Samaritan Village, which seeks to convert Glendale warehouse into 125-family shelter, says deviants could be walking the grounds.
The more they learn, the more they hate it.
Convicted sex offenders could be among the inhabitants of a homeless shelter that’s being proposed in Glendale, and civic leaders have been even more fired up since they made that discovery last week.
The revelation came after Samaritan Village — the Queens-based group that wants to convert a vacant warehouse on Cooper Ave. into a 125-family shelter — outlined their plans in a letter to Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi.
“[City Department of Homeless Services] has both a mandate and obligation to provide shelter to any eligible homeless person or family, regardless or criminal background,” the group wrote to Hevesi, in response to a question as to whether the population would include felons and sexual deviants. “The Sex Offender Registration Act does not restrict where a sex offender may live.”
The proposed shelter has drawn unanimous opposition among the area’s elected officials and civic leaders — and the details left many of them aghast. ..Continued.. by Irving Dejohn
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