by Natalie Beck

Some people will go to any lengths to avoid being prosecuted for a crime they committed.  Some will get away with it, some won’t.  Here’s the story of a guy who tried to pull one over on law enforcement - and was almost successful.  Fortunately, the police were able to uncover his scheme and reinstate the charges against him.

Nanaimo man faked his death to flee from charges, police say

‘Dead’ suspect is found in Halifax

Danielle Bell & Paul Walton, Daily News - September 25, 2008

A former Nanaimo man, alleged to have faked his own death in 2004 to escape sex assault charges, was very much alive in provincial court on Wednesday to face renewed charges on the same 2003 allegation.

Jeremy Daniel Oakley, 36, was arrested in Halifax in August and returned to Nanaimo this week to appear in provincial court charged with one count of sexual interference with a person under 16 and one count of sexual assault.

He returns to court in Nanaimo on Oct. 7, and remains in custody at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre in Victoria.

An obituary in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald on Oct. 7, 2004, said Oakley “passed away suddenly in Toronto as a result of a motor vehicle accident. He is survived by his wife and four children. A resident of British Columbia, Jeremy had only resided in Nova Scotia for a short time. At the request of the family, funeral service will be held in Vancouver, B.C., at a date yet to be determined. He will be sadly missed.”

It stated that the fatal accident happened in Toronto on Oct. 2. Records at the Nanaimo court registry indicate that the initial charges against Oakley were stayed by the Crown on Nov. 24, 2004.

Const. Gary O’Brien, spokesman for the Nanaimo RCMP, said information that Oakley was alive first emerged in August this year.

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by Jason Morris

So it looks like the city was a “day late and a dollar short” on their background screening program.  It appears in 2007 they were enlightened and decided to start running background checks….but what about current employees?  A day late; They should have been running these way before 2007, don’t they read the news? A dollar short; adding a simple service like IQ Review would have gone back and checked those not already screened.

Swimming Pool Rape Case Prompts Demand for Background Check Policy Review

By Amos Maki (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Mayor Willie Herenton and members of the Memphis City Council are demanding answers after an employee at a city swimming pool was charged with raping a 17-year-old girl and exposing her to HIV.

Timothy Bernard Payne, a pool attendant at Westwood Community Center, was hired in 2006, one year before the city began running background checks.

Payne was indicted on a rape charge in 1993, but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of misdemeanor assault. He was charged Monday with the July 31 rape and is being held in the Shelby County Jail on $250,000 bond.

On Aug. 5, Human Resources director Lorene Essex told the council she would perform regular background checks on temporary employees who had contact with children after a television station reported a city lifeguard remained on the job after being charged with assault.

Essex said the lifeguard, who had since been terminated, had a clean background check when he was hired, but because the city does not do yearly follow-up checks, the charge he received while he was a lifeguard was unknown to city officials.

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by Jason Morris

Media Bridges fires sex offender

The non-profit group Media Bridges is conducting background checks on all its volunteers after a tipster alerted officials that a Tier III sexual offender - used for Ohio’s worst offenders - was working for them.

The offender, Bryan Lee, 35, of Avondale, was dismissed Wednesday.

“He came across as a nice, eager young man who wants to help people,” said Tom Bishop, executive director of Media Bridges, which shows people how to use video and audio software to create movies, television shows, and multimedia programs.

While anyone can use the equipment, the organization has a focus on children, trying to help them with skills for the future, Bishop said.

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by Jason Morris

Earlier this week we wrote about sex offender recidivism rates.  These are the type of individuals working around our kids when the employer fails to conduct a proper background check.

Sex Offender Charged with Molesting 3 Children

A registered sex offender faces more sex-crimes charges for allegedly abusing three children over the course of a year.

Cumberland County deputies arrested John Thomas Nackab, 45, of 204 Gillespie St., early Thursday. He was charged with one count each of first-degree rape and aggravated assault and 21 counts of taking indecent liberties with a child.

Investigators said Nackab began victimizing the children, aged 7, 8 and 10, more than than a year ago. He lived in the same house with the children and their mother during that time, detectives said.

Nackab was being held in the Cumberland County Detention Center under a $620,000 secured bond on Thursday afternoon. His first court appearance was set for Friday.

Nackab was charged in with raping a child in November 1997 in Cumberland. Detectives said he pled that charge down to taking indecent liberties with a child and was ordered to sign up with the National Sex Offenders Registry.

State Department of Corrections records show that Nackab received probation for that conviction. He served a little more than a year in jail for violating that probation with a conviction on a charge of driving-while-impaired in June 2001.

by Jason Morris

This new law will make running background checks easier for businesses in Tennessee. Kudos to the Tennessee Legislature!

MEMPHIS, TN - Eyewitness News Gets Results: In May, Eyewitness News Everywhere exposed a loophole in Tennessee state law that allowed sex offenders to work on ice cream trucks. After seeing our story, lawmakers did something about it.

On Thursday, June 12, 2008, Governor Phil Bredesen signed a sex offender bill into law. Chief Investigator Jeni DiPrizio uncovered several sex offender that worked on Mid-South ice cream trucks, including Ivan Pryor. Pryor was arrested three times for rape of a child, sexual exploitation and exposing himself to a person under age 13. Pryor is now off the streets and in Jail.

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by Jason Morris

Another article about sex offenders in our nations schools! The recidivism rate for sex offenders is higher than any other crime.

“Facts don’t cease to exist because they are ignored” - Aldous Huxley

A background check was never conducted on this employee.

Sex Offender Discovered Working at Catholic School

TOLEDO — Lucas County Sheriff’s deputies have found a sex offender who’s been “missing” for quite some time. They say he’s been working at a Toledo parish and school — for years.

Five years ago, 60-year-old William Werner was a sex offender looking for work. He found it at as a part-time cleaner at St. Joan of Arc Parish.

Parish representatives have told deputies Werner did a good job at the church and also helped clean the school. The Catholic Diocese of Toledo says when the parish hired Werner, no one knew of his past.

It wasn’t until last week, when officers in California checked on Werner’s whereabouts, that the parish discovered he had committed sex crimes against a 13-year-old girl. He was convicted in 1989, released 10 years later and then came to Toledo.

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by Jason Morris

No one will be around my children without a proper background check!

Prom limo driver had a suspended license, is sex offender

By J.J. Huggins and Bill Cantwell

HAVERHILL — Some parents of Haverhill High School students are angry that their children were driven to the prom by a limousine driver who had a suspended license and is a convicted sex offender.

Police said they will summons to court Troy Barrett, 29, of Lee, N.H., on a charge of driving with a suspended license. Police said he was driving a limousine owned by Ambassador Travel of Salisbury that was hired by several Haverhill High students to take them to the prom Friday night.

Barrett drove the students to the prom at Atkinson, N.H., Country Club. The event ended at 11:30 p.m., and Barrett was about 15 minutes late picking up the 10 students who hired him. The teens said they saw empty beer bottles and a cooler inside the limousine. Barrett said that he transported another party after he dropped them off, the teens said.

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by Jason Morris

This man filed for District 39 in Lonoke, Arkansas for State Rep….You may not recognize him, but he is Convicted Sex Offender Dwayne Dobbins….After two terms in the legislature as a Democrat he is back for his 3rd and final term…The Democrats have said that they will run a 3rd party candidate against him…All I can say is that this 3rd party candidate better be successful…Below is the AR Dem-Gazette Article…(A bit Graphic)…

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