September 4, 2009

NC- Sex offender charged with being on church property

Here is another North Carolina fiasco, see my comments in next article, its about the same law. Written in a way that can be misunderstood, lawmakers simply do not care!

9-4-2009 North Carolina:

MOUNT HOLLY — A registered sex offender was charged Wednesday for allegedly going onto church property.

Larry Randolph Grooms of Alwran Road, Mount Holly, allegedly went onto the property of New Covenant United Methodist Church on July 21.

The Jessica Lunsford Act, signed in Gastonia by former Gov. Mike Easley July 28, 2008, banned sex offenders from being “at any place where minors gather for regularly scheduled educational, recreational or social programs.”

The 50-year-old man was charged with sex offender on child premises. He was released on a $10,000 unsecured bond Thursday.

Grooms was incarcerated for more than three years on a sex offense and an indecent liberties with a child charge in 1997. He was also convicted of possession of a firearm by a felon in April 2007, according to the North Carolina Department of Correction Web site. ..Source.. by Gaston Gazette

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