Katie Wymard of Hampton, PA promotes inane statewide 2500-foot residency restriction online petition

Katie's sporting the "Lucas from Days 
of our Lives" haircut

This Aged Karen of Hampton PA, Katie Weeks Wymard, recently spewed BS on CBS Pittsburgh, using the Lauren Book "it's not if but when they reoffend" tripe. Pennsylvania has already rejected statewide residency restrictions so her petition is as much a waste of time and money as trying to fix that bad hairdo. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/central-elementary-school-hampton-township-megans-law-sex-offender-pennsylvania/

After registered sex offenders moves near Hampton Township school, mother wants to change state law

BY ERICA MOKAY

DECEMBER 7, 2022 / 7:53 PM / CBS PITTSBURGH

HAMPTON, Pa. (KDKA) — Through flyers distributed by Hampton Township police, parents and people living in the area of Central Elementary School were notified that a registered sex offender had moved nearby.

Community notification is required under Pennsylvania's Megan's Law, but the law does not restrict where an offender can live.

After learning this person was living less than 1,200 feet away from where her three children learn and play at recess, Katie Wymard went to work to try to change the law.

"They are out at recess every day and it is literally in his backyard," Wymard said. "And his crimes are against children."

Wymard and a friend started a letter-writing campaign and a petition calling for a law that would prohibit any sex offender registered under Megan's Law from living within 2,500 feet of any public or private school, preschool, or child care facility in the state.

Currently, Pennsylvania's Megan's Law does not restrict where a sexual offender or sexually violent predator/sexually violent delinquent child is permitted to live. 

The law states that an offender may be restricted from residing near a school, park, day care center, etc. if they are on parole, probation, or a specific court order.

Krazy Katie doesn't just drink the koolaid,
she dips her desserts into it

Therefore, the circumstances in Hampton Township are in accordance with the law. Since being posted online Tuesday, Wymard's petition has surpassed 800 signatures.

In 2017, a similar bill was introduced to prohibit convicted sex offenders from living near schools or day cares, but it didn't pass.

Hampton Township School District said in a statement that it was notified by police that the offender moved into an area close to the elementary school.

"We maintain a very close working relationship with the Hampton Township Police Department, and we will continue to work with them, as we always do, to take all appropriate precautions," the district said. "The safety of our students and staff will always be our top priority."

Wymard said she plans to submit the signatures and letters to the state attorney general on Dec. 15.

KDKA-TV attempted to speak to the man living in the neighborhood who was convicted of sex crimes but was unsuccessful on Wednesday.

QAnon influencer Phil Godlewski admits to statutory offense

The QAnon conspiracy espouses the viewpoint that "satanic pedophiles" have infiltrated the highest forms of government. Despite being wary of our government, I doubt the truthfulness of the conspiracy. After all, if so many government officials were satanic pedophiles, I would think these leaders would use that power to make those actions legal.

While it is perfectly natural for those who have been processed through the cruel, inhumane system of so-called "justice" here in America to be skeptical of the government, QAnon is helping make the system worse by empsasizing the misuse of terms like "pedophilia" and "grooming", which in turn has led to vigilante actions including murder. 

Ironically, some of the worst attacks made against people on the registry have come from others who have been accused or convicted of sex offenses themselves. This is the textbook definition of "Projection", i.e., "the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another."

Phil Godlewski should be featured here on the Shiitake Awards. Here is a person who allegedly committed a statutory offense and is promoting the same conspiracy thory that wants people dead who share the accusations as those levied against him. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-leader-phil-godlewski-has-sordid-past-of-his-ownincluding-a-conviction-for-corrupting-a-minor

QAnon Leader Inadvertently Outs Himself as a Groomer

PROJECTION, MUCH?

QAnon leader Phil Godlewski carried on an inappropriate relationship with a minor that police records suggest turned sexual.

Will Sommer

Politics Reporter

Updated Nov. 30, 2022 11:55AM ET / Published Nov. 30, 2022 4:49AM ET 

EXCLUSIVE

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty

Believers in the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory are always on the hunt for the powerful pedophiles they imagine run the world—like the cabal of pedophiles they say controls the Democratic Party, or the one operating out of the imagined basement of a Washington pizzeria.

But now, new court records reveal that QAnon leader Phil Godlewski has a criminal past of his own involving an inappropriate relationship with a minor that police records suggest turned sexual.

Thanks to an ill-conceived defamation lawsuit against a local newspaper, Godlewski has put his conspiracy-theory career at risk by inadvertently prompting the release of more details regarding his case, including lurid text messages and a video of his erect penis.

Perhaps worse, according to his courtroom opponents, records suggest Godlewski has been caught both committing perjury himself and attempting to convince his own victim to do the same to ensure a “financial windfall” for them both.

Now, in a bombshell motion, the newspaper claims they’ve caught Godlewski breaking a bevy of courtroom rules and want him to pay $70,000 in legal fees and damages. As the case heats up and revelations spill out, it also offers a chance to see the kind of person who can profit from the persistent conspiracy theory.

QAnon has ruined families, inspired multiple gruesome murders, and helped power the Jan. 6 insurrection. But QAnon has also been a lucrative career for Godlewski, a Pennsylvania-based promoter of the conspiracy theory who speaks to his fans in lengthy, rambling livestream videos.

With more than 600,000 followers on the social media app Telegram and 156,000 subscribers on the alternative video platform Rumble, Godlewski profits from encouraging his fans to sign up for financial arrangements like a multilevel marketing scheme that sells silver. Earlier this year, Godlewski used his QAnon earnings to buy a $1.7 million house.

But Godlewski’s online critics have seized on his conviction, dating back more than a decade, for “corrupting a minor” to suggest he isn’t the upstanding QAnon believer he claims to be.

In 2008, nine years before QAnon began, a 25-year-old Godlewski worked as a high school baseball coach in a school district outside of Scranton. That’s where he met a 15-year-old female high school freshman referred to in court records as “B.D.”

The student’s boyfriend died by suicide soon after she met Godlewski, and the baseball coach comforted her. A few months later, with B.D. still 15 years old and Godlewski a decade her senior, they began a sexual relationship, according to police records and a sworn affidavit from Godlewski’s victim that was filed in court in November.

Godlewski showered his victim with gifts, according to police reports and a letter written by her parents filed into the defamation record, including a $2,800 pair of diamond earrings. He also lavished her with attention in the form of text messages that laid out details of their sex life, with more than 300 messages in one day alone, according to a police report. In one, Godlewski wrote that they would only “ever be sexually satisfied if we did it like 4-5 times a day.” In another, he allegedly wrote that the teenager “looked so good and [was] giving incredible head” while lamenting his own sexual performance.

Godlewski also allegedly provided B.D. with a log of his ongoing thoughts over several days, many of which centered on his struggles with their illegal age difference, according to police.

“Realized that you’re only 15, but quickly stopped caring,” one of the messages read.

“Why are we so compatible?” read another. “I’m 10 years older than you.”

In an email to The Daily Beast, Godlewski’s lawyer Timothy M. Kolman claimed that “any sexual relationship occurred when the couple were of age.”

In 2010, Godlewski was indicted on a raft of charges related to the alleged sexual relationship. In her recent affidavit, B.D. claims that Godlewski contacted her and begged her to recant her claims against him, threatening to kill himself if she didn’t.

In response, according to her affidavit, she stopped cooperating with law enforcement in the case. Godlewski ultimately pleaded guilty to a lesser count of “corruption of a minor,” receiving three months under house arrest.

Godlewski’s arrest disappeared from public view until 2021, when a reporter at Pennsylvania’s Scranton Times-Tribune wrote a profile on the upstart QAnon promoter that mentioned his conviction.

A furious Godlewski sued the paper, assuring his followers that the reporter had “taken the bait.” In livestream videos, Godlewski insisted there was nothing to the investigation, claiming B.D.’s mother was behind the criminal case because she wanted his money and calling his victim a “conniving” schemer who faked the messages. He raised more than $26,000 in a crowdfunding campaign to pay for his lawsuit.

So far, though, the case has gone poorly for Godlewski. In late October, B.D. contacted the newspaper’s lawyers and offered to tell her side of the story in a sworn affidavit—one that was very different from the version put out by Godlewski, according to the paper’s attorneys.

In her telling, Godlewski and the woman had continued to carry on an occasional relationship after she became an adult—one documented through numerous text messages. For example, in a March 2021 text message, according to the defense attorneys, Godlewski texted the woman to express his condolences on her grandfather’s death—and alluded to their sexual relationship.

“I had no idea your Popa died,” Godlewski wrote in the text message, according to court filings. “I’m so sorry. I think we had sex in their bed though.”

“We’ve probably had sex in like 40% of the homes in northeastern Pennsylvania,” the woman responded, an apparent allusion to Godlewski’s alleged habit, when she was still underage, of using his second job as a real estate agent to access for-sale houses for their liaisons.

That same day, according to the paper’s lawyers, Godlewski sent the woman a picture of his “erect penis” and claimed it had “got bigger.”

Both those exchanges would contradict sworn statements Godlewski filled out as part of the lawsuit. Responding to interrogatories sent by the newspaper’s lawyers, Godlewski had insisted he had never had a sexual relationship with the woman, either when she was a teenager or as an adult. Godlewski had also never provided any text messages with the woman as part of discovery requests, claiming he didn’t have any.

“These text messages did not slip [Godlewski’s] mind,” the newspaper’s attorney wrote in a November motion. “He intentionally failed to disclose them in discovery for this lawsuit.”

In a Nov. 26 video for his fans, Godlewski admitted messaging the woman, saying he was also drunkenly flirting over text message with at least a dozen other women at the same time. Godlewski claimed his marriage fell apart after the Times-Tribune article. Seated in front of a woodcut model of the QAnon motto “Where we go one, we go all” in the video, he claimed he was so drunk during these flirting sessions, he would fall down intoxicated and urinate on himself.

“I was flirting with every girl that ever knew me,” Godlewski said. “Some of y’all watching may have been a part of that.”

In a statement, Godlewski’s lawyer claimed the woman’s damaging affidavit had a “troubling and coercive background.” He declined to offer specifics of the allegation to The Daily Beast. Lawyers for the Scranton Times-Tribune declined to comment.

Perhaps even more seriously, other text message exchanges between B.D. and Godlewski suggest that he wanted her to lie in his defamation case, according to the newspaper’s attorneys.

In May 2022, as the defamation case was ongoing, Godlewski contacted B.D. again. In the text messages, he alluded to a “financial windfall” that he couldn’t discuss in person that would require them both to work together. In another message, Godlewski clarified that he wasn’t talking about his precious metals multilevel marketing promotion.

“I think it might be fair to say that there is a very, very large, and very, very unique financial opportunity that exists in front of you,” Godlewski wrote, according to text message records entered into the court record.

In another message, Godlewski appeared to allude to the newspaper he was suing.

“I don’t trust those motherf---ers and I am literally foaming at the mouth to take them down once and for all,” Godlewski wrote, according to the court filings.

The newspaper’s lawyers say these messages are proof that Godlewski wanted his victim, now an adult, to perjure herself.

“Not only did Philip Godlewski commit a sex crime against a 15-year-old girl in 2009-2010, he has now solicited this same person to commit perjury in a Court proceeding so he can enrich himself,” the newspaper’s motion reads.

Halloween Leftovers: Kim Neubauer of NE Ohio bashed haunted house for hiring a Registered Person

Sometimes a backlog of work just piles up, and just like the least desired candy in a trick-or-treat bag, it eventually resurfaces. I month ago, I meant to post about Kim Neubauer, aka 'Towanda McGillicunty", a right wing nut and disgruntled ex-haunted house employee who decided to bash them for hiring a Registered Person. 

Kim doesn't have to dress up to be the scariest thing on Halloween. Just look at those soulless eyes and her bat-shit posts about furries and you can see this person is one necco wafer short of a trick-or-treat bag. 

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/investigations/woman-quits-haunted-house-job-in-columbia-station-over-registered-sex-offender-co-workers

Woman quits haunted house job in Columbia Station over registered sex offender co-workers

Haunted house owners say the felons were terminated

Woman quits haunted house job in Columbia Station over sex offender co-workers

By: Tara MorganPosted at 6:51 PM, Oct 03, 2022 and last updated 6:23 PM, Oct 03, 2022

COLUMBIA STATION, Ohio — A registered sex offender may have been scaring your children for fun at a Northeast Ohio haunted house. It’s a tip received by News 5 Investigators, and in less than 24 hours, we learned two felons were fired.

Kim Neubauer says she worked at the Spooky Ranch in Columbia Station for one day this season before quitting.

"I did not want to go back this year but I thought I'd try it. I want to go have some fun and make some money. I wish I would have just stayed away,” said Neubauer.

Neubauer says when she found out sex offenders registered with Lorain County Sheriff’s Office were her co-workers, it was more than startling.

One is listed as a habitual child sex offender.

"I kept leaving my scene and coming in to check on him to make sure he was where he was supposed to be, because I was so uncomfortable knowing he was there,” said Neubauer.

News 5 checked with the Lorain Sheriff's Office, and Ohio law requires sex offenders to register and report where they live. There's nothing in the statute prohibiting working with children. However, there could be something in a judge's order in each individual case.

We went to Spooky Ranch to speak with the owners.

"There's no concern. We didn't know about this. As soon as we knew, we terminated them. They don't work for us," they said.

We asked how long they worked for them.

"Not very long, just a week. Two weekends. We got rid of the people. I think they worked three or four days here," the owner said.

When asked if either of them worked there during previous years, the owner responded, “No, no, no, no, no. Not that we know of — I didn't know anything about these people."

But another former employee said the habitual sex offender worked at the haunted house for years.

We asked if they did a background check.

“No, we didn’t. We didn’t know,” the owner said.

The office manager, who told News 5 she does the hiring, said they’re legally allowed to hire felons. When News 5 pressed about hiring registered sex offenders, she said she had apologized and made a mistake, and that it would never happen again.

We asked if there were any plans to change whether they’ll do background checks in the future.

“Yes we are. We are, we don't want any problems,” the owner said.

Neubauer says it wasn’t until the end of last season that she found out the extent of one man’s conviction.

She says she posted a review on Facebook to warn families.

"I think that it's everybody's duty to protect kids and watch out for them, and if they are going to have a place where children are going to be in the dark around people who are in costume and makeup, they should do background checks,” said Neubauer.

Neubauer says she left on her own and isn’t going to apologize for speaking up.

There is an effort in the statehouse right now to restrict where some sex offenders can work.

House Bill 459 would prevent certain offenders from working or volunteering in positions where they would directly work with children, like coaching youth sports or running a business that caters to kids.

That bill was introduced nearly a year ago and is still in committee.

"Midwest Predator Catchers" leader Chase Johnston has an extensive criminal history and is now accused of sexual assault

This Vanilla Ice looking clown is Chase Johnston, yet another common criminal who is trying to gain notoriety as a vigilante. According to this report, Johnston already has served time for drugs and theft, was civilly committed, as well as currently facing charges for assaulting his girlfriend and threatening to kill her family members, and now add a second assault with sexual undertones to the mix. 

The typical online vigilante is like this guy. Cops should look at all of these chumps as criminals and lock them all up.

https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/youtube-vigilante-on-mission-to-expose-sexual-predators-faces-his-own-sex-assault-charges

YouTube vigilante on mission to expose sexual predators faces his own sex assault charges - Post Bulletin | Rochester Minnesota news, weather, sports

ROCHESTER — Chase Johnston began his crusade to hunt down alleged child predators earlier this year.

The Rochester man, 28, taking a cue from the now-defunct NBC show "To Catch a Predator," confronts men who he believes are potential child predators, luring them to a location and filming their responses after being confronted. Each of Johnston's videos have garnered thousands of views as he and his vigilante group confront individuals.

His group, Midwest Predator Catchers - Rochester, aggressively goes after people they believe are trying to lure children in for sex. They pose as children in online forums.

"I got online one day and I think within an hour I had a guy respond and offer me $400 for sex, and when I told him I was 14, he had no cares at all," Johnston told the Post Bulletin. "He just wanted to take advantage of this 14-year-old girl."

Comment after comment on his YouTube videos show signs of encouragement.

"VERY educational and entertaining catch. You guys did well," reads one comment.

"You guys are awesome keep up the great job exposing these creeps," reads another.

But Johnston's and his friend's tactics during these videos differ dramatically from the calm and collected way "To Catch A Predator" host Chris Hansen approached his marks.

Johnston's videos often include threats of violence against the people he's filmed.

"We don't assault them," Johnston said. "We do want to scare them a little bit sometimes, but we don't want to physically hurt them."

Johnston said at least one of the people who comes along for the stings has a license to carry a firearm.

Complaints from targets

In an ironic twist of events, Johnston was charged with sexually assaulting one of the men during a May 2022 confrontation in a Rochester gas station.

The YouTube video on Johnston's channel shows Johnston and his friends berating and threatening a man they accuse of trying to lure a 15-year-old boy for sex. The criminal complaint in that case alleges that Johnston struck the man in the genitals and face.

"I'll never plead to those charges," Johnston said. "I'll take this all the way to trial."

The judge ordered Johnston not to have any contact with minors, according to Johnston.

"I said, 'Well, that's not going to be problem for me, judge. The only person that has a hard time staying away from minors is the alleged victim," Johnston told the Post Bulletin.

The man told law enforcement that he had been chatting electronically with someone he thought to be a 15-year-old male. He told the juvenile he did not want to do anything sexual with him and that they were talking about the juvenile having issues coming out as gay to his family.

In the complaint, a Rochester police officer confirmed that account fairly reflects the content of the exchange of messages.

Johnston, however, insists that the man had sexually explicit conversations with the decoy juvenile. That man, however, has not been charged in connection to any activities related to the video taken by Johnston and his team.

Law enforcement concerns

The Rochester Police Department and Olmsted County Attorney's Office issued a joint statement regarding Johnston's efforts.

"RPD investigators have talked with Mr. Johnston several times and informed him that the best way to file complaints is through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. NCMEC properly handles evidence and works closely with law enforcement," the statement reads in part.

In 2021, RPD received 21 tips from NCMEC and worked on 22 cases with Internet Crimes Against Children, a national network of task forces dedicated to investigating, prosecuting and developing effective responses to internet crimes against children.

"Mr. Johnston’s aggressive nature is also very problematic. For the safety of all parties, RPD strongly discourages confrontational practices like the ones used in the videos," reads a statement from RPD.

Johnston said that law enforcement hasn't done a good job at following up on his accusations against multiple people. He accuses some law enforcement of just not wanting to pursue charges.

"I have a lot of respect for cops and stuff, but their response has not been very good and hasn't been very professional," Johnston said. "They haven't really gone through these videos, and they tell me to just report it the center for exploited children, blah, blah, blah, but it's like, if you guys aren't doing anything about it now when I'm getting these guys to admit to this on tape and to you, what makes me think that anything's going to be done if I simply report it?"

From video to arrest

One of Johnston's sting operations has led to charges. Thirty-year-old Joseph Lee Carlson is charged in Dodge County with a felony for allegedly soliciting someone he believed to be a child. Carlson was the subject of a sting in September 2022 in Dodge Center.

"I'm glad that somebody is finally being held accountable for their actions," Johnston said. "I'm thrilled to find out that my work helped bust this guy."

In the criminal complaint against Carlson, one of the witnesses is alleged to have spit on Carlson.

"Dude, we can turn the (expletive) camera off right now and I'll show you what assault is (expletive)," a man can be heard saying to Carlson in the video.

Johnston also faces a misdemeanor assault charge related to the incident.

However, Carlson faces more severe charges for his part in the incident.

"Text messages submitted to Investigators show the group discussing a number of times that they are a 14-year-old male. Carlson solicits the child for sex explaining that having sex with a 14-year-old is a big fantasy of his that he never gets to complete," Dodge County Sheriff Scott Rose wrote in a news release about the incident.

"Carlson stated that he would meet at North Park, positively identify the party and if he was truly a juvenile, then he would turn him away as he did not want to get into any trouble," reads part of the complaint against Carlson.

In the criminal complaint, it is noted that Carlson has a previous conviction as a juvenile for felony second-degree criminal sexual conduct while being armed with a dangerous weapon. Carlson is also facing charges related to possessing child sexual abuse material, as part of an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office wants to remind the public that the actions of groups like the Midwest Predator Catchers, regardless of any good intentions, can be dangerous and problematic. Their aggressive behavior towards their alleged suspects and willingness to confront these subjects without involving law enforcement could easily result in someone getting injured or worse. Also some of their tactics can and have resulted in the inability to charge these alleged offenders. If you believe someone is soliciting juveniles, please contact your local law enforcement and let them conduct the investigation.

Investigators allege that they found in Carlson's possession hundreds of images of at least 47 different juveniles in various states of undress and performing sexual acts. Carlson is also charged with trying to solicit two more juveniles. The images depict at least one juvenile that was an infant, according to the complaint.

During a hearing in Dodge County District Court on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, Carlson's bail was set at $250,000. He is currently in custody at the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center.

The Dodge County Attorney's Office declined to comment about the case and charges.

Problematic investigations

The Rochester Police Records Department is processing a request by the Post Bulletin for all incident reports related to contacts with Johnston in the last six months.

"It is incredibly important for prosecutors that investigations are done by trained forensic investigators," Olmsted County Attorney Mark Ostrem wrote in a statement to the Post Bulletin. "NCMEC and ICAC provide the integrity necessary for successful investigation and prosecutions. Lay persons should report their concerns to the appropriate authorities and allow them to investigate."

Johnston said police departments have told him they don't have the manpower to do these types of stings. That frustrates him as a father of a newborn daughter, he says.

"Somehow I've got the manpower to do that, which makes no sense to me," Johnston said. "So I can't morally stop doing this if there's nobody else doing it."

The legality and ethics behind Johnston's aggressive tactics remains in question.

"It could look like they are purposely raising the heat of the encounter so it looks like a good film," said Dr. David Schultz, law professor at the University of Minnesota and Hamline University, after viewing one of Johnston's YouTube videos. "I thought, 'This has got a Jerry Springer look to it.'"

Schultz viewed a video in which Johnston and his crew accuse a man of trying to meet up with an underage juvenile for sex. In it, people threaten the man and push down his motorcycle.

Schultz said charges against Johnston for his aggressive behavior may be warranted, and that a defense attorney has grounds to get any charges against the men Johnston targets dismissed.

While talking to a juvenile about sex might be considered immoral or wrong, it's not really a crime until further action to initiate actual sexual contact is taken, according to Schultz.

"It looks like they're setting somebody up to harass (and) embarrass the person, to try and expose them and say, 'Here's a potential child molester or a person who is potentially committing sex crimes,' when, in fact, there's no evidence that the person has done anything wrong," Schultz said.

Mistakes on tape

In one video, Johnston and his crew bang on a man's door in the middle of night. They accuse him of trying to have sex with a juvenile. Johnston's crew later learns that they were at the wrong house.

In another video, Johnston's crew accuses a man of trying to seduce a juvenile into a threesome with him and his wife. The man's wife denies any knowledge of the incident. Johnston's crew reassures the woman that her face and her child's face will be blurred. The video is currently uploaded to YouTube with the faces of both the woman and her child clearly visible.

"There's a little bit of a rush that goes along with it," Johnston said. "Trying to figure out what exactly might happen; is this person gonna flip out on me or is he going to pull out a gun or a knife or something like that, and I think about my daughter and her future."

Some people in Johnston's videos mention struggles with mental illness or disabilities, but Johnston said he doesn't let that get in the way.

"Certain people have a sob story, and it kind of gets me in my feelings a little bit and I'll start to feel for that person for a second, but then I remember exactly what they're doing and what they might have done to a child," Johnston said.

One of the subjects of his stings filed a harassment restraining order against Johnston. It was initially denied by a judge, but was subsequently granted following a hearing. The restraining order mentions Johnston uploading videos to social media accusing him of being a pedophile.

Chase Johnston Facebook post

A screenshot of a Facebook post that links to a video of a man who was granted a harassment restraining order against Chase Johnston. The Post Bulletin has edited out the man's name because it is the newspaper's policy not to identify people who have filed restraining orders without their consent.

The man who filed the restraining order did not respond to a request for comment from the Post Bulletin.

Johnston admits that his earlier videos were aggressive and that his crew let their emotions get the best of them, but says they have since become more professional.

"We might make fun of them and clown on them, yell at them a little bit, but we are passionate about what we do and we are trying to serve a community in a way," Johnston said.

His YouTube channel was initially named Prisoners vs. Predators — a reference to Johnston's own personal history that includes drug and theft crimes, and a pending guilty plea for assault — but Johnston said he's a changed man and just wants to do something good in this world.

"We served our time and now we're trying to be productive members of society," Johnston said.

A troubled past

Johnston has a long history of drug and theft charges, and he was civilly committed last year for six months due to his drug addiction.

"I've struggled with heroin addiction on and off since I was about 19 years old," Johnston said. "I'm actively working on staying sober and being a better person."

Johnston is currently facing charges in Olmsted County related to a June 2022 incident in which he allegedly assaulted the mother of his child and threatened to kill her family members.

He has submitted a plea agreement in the case in which he will plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of domestic assault in exchange for other, more serious charges being dismissed. The plea deal calls for him serve probation.

"We got into an argument. The argument became heated and I was upset. I pushed her and caused her head to hit the wall," reads a part of the deal submitted by Johnston.

Johnston told the Post Bulletin that he's being held accountable for his actions, and that he wishes police would do the same for others.

"Me and my girlfriend are very much in love, and we are sticking together through all of this and we're going to come through on the other side stronger than we were before," he said.

Mark Wasson has been a public safety reporter with Post Bulletin since May 2022. Previously, he worked as a general assignment reporter in the southwest metro and as a public safety reporter in Willmar, Minn. Readers can reach Mark at mwasson@postbulletin.com

Atlanta GA resident Ali Abdulrab is promoting Nazi-era State ID marks for Registered Persons

Anyone who tries passing a named law, especially when it attempts to place marks of infamy on Registered Persons, deserves a Shiitake Award in my book. Ali can take his Nazi marks and shove. 

https://www.wrdw.com/2022/06/21/mariams-law-georgia-loophole-frees-convicted-sex-offender-now-accused-murder/

Mariam’s Law: Georgia loophole frees convicted sex offender now accused of murder

By Rachel Polansky

Published: Jun. 20, 2022 at 10:59 AM CDT|Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 9:44 AM CDT

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - A brother whose sister was brutally murdered last summer is urging the state to take legislative action to better identify sex offenders, including closing a loophole he believes may have prevented his sister’s attack.

Mariam Abdulrab, 27, was kidnapped, shot and killed last August, prosecutors said, by a stranger who abducted her from her boyfriend’s driveway.

Police arrested DeMarcus Brinkley soon after. He has since been indicted on nine felony counts including murder, kidnapping and attempted rape; his final plea hearing is set for June 23 and a trial is scheduled for October.

Brinkley is a repeat offender in Georgia, with a lengthy rap sheet, including child molestation.

From judges in the court system to mental health counselors, Brinkley has encountered many state officials throughout his life. Had any of them handled his prior convictions differently, Ali Abdulrab believes his sister might still be alive today.

That’s why Ali, along with some family and friends, created Mariam Forever, an organization advocating for substantial change in legislation to protect the community from preventable violent crimes. The group also created a document with a number of initiatives, including one that would require sex offenders carry identification cards which disclose their sex offender status. They’re calling the document “Mariam’s Law” and they’re looking for a state legislator to sponsor it...

CBS46 investigates took these findings to Tracy Alvord, Executive Director of the Georgia Sex Offender Registration Review Board (SORRB), who blamed a backlog for offenders not getting leveled.

“SORRB does have a backlog, which is due to understaffing and difficult hiring/keeping experts in this field, which is due to lack of funds. This is one possible reason Brinkley was not classified prior to his release,” Alvord said in a statement. “We are so glad Ms. Abdulrab’s family and friends are speaking out. We all need to listen. We want them to know SORRB is listening.”

Unlike some states where sex offenders are leveled on the day of their sentencing, Georgia levels sex offenders when they are released from prison.

Mariam’s Law

The family’s proposed Mariam’s Law is comprised mainly of two policies.

Requiring sex offenders who have not received a risk level assessment to be fitted with an ankle monitor. Once they are assigned, Level 3 offenders would be required to wear the monitor for the duration of their sentence, while Level 1 and 2 sex offenders could have them removed.

Requiring sex offenders to carry an identification card with a specific symbol that is recognizable to law enforcement. A sex offender assigned Level 1 would have a red hexagon on the right side of their ID card. A sex offender assigned Level 2 would have two red hexagons on the right side of their ID card. And, a sexual offender assigned Level 3 would have three red hexagons on the right side of their ID card.

“There might be more DeMarcus Brinkley’s out there,” Ali said. “We don’t want this to happen to anybody else.”

Should it get sponsored, it’s likely Mariam’s Law will face some legal challenges. In 2019, the Georgia Supreme Court struck down a law requiring lifetime ankle monitoring of high-risk sex offenders.

Also, critics in other states call ID cards disclosing sex-offender status as modern-day scarlet letters. Nonetheless, CBS46 Investigates found at least eight states have such cards: Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida, West Virginia, Delaware, and Alabama.

The family has also received support from Keisha Waites, a former state legislator and now a Post-3-At-large Atlanta city councilor.

“I am very sensitive to an individual’s privacy,” Waites said. “I understand that. However, when it comes to a Level 3 and only a Level 3 sex offender, the dynamics are different. It’s about the greater public good. And in this particular case, had we had something like that in place, we could have tracked this individual, monitored him and perhaps saved her life.”

Waites is helping the family to get Mariam’s Law in front of the right people, and has sent the policy initiatives to her old colleagues in the General Assembly. “There is no cost that is too high to protect human life,” she said.

State Rep. Mesha Mainor, D-Atlanta, is a supporter.

“If you’re a Level 3 sexual assault criminal, people need to know that,” said Mainor, who does have concerns regarding identification cards.

“Everyone in the adult beverage store doesn’t need to know what your past is, but there are some people who need to know where you are,” Mainor said. “That’s why an ankle monitor is more important.”

Ali Abdulrab hopes Mariam’s legacy will go beyond murals and sketches, and into Georgia state law.

https://www.cbs46.com/2022/08/14/family-celebrates-life-mariam-abdulrab-push-continues-mariams-law/

Family celebrates life of Mariam Abdulrab as push continues for Mariam’s Law

By Jasmina Alston

Published: Aug. 13, 2022 at 10:18 PM CDT

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - Friends and family of Mariam Abdulrab, who was kidnapped and killed in Atlanta, gathered to celebrate her life on Saturday night.

It has been a year since the 27-year-old bartender was kidnapped near her home and later killed after returning from work.

The celebration of life event was a time to remember Abdulrab, but also to continue to push for a change in the law to help prevent what happened to her from happening to anyone else.

“Even though she’s not here with us, her overwhelming love is felt here, “ Ali Abdulrab, Mariam’s brother, said. “She still brings all these people here.”

The man charged with the crime, Demarcus Brinkley, is a repeat offender, including a child molestation conviction in 2015.

He was ordered to register as a sex offender after getting out of prison in 2020.

CBS46 found that he never received a risk level assessment due to backlog.

Abdulrab’s family is pushing for lawmakers to pass ‘Mariam’s Law’, which would require sex offenders who haven’t received a risk level assessment to wear an ankle monitor until they do.

It would also require sex offenders to carry an ID card with a specific symbol, recognizable to law enforcement.

Last month, Atlanta City Council approved a resolution urging state lawmakers to adopt ‘Mariam’s Law’.

“It can happen to anybody, so if this law goes through it will definitely prevent any situation that could happen, that happened to my sister,” Ali Abdulrab said.

Ciearria Cookson and Carissa Kohne of Nashville TN wants to pass a law forcing RCs to show ID for medical services

Carissa Kohne is a law clerk at ForTheMilitary.com, a legal group that purports to help veterans sue hospitals for discrimination. 

Ciearria Cookson works at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 

Wouldn't it be ironic if Ciearria's stupid proposal becomes law and the legal team at ForTheMilitary takes up the case to sue for discrimination?

(I must also note the case Ciearria pointed out was also dismissed/nolle prosequi)

https://wreg.com/news/mid-south/tennessee-nurses-push-for-new-law-to-add-protection-from-sex-offenders/

Tennessee nurses push for new law to add protection from sex offenders

by: Mye Owens

Posted: Aug 4, 2022 / 10:14 AM CDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nurses in Nashville are hoping to put a new bill on the books that would add another layer of protection against registered sex offenders.

“We face anything from any gross sexual comments, people have been threatened, and unfortunately, they have been trapped in a room where the patient has been a wall between the door and the nurse themselves, so it’s scary,” said nurse Ciearria. She asked News 2, not to reveal where she works but says sexual harassment has become a constant.

We asked her what she endures the most, Ciearria explained, “comments, sexual comments, and people who come in and they are able to do things for themselves […] and not anything basic, but regarding to any sexual parts and stuff like that.”

Now, she along with others are pushing for change on a state level. The hope is to have legislators take up a bill that would require sex offenders to present their offender identification card once inside the hospital.

“You would go register at the front desk, like any other patient, the only difference is that you would hand them your sexual offender identification card, and let them know,” explained Carissa Kohne, co-writer of the bill.

Kohne pointed to an incident back in 2020 where a registered sex offender was arrested after assaulting his nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The nurse told police she was later adjusting the 46-year-old’s pillow when he grabbed her breast. She said she told him to stop, but he did it again.

Carissa explained if the bill passes, it wouldn’t stall medical services being given to patients. Instead, she explained that at the time a patient would give their name either upon entering the hospital or once conscious, then they would disclose their sex offender card information.

“It would allow us to plan how we would do patient care, not that it would change the care itself any, but we would be able to maybe go in with another nurse, let the charge nurse know hey I’m going in this room, and let them know when we are leaving,” explained Ciearria.

“I think it’s terrible that we don’t already have something in place in order to help nurses, and in order to help physicians […] there have been so many stories about patients and providers getting assaulted by patients just because their sex offender status wasn’t revealed,” explained Kohne.

They hope to have the bill presented during the next legislative session.

Mark Glaeser of Gainesville FL wants to prevent Registered Persons from voting

For a guy who doesbn't want his face out there due to fear, Mark Glaeser was pretty easy to find. He's been getting his jollies trying to get Registered Persons arrested for a while now. 

It appears to me he does have some animus towards Registered Persons. 

FloriDUH had changed vioting laws but there has been a lot of confusion regarding who can vote and who cannot. Maybe the solution is to just allow everyone to vote and be done with it. 

https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2022/03/30/4-alachua-county-inmates-charged-voter-fraud-investigation/7215975001/

Mark Glaeser, who has a history of filing complaints against government officials, identified the group of voters and notified prosecutors last year. He says he has identified nearly 2,000 sex offenders in Florida who illegally registered to vote in the 2020 election, roughly 25% of whom voted.

https://www.dailycommercial.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/03/31/voter-fraud-investigation-underway-lake-sumter-counties/7194052001/

This investigation comes after Gainesville-based database researcher Mark Glaeser cross-checked Florida voter lists against the FDLE's public Florida Sexual Offenders database. Through his research, he found that six registered sex offenders in Lake County and three in Sumter County cast ballots. 

Their votes would not have changed the outcome in any race and, so far, no charges have been filed...

Glaeser first looked into Alachua County, then expanded his search across the state of Florida, including in Lake and Sumter.

He said that locating the names of these ineligible voters is not a difficult process and something that the state should already be doing.

“This is what I call low hanging fruit. Easily detected, undetected by the state or the supervisors," Glaeser said. “They’ve really dropped the ball.” ...

So far Glaeser has researched 11 counties and filed complaints on 75 sex offenders. The highest percentage he's seen so far has been in Gadsden County. Of the 23,000 people who cast ballots in 2020, 23 of them were sex offenders. 

"So they had 0.1% of their total voting populous was illegal votes from sex offenders and sexual predators," he said.

https://www.wesh.com/article/sex-offenders-illegal-voting-seminole/40711774

Yes, I'm very angry about it,” Glaeser said.

Glaeser is a data researcher who is not only angry about illegal voting, but he’s also afraid some felons might come after him.

He’s the one who tipped off the state last year that ten inmates in Alachua County, "ineligible felons... voted illegally in the 2020 General Election."

He claims he's found 100 sex offenders like Moye who have allegedly illegally voted, and he suspects there were more than 500 statewide.

“I don't want people who are ineligible to vote in any elections,” Glaeser said. “Whether they are non-U.S. citizens or voting from another state or are convicted sex offenders or murderers in our state or are felons who have not had their rights restored.”

Richard and Evelyn Creighton of Fairfield CA create website and engage in targeted harassment of Registered Persons in halfway house

I'm currently looking for a picture of these two nitwits so they can be properly shamed. In addition to the protest, they are livestreaming the house on YouTube and have created a website that doxed those at the house along with the owner. 

Other things to point out:

1. It may actually be illegal to post registry flier data on their "Stop ELDA House" website. 
2. The erroneously claim that there is a statewide residency law (there is not though restrictions can be made as a condition of supervised release). This is a moot point since they admit their targeted house meets the legal standards.

https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/fairfield/families-protest-halfway-house-for-sexual-offenders-in-fairfield/

Families protest halfway house for sexual offenders in Fairfield

By Susan Hiland

FAIRFIELD — Parents and residents near B. Gale Wilson Elementary School and K.I. Jones Elementary School are outraged to find a halfway house for sexual offenders is right in the middle of the neighborhood where their children go to school.

About 25 parents came out Saturday to B. Gale Wilson to march to the halfway house, protesting all the way.

Richard Creighton and his wife Evelyn have two little boys and they were stunned to find out about the halfway house.

“We live right across the street from the house,” Richard Creighton said.

The house is located on the 2900 block of Waterman Boulevard, less than a mile from both schools.

The state’s Megan’s Law website shows four convicted sex offenders live at the home: a 42-year-old man convicted in 2002 of rape of a drugged or intoxicated victim and released from prison in 2018; a 29-year-old man convicted in 2013 of sodomy by force, violence or fear of a victim who was younger than 14 and released from prison in 2018; a 71-year-old man convicted in 1983 of rape in concert with force or violence and oral copulation in concert, and released from prison in 1989; and an 81-year-old man convicted in 1986 of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14 and released from prison the same year.

The Megan’s Law entry for the 81-year-old man also lists an allegation of continuous sexual abuse of a child but does not include conviction or release dates.

Creighton said he “had no idea” about the halfway house until he saw the information on social media from City Councilwoman Catherine Moy.

Creighton has since started a website called Stop ELDA House, which includes information that he and others have gathered on the situation.

ELDA House is an organization that provides services that include reentry housing and substance use services.

The company has taken down its website but archived pages are available to view with a lot of searching. Those archives pages show ELDA House also partners with additional community reentry partners that may assist with employment and vocational needs.

Creighton said his research shows a resident of the Bay Area purchased the house on Waterman Boulevard on Oct. 29, 2021. The owner used funding provided by the state to turn this home into a transitional house for sex offenders, including pedophiles, without notifying the county, the city or the local residents, Creighton said.

Creighton said the home has six bedrooms and can therefore accommodate six parolees. Online records from the Solano County Assessor’s Office list the house as having four bedrooms. A listing of real estate transactions shows the 4,299-square-foot home, built in 2008, has four bedrooms and sold that day for $899,000.

Similar facilities are run in Winters, Antioch and Pittsburg.

An individual can purchase a house and provide a “halfway house” for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under the 2015 Reentry Program. These programs are intended to assist prisoners in developing solid relapse prevention plans, along with a plan for reentry and various skills training from social to work assistance.

Evelyn Creighton said the police have been called to the house several times.

“The entire Fairfield government should be ashamed that they let this happen, that they allowed the permits to go through,” said neighbor Walt Phillip, who also has two children living near the house.

“This is stressful always walking around on guard,” he said.

Moy came out with the protestors. She said the state can allow these halfway houses for parolees to be located anywhere.

“This one is in a bad spot because not only is it in between two elementary schools but there is also a day care center within a few blocks of the house,” Moy said.

Moy said the City Council took a look at the business application that was filed and it said the building was going to be used for a day care/adult care center.

“This is not really adult care,” she said. “We are going to be changing the business license application to be very specific about what business is coming in.”

Because this is a state program for parolees, the owner did not have to get permission to have a halfway house for sex offender parolees, Moy said. The parolees do have GPS monitors on their ankles and are limited to attending work and shopping at the nearest stores, she said.

“The city attorney is looking into what legal avenues we can take,” Moy said. “This is really new and so it will take time to look into.”

In the meantime, Moy has contacted state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, requesting a town hall meeting, which she said he is happy to do. She said they are working to fix a date.

The city plans to have some answers to this situation sometime in May but a date is not set because the legal team needs to do the research, Moy said.

“We may do it during a regular meeting but I think there is going to be too much to cover in a regular meeting and we will do it in a town hall meeting, but that is not for sure yet,” Moy said.

Creighton has placed cameras on his front porch to face the street where children walk by and has a live YouTube feed so parents can watch the children coming and going to school.

Moy said the Police Department is aware of the situation and has added patrol cars during the opening of school and ending of school days.

“They can’t stay all day but they are also adding patrol driving by during the day,” Moy said.

One thing was clear Saturday: People support parolees getting a second chance but putting sexual offenders near schools is not the way to do it, Moy said.

For more information on this issue, go to https://stopeldahouse.org.

Hayley Wilton of Roxana, IL harasses local ice cream stand because loved one of owner is a Person Forced to Register

This gun-sucking Karen Convoy supporter has nothing better to do than engage in a harassment campaign, but this one may backfire. 

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Dozens-gather-in-protest-of-new-Cone-Barn-17069793.php

Roxana rally targets Cone Barn

Billy Woods, April 10, 2022

ROXANA — Since 2006, Tanea Berry and her husband, Josh, have been neighbors to the Cone Barn at 323 N. Central Ave. in Roxana.

They have memories of both of their children walking next door and grabbing ice cream.

But recently the Berrys, along with other community members, don’t have that same sense of comfort in letting their children near the ice cream shop.

The Cone Barn was recently bought by Terry Hogan whose husband ...  is on the Illinois State Police Sex Offender Registry.

“I don’t want to live next door to this,” Tanea Berry said.

That’s why on Saturday she and dozens of others held a rally in protest of the new ownership at the Cone Barn.

The Berrys have two kids, 13 and 23; the oldest has two kids of their own and always has them by the Berry's home, which makes Tanea Berry uncomfortable.

“I loved having the Cone Barn here because my kids could walk next door and get ice cream,” Tanea Berry said. "But now they can’t.”

Saturday's rally also focused on a former Cone Barn employee ... who no longer works there. Hobbs is on the state’s violent offender database....

Rally organizer Hayley Wilton is concerned about the Cone Barn's location: 505 feet from the high school and across the street from the Burbank Park, the Roxana Church of the Nazarene (which offers a Sunday school service for kids) and the Nazarene Community Theater owned by the church which offers free movies for families and kids.

“This is the center of town,” Wilton said. “This is a community that’s always surrounded with kids. As the seasons change, there are lots of kids and sports teams hanging out in this area.”

Wilton said she learned about Heltsley and Hobbs when she saw a post advertising jobs at the Cone Barn and she researched the names she recognized.

“Offenders reoffend,” Wilton said. “It’s bound to happen again.”

Wilton has four kids: 18, 16, 13 and 11. She said she grew up on Elm Street in Roxana and was a childhood victim herself. She said moved back to Roxana a few years ago specifically for the school that is just blocks from the Cone Barn.

Wilton wants to make people aware of the business. She and Tanea Berry also want it sold to new owners.

Tanea Berry also wants Roxana officials to pass an ordinance prohibiting a sex offender list member to own something so close to schools and parks, especially if that business caters to children. Heltsley does not own the Cone Barn; Hogan does.

“I loved the community feeling we had here,” Tanea Berry said. “But this isn’t what I want.”

A petition seeking to have someone else buy the Cone Barn is on the Cone Barn Awareness Facebook group page.

Ex-Hull City (UK) Council worker Chloe Carr gave personal info on a Registered Person to a vigilante group for purposes of harassment

Her address should be published, in the interest of fairness. The vigilante group should also be rounded up and jailed. 

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-city-council-worker-leaked-6926947

Council worker leaked sex offender's address to paedophile hunter's group

Mark Naylor

A heavily pregnant Hull City Council worker leaked the highly sensitive address of a sex offender to an anti-paedophile group. This lead to a 30-strong angry mob turning up outside his new home and threatening to kill him and burn down the house.

Customer services assistant Chloe Carr told the paedophile hunters that the sex offender "deserves all he gets" and was "bloody awful" and "disgusting" but she asked them not to reveal that she had passed on the explosive confidential information about him. The sex offender had to be hurriedly moved to a new address and Carr's unprofessional actions helped to "whip up a frenzy" and were "not a public service at all" because they "destabilised" convicted criminals and risked making them "unpredictable", Hull Crown Court heard.

Carr, 23, of Taylor Avenue, Cottingham, admitted unlawfully disclosing private data to an online website without consent. She denied misconduct in public office as a customer service advisor for Hull City Council by abusing the public's trust and disclosing confidential and personal data between June 4 and July 2, 2020 and that charge was dropped.

Charlotte Baines, prosecuting, said that Carr was employed at the time by an agency to work for the city council and to help direct members of the public to assistance that might be available. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, she was working from home in Anlaby and there was a work chat group in which she could have contact with colleagues.

Another worker sent a message to the group saying that a call had been received from a convicted sex offender, who had contacted the council's customer services team asking for a food parcel to be sent to him as he had been placed into emergency accommodation because his details had been put on Facebook. The address of where he would be living was shared by the chat group but Carr sent details of it to a Hull-based anti-paedophile group..

She told the online paedophile hunters that she had details on the sex offender but asked to be kept anonymous. She said in messages that it was "disgusting" that the sex offender was still in Hull and would be living near a school.

Carr was asked by the anti-paedophile group if she had proof of the man's details and replied: "Yes, everything is 100 per cent" and confirmed that she had his street address. She said that she worked for Hull City Council and there was a reply from the online group asking if she could share that address with them.

Carr sent a screenshot of the sex offender's address and said: "This can't come back to me due to my work." The paedophile hunters asked her for the number of the house. She told the online group that it was "so wrong" to put the man there and added: "I don't believe in it. I will look now."

Carr was thanked by the anti-paedophile group and she was told: "Thank you so much" and that details would be going online shortly. She replied: "Please don't mention it's come from the council" because records were kept and it might "come back to me" because of the disclosure. "The defendant made it abundantly clear that she worked for Hull City Council and the information needed to be kept anonymous," said Miss Baines.

At 6.40pm, the sex offender contacted the police to say that he had received a food parcel from Hull City Council but that people were at his door trying to break into the property and he had been warned to "get out now or they would kill him and burn down the property" There were 30 people in the mob outside the house.

At 7.19pm, the anti-paedophile group contacted Carr on Facebook Messenger to thank her for her information and to say that the sex offender had been moved from the house. Carr replied: "I am so happy. He is bloody awful. Happy to have helped everyone."

The paedophile hunters thanked her. There was further contact during the following days, with further messages about the sex offender.

The police later identified Carr as being involved in the chats after they realised that there was a problem. They went to her then home in Anlaby and seized two laptops.

She told police that, when a colleague shared details of the sex offender, she was "quite angry because she was pregnant" and that after someone in her chat group said that something needed to be done, she took it upon herself to contact the anti-paedophile group and to supply further details. "She said that she knew it was wrong," said Miss Baines. "She was kicked out of the works chat. She wasn't allowed to return to work, one assumes."

Helen Chapman, mitigating, said that the sex offenders that Carr had been referring to were people who had been before the courts, had been found guilty or sentenced and had "done their time and come out" of prison. "These groups exist on Facebook in order to whip up a frenzy," said Miss Chapman.

Carr was heavily pregnant at the time and the messages were exchanged just a fortnight before her son was born in July 2020. He was now aged nearly two. Miss Chapman also stated that the offence was "short-lived but persistent" and Carr was in "something of a vulnerable position" at the time because the boy's father had left her after she told him that she was pregnant.

"It didn't help that she was working from home," said Miss Chapman. Carr was now on Universal Credit and child benefit. "She is just beginning to look for work," said Miss Chapman. Carr had no previous convictions.

Judge Mark Bury said that the offence might not have happened if there had been a "little bit more supervision" of Carr and she had not been working from home. The decision not to proceed with a prosecution under the more serious misconduct in public office offence had been taken after a "thorough review by a number of different people" for the prosecution but it meant that the maximum penalty for the lesser offence that Carr now faced was a fine and not prison.

"You are very lucky about that," said Judge Bury. "The offence that you have committed is, in my view, a very serious one that would have carried a sentence of imprisonment." He told the court: "I would have locked her up."

Judge Bury said that it was not for Carr or anyone else to pass comment and say that the man involved "deserves all he gets and he's bloody awful". The person had to be rehoused again and it led to problems in rehabilitating such people and "destabilising" them, risking them becoming "more unpredictable" and committing offences.

"This is not a public service at all," said Judge Bury. "They had done their punishment. It wasn't for you to give their details out."

It did "not take much imagination" to work out what the anti-paedophile group were planning to do. "The problem that this causes is that it destabilises offenders," said Judge Bury. "It makes them unpredictable and more likely to commit offences that everyone else is trying their hardest to prevent them from doing. It's not doing a public service at all. It's a huge disservice.

"I am quite satisfied that you knew what you were doing because you said you didn't want your name to be mentioned because you would be sacked, which, of course, you were. I hope this has been a lesson. If you work in the public sector again, you just have to remember that you have a grave responsibility with public details. You thought you were helping. You were not."

Carr was fined £500, to be paid at £50 a month. After the hearing, she left the court building giggling and joking loudly with two female supporters and headed straight across the road and into the pub opposite the court.