CO- School District Won't Move Bus Stop Away From Sexually Violent Predator

The problem here is not the RSO it is the parent. There isn't a state in the U.S. which permits parents to allow their children to be unsupervised in the public. Parents need to get the picture, they need to go with their children to the bus stop until the child gets on the bus, then there is no worry from a RSO or a murder or a burgular or a person who has committed any other kind of crime. Parents need to recognize that 95% of sex crimes are committed by someone known to the victim such as Uncle Joe, the person next door, or get this, the TEACHER the child / young adult is getting off the bus to go learn from in the school.

1-7-2009 Colorado:

PEYTON - What would you do if a sexually violent predator moved into a home near your child's bus stop? Charity Weese is dealing with that exact scenario. Her three kids go to Falcon Elementary School and pick up the bus stop just down the street from her home. One month ago, a sexually violent predator moved into a trailer two-tenths of a mile from the bus stop.

"I mean it's really scary, you don't want your kids to become victims," says Weese. "School's been out, so it's been okay, but now you know we're going back to work, kids are going back to school and everything. We're not always right there being able to watch."

The bus stop is at the corner of Stage Stop Road and Slocum Road in Peyton. On December 5th, 2008, Kelly Stroble moved to 4955 Slocum Road, two-tenths of a mile from the bus stop. In 1999, Stroble was convicted of sexual assault on a child by a person in position of trust. His victims were ages 8-to-14.

He's considered a sexually violent predator because he meets certain criteria and is considered likely to commit another sex crime.

"We're just on the other side of this hill, we can't see down there at the bus stop," says Weese. "For the transportation people to pick the kids up and drop them off and just wipe their hands and be done with it, what is the purpose then?"

"Society has said that they're deemed appropriate to be out in society," says Falcon District 49 Chief Operating Officer Paul McCarty.

District 49 isn't moving the bus stop. McCarty says other kids at the same stop would be affected.

"(The Weese) home is down here and the other students are down in this area," says McCarty pointing farther down the road.

The district's transportation committee can choose to move the stop. Weese will take her plea to the committee's next meeting later this month. If the committee approves a move, the district would then have to pick a new location. If not, the bus stop won't be moving. ..News Source.. by Marshall Zelinger