Bryn Mawr Resident Registers as Sex Offender with University Park Police Department
Remember this bizarre story a couple of weeks ago about a man filming children on Amherst? This morning Chief Gary Adams provided the following information.
The individual in this case was located and identified. He is a convicted sex offender but had not been required to register. However, due to changes in the last Texas Legislative Session, the subject, Robert Coleman, was required to register as a convicted sex offender and did so at the University Park Police Department on Wednesday, November 24th. Mr. Coleman lives in University Park at [xxxx] Bryn Mawr and has for a number of years. As he was a resident before the city established its ordinance on residential requirements of registered sex offenders, he is eligible to continue to reside in our city.
Developing.
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Yes, sometimes (well, this particular time) one of those crazy blast emails turns out to be right. But you have to admit that there were no details in the email that suggested we should take it any more seriously than the others. We were told “he returned later and presented her with an edited video that contained some ‘disturbing’ images.” My sarcastic response was, “is he one of those pedophiles that preemptively turns over his edited work product to the parents of his intended victims?” And weirdly enough the answer appears to be yes.
Can’t we forget this unpleasantness and focus on the issues that unite us? Like getting to the bottom of Dick Davis’s ghostwritten mystery fax? P.S. Merritt, what’s up with that, anyway?
But would a poor, minority guy in East Dallas be able to get away with what appear to be multiple violations or charges over many years, not register as required, and still be a free man?
Good lawyering? Money? Just seems a bit odd. (which would appear to be the main word in all of this)
I don’t think the following are good ideas either:
1) Letting a drug addict work at a drug store.
2) Letting a alcoholic be a bar tender.
3) Letting an axe murderer borrow your axe.
Did he present himself as some sort of photographer, making candid videos and then selling them to parents?
But that scenario doesn’t say much if anything about my “intuition,” and wouldn’t be particularly “blogworthy.”
But I am reading Merritt’s entries as suggesting that something else entirely happened. Specifically, it is suggested that a parent, relying almost solely on intuition, called the cops about a guy that she knew nothing about but that she saw doing something that she just felt was creepy. And THEN it turns out that the guy was a sex offender, from wayyy back. That is a far more interesting story, to me, and suggests (even if it does not prove) something far darker about the guy in question.
So which is it? I’m just curious to know.
(The fact that in this case the guy may not have been “properly” registered is a different aspect of the story – perhaps blogworthy in and of itself.)
Perhaps by using the words “interesting” and “story” I sounded blithe – I didn’t mean to. This is a “story” but it is also a real situation involving real people.
I am glad that your friend called the police.
Now that I have elevated the hysteria level a little bit let me lower it a little more. He has lived here for 24 years. He is, obviously, one of the invisible people in UP. Countless numbers of kids have walked or ridden their bikes by his house. A lesser number of kids have probably sold him scout wreaths, band magazine subscriptions and Girl Scout cookies. He is just now getting on the police’s radar screen for this past offense (although the ’06 and ’07 felonies need to be explained). I think I’m willing to take a watchful stance with him and let our intrepid police chief take the lead as to whether he is a threat to the community.
If he was convicted of burglary, or grand theft auto, then I might agree with your reasoned stance. But sex offender? Pedophile? Nope, not a chance. Reason and forgiveness go out the door when it comes to offenses against children. And the fact that he is filming children is chilling.
That being said, how does one go about handling this? I don’t know. I guess we can all get outraged and talk tough, but in the end the rights he unfortunately has make this sitaution tough to address. I’m still confused why it is not against the law for a convicted sex offender to film children without their parents consent.
Not to diminish in ANY way the stress this family is suffering, people need to remember that the majority of these activities aren’t made by a random guy living in your neighborhood (sex offender from 20 years ago or not). Most molestations are by family members/family friends.
But I think everyone will agree that our thoughts and prayers go out to this family.
http://www.numeraire.com/download/LetterWSJeditor2006A.pdf
A dumb thug is one thing, but an extremely intelligent pedophile is much more dangerous. That explains how he’s been living there for decades with no one knowing. He’s smart enough to get away with it. Same with beating the other charges.
Hats off to the mom for reporting him. Her kids are lucky to have her as their mom!
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/120410dnmetoffendervideo.419b2b8.html
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