with
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  Speaker 8: a clear answer. I don't think it was a desire
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  Speaker 8: to have sex with a small child. If I had to,
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  Speaker 8: I would just say it was he's of opportunity drug drum.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 8: To be honest with you know, I can't blame it
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  Speaker 8: on the alcohol or the drugs or anything like that.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I mean, there was a lot of partying
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  Speaker 8: going on in my life at that time, but I
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  Speaker 8: can't say that there were any of the times where
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  Speaker 8: anything actually happened where I was intoxicated, you knew what
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  Speaker 8: you were doing.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what Steve had just admitted the things he had done.
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't understand them, or how his wife stood by him.
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  Speaker 12: I've been with a lot of bad guys in my life,
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  Speaker 12: and he's the first one that has made me feel
• 20:17
  Speaker 12: like I'm somebody, like I'm a woman, like I'm me,
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: and all that won me completely.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Christina chose to let a sex offender into her life,
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: but she wasn't alone.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: She had a two and a half year old daughter.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Do you trust her husband around your kid?
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: Absolutely?
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I do.
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: I do.
• 20:45
  Speaker 12: At first, I didn't. What I said to him was
• 20:50
  Speaker 12: if you ever do anything to my kid, I'll kill you.
• 20:54
  Speaker 12: I said, I'm giving you this chance. Respect me, respect
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: my kid.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: And he's gone.
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: Above and beyond for me. He's proved distrust to me,
• 21:06
  Speaker 12: and there's nothing more to judge.
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: I know a lot of times victims in these types
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: of cases they feel like it's their fault, like they
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: did something wrong. The blame falls solely on the perpetrator.
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: We're adults, we have mature thinking that children don't, and
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: we're the ones to blame for I mean, I accept
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: that blame.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Accepting the blame and the punishment that comes with it
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: means Steve lives a kind of double life. Because the
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: house he and Christina share is within a thousand feet
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: of an elementary school, Steve can't sleep there. His legal
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: address is the Woods, and like many sex offenders, he
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: has a curfew of ten pm. At six in the
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: morning he's allowed to go home.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: I don't like being separated from my family, but I
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: understand that's just how it has to be for right now,
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: and I've kind of accepted that. Being a sex offender
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: coming out on the street and finding a woman that
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: is a mother, it definitely reasserts your faith in humankind
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: and your faith in yourself as well. So if you
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: have somebody that's there to support you, it's easier for
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: you to support yourself. Everything I love is right here.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: I go out there and I go to sleep, and
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: I get up and I come home with my family.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: In this half of his life, Steve is a family man.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: He and Christina have a seven month old baby, but
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: his other life as a sex offender is never very
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: far away. He goes to therapy each week.
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: God it helps you keep on track. You know that
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: a lot of us realize that what we did was wrong.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: We made a mistake, we did something we shouldn't have done,
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: and we paid for our crime. We're just people that
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: are just trying to pick up the pieces.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Of our lives.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Do you think you're a dangerous person? Do you think
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you're dangerous around children?
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: I'm more dangerous to myself than I am to somebody's child.
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: I made a vow when I was in prison, wholeheartedly
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: that if I ever found myself in a situation where
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: I couldn't control myself from reoffending, I'd kill myself first,
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: and I meant it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Steve's word and commitment to himself are not enough for
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: the law to protect other children.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: He is bound by the.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Rules that keep him living in the woods. Steve thinks
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: these rules are useless.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: A lot of these laws are put into place to
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: keep tabs on us, to prevent us from reoffending. That's
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: what they call a feel good law. It doesn't really
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: serve any purpose other than to give the public the
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: illusion of safety. You know, and I've said it before,
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: and I'll say it a thousand times again. No law
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: that's in place. No law that can be put into
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: place will ever prevent somebody from reoffending if they choose
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: to reoffend.
• 24:14
  Speaker 14: It's impossible.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: Short of keeping us in prison for the rest of
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: our lives. That's the only surefire remedy to make sure
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: that there's never a reoffense.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Fundamentally, I do believe that people can change, and I
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: want to believe that people can change. But at the
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: same time, I can't help but ask myself.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: The question of would I want to take that risk
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: with my own kids. Like, as much as I.
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: Do believe that Steve wants to change, would I want
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: my daughters to live next to him.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I could say yes.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: It was becoming clear the conundrum. Having sex offenders next
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: door makes all of us uncomfortable, but squeezing them out
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: of our neighborhoods and into homeless communities has its own risk.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: For a lot of these guys who aren't fortunate enough
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: to have the situation that I have, where I have
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: someplace where I can go, take a hot shower every
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: day and eat a hot meal and be with my
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: wife and my son. You know, there's not a lot
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: of hope for them.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: The marshals had told me homeless sex offenders were the
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: hardest to keep track of. With no homes and no hope,
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: they sometimes gave up trying.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: To follow the laws and just disappeared.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: It's an unintended effect of some of the toughest residency
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: restrictions in the country in Florida. Those laws can be
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: traced back to the story of one little girl.
• 26:01
  Speaker 14: Good morning, mourning me. We're so excited to be here
• 26:07
  Speaker 14: today to talk to you guys about staying safe.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Lauren Booke and her partner Tara run a program for
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: school children in Florida to help protect them from sex offenders.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Lauren herself is a victim.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: As a child, she was molested by someone she should
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: have been able to trust her nanny. After meeting many offenders,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: I was now reminded of the cost of their crimes.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: How did it all begin?
• 26:36
  Speaker 14: The grooming process started with something so benign as extra
• 26:39
  Speaker 14: cookies for dessert, always getting the front seat at ten
• 26:42
  Speaker 14: years old. That's a really big deal. And then it
• 26:45
  Speaker 14: goes into a touch, and then a touch it's a
• 26:48
  Speaker 14: little bit longer, and then a hug, a hug that's
• 26:50
  Speaker 14: a little bit longer, and then when she noticed and
• 26:53
  Speaker 14: she realized, well, she's not telling her parents anything. It
• 26:57
  Speaker 14: was very sick and twisted, and you can do to
• 27:01
  Speaker 14: a ten year old because a kid, you just want
• 27:03
  Speaker 14: somebody who's there and who loves you. And that's how
• 27:06
  Speaker 14: she was able to take and manipulate and use those
• 27:09
  Speaker 14: things against me. And that's what predators are so good at.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: Like many children, Laurence suffered in silence, terrified by her
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: abuser into believing that something bad would happen to her
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: family if she didn't keep quiet. Where would this happen, Lauren,
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: Because you had two siblings.
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: Closets, bathrooms, mom and dad are at work, or mom
• 27:31
  Speaker 14: and dad were doing whatever. It would happen anywhere she
• 27:34
  Speaker 14: wanted it. There was no no.
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Sex?
• 27:38
  Speaker 14: It was, you know sex. She would orally copulate me,
• 27:42
  Speaker 14: She would make me orly copulate her. She would use
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: different objects on mesol ten eleven, twelve thirteen, fourteen, fifteen sixteen.
• 27:52
  Speaker 14: After such a long time, you don't know how to
• 27:54
  Speaker 14: get out of it. You don't know how to stop it,
• 27:58
  Speaker 14: because it is so much bigger than who and what
• 28:00
  Speaker 14: you are.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: How can you prevent something like this? When the abuser
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: is no stranger. As many as ninety percent of these
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: crimes are committed by someone a child already knows. Lauren
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: tries to get the kids to see beyond their natural
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: instincts of who is safe and who is not.
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: I want you to think, with your eyes closed.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: What a stranger looks like. Okay, open your eyes.
• 28:27
  Speaker 14: Now, draw on your paper, what that stranger looks like.
• 28:31
  Speaker 14: Wants you're a stranger doing spine spine good.
• 28:36
  Speaker 12: Wants you're a stranger doing.
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: Good.
• 28:41
  Speaker 14: You look at the kids around here, and they see
• 28:43
  Speaker 14: no evil. They think everybody they know, or their friends
• 28:46
  Speaker 14: or people or they can turn to and talk to
• 28:48
  Speaker 14: and hug, And that's what's scary. They're looking for people
• 28:52
  Speaker 14: who are wearing masks, who have guns and who are
• 28:56
  Speaker 14: robbing people. That's who they think bad people are. And
• 28:59
  Speaker 14: you and I both know that that's not what sex
• 29:01
  Speaker 14: offenders look like.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: After her ordeal, Lauren and her father started a crusade
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: to protect children. They fought for tougher restrictions for sex offenders.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: They got the protective zone, the space between where sex
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: offenders live and children congregate more than doubled.
• 29:20
  Speaker 11: What do you think about the laws pertaining to sex offenders.
• 29:24
  Speaker 14: You're killing children, You're killing their souls, and I think
• 29:27
  Speaker 14: that those people should not be allowed to have that
• 29:30
  Speaker 14: opportunity again. There will never be enough distance between an
• 29:34
  Speaker 14: offender and one of my kids.
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: After only one week, Karen, Florida, I knew there was
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: nothing simple about this story. Not the laws, not the emotion,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: not the facts. The moment a sex offender steps out
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: of prison, they step into a society that doesn't want
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: them in the deepest way. Every year, over a thousand
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: sex offenders are released in Florida. After months of writing
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: letters to inmates, one offender agreed to let us follow
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: him on his first days out.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: He gets out tomorrow. He has no idea where he
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: is going to end up.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Because of the strict residency restrictions. He's going to come
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: out into a world where he is considered the worst
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: of the worst.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: His name is Ryan.
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: When he was eighteen, he had consensual sex with two
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: girls aged thirteen and fourteen. Ryan was arrested and sent
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: to prison for four years, came out labeled a sex offender.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Less than three months after his release, Ryan fooled around
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: with another fourteen year old. He was now twenty two.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: He was sentenced to another eight years.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Hey, Ran, how are you and Lisa? Nice to meet
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: you reach to thank you so much for grain to
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: talk to us. Guys, we're going into this office.
• 31:21
  Speaker 11: We wrote to a lot of people in prison, and
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: a lot of people were afraid of being stigmatized even more.
• 31:30
  Speaker 11: Why did you want to do this knowing that a
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: lot of people are going to see this.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Changes need to be made on the way our restrictions
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: are made. I don't think that we should be all
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: lumped together in one group. What I did was bad,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: but I don't think it can be bad is what
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: some other people do. You know, you see on the news,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: you know, thirty year olds going can happen and raping
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: a four year old. You know that's bad. Even I
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: look at that and it's just like, no, that's that's
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: not right.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Do you think you're attracted to fourteen year olds?
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Though?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's the concern.
• 32:07
  Speaker 11: These girls are technically considered children, they're underage minors.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: It's sex offense, is an addiction. It's a problem. People
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: have a lot of people who won't admit it. You know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I finally admitted it about.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Three weeks ago.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: You know, it's taken me out long to finally met Yeah,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I have a problem, you know, and I want to
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: correct myself on that problem.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Should parents be afraid of you?
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: It's a nasty label with the polar perception of it.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: It's basically, we're the bottom of the earth, you know,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: we're to be walked on. I just want people to
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: see that not all of us are bad. There's some
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: of us that do want to do good and do
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: want to change. I want to be out there and say,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: you know what, if he made mistakes, he's got a
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: bad label, but he's doing good. You know, he's really
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: trying to be a productive member of society.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: After nearly seven years, Ryan leaves prison behind.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Is he ready?
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: Will he be able to navigate the world of restrictions
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: waiting for.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Him on the outside.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: Ryan's first big hurdle out of prison will be finding
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: a place to live. Because children sometimes visit his parents' house,
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: staying with them is not an option. With nowhere else
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: to go, Ryan is homeless. The local probation office sent
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: him to a motel on the outskirts of town, where
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: he could pitch a tent. It's a tough way to
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: start over, but Ryan is undaunted.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: You can throw whatever you want there at me. I'm
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: determined to change. I'm determined to be the better person now.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I don't want somebody looked at me thirty years from
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: now saying, hey, ah, he was there goufords being a
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: sexu friend.
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: It's Ryan's first night out. The roof over his head
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: is a tent, and now he's a sex offender under surveillance.
• 34:16
  Speaker 11: Today.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: They've put my ankle monitor on me, you know, and
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: got my got my trusty little box right here. You know,
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: got to make sure that that that box stays twenty
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: feet with me. Can't go past twenty feet. Go past
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: twenty feet, monitor beats, and I get in trouble. This
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: is a challenge, but just a matter of walking that
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: very thin line right now, you know, one one small
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: gust of wind can blow me over and put me
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: right back into a place I don't want to be.
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: After seven years of prison, Ryan is back in the
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: same town he committed his last crime, same town, same temptations.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: Almost immediately he starts writing down where we go in
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: a log book for his probation officer.
• 35:14
  Speaker 11: How important is it for you to remain really diligent
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: with this.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: They would look for the slightest thing, you know, instead
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: of somebody. You're back to prison.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: What are some of the places you know you want
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: to avoid.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I'd like to try to avoid them all. I mean,
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: that's that's where I met the second victim of my case.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: So if I can condition myself to stay away from
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: those places, I think that I've improved my chances to
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: stay out.
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: We make a stop at the beach. It's a long
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: way from prison and Ryan's first real taste of freedom.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: And when I started his journey, I was scared because
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I didn't know what was gonna happen. But I have
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: a good chance to survived. Now that's a good feeling.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: But Ryan's new life might be harder than he imagined.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: He has entered a world full of land mines.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: Did the monitor what happened?
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Did it just buzz?
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: It's going off? Give me a warning to go out
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: of sidles? That says home, that passed my curfew. I'm
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: in my area and I'm allowed to be in. So
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know why it needs to be going off.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Will someone call you or what happens?
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: I don't know because this thing is confused and it's
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: still give you this warning.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I can't clear it.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: What's happening, right, I'm going to try to clear it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: Right, Okay, everything's back to normal, So we're okay for now.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: That kind of scare you, yeah, because I don't know
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: how to work this and I don't want them coming
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: after me and saying that I was someplace I wasn't
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: supposed to be.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: The answer to the mysterious beeping comes soon the next morning.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: At Ryan's probation office, Cameras were not allowed inside.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Ryan is currently.
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: Finding out all the conditions of his probation, all the
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: things that he can and cannot do for the next
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: fifteen months, and if he violates any of the conditions,
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: he could get sent back to prison immediately.
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: The hours go.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: By and Ryan still doesn't come out. Something doesn't seem right.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: We have a bit of a situation here. Today was
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: the day that he came to DOC to get all
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: of his instructions, and they turned around and just send
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: him right back to jail. Ryan had been arrested. Ryan
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: has been out of prison for twenty four hours, and
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: aside from the time that he was actually in his
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: tent on the property of that motel, he was either
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: with us or with his parents. We never left a county.
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: He went home and took a shower and had a
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: meal and then went right back to his tent. So
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: we are completely befuddled as to why he was sent
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: back to jail. Ryan, can you just tell us what
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: they told you you did wrong?
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: What I said that of out of my terms of
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: conditional release by going to my parents' house and also
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: by going to the beach.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: The beach this was a place where you could find children.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: The conditions of Ryan's release made it illegal for him
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: to go there, and his parents' house had been declared
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: off limits until probation could verify if children were present
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: in the home.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: What are you thinking right now?
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Right now? It's just it's frustrating me. They strength to
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: be from seven years in person to come out and
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: basically not do anything, not seeing my family and go anywhere.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: I think I'll probably be staying here for.
• 39:36
  Speaker 15: A little bit.
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: I find out later that Ryan would have to spend
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: the next few months behind bars waiting for the Parole
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: Commission to decide his fate. If you were found in violation,
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: they could send him back to prison for twelve months.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I hadn't it really hit me.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I guess that I've been released from prison and was
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: out for a few days and I'm back in jail.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: It seems like a distant memory almost.
• 40:04
  Speaker 17: It's always been a little quiet, and he's still quiet,
• 40:08
  Speaker 17: but that's just part of his personality.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: His father didn't want to be on camera, but after
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: Ryan was arrested, he shared with me the heartbreak of
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: seeing his son back behind bars.
• 40:22
  Speaker 17: It's a never ending sentence for the remainder of his life.
• 40:27
  Speaker 17: He's going to be labeled as a sex offender. You'll
• 40:30
  Speaker 17: never be able to get away from it. I am
• 40:33
  Speaker 17: bitter over this whole thing. I mean, they're trying their
• 40:37
  Speaker 17: darkness to distort my son's life.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: Did Ryan really deserve more time in prison? Was it
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: possible the Hearing Commission would find in this favor and
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: release him.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: Ryan had his doubts, and.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Instead of trying to see what really.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Happened, they just felt, well, you know what, he's a threat,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: he's not going to listen to the world business. Go
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: ahead and try to send them back to person and
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: just you know, and be done with them. And I
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: just kind of feel like they're trying to pull me
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: off back into the system.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: Maybe Ryan was right.
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: No law enforcement official wanted to be perceived as soft
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: on sex offenders. If they let the wrong person walk,
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: the outcome could be our worst fear.
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: Everybody wants to do the right thing.
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: If there is a reoffense, someone will suffer, and that
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: someone is someone's child, and so nobody wants to risk that.
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: We all want the problem to go away. We all
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: want there to be no offenders and no victims. We
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: all want to feel safe. But how I had now
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: spent time in a world few people want to see,
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: talking to men most of us don't want to hear from,
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: and I was left wondering, despite our best efforts, is
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: what we're doing really? Working with over seven hundred thousand
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: Americans on the Sex Offender Registry and growing, we can't
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: hide the problem or hide from it.