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This is absolutely maddening. He had nowhere to go so they released him under a crooked tree? Told him to meet back up for his curfew at 7:00pm? And he hadn't even registered as a sex offender yet?
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DOC: Sexual offender had nowhere else to go
EASTPOINT — Florida Department of Corrections officials said Wednesday their decision to release a high-risk sexual predator into the woods outside Eastpoint on Saturday afternoon was prompted by an absence of other options.
Norman Bill Williams, 56, left by state probation officials to camp on state land off Bear Creek Road, soon slipped off his ankle bracelet and absconded.
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“If someone has a conditional release and they worried about him absconding, why would you release him to somewhere where there is no physical address?” he said. “Why not one of the conditions be you have to have a permanent address or a sponsor before we can release you? Why not send him to a halfway house?
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Norred said state probation officials had the option of registering Williams as a sexual predator when they attached his ankle bracelet. Instead, they afforded him the 48 hours that sexual offenders are allowed until they must register at an approved site, which can include a sheriff’s office, with their probation officer or even at a driver’s license station.
“They could have asked us to register him when they brought him up here but they didn’t,” Norred said. “They could have done it the day they walked him out of the gate.”
Read more: http://www.newsherald.com/articles/eastpoint-97226-else-nowhere.html#ixzz1ZRGiIbY0