What's Tampa Bay Saying?
Are Child Predators a Threat in Your Neighborhood?
After the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case and what seems like an epidemic of crimes in Florida and nationwide, how concerned are you about child sex offenders living in your community?
The child sex abuse scandal at Penn State and last Friday's guilty verdict against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky have shed the national spotlight on child predators and sex crimes against kids. But residents of Florida are unfortunately no stranger to these types of cases. There are the shocking and high profile incidents, like the 2005 murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by a convicted sex offender in Citrus County. And there are the commonplace crime stories, like a Largo man who was arrested last week on child porn charges, just a few weeks after he was accused of traveling to a local park to have sex with a teenager. Even when they're caught before harming anyone, the seeming preponderance of would-be child predators…
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Shaira Leah Gomez
3:38 pm on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
I was a worrier mother of two kids. When I got married, we bought a house on a place where at first I didn't know, sex offenders are very rampant. So one day, while browsing on the internet, I found out a safety service for kids that has to be installed on phone. I reviewed their features and I find it interesting. I have this for 8 months now and we feel great and completely safe. when an … more ›